OCI, PIO, or Visa for kids

Does anyone have OCI or PIO card for their kids to travel to India? Any advice/suggestions? Overseas citizenship for India (OCI) holds good forever and takes about 3 to 4 months for processing. Ours didn’t go through ’cause minors whose both parents are Indian Nationals are not eligible. is it …

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True Horror

True Horror, which took place last month This happened about a month ago near Lonavala. A guy was driving from Mumbai to Pune and decided not to take the new. expressway as he wants to see the scenery. The inevitable happens and when he reaches the ghats his car breaks …

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Storage Junkies

Many of us are storage junkies. I think this can be deemed as a commonly found trait among Indians in general. We store things in the hope that they will be get used someday. And keep accumulating stuff. Sometimes we think that maybe the stored thing can be used for …

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Stay away from Packaged Spinach for some time

As per various news articles, Packaged Spinach is responsible for outbreak for E-Coli in states. Here is one article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-09-14-ecoli_x.htm?csp=34 As per the article apart from Spinach, for all packaged vegetables also wash them thoroughly before consuming them.

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Pizza Sauce

Thats my mom’s recipie Pizza Sauce 1/2 lb Finely Chopped Onions 2 lbs Tomatoes 8-10 Cloves Garlic 2 tsps Ajwain 1 tsp Italian Seasoning 1 tsp Oregano 2 tbsps Fresh/Dried Basil (Optional) Salt Sugar Red Chilli Powder Olive Oil 11/2 tbsp CornFlour Boil Tomatoes and puree them. Heat Olive Oil …

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Bean Dip Recipe

We all eat Nacho Chips and Salsa as appetizers at various parties. If you wanted to substitute the Salsa with something more filling and delicious try the Bean Dip. Originally given by Kalpana to Dimple and Dimple to me. Ingredients: Refried Bean, Salsa, Avocados paste from Costco, Fat Free or …

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Taco Bhel recipe

Well the KV girls seem too busy or too secretive to be posting any recipes here. Or maybe most of them know the yummy recipes already. Maybe the men can use this section more than the women as a reference in case they want to cook something yummy (once in …

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Turmeric

Turmeric (Indian) restaurant is in downtown Sunnyvale. They have recently started evening buffets. We went for the evening buffet and food was very good. We liked it better than Passage to India’s buffet.

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Fun Time: Nicknames

OK. Time for one more group game. 🙂 This time you have to think of a good nickname for the person commenting above you. That nickname can signify some personality or trait or anything else related to that person. Take care not to write any insulting nicknames. Everyone hopefully will …

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