Mulligatawny memories
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.
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Quotable quotes
The wise man and the rainbow
A wise man, if he sees a rainbow in the sky, must not point it out to anybody.
Absence of Satan
A fundamental sanity in Indian civilization has been due to an absence of Satan.
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Did you know?
Panchen = Great Pandit
The Panchen in Panchen Lama is a portmanteau of the Sanskrit pandit and the Tibetan chenpo (meaning great).
The Indian Arabs of South Africa
Indian traders who had migrated to South Africa in the late 1800s were referred to (by the whites) as 'Arabs' to differentiate them from the indentured Indian labourers.
South African Ramaswamy
"Ramasamy" was a pejorative used by the whites against Indians in South Africa in the late 1800s. "Rammysammy" was also a variant.
Avare (1964)
The Turkish film Avare, released in 1964, is a remake of Raj Kapoor's Awara (1951) which was a huge hit in Turkey.
The Pakistani-American Vijay Amritraj
Mind your Language, the British TV series was remade in the US as What a Country! in which the Pakistani character, Ali Nadeem, was played by Vijay Amritraj.
Ali and Ranjeet in Mind your Language
Ranjeet Singh, the Indian character in Mind your Language was portrayed by Albert Moses, a Sri Lankan.
The Ho's of India
In 2001, there were just over one million Ho's in India. The Ho tribe can be found in the states of Jharkand and Odisha.
The giggling guru
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's nickname in the American media was "the giggling guru". He was given this epithet after he was seen giggling frequently on the Johnny Carson Show in 1969.
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