Psst.. here’s a secret. I loathe entering the kitchen sometimes on days together. In case all the food posts on ‘blink and miss’ made you think otherwise. The cooking I enjoy the most is of the fancy variety. Where the outcome is something yummy, restaurant-like and when there is no constraint of balancing out the [...]
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Packetless diet – An experiment
Since I consider it better to stop living than live on them watery soups and chomp on raw salads, or whatever these so called “diets” call food, I’ve decided to come up with a simple diet plan of my own. It’s called “The Packetless Diet”. The essence of this plan is to stop eating anything [...]
Potential criminal on the loose
This is coming a little late, but I feel compelled to speak about it.
A fellow blogger Kiran’s adorable little kid Krish was playing inside the building compound, minding his own business. In a nightmarish incident, another resident of the building almost ran over the poor kid by his very irresponsible and dangerous driving. Forget apologizing, [...]
Yet another attack
The absurdity in Bangalore had stopped I thought. And today I read this. A woman going about her usual business has been attacked in Indiranagar in the afternoon. Apparently they had a problem with her “western” outfit. I wonder what these so called bastions of Indian culture were wearing themselves. Pants or dhoti? Actually this [...]
Sonia’s not getting my vote
Lambi kahani hai, you’ve been warned.
The story is about a horrible weekend we had a few months ago. We decided to go visit my in-laws in Kerala for a few days with our 5-month old baby. Unlike the usual impromptu style of travelling, we planned meticulously, took a couple of days off so that we [...]
I share your embarrassment
Why is it that when some random woman is making a fool of herself on TV or when a random woman co-worker decides her lips need some urgent moisturizing and starts rubbing some lip balm on her lips, right in the middle of a serious meeting, that *I* begin to shuffle in *my* seat? At [...]
I don’t get it
This doesn’t quite fit into my little bird brain. The terrorists have no religion they say. And I agree. So then when it comes to victims, how come they vociferously cry that it is only certain segments of people who are victims or that they’re victimized MORE? Then suddenly religion becomes the only identity?
Mumbai helps: Do your bit
Direct your anger, frustration, helplessness about the attacks on Mumbai to something more constructive, more worthwhile. Go over to Mumbai Helps. If you have a desire to help, Kiran at Mumbai Helps suggests a lot of different ways in which you can be of help.