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 Ootta from Namma Thotta ( food from our garden)  It has been a slow and steady progress , what with these incessant  and unseasonal rains attracting the pests, rotting out the seedlings and making sowing and harvesting so unpredictable.  A big shout out to all those small farmers whose livelihood oscillates and depends upon mother nature's mood swings. Mother nature seems to be showing menopausal symptoms.... But ye shall not complain about the incessant rains... we need to soak in as much water as we can, because the summer is going to be scorching without all those trees that were sacrificed for the namma metro. And to keep us urban monsters fed and hydrated is getting to be a tedious tasks year on year.      The harvest has been slow and steady.  The conventional vegetable plot has been yielding some harvest although it has now massively slowed down.  The circle gardens are a new experiment on the adjacent plot.  This is my home...

 Being gender neutral ...  I always associated the term  Batter to 'idli' and 'dosa'. The other day I was watching an interview where Sachin would constantly repeat the term 'Batter'.  I put it down to bad english although this was not the Sachin from the 1990's but a very mature, well heeled, sightly middle aged but the usual baby faced Sachin talking about how he and Rahul Dravid foxed bowler Chris Cairns with some of their shrewd and rather funny antics while Rahul was at the crease and Sachin at the other end at a match in Mohali.    Interesting piece of story telling that one.  And a must watch.  That is when I learnt Batter is the new gender netural term since the gentlemen's game has now caught on with the ladies as well. Although with the ladies' version the fanfare and bankrolling is nowhere near to what the gentlemen's version of IPL commands.  Talking of gender neutral terminology, here is one one such place - the play arena 9 badm...