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Armenia and Moderna

Readers of the blog know very well that I love travelogues and reading about different corners of the world. In our singular life, we cannot travel everywhere that our mind wishes to travel. We are often bound by finances, the duty to work, and dedication to family (and now, covid). Even if we were to only travel all our lives, one lifetime isn’t enough.

Scotch Eggs and Baked Onions

The perpetual seeming lock-down has gotten us down trying new things. Through a close friend from childhood, I came across the recipe for cooking onions. So, we go down the rabbit hole of the internet, the original domestic goddess, and her early nineteenth-century cookbook.

Test Cricket: Persistence of an Anomaly

A match concluded in Brisbane after a month-long test series fought with verve and grit, among depleting troops and injuries, by teams stretched by the tiresome seclusion in covid bubbles.  Test cricket is such a persistent anomaly in the breakneck pace of the current world.

The English and Their History: Review

Since Brexit, I had always wanted to read about the peculiarity of Euroscepticism in England, and the reasons England voted in stark difference from Scotland on the Remain/Leave referendum.  I started with the single-volume history of England — The English…

Assorted: Ladakh, O’Connor and Thiel

In light of the ongoing skirmishes in Ladakh region the Indian subcontinent, I came across an interesting essay by Peter Worthington, who co-founded Toronto Sun (and who was its editor-in-chief for 12 years), on his first-hand observations in India-China conflict…