Sunday Scribblings - "Food"

You'd think that this week's prompt would be really easy to do, given the fact that I maintain a food blog - but no, I'm just as constipated as ever (creatively speaking, thank you very much). All I can say on the topic of food is that I love it... especially Indian food. And, apparently, my love for it is inversely proportional to how good it is for me. The worse it is, the more I love it, in other words. Breakfast smoothies involving raw pureed super-healthy vegetables (broccoli and karela juice, anyone?) just don't cut it... but give me hot aloo parathas and cold lassi, or idlis with four types of chutney and sambar, and I'm in hog heaven.

About the only thing that saves my reputation from total infamy is that aloo parathas are very unlikely to grace my breakfast table of a morning - mainly because I would have to make them myself. (Ditto idlis and chutneys.)

Laziness, very occasionally, has the happy - if unintentional - side-effect of conferring virtue upon one. One, believe me, is all for it!

I love my Kindle, but...

I had a chilling thought while reading this article in The Guardian: What if there was some terrible disaster, man-made or natural, that knocked out all power stations worldwide, making all mod-cons useless because there would be no electricity for the majority of the earth's population?

If the Kindle and other e-readers really do end up making the printed word obsolete, what would we do in the situation outlined above? What would we (meaning, selfishly, I) DO without books to read?

To continue on the "selfish" note, I can only pray that no such catastrophe happens in my lifetime.

Or, on a less selfish note, let's all hope that there will always be books, old and new, as long as human life exists on this planet.