Amodini's Book Reviews

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Archive for April, 2008

The Spice of Life

As I travel to India nowadays, I find that I get “softer” with each visit. Food gets to me sooner. I love roadside food, the pani-puri, the chola-bhatura, the aloo-tikki frying tantalizingly in all that glorious oil. It’s hard though to enjoy all that without falling sick at least once – especially with water-based products […]

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Music for Fridays

An absolutely gorgeous song from the “Plain White Ts” – “Hey there Delilah”. Am so thankful that geniuses abound; take a listen : [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbJtYqBYCV8] And a totally bindaas desi number from the film “Cash”. Haven’t seen the film, but this song is pretty well done. And desi bindaas is hard, especially on film : [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7yL1pw81rI]

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Cheap GPS

You think about all that technology floating around and then you see this : “Cheap GPS” by xkcd.com

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