Review: Hohner Golden Melody 10 hole diatonic harmonica
Its been a while since I played a harmonica, around 30 years at least. I remember the black Hero harmonica that dad had. In fact most of my friends who had harmonicas had Heros. Its quality was pretty good and I was surprised to find out a few days back that it was/is made in [...]
Calotropis gigantea/procera
Glossary This plant is an old friend on account of its familiarity since childhood, thanks to its wide distribution all over India. I remember this plant as it is pretty easy to identify. It is covered in a whitish powder and when a part of the plant is broken off, it exudes latex ( a [...]
Drumstick leaf fried rice
The drumstick tree, as it is known in India or the Moringa Oleifera, is a well known tree. The stick like seed pod is commonly cooked, the leaves although being highly nutritious are seldom used. Even though we had a tree by our window all through our childhood years in Bombay, my mother, in spite [...]
Review: Chico bag’s Bottle Sling
When I bought my 40 oz (approx 1.1 liter) Klean Kanteen, I also bought a neoprene jacket made by Built NY from them. It took me quite some time -almost a year to get used to the neoprene jacket (because I was carrying my Sigg around) as it was a bit different from the simple [...]
Himachal’s water powered flour mills
Renewable energy is what I’m passionate about and an opportunity to live off the grid would be a dream come true. Among known renewable energy sources, solar photovoltaic cell technology is way down on my list of favorites, as it is dependent on industrial manufacture. In addition to that, broken/disposed solar cells are not something [...]
Water Bottle shootout : Klean Kanteen vs Sigg
Its over a year (or is it two?) since I gave up plastic. My biggest dilemma at that time was carrying my drinking water without leeching any chemicals into it. On searching the net I finally short listed these two bottles. It was just a matter of who accepted credit card payments and shipped to [...]
Fear and the bacterium
Think Louis Pasteur and what comes to mind is pasteurization, vaccination and his discovery of microbes, BUT…
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