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#4 Rainy days & Thursdays - The skies were cloudy, clouds growing blacker from their lighter whites and greys tones, yesterday. But it began to rain early this morning, still continue...

simplest brisket with braised onions

Grilled Fava Beans

Garlic Ground Beef & Spinach with Cheese Tortellini

Hare Moong ki Kadhi

Beauty lies in the eyes of the diner.

It's Time

Health Benefits of Thai Food

Paneer Burger

Chuẩn bị ăn đồ nướng cần những gì Ngon, Bổ, Rẻ và Không Sợ Béo

Gits Wholesome breakfast mixes - Review

Mushroom and Chicken Quiche

Baby Eggplants: The Cute Factor

We Moved!!!

Once upon a time……..

Fruit & Veggie Salad.. with Sweet and Sour dressing

Lyrics with English translation of song To Chalun from Border - Song : To Chalun Singers : Roop Kumar Rathod Music : Anu Malik Lyrics : Javed Akhtar Director : J P Dutta Movie : Border Release Date - 13 June 1997 Stars - ...

Bhakti: Mirabai's Greatest Wealth - Many of us make the mistake of being 'part time devotees' - of course, we are busy, we have important work, personal commitments and we are too exhausted b...

Flames of Fidelity - No one knows when the pan-Indian practice of warrior widows burning themselves with (sahagamana) or without (anugamana) the corpse of their husband came ...

Being You: A New Science of Consciousness - Anil Seth I have to confess, I will need to read this again. I also want to. For two reasons. First, the subject is something I feel is important – underst...

Astronauts Back to Earth - NASA launched the Crew-9 Mission last September with just 2 Astronauts. Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore. Their mission was supposed to last for 8 days on...

India' Problematic Law and Order Condition - Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India's ex-PM and a legendary poet has penned these beautiful lines in his poem "Kaurav koun, koun Pandav"-कौरव कौन कौन पांडव, टेढ़ा ...

Life’s Cycle: Embracing Sunsets and Sunrises - “Every sunset assures a new sunrise, and every sunrise promises a splendid sunset—the beautiful cycle of life. ☀️🌅”

Minesweeper’s time - Recently, at work, there was a chat around the PC games of the old days and one of my colleagues mentioned how she never came across understanding Mineswee...

Will I ever be able to write a letter? - For a while, after the colonisation of emails, WhatsApp and the like, I tried my best to write and receive letters. I did that for a while knowing fully...

A child's plan - * This post was long over due. I intended to post it last month but work and life came in the way. * *Pumpki's birthday was in December. Last year she to...

Thin Threads, Silky Strands, and Fragile Filaments - ‘और लिये जा, और पीये जा, …’ This line kept looping like a litany in my head, unable to find the escape velocity to complete the line. I knew where it was f...

My First Watch - My first watch was made in Switzerland! And I hated it with the short-sighted stupidity only a teenager is capable of! Turning 13 in 1993, I think I was...

Wrinkle-Free Ambitions - *Dreams don’t wrinkle; keep chasing them.*

Introducing my newsletter - I’ll keep this brief: I’ve been thinking for a while now about starting a newsletter on Substack. But like the gent in the image above pictured reading a n...

Ajanta Ellora - Last week we made a trip to Aurangabad. We had a direct flight from here.we stayed in Lemon tree hotel and liked it. It’s totally value for m...

Episode 2045 Scott Adams: Silicon Valley Bank Prediction, Trump Dominance, & Race Relations Reframed - Content: Bill Maher reframes DeSantis out of 2024 SVB, Silicon Valley Bank situation Mark Cuban on FDIC 250,000 protection limit USA Today compares Maine...

Diabetes – Normal Range for Blood Sugar - Now that we have covered the basic understanding of Diabetes in the previous post, let us now understand the numbers that define normal or impaired diabeti...

Mirror Mirror on the wall, who’s the funniest of them all? - This is an ode to one of the funniest human beings. A doyen of Carnatic music and a member of the erstwhile royal family (or should I say despite bein...

Do you want more wisdom? Here is an idea - This is a post from 2009. I have been reading the book of Proverbs lately and I thought of reposting this story. Thanks for reading. Of course comments a...

