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So today around 12 PM baba declared that there would be no routine menu for lunch, but instead we will eat chicken Biryani. Of course I was to make, considering aai is not well and I have become the official non-veg cook of the house given the fact that aai is a vegetarian. So we had…
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Last year I kept track of what books I read. Considering I was jobless for a whole quarter, whatever I read played a huge role in keeping me motivated about a tangible goal i.e. finishing the book. Also by the end of the year I had read a good 35 books. And I maintain numbers…
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Mukta – marathi movie starring Sonali Kulkarni, Vikram Gokhle, Shriram Lagoo (available on youtube if you are into regional movies. This one cannot be missed**! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Z-KaJbt_8)W(not V)arkari (वारकरी ) – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VarkariI was always fascinated by the saints of Maharashtra. Dnyaneshwar in particular. Because he was so young when he wrote for the universal goodness and peace of people…
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This is the form 16 season in India. Pardon me, if its way past. For me its still going on. * form 16 something like the W-2 receipts in the US. (I think)The thing with me is I am not exactly Annie Hall. I know I just get super lazy with such stuff. Its inertia or…
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Living in a hostel for 4 years among girls from all across the state (country even, but I never ended up mixing with the girls from across India well until the final year. anywho) most of them from Marwari background, where they knew marriage was going to be a huge part of their life once…
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In my books – Moving cities, changing places, doing impossible things (of course which others deem impossible from you) for the person, anyone including yourself, you love – VERY RATIONAL.Doing the same things, because it is expected of you, someone else (society) is telling you so – NOT SO MUCH. (does this make one irrational ?)Of…
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Living with brother, the one thing in my life which changed a lot was ‘time I spent cooking’. Well in India, getting maids for cooking is handy and reliable too!So the previous 4 years habit of, when I was living on my own, working, studying and still finding out time to cook and eat healthy…
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severely lame but still copyrighted! # Humans are inherently not capable of accepting each other, situations they are in etc. They keep on manipulating each other and their realities to fit their own mould. Sometimes I feel pathetic about this. I question everything around. On those days it sucks being human.# On my journey to…
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Pre script : SMI = social media intervention. Lame as it may sound.Henceforth, I am going to curb the urge to google/facebook search/linkedin search anyone I meet online, unless of course, I have to engage with them in some kind of work (work-work, creative collaboration, guidance, etc etc).I am suffering from googling/linked in-ing any random…
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As we left the Bangalore railway station and hopped on the bus to mysore, my eyes started searching for something familiar. Not until we came outside the city and had crossed the famous ‘ramgarh of sholay’ did happen the first sighting. Of a full blossomed Gulmohar. Territories were no longer marked. I felt at ease.…