While rummaging through the grocery drawer, I found a few packets of this Arabica coffee powder that the hotel in Luang Prabang, Laos had gifted us. For some reason, I had not opened them at all. Just seeing them brought back all the memories of the nice vacation […]
When we were in Chennai a couple of weeks back, we happened to go to Usman Road, T.Nagar and Krishnan and I both remembered my mother-in-law’s liking for “Thirattu Paal” from the Gomathi Shankar sweet shop. Amma would eat very little of it but Krishnan would polish it […]
We all woke up late today so I didn’t have enough time to make the coffee decoction in the percolator, so I used the French Press. Then I started thinking about my coffee drinking habit over the years. I grew up drinking tea and even now, tea is […]
I don’t know if Kendriya Vidyalayas still use the English Grammar and Composition text book by Wren & Martin. For my generation, this was THE text book for English Grammar and Composition. In the last week of December, we started our de-cluttering phase 2 and started with the […]
Dear Appa, Yesterday while cleaning one of the drawers at home, I found a postcard from you … This was a letter you wrote me in 1989. You were posted in Vizag and I was in Hyderabad completing my degree from Wesley college. Amma was planning to come […]
For a self-confessed Saree-addict any celebration obviously includes sarees .. and this year is no different. This year as I turn 50, I have made a list of 50 different things that I want to do to celebrate and one of them is to wear different weaves during […]
We, the PGPMAX batch of 2013 had our 5th year reunion on Nov 23rd and 24th. This time we were invited by the school to hold it at the ISB Hyderabad campus. It was an opportunity to relive the time that we spent there during our program. I […]
Dearest Appa, Today is Thiru Karthigai and its the 10th anniversary of your departure. We remembered you with some things that were very dear to you. Believe it or not, Amma made dosas on a cast iron tawa ! She has been making dosas on a cast iron tawa […]
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 […]
As we walked around Inverness today, Krishnan found this written on a building across the Ness bridge and I immediately took a picture. Even though we are teetotallers, we know that aged Whisky is something special, so this quote is so true!! And very apt for this time […]
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