Our anchors - How do you grieve the loss of a loved one? Of your first hero? Of the man who laid the foundation of the family you loved and grew up in? How do you grieve...

Corona Diaries: The Evolution of Education - [image: Image Courtesy: Here] When my nine year old attends online classes, my spouse and I are also participants of the class, albeit not by choice. He ...

Kerala: God’s own Country is truly Human by Nature. Here’s why! - An eerie silence enveloped the forest, despite the roar of a waterfall gushing down the steep slope on which I sat feeling both exhilarated and anxious, as...

That awful moment of parity between the religions - I've covered the ground in this essay before, but two things: 1) It bears repeating, it bears repeating, because the myth it seeks to debunk keeps getting...

On this National Girl Child Day … - … and every other day alike, I salute girls like Shipra (a student herself), who travels to this village near Greater Noida daily, to teach children from C...

Is cleaning fun for you? - I feel most of my friends and family back home has about one to three different house helps to keep their homes in order 🙂 but I also feel their pain and ...

Skin in the Game by Taleb: Not as Good as Antifragile - I’m a big fan of Nassim Nicholas Taleb. I don’t exaggerate when I say that his book Antifragile is one of the most thought provoking books I’ve ever read...

And You Shot Them Dead - She did not call you first, because she did not have confidence in you. She knew you would not believe her. Or help her. You would question her character ...

Being there and turning up... - *Cavorting around the Scottish Highlands* Wake up the kids at dawn, Muffle sleepy protests, Scramble up breakfast, Pack lunch boxes, Hunt for the missing...

New Trend Setting Wedding Venues - It is always beautiful when you hear stories of two people finding each other and deciding to spend their life together as a couple. Be it love or arranged...

Breathtaking blooms - Since I posted a 'bird' post after a long time, I thought let me go ahead and show off my garden a bit too. I doubt there are followers of this blog who ar...

they make the clouds here! - . ~ an invisible bird tweets, rubbing my eyes, stumbling to the balcony, I step out, it was dawn finally, the night was dark and angry, it thundered and it...

Love in the O.T. - I am lying on a narrow table wearing a skimpy hospital gown. I have a tube fitted into my bladder and that makes me uncomfortable. On one hand I am being...

Just because - Stereotypes... I tell you They box a person inside a cage, tend to define them based on some assumptions !! But I truly believe every person is unique in t...

Cancer up close and Personal! - Cancer is one of the most dreaded word in recent times. I came face to face with it when a senior of mine was diagnosed with it some 25 years back. She ho...

Its difficult, but we still need to practice "Counting our Blessings". - In the course of last 5 years of schooling, I have come to the conclusion that my daughter is an average student who is much more inclined towards art, m...

The Alpha Beta Lover - What kind of font a lover-to-be, can be? If not tenderly cursive, rusticly bold or frighteningly upright?

SEO Techniques That You Need To Implement Sooner Than Later - When it comes to implementing SEO, you need to make sure that you have not forgotten about the basics. You still need to create high quality content, bu...

Book Review: Eleventh Hour by S. Hussain Zaidi - *Title:* Eleventh Hour *Author:* S. Hussain Zaidi *Publisher: *Harper Collins *Type:* Paperback *Price:* INR 299 Eleventh Hour Book Cover - Source: Am...

Visual treat - Summer in Bangalore is a visual treat. Though it brings heat, the array of colors from the city's blooming trees brings a refreshing coolness. During the B...

Agentgreenglass grew up. And grew a lump. - This blog started because I was going through a phase of not knowing what I wanted to do with my life. And somewhere, along the way, as the blog g...

Why Modern Relationships Are Falling Apart So Easily Today - This article is collected from menxp.com Why are relationships so hard today? Why do we fail at love every time, despite trying so hard? Why have humans su...

A Blessed 2018 To You and Yours - As the year 2017 comes to a close, I want to wish my dear ones, my friends, and every *shraddhavan*( one who believes in God) a year filled with greater d...

