The use of a curry leaf is really interesting. You use it to provide flavor to a dish. Especially down here in South India, it is pretty much used in all dishes. However once the flavor part is done, it is mercilessly thrown out. No sympathy, no second thoughts, no word of thanks. Off to the trash you go !! I thought co-passenger duty was thankless, curry leaf wins that battle hands down :)
Finished Jeffrey Archer’s latest book, Paths Of Glory ,over the weekend. A decent read, nowhere near his best.
The true story behind the book continued to intrigue me after I finished the book. The books is based on the attempt by the legendary George Mallory to scale Mount Everest.
Though Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay are undoubtedly the first people to reach the peak and come back safely, it seems that considerable debate exists as to whether George Mallory had scaled the peak before them. No way to be sure of this because he died during that climb/descent.
The romantic in you wants to believe that somehow he had miraculously scaled the peak, though scientific wisdom and evidence may suggest otherwise. One particular fact adds fuel to this fire, quoted from Wikipedia
“Mallory's daughter has always said that Mallory carried a photograph of his wife on his person with the intention of leaving it on the summit. This photo was not found on Mallory's body. Given the excellent preservation of the body and its garments, this points to the possibility that he may have reached the summit and deposited the photo there”
Intriguing. Guess only God and George Mallory might know what actually happened.
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