Showing posts with label Bangalore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bangalore. Show all posts
Saturday, March 02, 2024

History repeating itself?

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Annikki and I were enjoying our regular Friday buffet lunch (with a speacial spicey chicken vindaloo) at The Roy al Garden restaurant in Oul...
Wednesday, November 01, 2023

Brinda Somaya, Outstanding Architect

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Brinda Somaya  I have posted a tribute to a good friend Brinda (nee Chinappa) Somaya , one of India’s leading architects.  She is a school f...
Saturday, September 23, 2023

We beat our 2005 Blogging Record

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 We have done it.  unmasked! Our most popular blog entry was about my childhood hero, world champion wrestler Dara Singh, which I posted on ...
Thursday, September 21, 2023

Edible Art 1

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  When we published Annikki’s book "Edible Art" about her history of cake designing, the cakes were designed by her, most of the p...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

Passing of a legend DARA

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It is with great sadness that my childhood hero, Dara Singh, wrestler, actor, director, parliamentarian, passed away this morning (12th July...
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

I wonder what goes through her mind?

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Zebras by Annikki - made for my mother.  Took 7 months. As I look out of the window, I see my better half of the last 45+ years doing many t...
Sunday, June 06, 2010

Who in their right senses would...

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I read with great interest how billions were being promised as new investment in Bangalore and how the Chief Minister had rode rough shod on...
Thursday, April 08, 2010

Old Cottonians act

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I have mentioned on my many blogs the unfortunate media publicity attached to some of my alma maters. I am heartened to see how the Banga...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Remember your first Fountain Pen?

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Those were the days when we did not have ballpoint pens around. I used to covet my mother's beautiful Shaeffer, a black and white stri...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

The Garbage Dump - India

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By Annikki & Jacob Matthan The good news of yesterday. Samba Siva, our dear friend from Patni Computers, who used to be in Finland and i...
Saturday, November 21, 2009

A rude awakening....

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Annikki went to her Seventh Day Adventist Church in Byculla. I had about an hour to spare. I decided to visit the grave of my elder sister, ...
Saturday, October 31, 2009

Jumping a day again to Bangalore

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(Sorry no photographs till I can upload to my server in Finland!) Although Thursday was a most intriguing day in Cochin, I will come back to...
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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Obituary: Husband of Nalini Punnose (née Patil)

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In the 50's and 60's we had a wonderful teacher in the girl's school by the name of Nalini Patil. She married an officer in the ...
Saturday, November 10, 2007

The passing of my Godmother

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Tomorrow would have been her 91st birthday. I had already planned to send her my birthday greetings. When I reached my computer this morning...
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Friday, September 28, 2007

India in the Finnish news

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Here in the near Arctic Finland, India, and especially Karnataka, appears to be much in the news. There was an article in the Business Secti...
Saturday, February 26, 2005

Thanks to Shalu

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Anand and me Many thanks to Shalini, wife of Anand (son of the late George Matthan Sr.) and daughter of the late Dr. Nainan Varghese, for pr...