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(Wheat flour) Appam

gharelu wrote 3 months ago: Made a variant appam for Gokulashtami with proportions from a chitvish recipe. Ingredients: Wheat fl … more →

Tags: Iyer staples, gokulashtami, appam

Into the shadowed heart

warrick wrote 4 months ago: By far the most interesting thing in the always interesting magazine The Monthly this month is the P … more →

Tags: my_reading, Books, journals, Reviews, Rothwell, NT, themonthly

Burn This Blog17 comments

freireson wrote 4 months ago: Although our discussion of Burn This Book was largely tabled this week, we are going to jump-start t … more →

Tags: burn this book, Grossman, Banks, Purpose for Writing, Human Suffering, role of novelist

Stanford Commencement.8 comments

Deepak Iyer wrote 5 months ago: Inspite of all my efforts directed at the contrary, I completed my Masters’ in Computer Scienc … more →

Tags: Experiences, Stanford Commencement, Steve Jobs, Anthony Kennedy, Oprah Winfrey, Tambram

my day today; maybe a bit of yesterday too

Arvind wrote 6 months ago: been sunny all day and it’s raining now. so it’s kinda cool: the climate that makes you … more →

Tags: Miscellaneous, tamil peers, Shilpa, Kavitha, Chandni, Yash, shwetha, ashwin, akhilesh

MUTTU SANDU1 comment

meanitha wrote 6 months ago: So he is named Will multitask until he’s famed! Dumbells, guitar, cords and string To bracket … more →

Tags: Sit Out POEMS, Muttu sandu, discover, Bike, Poem, Cycle, Ride, Maami, School

"Iyer the Great" - says a Non-Iyer19 comments

sasikumara wrote 9 months ago: The title of this article might make some move to the next topic immediately. Some might however rea … more →

Tags: Politics, Culture, Asia, Tamil, India, Eelam, Tamil Nadu, Tamil community, hindu

Vaadhyar aka Purohit3 comments

RamN wrote 9 months ago: Being a vaadhyar is a profession who carries out rituals for Hindu families, are priests at temples. … more →

Tags: India, People, Arcot Road, Chennai, Gurukkal, iyengar, nikon D40x, Poonool, Priests

Iyer, McBuddhism, and the search for pseudo-spirituality

japonesque wrote 10 months ago: I stumbled across this video interview Kurt Andersen of Studio 360 conducted with Pico Iyer, who is … more →

Tags: Religion, Society, Japan, Culture, Pico, studio360, Buddhism

What will happen in my marriage?4 comments

wetfingers wrote 1 year ago:           My sister is married. My cousin…psst…sh… So in my generation i am the la … more →

Tags: wedding, Tamil, Satire

Gurukkal 4 comments

RamN wrote 1 year ago: The priests at the Hindu temples here in TamilNadu are normally called “Gurukkal”, collo … more →

Tags: People, Unique, nikon D40x, RamaswamyN, Temple, Saidapet, Karaneeswarar Temple, hindu, Gurukkal

TamBrahms4 comments

RamN wrote 1 year ago: TamBrahms are basically the brahmin community (iyers or iyengars) of Tamil Nadu. When you say TamBra … more →

Tags: India, People, Unique, Chennai, iyengar, nikon D40x, RamaswamyN, TamBrahms, Tamil Brahmins

The Brahmin Bunch7 comments

aarabik wrote 1 year ago: A blog I read recently, which you can find here, had me wanting to write about some of the quirky tr … more →

Tags: Things I Think, Tamil, Brahmin, tambrahm, Culture, Lifestyle

Diplomatic relations between animals and brahmins4 comments

chokkathangam wrote 1 year ago: I have always looked back with curiosity at the relations between tamil brahmin people (a good major … more →

Tags: Summa, animals, Brahmins, Chennai, Dogs, iyengar, Pets, Somasundaram, TNagar

Toy(let) Story. Toilet travails of young student boy 1 comment

chokkathangam wrote 1 year ago: I studied in a brahmin school in Chennai. It was an iyer (aka eyre) school. For people who know more … more →

Tags: Summa, Brahmin, Chennai, School, Tamil, Toilet Humor, toilet humour

Mani Shankar Iyer's Stanford Speech

josephkam wrote 1 year ago: I read this very interesting commentary about India’s rapidly increasing economic divide betwe … more →

Tags: India

Dasavathaaram - Not a review51 comments

krishashok wrote 1 year ago: This is not a review. I only view movies once (unless they are made by Hayao Miyazaki). Warning 1: S … more →

Tags: film, reel, iyengar, dasavathaaram, Kamalhassan

Iyer Vs Iyengar86 comments

krishashok wrote 1 year ago: Azhwarkadiyan Nambi and Eesaana Bhattar presumably had descendants. And perhaps they lived in the Ne … more →

Tags: Kaampteesun, interstellar, iyengar, Warfare

Tam Brahm, thank you ma'am! 3 comments

Laksh.mi wrote 1 year ago: Lol, this is very cliche but cute nonetheless. Jay, Tam Brahm for everrr! lol. An Iyer’s Life … more →

Tags: Cliché, Life, tam brahm, Poems


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