JOST A MON

The idle ramblings of a Jack of some trades, Master of none

Aug 19, 2017

The Girl's Circumnavigation Meal

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In the centre of the square stood a statue of a lady September knew well by now, patted together from cream-colored crumpets. Below her be...
Aug 8, 2017

The Businesses of Bano and Khair

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Umm Bano is a magician of power and dispenser of supernatural justice on behalf of the Queen of Vijayanagara. That empire, true to its nam...
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Jul 25, 2017

Lviv feast

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On the table the appetisers were waiting: eggs stuffed with mushrooms and mayonnaise, red and black caviar canapés, beetroot and prune sal...
Jul 14, 2017

Deference to the vas

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The other day, the boy and his amma and I watched Dear Zindagi . He has been a fan of Alia Bhatt since he saw her in Student of the Year ....
Jul 10, 2017

Telephonic Discoveries

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A few years of working in Delhi after graduating from IISc, I took up a job in Chicago. Once there, I began to reach out to old friends wh...
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Jul 7, 2017

Overheard XXIV

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Green blonde: Hello darling! How was the weekend? Blue blonde: Oh, well, we went drinking on Friday, and I was so hungover on Saturday. ...
May 19, 2017

Muhi al-Din Lari

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I came across a reference to Muhi al-Din Lari in Ziauddin Sardar's magisterial Mecca: The Sacred City . Lari was supposed to be a hu...
May 9, 2017

Steamed White Rice

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Don walked back into the living room and announced that dinner was ready. A full course Chinese dinner, family style, prepared by Don's...
Apr 20, 2017

Serial reading

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Scarcely a month after my remarks on reading more than one book by the same author, I find myself in the midst of not one, not two, but t...
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Apr 3, 2017

Fine Food in Bookholm

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I stood marvelling for a long time in front of a blackboard on which all the delicious fare one could order was listed in chalk. I was bewi...
Mar 10, 2017

Osmium

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It appears that J P Vaswani is still going strong, nearly a century after he was born. While he is known for his spiritual teachings, at o...
Mar 7, 2017

Reading Habits

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How easy it is to fall into habit. A few years ago I decided to read every novel under 200 pages at my local library. Now, automatically, ...
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Mar 3, 2017

Milanese Dialectical Fine Food

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From the Economist's Prospero blog : If these songs are a fascinating historical record of a changing city, they are also important ...
Feb 3, 2017

Solve a Crime and Celebrate

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The dish of the day was a splendid roast guinea fowl cooked in sea-salt, with a chickpea purée. Lola ordered it without thinking twice. Ingr...
Jan 26, 2017

The Headmaster Chronicles 2

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The headmaster saw the boy in the corridor between classes. "Where are you going?" he said. "To the toilet, sir," s...
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Jan 19, 2017

An Actor on Jury Duty

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I was on jury duty a while ago. Two weeks of my life spent on my civic responsibility. Most of the time was spent waiting to be selected f...
Jan 5, 2017

2016 in Reading - Part 2

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Continuing the round-up of 2016 : three more non-fiction titles that were well worth my time. Elizabeth Pisani is a multitalented wom...
Jan 3, 2017

Hussar Blowout

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Before the Hussars even got to Waterloo, one of their chiefs, the 2nd Earl of Uxbridge, put down riots in London by hungry people protesti...
Dec 27, 2016

2016 in Reading - Part 1

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I didn't go to Reading, not this year, at least. Poor pun, that... What a strange, troubling year this has been. Besides worrisome...
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Dec 5, 2016

The Headmaster Chronicles 1

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The latest headmaster is a bit of an eccentric. In the boy's class one day he announced that he hated Spanish women. (It is not clear...
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