World Wide Telescope

Demo - Worldwide telescope at ted.

No kidding !

Cleopatra Stratan - Ghita , she is the singer and 3 years old

Friday Dinner - Pitla and Chapati

Chapati, Pitla, curds and sliced tomatoes sprinkled with salt and pepper

Another of my recipe blogs,

Pitla or Jhunka is one of those side dishes cooked either when there is no vegetable at home or one is too lazy to cook an elaborate sabzi. It goes well with both hot rice and chapatis.

Main ingredients : 4 table spoons of besan (gram dal powdered) and 1/2 finely chopped onion.

1. Heat 1 tsp oil add asafoetida and some mustard seeds wait till the seeds splutter.
2. Add cumin seeds and chopped onion, some salt and turmeric.
3. Once the onion gives itself to the heat and turns tender add some chili powder or green cut chili both work.
4. Add 1/2 cup water and let it boil.
5. Now is the tricky part, add besan to this boiling water spoon by spoon and keep stirring. The idea is not let it form lumps, if need be add more water.
6. Let it boil a little longer to get nice uniform consistency( you want all the besan nicely cooked to avoid any uncomfortable consequences the following morning :) )
7. Salt status check, add accordingly. Squeeze some fresh lemon on top and garnish with coriander.

Add ghee while serving and serve it hot.


After food and a glass of nice cold water, it is time to chew some beetle nut(I know not all would approve of this....:) ) and wander about my small patio.... that completes the experience.

Photosynth

Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation. Its architect, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, shows it off in this standing-ovation demo. Curious about that speck in corner? Dive into a freefall and watch as the speck becomes a gargoyle. With an unpleasant grimace. And an ant-sized chip in its lower left molar. "Perhaps the most amazing demo I've seen this year," wrote Ethan Zuckerman, after TED2007. Indeed, Photosynth might utterly transform the way we manipulate and experience digital images. - from ted.com

Yeh faasle teri galiyon ke

Yeh faasle teri galiyon ke hum se tayen na huye
Hazar baar ruke hum, hazar baar chalen

- Gulzar

I couldn't walk the distance.. I started a thousand times and stopped a thousand times...

Listen to this beautiful gazal by gulzar..

All you die-hard romantics...

Play the song and sing along !

Before I could catch

The sun set before I could catch.

chakshu rakshak