Category: diva di’vine
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An Insight to Soundarya Upasana
The Buddha sat under the tree as usual. The disciples had gathered for the sermon. When a Thera asked the Buddha, “Master, who is your dearest disciple.” The Sakhya Muni mentioned the name of a disciple who happened to be the Prime Minister of the land. There was a flutter among the disciples, finally one…
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Eggless Pineapple cake
Eggless pineapple cake. Long ago I learnt how to make pineapple upside down cake from Tina Khera who used be my friend. She was ran small eatery in Manipal called the Salt and Pepper. She actually got me hooked on chilli-garlic toast and pineapple upside down cake. What was unique about her cake was it…
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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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