Witty Scribble

One of the daily chores assigned to me by wife is 'watering the plants'. Quite fond of plants, I have happily taken up the task and do it religiously, every morning. My mom too has a penchant for gardening. We even had a 'kitchen garden' at our home in Agra, boasting of vegetables such as Cauliflower, Spinach, Radish, Beans, Tomato. I along with my younger brothers, Kushagra & Mayank, were given the onus of watering our organically produced veggies & at times, scare away the monkeys from destroying or rather savouring our prized cultivation. Prized it was, as to every guest who came to our house, it was sort of mandatory to showcase them our vegetable garden. The green chutni made from home grown coriander really had a distinct flavour and aroma, much to our delight and guests envy 😋. Good old days. I'm getting nostalgic! Cutting back to the present day, on a pleasant and cool morning in Bangalore, I was watering the two beans climbers, which are clos

It was a hot Hyderabad summer day and we ran out of cold water in the fridge. My wife, in an attempt to get water cooled rapidly, kept a water bottle in the freezer section. And then we forgot. She opened the freezer next day and this is what she found. Broken bottle Yes, that is a real picture clicked from my cellphone camera. Excuse for the not so impressive background of the picture. My wife was clearly disappointed with the condition of the bottle (she chose these bottles to match the color theme of rest of the kitchen stuff, and now her set of 6 bottles was short of one) but I was a little amused. It was a moment for me to travel back in time. I had a video playing in my head. It was of the science lecture in school, 6 th or 7 th standard perhaps, where my science teacher was teaching about the properties of water. So why did the bottle break actually? Usually, any substance reduces in volume when cooled and the density increases. Water follows the same tr

' Having rice with hands adds a unique taste to the food ' says my aunt. Though I don’t really second the opinion, majority of the Indians definitely will buy it. It’s a part of our Indian culture, something which is not considered to be uncouth or gross. Sometimes I feel, how had we been eating, without the cutlery that we have at our disposal today. Eating with finesse or 'Fine Dining' would really be a recently coined term. But, when did the cutlery come in to our lives? When did the likes of Spoon, Knives and Forks were first used?  The origin of Knives, Spoons : Shells, Animal tusks and horns, as historians predict, were used as spoons to gulp in any liquid. Predominantly, knives, made out of stones were used for eating (& not spoon shaped different items). Stone, later gave way to bronze and finally to iron in around 1000 B.C. During the same period, different variety of pottery like Bone China, Fine China and Porcelain was gaining shape and acceptance

Well, if you have not recognized the line in the title, it is from a famous song from an even more famous movie by Mr. Anurag Kashyap “Gangs of Wasseypur”. The line translates to “They ask me, whether I like weather.” Just to let you know, this post is not about movies or the music, but to know something that might help you to answer the above question, if someone happens to ask you the same: Whether you like weather. Let us talk about few instruments that are used to measure the weather parameters. You will find one, more, or all of these in a weather station. Thermometer : This is a simple one, we all know, used for measuring the temperature. However, the thermometers used for measuring atmosphere temperature is slightly different from the one we use at home to measure body temperature. These thermometers capable of recording maximum and minimum temperature. Barometer : Used to measure atmospheric pressure. Measurement of atmospheric pressure and its deviation is extr