Armenian Church, Calcutta

Rev. Haruthiun Shumavonian
"Father of Armenian journalism
Born in 1750 in Shiraz Persia
Died on 9th February 1824 in Madras"

red bullet

le hoogly

d.gupta sr. & jr.

dattu

ride to bhimashankar

janhavi's mum ...

... from many years ago

chairman maow

katherine rechristened by renu ....

pryas

whose film, "siddharth the prisoner" recently won this

upside down

katherine panjabi

a.k.a. kitty-coo, buddhuram, dumbocat

karnala fort

looking for a quiet place to get away to...

3 shoots / what i do for a living

if anyone can guess what these 3 shoots were for i'll buy them lunch!

the sibling..

...is back in town !!

bye bye london

mukul

mukul patel : artist / sometime dj / fulltime thinker
if i had my way i'd cast him in a bollywood film!!
check out his work at www.ambienttv.net

robin koshy & the pork belly

thanks to robin i had the best meal of my trip.

that delectable piece of meat he is tucking into is a pork belly.. a cut from the underside of the piggy-wiggy, it has a layer of crisp fat on top (like crispy bacon), then a nice thick layer of good old pork fat under that, then a layer of a juicy mixture of fat and meat and then at the very bottom an absolutely divine layer of pure meat!

ummm-yumm! thank you robin!

a 'gig'

i witnessed a strange phenomenon in london which i was told is quite commonplace in all of england. it is called a 'gig' (both g's pronounced soft as pronounced in the word 'God'). it involves a few people, typically 3 or 4, standing on a raised platform called a 'stage', facing a large crowd of people. the numbers of persons populating the crowd varies depending on the size of the location where this phenomenon occurs which is called the 'venue'. small venues house 50 to a 100 persons and i was told a large one (such as a stadium) hold thousands upon thousands.

the people on the stage constitute what is called a 'band'. they play musical instruments which emit various sounds,

they clap their hands,

and then, strangest of all, the people in the crowd, who till then have been consuming all forms of liquor and shaking themselves gently, lie down on the ground and vigourously shake their legs in the air.

this is considered a pleasurable pasttime in england and is ingulged in by most peoples,
except the children and the very old. it is particularly practised on the days at the end of the week.

outside the royal albert hall

tanya