This blog is our space to write about our thoughts, views and notes about our travels. Osho owned 90 Rolls Royces while being a Sanyasi …. The so-felt contradiction is very fascinating and hence the name !
My Chitappa (Chachaji) has been with Guruji BKS Iyengar since 1989…. and he has tried in vain to influence everyone in the family to take up yoga except my father. Dad couldn’t go to Pune and learn from the institute but he did learn yoga from another master in Hyderabad and continued practising. When he … Read more
This post is specially dedicated to my childhood friend Adeeti… She wanted to know how we manage to travel with our kitchen. This post is also a way of thanking three innovators who made cooking while travelling so easy. With us being vegetarians, these innovations have made it even more easy for us to eat … Read more
One of the things that I have on my list of 50 things to do in this year to celebrate turning 50 is eat five new items. Only when I wrote that down did I realise that we often eat the “same” thing over and over again. When we order food, its the same things … Read more
I only cook the OPOS (One Pot One Shot) way everyday. I am constantly thinking of the layers and its almost an auto reflex to think of any recipe in terms of OPOS. Ever since I was introduced to this way of cooking, the variety of food at home has increased manifold. Things like Biriyani, … Read more
Krishnan and I visited Germany in September and spent almost 20 days travelling across the country. We were amazed at their engineering skills especially with the automobiles. Then our friends Keshav and Anu took us to a hypermart and I discovered the German made stainless steel vessels. It was difficult to peel me off the … Read more
I dont know if it has happened only to my FB timeline, or to everyone’s – I find a whole host of videos from different websites being pushed. Some are useful, like the ones related to exercise or cooking or time saving hacks but there are dozens that talk of the Royals and Priyanka Chopra’s … Read more
During summer holidays we would visit both my paternal and maternal grandparents. At my paternal grandmother’s place, they had cows at home and the milk would be heated in a heavy bottomed pan throughout the day as coffee was made or people drank milk. At night, my grandmother would scrape the bottom of that pan … Read more
The sari that I wore for Diwali is an Assam silk (mulberry) and I bought it during our trip to Guwahati in Feb this year. Infact we spent a lot of time at ARTFED, the government store that sells authentic Assam handloom saris but nothing quite caught our attention. Then Krishnan spotted this one under … Read more
Krishnan doesn’t like to eat fruits but loves fruit juice .. so we invested in a slow juicer from Hurom almost four years back. The pulp remains, just the seeds and skin is discarded while juicing and because there are no blades, heat isn’t introduced during the crushing process. Now the market is flooded with … Read more
A healthy brain not only supports your intelligence, but emotional regulation, stress level, and other things that support your professional success. — Read on http://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/neuroscience-shows-that-50-year-olds-can-have-brains-of-25-year-olds-if-they-do-this.html