Burnt by the Gods

I came across this.

"14-year-old hit by 30,000 mph space meteorite "

What the!

Gerrit Blank, 14, was on his way to school when he saw "ball of light" heading straight towards him from the sky.

A red hot, pea-sized piece of rock then hit his hand before bouncing off and causing a foot wide crater in the ground.

The teenager survived the strike, the chances of which are just 1 in a million - but with a nasty three-inch long scar on his hand.

That is just insane.

The bright side is, he has a super cool scar. There isn't an image of it, but I can almost imagine Harry Potter fans aligning their foreheads for this one!

This one is totally incredible:

The only other known example of a human being surviving a meteor strike happened in Alabama, USA, in November 1954 when a grapefruit-sized fragment crashed through the roof of a house, bounced off furniture and landed on a sleeping woman.

What the! If painful scars aren't your thing, then the above is just the right meteorite delivery system.

The only meteorites I'll ever get to see are shooting stars. It's nice that I've seen three in NITK. I used to think it was impossible to see them and you have to be totally jobless to see them. But I've caught all three when I was randomly staring at the sky.

However, I still haven't managed to see the Milky Way. Some people say you can see it, especially the Star Gazing Club nuts. But I can't see a thing. It all looks like black background and white dots. No white band anywhere.

Maybe you need to go to a dark place to see it like this

What's happened to Dosas and Idlis?

Has anyone noticed that when someone talks about Indian food - they're usually referring to North Indian food.

Typical scenario: You're with a bunch of friends and you want to go eat some place. So, there's Italian(pizza), Fast food(Burgers), Chinese, Thai, Continental aanndddd Indian. Usually, when everyone ends up in an Indian restaurant, it's the Naans, Kulchas and PBM(Paneer Butter Masala for those hapless souls). It's so rare for someone to go eat South Indian food. It's not that people don't. South Indian food is more of an Indian "fast food" in the Darshinis. North Indian food is reserved for "occasions".

The situation is worse for people abroad. They talk about Indian food and no one seems to talk about Dosas and Idlis. It's always the biriyanis and tikkas. Have we reached a point where North Indian food has become the flag holder for Indian food?

I think so. Perhaps it's because South Indian people eat that food all the time at home. So they'd like a change when they go out. Atleast, that's the case with me.

But don't the North Indian people eat South Indian food? Hmm maybe not. Perhaps South Indian food isn't suited for their climate(the dosa batter doesn't ferment?). Perhaps, North Indians just don't like our food? I really don't know.