Practical Ways to Love Grieving Parents at Christmas - Originally posted on thelifeididntchoose: Bereaved parents feel increasing pressure as the days count down toward December 25th. Everywhere we look familie...

Everyday English for ESL — Lesson Eight — Restaurant Meal - This is the video for lesson eight of my Everyday English for ESL course, which is available on Udemy. In this lesson a couple order a meal at a restaurant...

Japan’s 155-year heritage brand Tsujiri comes to Indonesia at Ayana Resort and Spa - For the uninitiated Tsujiri is a 155 year old heritage tea brand established way back in 1860. Their matcha (green tea) has a cult status amongst the tea...

Outside, Inside.....Cattle memories .... - My friend Alka Gurha who blogs at this wonderful place Freebird recently did a great post titled Joy of Flying which was all about short airplane...

End of Ramadan - For the uninitiated, Ramadan is one of the 5 pillars of Islam. We fast from dawn to dusk, in hope of pleasing the lord almighty and attaining our ultimate ...

Sneaking - The non- sneakers buying their tickets The other day I was taking the tram back home when the controllers entered the tram and started checking everyone ...

Dress Code for Women in Indonesia - I often try to do a quick web search about the dress code for women if I am heading to a country for the first time. But I could not do it for Indonesia....

Vote for your BAT 58 Favorites - Voting ends at 23:59 hrs (IST) on November 13, 2016. Remember, that means time stamp of your comment can be at most 23:59 on November 13, 2016 and not 00:0...

Indian Grey Hornbill—the seed dispersers - There are about 54 species of hornbills in the world, out of which 9 occur in India. The hornbill pictured here is the Indian Grey Hornbill, which is commo...

- Madras 21: Going to School *Day 1* *Reet: Mom again i have to got to apl school. * *Day 2: * *Reet: Mom i don't want to go apl school one more time. * *Day...

Age aint no number.. - Wife turned 42 today. She seems ok with it. But you should have seen her when she was hitting 40! She made the day look as if they had declared Trump as...

The Model Student - Teen Blunt was in Class 10. For the uniformed, the Class 10 exams are a major milestone in the Indian student life. One is expected to score good marks th...

Self-realization happened. And it wasn't pretty. - Living, vicariously, through stories, people...life that surrounds you, is what inspires the storyteller bone in me. Or should I say, that it used to, at l...

Graphic Wisdom to Begin 2016 - *By three methods we may learn wisdom: * *First, by reflection, which is noblest; * *Second, by imitation, which is easiest; * *and third by experience, wh...

It's still me...I hope... - And it rains And it gladdens my senses It reminds me of that young boy Who sought it's full onslaught Determined to brave it Exploring it's violence Discove...

Never again - Yesterday was my first and last time attending triathlon. Never again. I wasn’t even participating. Just watching and trying to cheer up for Konstantin. I...

FM Radio - Ever since the launch of FM radio in India, circa 2002, I've come to have a love-hate relationship with it: - When it first began in Mumbai I loved the...

Fashionable Site - This site is About all Fashion Styles

Permanent Roommates - This post has been published by me as a part of the *Blog-a-Ton 50*; the fiftieth edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we wri...

Life support - It is so easy to not think about something, and then neglect any action on it for months, years together! And then it is doubly hard to get back into the t...

Thank You and Good Bye - It has been a wonderful 8 years of blogging. Yes, Eight! Am going to continue to record important milestones and Anushims and Adittys for their reference ...

"I'm yet to decide if I love art enough to be poor." - A truth so naked, I had to look away. The sentence is scribbled along the margins of my notebook. Truth. Naked. Naked truth. Is our truth our only legacy? ...

देर है पर अन्देर नही ! - Wow! There's no other way to express myself on the 2014 Lok Sabha election results. After a few decades this nation has now stood together in delivering ...

Yes - Yes. It has been a long time. I think it's time to let off some mental steam. It's time to regroup with my various passing thoughts. I think I need y...

Hello - Thank you for all the caring/enquiring/helpful/threatening/wonderful mails and comments that you all wrote to me. I know I’m a terrible, horrible person to...

- *Topic at Thursday Book Club meeting on 27th Mar 2014 was to write on an incident in my life from the viewpoint of my grandmother. I wrote this . Part fic...

