A short piece of fiction, after a long period. It’s dialogue driven. SPOILER ALERT: There is no rain in the story!Continue reading→
The Upma Recipe
Here is a recipe from author Pradeep Swaminathan,, for upma, a traditional South Indian dish made with semolina, offers several health benefits, including aiding in digestion, supporting weight management, and providing sustained energy. It’s a good source of protein, fiber, and essential vitamins and minerals, contributing to overall well-being.Continue reading→
How To: Waste Time
Hello and welcome! We are gathered here today at this purply blog to learn How To Waste Time. Now, if you are a regular visitor, or reader, of this website, and especially, its blog, we must first, not only commend your patience, your perseverance and your dogged insistence on wasting…Continue reading→
Past, Present and Future
It is a fact of life, that we are driven by our Past, which colours our Present and drives our Future. Whether we like it or not, that’s the way it is. I didn’t make the rules. I’m simply inventing them here to satisfy my need for an introduction to…Continue reading→
Achar Rice
Well, here we are. It’s early 2025 and we have left over rice in the fridge. So what do we do? We make achar rice, of course! Now, before we get into this highly complex recipe, it’s antecedents, flavours (flavors, if American), and, yes, you guessed right, ingredients, we should…Continue reading→
A Date For You
A Date – for you Not the edible kind. A real date, an actual date. You want to bookmark this date. It’s an important date. But first, let me tell you about the time I lived in Delhi, India. A newly-minted child, I recall that All India Radio (or AIR) would…Continue reading→
My Family, Leopards, and my Litchi Tree
This is a book, at once full of colour and full of life. Colour that hits you in the face, not just in terms of the phenomenal artwork, but in the recall of life. I loved it! This is a book of memories, but it is much more than…Continue reading→
Now I’m 64
Now – I’m 64 This is the end of my 64th BirthMonth. Consequently, I’d like to share some elements of my life and myself. First things first: I was born. I think we can safely say that that is an established fact, a true fact, not a hypothesis, or even…Continue reading→
ISBF24: A Fine Welcome by Peter Philipps
About Peter Philipps Peter Philipps is an award winning former staff writer and editor of The New York Times and Business Week. A Fine Welcome by Peter Philipps It was our first home in America, a one-bedroom apartment on the top floor of a brownstone in Washington Heights, the upper…Continue reading→