On Survivors of a Nomadic Existence and a Photo Essay

We have lived in 13 houses across 5 cities in the last 25 years - we just kept moving and moving and moving….and not all of the moving can fairly be blamed on my husband’s transferable job. We kept moving even after he quit bank to join a private concern.
13 proved to be a lucky [...]

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Festivals of Tamizh Nadu - Sri Rama Navami

Sri Rama Navami is the first festival after Varuda Pirappu. It falls on the navami day of sukla paksham (Waxing moon) after the tamizh new year. As it is a festival during summer months, Neer Moor( Butter milk) and Panagam ( Sweetened water) are the main naivedyams for the lord. Kosamari (Salad) using Cucumber is [...]

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Eggs @ Home

Note photographs are taken by different people and credited duly. None of them have been edited. The first one will be entered for Click! by Raghavan (Latha’s son, Lakshmi’s brother).
The most beautiful eggs that for us as a family are eggs like these - mini ovals laid every mating season by budgerigars who [...]

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Navarathiri, Golu Or Dasara and Sundal Recipe

Dasara is one of the main festivals for Hindus. It is celebrated with great enthusiasm all over India! We have always kept a grand Golu( Display of dolls and handicrafts) almost every year! This year due to ill health of my parents I am not in a mood for great celebration.
Daily puja, chanting of Lalitha [...]

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Fantastic Four MEME

Raaga has tagged me for the Fantastic Four MEME. So here goes some random facts about me in “fours”:
4 Places I’ve lived:

Chennai
Mumbai
Bangalore
Delhi

As you can see I have been bred in urban India.
4 Jobs I’ve had:
Four Jobs???!!!
I have had only one going by the technical definition of a “job” before being bitten up the startup bug [...]

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Kolu for Navarathri

Celebrations spread over nine auspicious nights to mark the victory of good over evil also known as Navarathri begin today.
In Tamil Nadu Navarathri is celebrated by setting up a gallery of handcrafted dolls representing major deities, scenes from everyday life, thematic doll sets representing mythological events or even modern day happenings and so on. Arrangements [...]

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