Just since recently I have started compiling a website that lists a series of South Indian savouries. Indians living in the South of India are predominantly vegetarian rice eaters. Almost a third of their eating regimen comes with rice. There are at least a dozen of these rice dishes listed on my site. I got so carried away while writing the content for my site for the recipe to make “Vegetable Pulao” that I went to the Woodlands Retreat near my house for dinner the same day. There it was, my veg pulao. Steaming rice mixed with the best green peas handpicked I don’t know from where. They give a special gravy sambar that complements with the pulao so well. The size of the rice grains in this pulao is to be seen to be believed. As big as a centimeter. Most people eat steaming rice idlis (those round white rice puddings) before the pulao, but I did the opposite. Pulao first and then the idlis.

Look, don’t ask me how I got this name because my parents didn’t name me that way. I am Indian and a Hindu born to Hindu parents.  I just became McKenna because I had to have an American name when I decided to be a writer living and writing in America. Being an American bestselling author has been my obsession for many long years. My favourite hero has always been Gregory Peck. And Greg was McKenna in ‘Mackenna’s Gold’, one of my favourite movies of his. That’s how I became James McKenna. Now all that remains to be achieved is seeing my first novel “For Lisa’s sake” in the New York Times Bestsellers list. I know, I know, you must be thinking “This guy is nuts,” but my manuscript is in the final stage of Editing. And my Editor was once tutored by the son of none other than Maxwell Perkins, the legendary Editor who made Tom Wolfe famous. So the belief that I too can make it big is really not so big.

It was one big grind again today. I forgot to tell you about it the other day. My mother is a having a problem with her lower back. I did not understand the medical jargon but I heard something about the compression of the fourth vertebra. I understand it comes with many old people (my mom is 84) with calcium deficiency. She wouldn’t get up from bed as she was having pain in the back and also because she was weak after going to the washroom many times during the night. I also had to get that frame for the back. It helps in supporting her back. The girl who delivered the frame was cute. I wonder who she was. They said she was new.

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