Ratna-Rajaiah-Blogs

Today is Deepavali. And in memory of the triumph of good over evil, and that no matter how deep and impenetrable the darkness may seem, li...

Dear Mr. Pratap Simha The front page of yesterday eveninger, City Today said that you are all set to turn Mysore into Paris. Now while...

Hasi Malkani For the world, she was my landlady and I was her paying guest, living for many years in one of the two little but very clean ...

I suppose many people think that some things are really not of very much use. A few days ago, I read a news item that said that 1...

We have a neem tree just outside the gate of our house.  A magnificent towering tree,  a tree cathedral really, because if you stand un...

I’m thinking, how did the phrase “as poor as church mice” come about?  I mean are there mice that are rich, mice that live in Bill Gat...

"I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere."  Jawaharlal Nehru It’s...

I am fascinated by the cornucopia of avatars of verbs in Indian languages and how, often by using a word that's just a syllable-long, w...

A cucumber In December Said  I remember I remember Chilling out,  Lying about In a Cool, pink gazpacho Cuddling a tomato I reme...

Bhendi. Lady's fingers. Or okra, as the Americans call it. The word "okra" is of African origin and means "lady'...