Tuesday, September 8, 1998
A festival by any other name
The feverish rendition of `Ganpati bapa moriya was hard to escape, last week and so I let it overlap my psyche with beatific calm. Suchitra Pillai had a lovely dance party to celebrate her birthday. Being my namesake and because we lapse into the mother tongue, ever so often as we are clan sisters, I made the effort.
Sugar, wine replace troubled rouble
Some big construction companies in Chelyabinsk didn't have the cash to pay their taxes this spring, so they offered to build a subway system in their city instead. The governments of Ukraine and Moldova have proposed settling their debts to the Russian Gas Monopoly in sugar and wine, knowing that Gazprom has accepted payments from others in the form of steel, turbines, gas pipes, and shares in truck and tractor companies.
Webwatch
All those people out there who are even slightly interested in learning the guitar and would like to know about chords can log into www.Guitar.net. The site has an online chord dictionary and covers all the chords that one would be interested in.
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