A friend forwards absolute gems of Urdu poetry so you have him to thank if you like the following ones:
फिर इतने मायूस क्यों हो उसकी बेवफाई पर फ़राज़
तुम ख़ुद ही तो कहते थे के वो सबसे जुदा है
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कुछ धड़कता तो है पहलु मे मेरे रह कर
अब खुदा जाने याद है तेरी या दिल मेरा
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Red Sand - by R. Karl Largent
To be perfectly honest, the list of the author's previous books was odd - Red Wind, Red Skies, Red Rain and Red Ice. In fact the author seems to have covered all the basic elements except Fire :-)
Still, I picked up Red Sand - by R. Karl Largent - because as usual the story at the back seemed very interesting. It begins with the discovery of a young woman's dead body. Then the Russian State Head who has come for his first-ever visit to the US is assassinated as soon as he steps out of the plane - in full view of the Secret Service guys. These events are somehow related to a trainload of state-of-the-art Russian nuclear ICBMs that are being shipped to Odessa for the disarmament program. And there is a strong possibility that whatever is on that train is not exactly state-of-the-art!
Commander T.C. Bogner doesn't have too much of time at his disposal. What he has, however, is a seemingly impossible task of stopping this train before it reaches its destination and to get a passenger off it.
If you are looking for action, you will get it in this novel set in the coldest part of what was once the USSR. And though I am not able to put my finger to the exact reason, I don't think I will reach out for another book of this author!
Still, I picked up Red Sand - by R. Karl Largent - because as usual the story at the back seemed very interesting. It begins with the discovery of a young woman's dead body. Then the Russian State Head who has come for his first-ever visit to the US is assassinated as soon as he steps out of the plane - in full view of the Secret Service guys. These events are somehow related to a trainload of state-of-the-art Russian nuclear ICBMs that are being shipped to Odessa for the disarmament program. And there is a strong possibility that whatever is on that train is not exactly state-of-the-art!
Commander T.C. Bogner doesn't have too much of time at his disposal. What he has, however, is a seemingly impossible task of stopping this train before it reaches its destination and to get a passenger off it.
If you are looking for action, you will get it in this novel set in the coldest part of what was once the USSR. And though I am not able to put my finger to the exact reason, I don't think I will reach out for another book of this author!
I watched Surat episode of "चख ले इंडिया" with great interest and then cringed when a chef put Broccoli while preparing ऊन्धिउ. Of course he claimed that he was making "Active ऊन्धिउ" - meaning it was full of anti-oxidants. But if you ask me, I would rather chew on raw Broccoli than find it in ऊन्धिउ :-(
The act of tinkering with traditional dishes to make them healthy should be made punishable by law :-)
The act of tinkering with traditional dishes to make them healthy should be made punishable by law :-)
Thursday, December 3, 2009
These days I tune in to news channel Russia Today in the evenings. Yesterday they were showing the results of a poll conducted in Russia over war on terrorism. There was 31% of this, 31% of that, 10% of something else and 10% of something that. Wait a minute, isn't the total supposed to be 100%? Apparently the remaining 18% was unaccounted for!
Probably their tagline explains it all - Any story can be other story altogether :-)
Probably their tagline explains it all - Any story can be other story altogether :-)
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