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My beagle Kobe sleeps like a baby if Dire Straits is playing. Turns out, Kobe isn’t alone on this. 🐶🎸💤 Threw this into ChatGPT & entered a rabbit hole. Apparently, several Dire Straits are considered ‘dog tranquilizers’ (LOL), and dogs sleep well to calm, steady music, and Dire Straits have exactly that kind of sound. Also: Frontman Mark Knopfler has a low, relaxed, almost talking style. Dogs tend to relax more to lower frequencies than to sharp or high-pitched sounds. Many Dire Straits songs sit around slow to mid tempos, which research on dogs suggests can reduce anxiety and help them settle. Knopfler’s clean fingerstyle guitar has very little distortion or harshness. Dogs can be sensitive to abrasive sounds, so the smoother tone is easier on their ears.

TIL Bangkok’s raunchy Nana Plaza is named after a Gujarati family. Fell into a rabbit hole last night and honestly the story is wild. So here goes, peace for nerds: The Nana family, Thai Muslims of Gujarati Indian ancestry, have been in Bangkok for about 160 years. They started near the Chao Phraya River by the Memorial Bridge, bought up land along Sukhumvit when it was still the outskirts of the city, and basically bet on the neighbourhood before anyone else did. They owned so much of the area that streets, sois and eventually a BTS station got named after them. Lek Nana, the family’s most prominent figure, wasn’t just a landlord. He went into politics, became Deputy Foreign Minister, then Minister of Science and Technology. Helped modernise Thailand in the late 20th century. The family also donated the land where the India-Thai Chamber of Commerce stands today. A.E. Nana, the founding patriarch, gifted it. Foundation stone was laid in 1960 by the Indian Ambassador. They built Nana Plaza in the late 1970s as a shopping and restaurant complex for residents, expats and tourists. What it became over the following decades was, let’s say, a creative reinterpretation of the original brief, lol. The deeper you dig, the more you find. The Nana family donated land for the Siam Society (under Royal Patronage), gave 3 rai of riverfront property to the Royal Household Bureau for a monument to the Princess Mother, and built a hospital in Nakhon Ratchasima. Fifth generation still in Bangkok. Still major shareholders in Siam Cement Group. Baht billionaires, multiple times over. And this isn’t even unique. The Indian footprint in Thailand goes back 2,500 years. Emperor Ashoka sent Buddhist monks to Suvarnabhumi. Tamil traders dominated Southeast Asian sea trade in the first millennium. Gujarati Sunnis, Dawoodi Bohras, Punjabi Sikhs, Sindhis, Tamils, they all have separate migration stories into Thailand. Pahurat district, Bangkok’s Little India next to Chinatown, is still dominated by Sikh textile traders. The Thai script itself comes from the South Indian Pallava alphabet. Ayutthaya, the ancient Thai capital, is literally named after Ayodhya. Anyway. If you’re a family booking Bangkok and you see hotels near Sukhumvit Soi 4 or Nana Plaza that seem weirdly cheap for how central they are, they’re cheap for a reason. Same goes for pockets around Patpong and Soi Cowboy. The nightly rate isn’t the full picture. The walk back from dinner with your kids is. Thong Lor, Sathorn, Riverside or Ari are better bets. You’ll pay a little more and sleep a lot better.

100(63), 101*(61), 21(20), 77(49), 83*(59), 22(16), 113*(72), 3(9), 42(20), 18(7), 51(43), 70*(44), 42(27), 92(47), 27(13), 47(29), 33(24), 59*(36), 31(30), 7(6), 67(42), 22(14), 62*(45), 1(3), 73*(54), 70(42), 51(47), 62(33), 43(25), 54(30), 12(12), 43(35) & 69*(38). Last 33 innings in the IPL. Who could this be? 😏

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