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I was recently watching the new phenomenon of claiming Indianism called Kamala Harris.   I saw her visiting actress Mindy Kaling's house.   They celebrated being south Indian and cooked Masala Dosay in Mindy's house (Video - https://youtu.be/xz7rNOAFkgE)    Well the point here is when Kamala sees that all ingredients are packed nicely in Taster Choice jars both exclaim the importance of reuse and be smart in choice of things you buy everyday for the house. That reminded me of the tin containers a drink called Ovaltine which hosted all the lentils in our house.   Glass containers were rare in a house full of children and I grew up in a joint family with 17 children at any given point in time.   We had steel plates and spoons (I use them even now) for ourselves.   My grandmother used to use silver plate and cups exclusively reserved for her. Everything we did was as per this poster we shared, we always got hand me downs from cousins we used to meet in ...

 Ganguly and Shah continue to bat at BCCI till end of January Pic taken from Times Now News The Annual General Body Meeting (AGM) of Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) to be held on December  24, 2020 will have Ganguly, Shah and George presiding over the engagements.  Their term has gotten over and they still sit in the chairs causing lots of raised eyebrows in BCCI.   RM Lodha Committee appointed by BCCI's Committee of Administrators spent years correcting the irregularities of BCCI regulations and had suggested a Supreme Court-mandated constitution on August 21, 2018.  But post election of Ganguly and Shah's team in October 2019, they have still not implemented the constitution, indirectly disobeying direct orders of Supreme Court. The terms of engagement BCCI earlier had knocked the door of supreme court with amends to the constitutions to ensure the Ganguly and Shah at the management crease for longer.  The hearing in the court has been const...

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