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  • A Zensational Discovery

    A Zensational Discovery

    Wolfgang and Karen want take us out to a stylish place that serves Dosa and it is in Candolim   my husband said. Well, a dosa place… stylish…in Candolim. Well I had already nailed the place as a tourist fleecing “hospitality trained” kind of place. Which would have tomatoes and onions in various combinations and call…

  • Voice of silence

    Voice of silence

    Silence… thought Amba was amazing and versatile, like the wonderful silence just before dawn, or the quiet and calm just as the storm ends. There was the silence when we haven’t the answer to a question we have been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a…

  • The Silent Achievers 2015

    This was one of those evening events that I attended because my mother wanted me to. The Manipal Mahila Samaj meeting. Room full of bustling women, noisy kids and garish clothes. Then the secretary came up to read the activity report. There was an interesting story. About a woman called Sitamma, who went about replanting…

  • #Tales of 2015-Retrospect

    MOTHER TIME—life goes by so very fast, my dears and taking time to reflect, even once a year slows things down. We zoom past so many seconds, minutes, hours killing them with the frantic way we live and it’s important that at least this one collective sigh and stop, take stock and acknowledge our place…

  • Check list to a morning routine.

    A nights restful sleep. When the sleep debt is paid, the body is rejuvenated, because it is rested and repaired. Irrelevant thoughts are flushed out as fantasies. Waking up to a smell is of course much more satisfying than waking up to a noise, instead of barging in uninvited and yaking you out into reality…

  • Ushas the Lady of the Dawn

    #Colgate3600charcoalGold The dream was floating off satisfactorily on an inner sea…” the smell of coffee wafting up, and I was transported to Bailoor my childhood holiday home, the destination of all forbidden things, like the morning coffee, the swim in the river, the hot rice porridge, the tangy mango pickle, evening of cards and gossip.…

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