Category: diva di’vine
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About Mothers and Daughters
“our mother’s remain the strangest and craziest people we’ve ever met” she had said. “call me mother and harkens to my tale. This is something about nothing” her mother had said an hour and half ago. Radhamma, the heart and soul of the senior citizen’s guild wanted closures. 5th child to a borderline autistic mother…
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Individually Together
I was reading this article commandments to 21st century father-in-law from a 21st century daughter-in-law. I hope I have brought my daughters up with more humane value. Fortunately my daughters have their relationship goal given by sister-in-law and my mother. Yes patriarchy can be suffocating. A lot depends on why do we get married. When…
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Anjeer Palada
In the coastal houses one of the dishes made on any occasion is the paramanna, or what is more famous as Paalada. With the lockdown and not really being in a mood do things I decided to improvise. I had black rice that Dr.D had got from Manipur I did try making rice out of…
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Karachi Biscuits.
The lock down has been great, I have run out my standard nibbles. So I decided to try out making the Karachi biscuits at home. Essentially I modified the Nankatai recipe. Ingredients: ¾ cup plain flour. ½ cup powdered sugar. ¼ cup custard powder ¼ butter ¼ cup tutti-frutti. 2tbs broken cashew ½ tsp baking…
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World Hijab Day – 2020
February 1st. The world Hijab day. Every year I find something new to add to my previous ones. Like I have often mentioned before, too many people behave like the hijab has bizarre powers, maybe something is sewn into its microfibers, it kind of transforms the Muslim girls into Unidentified Covered Objects, and creating…
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Toast to the world’s first programmer.
My workspace seemed to filled with IT personal and people speaking of AI for while I assumed AI was Air-India then I learnt it was artificial intelligence. I am told by these kids who create computer programs that computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no…
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