25 November 2023

Some real authentic Tamizh food!!

Thanks to Lakshmi, had some great Tamizh food – uttapam with molagapodi and some deadly idlis!! The sambar was to die for. I did not realize this during my years in Chennai but apparently you garnish the sambar with finely diced onions (like you would do with a pav bhaji from Bombay). It tasted real good.

Of course, the Sivasubramaniams are always great company!

23 July 2023

Three separate friendships… put together for the first time

Let me see if I can put the chain together… Prabasaj-da and I went to the same high school in mid 80’s near Kolkata. Prabasaj-da and Sunil went to the same engineering college together in the late 80’s in Kanpur. Sunil and I became apartment neighbors (and colleagues in the same company) in the mid 90’s in Dallas. There is a very interesting story on how I got to know Sunil.

And now in the early 20’s the three of us got together – for the first time ever – at a Korean bakery in Atlanta!! The bottom left picture is that of Prabasaj-da (after a nasty cycle accident) and Sunil going back over 35 years!!