Category: diva di’vine

  • A Room Of One’s Own

    A Room Of One’s Own

    This narrative is shared in honour of Virginia Woolf who was born on Jan.25th 1882. and A room of one’s own is a famous essay by her.

  • Orange Cake

    Orange Cake

    I’ve landed with a batch of sour oranges, the best thing I could do was to convert it to something more edible. Marmalade was of course the first option but with apple jams, and God knows what Jams it seems a bad idea. It was ages since I made fresh fruit cake, and I definitely…

  • An Insight to Soundarya Upasana

    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…

  • Eggless Pineapple cake

    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…

  • About Mothers and Daughters

    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…

  • Individually Together

    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…