The Imagined Universe

Wish you all a very happy Diwali (or Deepavali)!!
I am going to shamelessly borrow my brother’s greeting to me to add:
“May the Markets recover, May the economy recover, May Paulson and Bernanke see light and usher in prosperity this year.”
Last Diwali, I was making sweets and ruminating about Ravana’s army.� I was pondering deep philosophical [...]

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Most of us know that a lot of the bottled water we buy is really tap water. Pepsi admitted last year that Aquafina is really tap water and Aquafina’s bottles either say ” Bottled at the source P.W.S.”� or a longer version where instead of “PWS”, they mention it as “public water sources”.� In other [...]

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“What’s for lunch?” my Mom asked me on Skype.� No doubt, she was wondering why I was chatting with her on a weekend instead of feeding her son-in-law.
“Masala pasta”, I said brightly.� My brother V, who was visiting India, grimaced beside her.
“How did you make it?” my Mom asked.
“Well, I boiled the pasta”, I began, [...]

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You must have heard of it by now - a judge in New Zealand found the name “Tallulah does the hula from Hawaii” so bizarre that he made the child a ward of the court.
“The court is profoundly concerned about the very poor judgment which this child’s parents have shown in choosing this name,” he [...]

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Growing up doesn’t seem to have made me less rebellious.� It seems to me that even now, my Mom only has to tell me that something is not a good idea, and suddenly it suddenly becomes the most attractive option.
So there I was, stuck with a gallon of expired milk, as I mentioned in my [...]

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I opened the refrigerator and came face to face with horror.� The gallon of milk was past its expiry date.� I usually cheat and use it for another day or two, but this was a full week past its expiry date.� Worse, it was an unopened can.
How does one throw away a full can of [...]

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