Thursday, April 29, 2010

Missing Misal

In the war against vada pav and bhaji pav, misal pav seems to have lost it's significance.
Agreed the former two are the stalwarts of roadside food stalls and nobody comes close to vada pav in beating a mumbaiker's hunger, but still misal should get it's due. Being the sister concern of Bhaji pav, she has been feeding the daily commuter's belly since there are local trains( a bit exageration).
Combining of curry, pulses, farsan, onion and coriander, it is a kind of mix 'n' match quick dish.
Since it does not have as a sophisticated look like Bhaji pav, Misal has been symbolised with the lower class hunger. But it has come of age and misal; the age-old soul blender, deserves a rightful mention with PAV!

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Man is by birth good in nature- Rousseau
Maybe this has found significance in today's society. In nature, man is pure, unadulterated. As he gets into civilization, receives formal education acquires knowledge, he becomes a Civilized Brute. Society teaches the things which are not good, which are unsocial, and in a way man gets eager to use his knowledge to know what's not good, the bad stuff and eventually starts adopting it.
Finally, there stands in front of you a person who is capable of doing the most unimaginable negative things which stand in dark contrast to natural morality.
Powered By Blogger

Labels

15th august abstract adult fiction Afghanistan Ahmadabad anarchy annihilation Anton Chekov apocalypse Arab Revolution architecture ascetic B.J Thomas Ballad bengali bibhutibhushan bandopadhyay biryani bohemian bond of love breaking from past bridges of Madison County brother-sister bond Cafes Calamity Casablanca Cassette Cellphones chaos Charles Bukowski children children poetry Chinar Christmas special citizens City city dweller city life civil war civilization coal mafia coffee coffee house college comfort Communism conversation poem corruption Creative Destruction crime Cyncism cynicism daily commute death decay democracy departing and leaving DEV ANAND Diwali dreams and hopes drought Durga puja dystopia earth ecology Economics Elvis Presley england environment epic poetry evening existential crisis family fantasy farmers fart fascism fate fiction food for thought Franz Kafka friends friendship god government Gulzar helplessness Hinduism house of cards human life human race Humphrey Bogart immigrant life independence India indian budget Indian festival Indian freedom struggle Indian mythology Indian short stories Indian union Ingrid Bergman intelligence Into the Wild ITEM SONG Ivan Ilyich James Long Japan jhelum journeys Kasauli kashmir kerala khalil Gibran kite flying festival Kolavedi Kolkata Leo Tolstoy life life and decay lifeinmotion loneliness love love poem lyrical poetry magical realism mahabharat Maharashtra Makar Sankranti man and nature Maoism market Marxism Max Weber mechanization memoir memories middle-east modern love modern poems modern stories modernization monologue monotonous monsoon Mumbai mumbai rains mundane My Fair Lady nature nature poem necessities new year New York noam chomsky noir O' Henry Obama administration Pablo Neruda Paritition philoshophy poem premchand Raindrops keep fallin' on my head rakshabandhan Ram Ramayan Rastafarian Ravana realism realistic fiction religion revolution rioting robert frost romance romanticism routine Ruskin Bond school Schumpeter science fiction Sharatchandra short fiction short poem short stories short story socialism society soliloquy Songs South Asia Story Sulaimani chai Summer supply and demand sustainability symbolism syria technology Tees Maar Khan the state and society ties time of our lives transformers 3 travel types of ballad tyranny U.S.A urban life urban poetry utopia vacation vagabond want and need wilderness winter work life