The delightful Ranveer Singh is my choice of Mithai!
Today is the feast day of Diwali - the Hindu "Festival of Light". True to form, we here at Dolores Delargo Towers are regularly "entertained" at this time of year by explosive fireworks night after night (some of which might be to do with this celebration, some might be early revelry to mark Bonfire Night this Friday; or indeed they might be for other many-and-varied celebrations in our multicultural neighbourhood from now until well into the New Year).
Regardless, raise a glass of Sharbat cocktail to those (often surprising) artists of Indian origin who have contributed to the world of popular music - including these...
...and then there's this [which was sampled in one of our favourite mashups ever]!
Diwali ki Shubhkamnayei!
[* "Mundian To Bach Ke" = "Beware of the Boys" in Hindi]
P.S.
Scarily, it is the sixtieth birthday today of Ralph Macchio, aka The Karate Kid!
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Gawd! I had such a crush on him in the 1980s - and it is somewhat surprising to discover that he is in fact two years older than me...
