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Continue reading →: Face off – Cookbooks vs Culinary Blogs
Welcome Shalini Baisiwala, my guest blogger today. I haven’t met Shalini as yet but have interacted with her regularly over many years. We have connected and shared conversations about food, recipes, travel, nature and environment. She is a passionate advocate for green living and an avid bookreader and traveler. An…
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Continue reading →: Why My Eating and Fitness is All About Moderation
I have been someone who has always thought of myself as a fit and healthy person. Yes, that is my persona in my mind, a fit, healthy, intelligent and driven woman. Whether it was good metabolism or loads of activity and eating home cooked food, I was slim through my…
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Continue reading →: Being with family #LockdownDiaries
Just today I shared a small thread on twitter outlining my four months of #Quarantine. I did focus more on the professional aspects with a little touch of the personal towards the end. But, of course, there is so much more that we have all been through all this time.…
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Continue reading →: 20 days in Lockdown
It feels surreal, doesn’t it? Despite having lived through bomb blasts, riots and even wars, somehow my life wasn’t touched in this manner for such a long duration. But this crazy virus has turned all our lives upside down. No not upside down, it has actually changed our perspective on…
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Continue reading →: The Menace of Loud Noise in Public Spaces
I am someone who abhors anything loud, as my family would corroborate. I don’t like anything noisy. Even the parties I go to must not have ear-shattering music. I like to have my eardrums intact, thank you very much. But, have you noticed how noise, in general, has increase a…
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Continue reading →: Social Media This Year
The year is winding to a close, and one does tend to take stock of life in general. No this is not a roundup post. I thought of writing one but then I decided against it. Just sharing a few reflections instead. The other day I was talking to an…
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Continue reading →: What’s in a Name?
Most of us like our names and I certainly do. I am grateful that my parents called me creation (Rachna). Many Hindu names have lovely meaning till Indian parents of my generation got lured into naming their kids Ahana, Arahan and what not. But when it comes to my husband,…
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Continue reading →: That Time of the Year #WordsMatter
It’s not that time of the year without all of us being in a hectic mode. Navratris are on and while I don’t do anything special during Navratri, I do cook a lot of festive food. In my home, everyone is a foodie. So, since kids started their holidays from…
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Continue reading →: Outside My Window – Nature Reigns #WordsMatter
As I open my large window to let some fresh air in, I notice the tall Christmas tree (fir) in the small patch of lawn in front of the house. This tree has grown so tall, it almost dwarfs everything in its vicinity. I often wonder why I planted this…
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Continue reading →: My Bindi Tales
Bindi that tiny dot that Hindu women put on their forehead, intrigues a lot of people When I visited Amsterdam many years back, my Dutch friend’s girlfriend kept quizzing me about a tiny blue bindi that I wore with a kurta. I saw firsthand how foreigners are so in awe…
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