Gabfest: And Thereby Hangs A Tail

Ha ha! Loved the way you put it tu bhi Kya yaad rakhegi and then a compassionate ye le.
Pakka yaad rakhongi! I will also remember that gray lacquer on your finger nail.

Tu to chupa rustom likhli! All that marinade, frying, inspecting and then you just read out names to us without sharing the pictures. All the behind-the-scene pictures and the glamorous rice and nuts picture yaad rakhongi.

Yeh bhi koi bhoolne wale pictures hai kya!

 

I see what you are saying by comparing the picture with a fluffy floret baked in a oven. But what I don't see — how the alluded blogger described the wilted florets which could cheer up a bit with a saline bottle as "browned" and "caramelised".

I caught up over the weekend with another user of air-fryer and the intel I have so far gathered from these discussions is that air-frying is sleight of hand. It will get better over a period of time. Air-frying is a technique more than a procedure and with time and patience one improves upon it. Again, don't ask why an automated electrical machine demands an artisan supervision. May be over time one develops the knack of shuffling the settings for a perfect fry. I have deferred the purchase of air-fryer. I had plans to buy an idli steamer for years. I will scan for those in Amazon now. I hope idli steamer is not another round of enervating research.

 

Somehow this version didn't stick in my mind - Sanskrit or Hindi (double whammy, jeez!) - and I had first-rate Hindi teachers, Gandhian, khadi 'n all; it's time to revisit Maithili Sharan Gupt and 'Panchavati' - there's got to be a 'shraap' in there somewhere!

 

Now, after all this back and forth re: wafaa/jafaa (on the "An Ode to One Song" thread), I am reminded of this exchange in the Indian parliament from a few years ago, between the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and opposition leader Sushma Swaraj:

PM Singh (launching a broadside against the BJP, quoting Ghalib): "Humko hai unse wafa ki umeed, jo nahi jaante hain wafa kya hai (We hope for loyalty from those that do not know the meaning of the word)."

Sushma Swaraj (retaliating with a quote from Bashir Badr): "Kuch toh majboorian rahee hongee, yun hee koi bewafa nahee hota, (There must have been some compulsion, one is not disloyal for no reason at all)."

And then SS carries on with this (Bashir Badr): "Tumhe wafa yaad nahee, Humein jafa yaad nahee, Zindagi aur maut ke toh do hee tarane hain, ek tumhein yaad nahee, ek humein yaad naheen (You don't remember loyalty, we don't remember disloyalty, life and death have two rhythms, you don't remember one, we don't remember the other)."

Wah, wah!! I enjoyed that immensely!
Would that our politicians were so civilized always!
India Today report here.

Here is Padma Shri Syed Bashir at a mushaira. Enjoy!