Category: diva di’vine

  • Julie Andrews

    This is really an internet forward, But I am a Julie Andrews, fan/ worshipper call it whatever. so here’s  sharing. Julie Andrews Turns 69, this is hysterical.   To commemorate her birthday , actress/vocalist, Julie Andrews made a special appearance at  Manhattan ‘s Radio City Music Hall for the benefit of the AARP. One of…

  • re-enforcing listening.

    1997 my grandmother passed away, I was winding up her house, I came across a file, where all the letters that my brother and I had written to her were filled, she had marked appreciating comments she had notes things that she had to discuss with my mother from her observation of the letter, they…

  • I’ll Drink To That

    Originally posted on I'll drink to that: I can’t speak for all mothers but I can tell you what I don’t want for Mother’s Day. 1. The ‘I Heart You’ pendant (or something similar) from the mall jewelry store that I will never wear.  My husband and I made a deal years ago that he would dissuade our…

  • To perfect Divahood.

    The first time I noted this word DIVA it was in reference to Shobha De and she was a page 3 person, then called Shobha Kilchand, editor of a long forgotten film magazine, I think Stardust. Who read film magazines, we read The Illustrated Weekly (kindly turn a blind eye to the Filmfare between the…

  • The Diva-state-us

    DIVA-STATING Dedicating this blog to the dynamite DIVA’s in my life mom Shyla Rao,Aunt Meena Agarwal and my Daughters. Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.” Maya Angelou By Countess of…

  • Handling Anger

    Temper’s the one thing you can’t get rid of, by losing it Jijabhai measure two measured two measures of flour, added a measure of water, one third measure of oil, a pinch of salt, “Eh Rukma, knead the dough” Rukma, never really seem to get annoyed with Jijabais acid tongue or hurting ways,  “All said and done,…