The recipe is not new.
Also, San was nice enough to do the videotaping when I made this for tiffin this evening and was able to upload without having to do any editing.
It is not difficult at all and you can make 5-6 dosai's by mixing 1 cup rava, 1 cup rice flour and two cups water in under 35 minutes.
Hope you have fun making Rava Dosai!
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When I played a Tamizh movie for an Italian American friend in the mid nineties, he looked at the titles and went "this guy did the story, screenplay, dialogue and direction for this movie ?!" and my response was "he is also the hero!"
It was a K. Bhagyaraj movie and it was actually a good movie (at least by my standards).
My friend wanted to know why the same guy had to do the story and screenplay, to which I had no answer. Hadn't given much thought to it you see, especially since in most Indian movies the director does the screenplay almost by default to the point where you won't see screenplay mentioned as a separate line item in the credits.
Recently reviews for a big budget Pongal release Tamizh movie mention screenplay not being on par with the rest of the movie. (examples here, here)
If you have been bloghopping the Desi blogs recently you would have caught this highly publicized plagiarism issue as well (and this is by no means the first or last cry against plagiarism in the blog circles!)
Why don't we have folks who do screenplay full time for Indian movies? Why don't we have a bunch of people who write dialogues and stop there?
My guess is that there is no protection of Intellectual property. Someone writes a story, tells it to a director and the director takes the story and runs with it anyways.. so why give the writer any credit? What incentive does any writer have at that point to write dialogues or screenplay for a living if one can be cheated out of that livelyhood every easily?
If a writer can have some protection for their creativity, then chances are movie screenplays will improve and the director can go back do directing their very best, no?
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The old external hard drive which was purchased a few years ago to have all photos, videos, etc. backed up from 2002 became full last weekend. All 300 GB of it was filled up with mostly photos and videos starting from San's baby shower till now!
That meant a hunt for a brand new drive.
Thanks to a friend who works at WD, got a nice new "portable" drive with 500 Gb space on it. The difference is just amazing. Shows you how technology just makes you go "wow".
1. Do not need to power it up separately with a power cord
2. Can carry it in my pocket
3. reasonably fast for the size and storage
4. password protected and encrypted!
Nice huh?!
Next thing we know in two years we will have a 10 Terrabit memory in a box the size of a chewing gum stick. It can happen....
I used to think that the days of memory shrinking are over. Well, the concept of memory shrinking just got one more happy customer right about now!
Also saw this interesting technology design marvel. There are designers and ergonomics experts and overall box shrinkers who play as much a part in bringing us better goodies in smaller lighter packages as the technology guys who shrink more devices into smaller microchips or put denser features on disk drives.
Hats off to all of them!
On a side note, is there a simple small timer that can be put between the wall socket and plug for say night lamps, Holiday lighting etc. to enable turning on and off the devices on a set daily/weekly schedule?
That will come in real handy for things like night lamps which are always on in darker corners of the kids room in daylight, or Christmas lighting when we are not in the house, feeding the fishes when we are not around etc.
Considering this stuff is already there in our home heating system controller and in our water sprinklers, it should be easy to put it in a "compact universal timer box" and simply be able to turn any device on or off at a programmable schedule. Might save power on our entire entertainment system.
We have a TV, a DVD player, a Satellite box, a desktop, a bunch of chargers perpetually plugged to wall sockets, etc. all powered up all the time when we don't use them. A system like that would save lot of standby power.
If you know of something like that out there, do let me know.
Technology still holds that charm for me...
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