1980s-90s reminisce discs, video games and great food

My son and I were discussing stewards in F1 and I remembered in the 80s and 90s restaurants like Princess called the host/ supervisor a steward. They remembered names, favourate foods, special instructions (no coriander in anything you gave my father). And one of them had a happy story. Went from steward to small restaurant owner to part owner of Tycoons later! Loved all the food there. favs were butter chicken and tandoori roti, the chicken sizzler. Before it closed down : order, beg dad for some change and run down to the basement to play games, those cabinet cars, with steering wheels, pedals for accelerator and break! Ultimate for a 8-10 year old. Later in 1st PU bunking class on Wednesdays to go dancing Knock out. Nights were difficult for the women but afternoons was game. Coming out at 5pm from the dark, and realizing oh its still day and being accosted by kids who were happy to be given bananas if you did not want to give them money. Then TnA in 5th avenue and going to Fanoos for their legendary rolls (they were so afforable we used to joke that it has dog meat, but did not).

On Karma

Karma is comforting. Gives us hope for justice. But is it a real thing? Maybe. Or there is no karma and these are coincidences. there are so many instances of people doing really shitty things and not being badly affected. i think a better way for us to navigate the world is to have our own moral compass. with loftier goals then oooh if i dont do that, then some super power like gravity will just magically appear and pull me down. yes it did not pull down X and Y even though they did worse things than i plan to; but hey that must be cause they were some saint in their past life? come on and the flip side, yes i did bad things a,b and c but i also did great things d thru z so nothing bad should happen to me. i think teaching morals and values is better than guilt and fear of the unknown and unproven except for some examples

2010 2008 photos

Mom, Prem Lata Kapila, with family April 2008

E's bro, SIL and their daugther

Mom, Dad, Eela around 2009 at Abshot, maybe?

Folks, Shashi and Lata, 2011 her birtherday perhaps