Great Soul by Joseph Lelyveld – Chapter 2

In all fairness, Chapter 2 of Lelyveld’s book Great Soul should rightly be described as the Latrine and Feces Chapter given its preoccupation with turds. So, if you are the sort that gets a hard-on by how Gandhi was repulsed by the stench of the human shit at the Calcutta session of the Indian National […]

Not What You Think It Is

Being at a loose end this morning, we headed to  a desi grocery store in the area and purchased this popular Indian snack. But the 99-cent snack tasted so awful (smelly, pasty maida flour and potatoes inside) that we trashed it. Fortunately, we’d taken some pictures earlier and decided to draw some value from it […]