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You need For the cake 100 gms whole, raw almonds 2 whole eggs 1/3 cup Splenda (or other sugar substitute to taste) ½ tsp baking soda 25 gms cooking oil To pour on top4 tbsp water 1 inch ginger grated The seeds of one cardamom I small piece of cinnamon 1 clove The juice of […]
You need 6 eggs (separate the eggs. We need only 3 yolks but the whites of all 6 eggs) 2 tbsp sugar free cocoa powder (we use Hersheys) 6 tbsp Splenda / Natura / Stevia or other sugar-free equivalent, according to taste. How to In a double boiler, add the 3 egg yolks, cocoa powder […]
Is it fair to critique someone’s life? Is it fair to boo a musician at a concert? Is it fair for political candidates to be lampooned in public? As long as you put it out there for public consumption, I suppose it is. “One, Two, Three, Four — Mother *&%@&^,” says Springsteen. It is the […]
Since I’m visiting my son in America I left Brownie Wownie with my long-time driver Raju in Bangalore, India. Brownie loves him and went to his house quite happily. Apparently during some Holi carousing that included fire-crackers (grrr) set off at a temple near where Raju lives, Brownie escaped from under his watchful eye, and […]
I guess you could say that I’m not a happy traveler. I much prefer staying at home where there are no surprises to horrify me, especially at the end of a long day. But it’s not to be, and travel I must. To perform my music, to speak at conferences, to visit friends and […]
Some time ago I read a really nice article by Saritha Rai in the global edition of the NYT called ‘Hairdressers Fight Caste Prejudice With Upscale Salons.’ It talked about Bangalorean barbers who have shed caste and discrimination, poverty and illiteracy to drive around in Rolls Royces visiting salon after salon in their chain […]
I have had to learn lessons on life and love at decibel levels that hovered around the 80 mark most of the time. It’s a miracle that I’m not stone cold deaf.
Back in August of 2014, I received this frightening notice (below) from SoundCloud about a song that my ex-husband Suresh Shottam and I wrote in 1975, in India. We had performed it several times with our band Human Bondage, and then when we went to America, where we recorded a demo tape of the song […]
October 1, 2014, Explocity Guide It was pouring rain. The SO (Significant Other) and I found ourselves without our car. We tried Uber, Meru, Taxi For Sure and other instant millennial transport solutions, but you know how it is… things don’t usually work when you need them most. Braving angry winds and SOs scowl, […]
When Sidharth Bhatia contacted me about a year ago armed with a bunch of probing questions about my life as a rock’n’roll singer in the band Human Bondage some two centuries ago (well, I exaggerate, it was in the mid-70s), frankly, I was astonished. “I’m writing a book about rock’n’roll in India, back in the […]
Radha Thomas 