accusations, allegations flying in the room
nimble tear drops kiss the cheeks
imagine life slowly melting away like the ice in the whiskey glass
tiring lonesome existence though there are two souls
amidst the wounded self esteems
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
new prose-1
a broken frame, shattered mirror
neat crack on the drinking glass..
inside out...outside in..all in pieces..
tame my mind or my temper
alleviate my helplessness
neat crack on the drinking glass..
inside out...outside in..all in pieces..
tame my mind or my temper
alleviate my helplessness
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
entrepreneurship advice from HBR
For the uninitiated, HBR provides compelling online articles for entrepreneurs. Of the few that I have read in last few months, here are the two which really stood out ...
Isenberg's Test to find out your inner spark
Isenberg's 2 minute Checklist for Product idea generation
Isenberg's Test to find out your inner spark
Isenberg's 2 minute Checklist for Product idea generation
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Are you ready for her?
Rani is our 4 month old Labrador puppy. She is awesomely cute and playful and friendly with people. She is a bundle of energy. We are trying to find a home for her for few days in the month of Jan/Feb (30th Jan to 19th Feb) as we have planned a trip during the same period where we cannot take her with us. We would provide her food, treats, toys etc to anyone who would be interested in taking care of her during these period along with a token cash of $250. We would prefer a home in NJ or NY area.
Rani is crate trained and she needs to go out for only few times in a day - 6 am, 11 am, 5pm and 10 pm. A 10 minute brisk walk/run and play during these times are good enough to make her day - in return she will be give you selfless love and lots of licks...
If you interested, please please let me know as soon as you read this...
Rani is crate trained and she needs to go out for only few times in a day - 6 am, 11 am, 5pm and 10 pm. A 10 minute brisk walk/run and play during these times are good enough to make her day - in return she will be give you selfless love and lots of licks...
If you interested, please please let me know as soon as you read this...
Sunday, December 27, 2009
RSVP et all
Do you all know what RSVP means?
As per wiki it is "Répondez s'il vous plaît", a French phrase that translates to "please respond".
During the last few months, Anita (my wife) and I had the honor of hosting a couple of events and we send out invitations with instructions to do RSVP in advance. However, the responses have been plain simple unexpected. There were few (very few) who promptly RSVP ed with a Yay or a Nay..then there were others who had to be called up to find out about their intentions and then there were others (the most number) who didn't RSVP ed at all but did show up at the events - with additional guests. We thought may be we did it all wrong - may be instead of impersonal online tools as evites , pinggs, mypunchbowl and facebook-events we should have used personal paper-card invitation. We did the same for one event. 70 people RSVP ed and 54 showed up!!
May be RSVP is to French for our guests...after all French was the language of the high society in the 19th century in the United States. May be its time to pick up the phone and make a quick call to the guests and make sure of their attendance (or absence). We will keep you posted for the next event :)
As per wiki it is "Répondez s'il vous plaît", a French phrase that translates to "please respond".
During the last few months, Anita (my wife) and I had the honor of hosting a couple of events and we send out invitations with instructions to do RSVP in advance. However, the responses have been plain simple unexpected. There were few (very few) who promptly RSVP ed with a Yay or a Nay..then there were others who had to be called up to find out about their intentions and then there were others (the most number) who didn't RSVP ed at all but did show up at the events - with additional guests. We thought may be we did it all wrong - may be instead of impersonal online tools as evites , pinggs, mypunchbowl and facebook-events we should have used personal paper-card invitation. We did the same for one event. 70 people RSVP ed and 54 showed up!!
May be RSVP is to French for our guests...after all French was the language of the high society in the 19th century in the United States. May be its time to pick up the phone and make a quick call to the guests and make sure of their attendance (or absence). We will keep you posted for the next event :)
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Baignon ka Bhurta
Total Time: 30 minutes / Serves: 3 to 4 people
Ingredients
1 large eggplant
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
1/2 finely chopped onion
1 1/2 teaspoons ginger, grated
1 teaspoon garlic, grated
1 teaspoon finely chopped green chillies,
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder (haldi)
1/2 teaspoon garam masala
1 tablespoon ghee
2 tablespoons olive oil
salt to taste
Garnish
2 tablespoons chopped coriander
How to Cook?
1. Grease the brinjal (eggplant) with olive oil, make small slits all over the surface and cook over an open flame till it is soft. You can microwave like I did for 10 minutes (dont just burn the hell out of it)
2. Cool and peel the skin. Mash the pulp thoroughly and keep aside.
3. Heat ghee and add the cumin seeds. When they crackle add the onions and sauté for a few minutes.
4. Add the ginger, garlic and green chillies and fry again for a few seconds.
5. Add turmeric powder and cook till the oil separates from the masala.
6. Add the mashed brinjal, garam masala and salt and mix well.
7. Serve hot garnished with the coriander.
How to serve?
Serve with Roti or hot rice and garnish with chopped coriander
Ingredients
1 large eggplant
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
1/2 finely chopped onion
1 1/2 teaspoons ginger, grated
1 teaspoon garlic, grated
1 teaspoon finely chopped green chillies,
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder (haldi)
1/2 teaspoon garam masala
1 tablespoon ghee
2 tablespoons olive oil
salt to taste
Garnish
2 tablespoons chopped coriander
How to Cook?
1. Grease the brinjal (eggplant) with olive oil, make small slits all over the surface and cook over an open flame till it is soft. You can microwave like I did for 10 minutes (dont just burn the hell out of it)
2. Cool and peel the skin. Mash the pulp thoroughly and keep aside.
3. Heat ghee and add the cumin seeds. When they crackle add the onions and sauté for a few minutes.
4. Add the ginger, garlic and green chillies and fry again for a few seconds.
5. Add turmeric powder and cook till the oil separates from the masala.
6. Add the mashed brinjal, garam masala and salt and mix well.
7. Serve hot garnished with the coriander.
How to serve?
Serve with Roti or hot rice and garnish with chopped coriander
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Trends and point of views
I have been amazed at the trends emerging over the last few months in different social and business domains. I'm listing out few here..any comments and suggestions will be highly appreciated
1. Oprah trying to gain more news bytes than she already has by exploiting Rihanna's current emotional state
2. Easiness of publishing your writing on Kindle -- the Amazon DTP platform has made publishing a child's play. What will happen to conventional publishing?
3. Google Voice release. Unified voice communication management.
4. People being thoroughly pissed with larger than life personalities duping them (think Madoff)
5. Sudden flood of manage-your-finances types books, blogs, articles etc.
1. Oprah trying to gain more news bytes than she already has by exploiting Rihanna's current emotional state
2. Easiness of publishing your writing on Kindle -- the Amazon DTP platform has made publishing a child's play. What will happen to conventional publishing?
3. Google Voice release. Unified voice communication management.
4. People being thoroughly pissed with larger than life personalities duping them (think Madoff)
5. Sudden flood of manage-your-finances types books, blogs, articles etc.
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