Its the festive season all over again and I’m wondering how fast the last year flew by. Seems like only yesterday that we had shifted to Agra from Jodhpur and now we’ve been here a year and half. So much has happened and so much stays the same. Its now time to reflect on the [...]
Archive for October, 2008
25 Oct
Butter Bake Biscuits
Ingredients Optional 1 cup Butter Few Chopped Cashew nuts ½ cup Icing Sugar 1 cup Flour 1 tbsp Vanilla Essence 2 tbsp Castor Sugar Method Preheat oven to 180 degrees centigrade. Beat butter, icing sugar, and vanilla essence till creamy. Fold in the flour half at a time. Now roll level teaspoons of the mixture [...]
23 Oct
The Scindia Dynasty of Gwalior
We recently took a trip to Gwalior with my parents. Dad’s old regiment is there and he wanted to give them the Iran flag that was lying with him from the UNIIMOG days. We also had a vested interest as the three of us were keen on a tank ride. The Airforce rarely gets an [...]
20 Oct
Answers to the Ramayan Quiz
1. Valmiki 2. Vashishta 3. Vishwamitra 4. Holi poornima 5. Manthara, her dai ma 6. The Asuras’ Army 7. Sumantra 8. Surya Dev. Suryavanshi Clan 9. King Janak was King Dashratha’s cousin. 10. The Chandravanshi clan ruled from the city of Mithila. 11. Urmila, Mandavi and ShrutKirti
19 Oct
Book Review : Prince of Ayodhya
Book Review : Prince of Ayodhya, Book One of the Ramayana By Ashok K. Banker Rewriting a classic epic three thousand years after it was originally written takes guts. Especially when the epic is Ramayana and its chief protagonist is considered a God by the majority of the Indian population. The author attempts to make [...]
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