Manidipa Mandal - Livemint.com
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Member since 02-27-2009
Last visited 09-09-2009
Timezone 5.00 GMT
Total Posts 3
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  • Tuesday, July 28, 2009
    Posted at 6:35:00 AM
    First, the disclaimers: I've got a packet of frozen parathas in the fridge, and there's often lots of little miso or stock cubes in the larder (I live alone, mostly). Some mornings, there's Maggi for breakfast (my husband seems to get garlic powder cravings from time to time, and no, we weren't pregnant last time I checked.) Now the tall claim: Only one of those short-cuts is in there because of its convenience label. The rest... It's a matter of exotic or comfort flavours, when we're both being ruthlessly honest. Those of.
  • Thursday, July 09, 2009
    Posted at 1:25:00 PM
    "Both sides stand on shaky ground," prevaricates NYT critic Michael Kimmelman, in today's Business of Life lead story . The Greeks, never in fear of racial stereotyping, have been emphatic in their demands . (What's to worry about? Everyone just knows they are the guys with the big weddings, the voluble chatter, the long community lunches, dinners and and dances, the quick and loud tempers a la Hollywood cabbies --- and all that surprisingly, uncharacteristically subtle and contemplative, ancient art and literature, as well as.
  • Tuesday, March 17, 2009
    Posted at 11:04:00 AM
    Bread and jam Maggi Packet of chips Packet of biscuits Juice drink Dry cake slices Puri-sabzi or paratha These are some of the kiddie meals for school most popular with their moms, I found, talking to a few in the lead-up to my article on food safety for the lunchbox . What worries me about these food choices is not their un-safety, though. What scares the living daylights out of me is the mothers’ idea of nutrition for a growing child, and the most popular reasoning behind the choice: “He/She won’t eat anything otherwise!” For many, this list also.
  • Tuesday, March 10, 2009
    Posted at 5:02:00 PM
    So the day we began this blog, just as we published the very first post , someone said, "knock on wood". We tried very hard, even travelling some 10 feet in each direction, but our office yielded no wood, not even a spot of Sunmica mimicry. The surfaces around me are mostly painted metal and plastics. Meanwhile, the lobby downstairs has recently been "greened" a few months ago-with a veritable forest of plants. Around 135 containers, I counted (see photo, below right) . But I have my reservations on this doubtless well-intentioned.
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