As is befitting at the launch of any new enterprise here in India, I’m hanging a string of lemon and green chillies – a totka – on my new web site and blog. Hopefully they’ll satisfy the desire of Alakshmi, the goddess of misfortune, who is said to have a weakness for sour and pungent things, and she’ll refrain from entering the site. As she’s described as being ‘antelope-footed’, ‘bull-toothed’ and – surely worst of
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Published on February 20, 2013 03:49