What are the 10 foods you must have in your refrigerator and/or your kitchen cabinet?
(Submitted by Carol)

1. Milk and milk products: curd, milk, and cheese/ butter
2. Vegetables: carrots, okra, cabbage, aubergine, cauliflower, bitter gourd, beans, potato, onions, tomatoes, ginger, green chilies, curry leaves, cilantro, and lime
3. Fruits: apples and melons, sometimes a papaya
   
4. Pickles: mango, ginger, tamarind, and lime pickles
5. Spices: powdered spices like all-spice, five-spice, turmeric, red chilly, rasam, and asafetida, and whole spices like mustard, cumin, fenugreek, and coriander
6. Flavorings: cinnamon, vanilla, and rose
7. Cereals: muesli, oats, and corn/ rice/ wheat flakes
8. Beverages: tea (3 types), coffee, and cocoa
9. Grains: rice, wheat (powder), brown bread, pasta, semolina, and lentils
10. Salt and sugar
11. I MUST include cooking oil (sunflower oil, olive oil, and ghee), water, and ice cubes!
    

What celebrity do you most often get told you resemble?  (Submitted by Leets) 

TV, books, movies: Who's your favorite fictional father?

Atticus Finch, who else?

What are your top 10 most-played songs currently?

1. James Blunt/ Goodbye My Lover
2. Bonnie Raitt/ Have a Heart
3. Steve Nicks/ Gold Dust Woman
4. Sheryl Crow/ Strong Enough
5. Kirsty MacColl/ England 2 Columbia 0
6. Kirsty MacColl/ Mambo de la Luna
7. Kirsty MacColl/ Treachery
8. The Beatles/ Eleanor Rigby
9. Heart/ Barracuda
10. Ani Difranco/ Angry Anymore

Mahatma Gandhi

What's one of your favorite quotes? (Submitted by Georgie-boy) 

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

- Mahatma Gandhi

What are the five books that changed your life?  (Inspired by Ms. Genevieve.)

 

I can’t resist this QOTD! I must do it!

In chronological order-

Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun

Read as a Bengali translation when I was ten. In hindsight, no child, however dark, should read Hamsun at ten.

A Room with a View by E M Forster

First read when I was fourteen and then read repetitively all through my adolescence. Especially beautiful lines about love underlined in green felt tipped pen.

Ghare Baire by Rabindranath Tagore

First read when I was fifteen and then read repetitively all through my adulthood. Breathtaking in its modernism and encouraging my thought in a range of new ways every time I read it.

The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects by Lewis Mumford

Read as college text at eighteen and instrumental in initiating my lifelong love for urban geography/ sociology.

The Complete Prose of Woody Allen by Woody Allen

Read last year. It still makes me break down into hopeless laughter whenever I think of specific pieces. Dark children need lots of humor, even when they grow up.