I was mesmerized with the Buttermilk falls, a lot more than I imagined. Right in the center, high up the falls, there is a rock that resembles a fallen tree. Now don’t get me wrong, this is not the place that the famed shivlinga scene from the famous movie Bahubali (part 1) was shot. I’m…
Tag: Trivia
Trolls
Trolls are mythical ugly creatures depicted as either a giant or a dwarf. In the early 17th century, the term troll comes from Old Norse, Swedish and Danish stories. The first English use is from Shetland; the term was adopted more widely into English in the mid 19th century. Trolls are still used in my…
The Original Bahubali
The first Jain Tirthankar, the story of Bahubali is nothing short of amazing. It is believed that he shed all his material belongings and stood in the open for a full year to become a Digambara monk and began meditating to attain omniscience. After a year long fast, and creepers and ants growing over him,…
For The Love of Food
Chopsticks are of a pair of tapered wood, ivory, or plastic sticks of held in one hand and used as a fork, especially by in China, Vietnam, and Korea and Japan. An interesting trivia is that Japanese chopsticks tend to be shorter than those in China, Vietnam and Korea as these countries had a culture…
The World At Thy Feet
My grandmother (that is, my mother’s mother) was apparently obsessed with her feet. She’d often wash them and take extra efforts to pamper them. While I wouldn’t really go that extra mile, but yes I do agree that they are the most neglected part of our body and do the most important function of keeping up mobile while carrying…
Snapshots of my World 