Diwali is the Festival of Lights. Every essay, every composition, every elocution in school about Diwali started with this line. And why not as the city lights up every year for this week long celebration. Falling in the month of October/November, Diwali brings along with it a certain kind of peace, a sense of hope,… {Read More}
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Miss India and all that jazz!
So here it is…after months of waiting… the post that so many of you wanted to read, wanted to know more about. I do apologise for this long delay, not intentional really but sometimes you do tend to block out the past in the daily grind of the present and I have always liked living… {Read More}
Camping at Palm Beach Teepee Village
The first time I heard about camping in Hong Kong was through a friend who couldn’t stop raving about how much fun it was and how her boys thoroughly enjoyed themselves and that it’s a ‘must-do’ and so on and so forth. It was only later that I found out that she herself had not… {Read More}
Back from camp!
He is back! 4 days and 3 nights away from home at the school camp. It felt quite different and strange not to have him around. For me the second night was the worst of all as I kept thinking about him, about how he would be faring. So today I had gone to school… {Read More}
Top 10 lunch box items for kids
Now that the long summer break is officially over and all schools have resumed with their new term, mums are finally getting some ME time over long coffee morning sessions. As quickly as the conversation starts with “How was your summer?” it invariably changes track to school, new term, new teachers and the stress of… {Read More}
The baking of the Titanic!
This is my second post on the topic of baking after writing Introduction to Baking a few weeks ago. This cake was for my little boy turning 5 who had fallen in love with the greatest ship ever, after visiting a Titanic exhibition in Macau on its 100th anniversary. The Planning It was like an exciting, new… {Read More}
Rape in Mumbai
In one of my recent posts Bombay meri jaan I have mentioned about the survival spirit of Bombayites or should I say Mumbaikars, how they face all kinds of odds with a smile and how they get tougher mentally, enough to feel comfortable living in any part of the world. While I had said it… {Read More}
Introduction to Baking
They say baking is an art. Some are masters at it, some have their hits and misses and yet there are some who find it to be the most difficult style of cooking! I say baking is nothing but getting your numbers right! One of my early creations Walnut and raisin bread Right from the… {Read More}
I had a dream…
Dream is defined as A series of thoughts, images and sensations occurring in a person’s mind during sleep. I dream quite often actually, most of them lasting up to the the first signs of dawn. Last night’s dream was different from most others. It wasn’t one of those regular hazy dreams where I wake up feeling silly… {Read More}
A wonderful evening
Wednesday July 17 I had a lovely evening today. Just like old times it was just the three of us at the dining table. My mother, my sister and I. We were having a simple khichri-sauce meal prepared lovingly by my mother. Post dinner we sat in the hall trying to work on a common… {Read More}
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