Thoughts …
Sananda Chatterjee
Do you know what the most multi-functional room in the house is? Not the bedroom, or the kitchen or the dining or living room! It is *insert drum roll* THE TOILET (you knew that was coming!) I find myself being heartily offended when someone underestimates the capabilities of the loo because they obviously have no idea. But I have plenty of personal experiences to make anyone respect it. Read on…
Amit Ohdedar
What made you come here? I would be asked and I would stumble to answer.
People migrate for many reasons. Migration has been at the core of human existence – goes back to the very beginning when the first modern humans emerged out of Africa. In the modern days there could be many reasons – economy, political, professional, religious and conflict related issues being the major ones. Read on…
Parsis, most lovable & peace loving people
From another blog
The first Parsis I knew were statues. There were scores of them, all over Bombay (now Mumbai), most of them wearing glasses: Dadabhoy Naoroji, Pherozeshah Mehta, Jamshedji Tata, Cowasjee Jehangir, Bomanji Petit, the Khada (standing) Parsi at Byculla Bridge. Later, I met other Parsis, at the Central Bank, Cusrow Baug, Rustom Baug, Albless Baug, Cama Baug, Godrej Company (find me a Parsi house and I will show you a Godrej steel cupboard in it), Colaba Agiary, BombayHouse, piano recitals by Austrian pianists at the NCPA, Ripon Club. Read on …
Amit Ohdedar
Michael’s blog on the squatting toilet has sent my thoughts down memory lane.
I grew up with squatting toilet and in fact, I had very little idea about a commode or a sitting toilet. In fact I cannot think of any instance of any exposure to it until I started working. I would have been 22 and on a business trip to Kathmandu. Working for an international company in Calcutta, we had a generous travel arrangement. So there were a few first in that trip…my first flight on a jet aircraft, my first sip of a Heineken beer [on the flight], my first ride on an air conditioned car, my first stay in a five star deluxe hotel and my first exposure to a hotel room without a squatting toilet. Read on…
Michael Field
A large chunk of the globe – and most of the world two centuries ago – squatted.Surprising little in the way of research has gone into the science involved in squatting versus sitting.
The best I could do on the topic is a paper from the University of Wollongong in Australia. Four researchers put their names to a learned journal article, “Squatting for the Prevention of Haemorrhoids?”
Western industrialisation, they say, has changed toilet habits. Read on…