Fifty Funniest Tweets - Here are 50 of my humour tweets that I posted on Twitter in recent days. Now in a blogpost. Married man’s idea of foreplay: half an hour of applying balm o...

You are reaching for my Gun! - (US Trip Chapter 1). 22nd July, 2013. The best thing about the Etihad flight from Mumbai to Chicago is that it is very cost effective. The worst thing? Tak...

On the beach , with my girls…. - I was holding the small tender hands of Sera and started walking through the shore of beach .Sera was visibly getting irritated at the stinking smell and t...

Art Expo - When we moved here more than a year ago, I didn't find a job as easily as I assumed I would. In the meantime, I merely concentrated on spending my time do...

Hi!! - Hi all, (is anybody listening!!) “2010/10/02”,last post date…Its been long,really long…. Hope all of you are doing great. Good day!! &nbsp

The Siddiqui Inheritance. - I used to tutor kids for pocket money during my university days. Once, as fate would have it, my student's exams and my own mid terms fell on the same dat...

Voted - Voted for the first time in US. It was a smooth process and took about 20 mins for the entire process to complete, including the walk to / from local schoo...

The unexpected visitor - "Oh yes, you see the mice set up the whole Earth business, as an epic experiment in behavioural psychology; a ten-million year program That's a famous...

Top five business ventures in India - The nineties have ushered in a new era in the history of the Indian business market. The new economic policies, introduced in the year July 1991 completely...

Assam's Jadav Payeng : The Man Who Made A Forest - "My folks had been telling me for long to do stories on the Northeast. Good stories can be found in plenty over there. But when the Sunday Times editor h...

- I am changing to Wordpress and will now blog in my own name. The new blog is http://arunnm.wordpress.com/. All my readers are welcome there.

Children - *Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.They come through you but not from ...

Ah! - You know you’ve grown when you don’t know where to hide your face while going through some old diary entries and posts! Oh well, but that's life!

The Social Agenda -

Father of the Bride - I havent explicitly said here on my site that I take up wedding/events/portrait photography assignments. But, I do. I have been updating my Facebook photog...

Suddenly, One Day. - At the Pragati Maidan Metro Station, two people waited.. One was a young woman not more than twenty, dressed in black like most of the people her age. Ev...

AN ODE TO MODERN POETRY - “MY COLORLESS SOLITUDE” As my skeptical mind wonders How many out there can really write poetry Versus how many think they can And make you and me believe ...

My first post from a phone-Blackberry rocks! - Until about a month back I never thought I would be so nuts over a phone.Blackberry has made a big fan out of me. For someone who has used a Nokia all hi...

Voices and slingshots - sheets of gold drape fleeting time into their fold; eternity teases urgent scurrying life. its fleeting flight forever one glance ahead; forever one step e...

She will live forever in our hearts… - Rest in Peace, Tejaswee Rao, the daughter of one of this blog founder members, Indian Homemaker. Below is a re-post from Indian Homemaker’s sharing of the ...

Politics of India - This post has also been published on an e-magazine called N-zine It was great to be a part of this lovely magazine as one of the contributors!! The post...

Enlightenment - Strange are the ways of men.They spend the first many years of their lives looking ahead, to a bright, glittering future, unaware of the fetters that the m...

Good Night! - The woods are no more dark or deep… I’ve no more promises to keep… And now it’s time I went to sleep… And now it’s time I went to sleep!

Avatar – a movie with a green message (Movie Review) - This film is Science Fiction with a difference. The aliens are not evil, but perhaps the human are. Humans being evil is not an uncommon theme as there are...

How to achieve Zero figure with minimal fuss - What's with all this fuss about zero figures and such, H and I often wonder with amazement. Zero figure? Pshaw! Easily achieved, especially if you have a...

Journal: High School - Blog of the Day Awards for Tuesday July 28, 2009 A Blog of the Day Award goes to Journal: High School Technorati Tags Blog Award Blog Awards winner Blogg...

- The other day when I was driving back from the grocery store, I saw one of those little cars for children (the kind where they actually sit in it and drive...

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