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Culinary Loves in Our Family

What are your family’s top 3 favorite meals? Like all families, a common favourite is quite rare for us too, whether it be food, music or other forms of entertainment. While my father loves traditional, simple home-cooked food or other Indian cooking, my tastes extend upto international cuisines. My mother tales the middle route, always welcome to a change in taste once in a while. On most days,…

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Instincts and Me

Do you trust your instincts? This was a hard one. Instincts can be an excellent gift. There are many days when I have trusted my instincts and backed out of a plan or dealt with people in a certain way. And yet there are days when I don’t follow it and end with a ‘Drats!! My sixth sense had told me to do this.’ This has happened most during an exam when deductions go down to guessing between two…

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Drumroll! Here comes the Favourite Month

What’s your favorite month of the year? Why? All months begin with a new resolutions, schedules and goals, bring apprehension in the form of tests, as well as small surprises, frowns, laughs and a final ‘I will do everything asper schedule the next month.’ In spite of this, I do have a favourite month- December. While it may be synonymous with extreme chill in some places, in a coastal city like…

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What is your favorite place to go in your city? After seeing the prompt, my first response was the albeit cheeky one- the comfort of my home. On second thoughts, there are many places that induce loads of joy when I spend time there and are my go to places for recreation. As a person who resides quite close to Thane, areas like Talao pali, Upvan lake or Panchpakhadi serve as prime hubs for…

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A Hop and Skip Through the Day

What part of your routine do you always try to skip if you can? There are a dozen things I plan and shirk from and another million I add up to my schedule and then find a million ways to avoid. Honestly, waking up is an activity I would love to skip, although lazing around is not a viable option. I have been trying to consciously include in my daily plans but mostly end up shortchanging it due…

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The Joy of Having a Pet

What is good about having a pet? I do not have a pet currently. However, when I was in primary school, we did have a fish tank. Neither my parents nor I are comfortable with cats or dogs, and fishes seemed to be a good bargain. In spite of the hectic cleaning or regular feeding, the fishes brought in cheer and vibrance. I would spend a lot of time gazing at them swimming around comfortably.…

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In the Realm of Podcasts

What podcasts are you listening to? I fear this will be a redundant response. I have been wanting to listen to a podcast since forever but have never actual begun. From the articles I have skinned through, Indian podcasts like The Mythpat Podcast and Indian Noir seem to be an excellent watch (or may I say, listen). I love topics like science, crime and mysteries, history, literature or topics of…

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The Satapur Moonstone - The Second Perveen Mistry Installment with a Feisty Solicitor and Royal Curses

The second installment of Sujata Massey’s Perveen Mistry Investigates. ‘The Satapur Moonstone’ continues the adventures of Bombay’s first female (albeit fictitious) lawyer Perveen Mistry as she entangles the court intrigues in Satapur, a tiny princely state embedded in the Western Ghats. The Perveen Mistry Series Royalty, Cursed Jewels and Lawyers Just like the first book, we see Perveen…

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The Satapur Moonstone - The Second Perveen Mistry Installment with a Feisty Solicitor and Royal Curses

The second installment of Sujata Massey’s Perveen Mistry Investigates. ‘The Satapur Moonstone’ continues the adventures of Bombay’s first female (albeit fictitious) lawyer Perveen Mistry as she entangles the court intrigues in Satapur, a tiny princely state embedded in the Western Ghats. The Perveen Mistry Series Royalty, Cursed Jewels and Lawyers Just like the first book, we see Perveen…

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In Three Years.....

What will your life be like in three years? I tried to come up with something interesting but I’ll just keep it plain and simple. After three years, I expect to be in the penultimate year of engineering, hopefully an older, bolder and mature version of myself. And sure enough, I will be trying to decide a response to the golden question ‘What next?’

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To Respect without being Disrespected

What’s something you believe everyone should know. This is something everyone should know and incorporate in their life. Respecting the opinions and feelings of those around us, showing care for the living beings around us is an essential aspect of life, and something that transcends above the parameters of age, religion or background. Learning the art of healthy debate, to put one’s thoughts…

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To Not Hide My Inner Thoughts

What’s the biggest risk you’d like to take — but haven’t been able to? I have never been the fearless person who doesn’t care a bit about what others think. I may not ponder over it every minute but criticism and comments especially the mean ones do not leave me easily. What others think about me, and their judgements are things I cannot push out of my mind. There have been many occasions when I…

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A Good Neighbour

Daily writing promptWhat makes a good neighbor?View all responses Growing up in an apartment in suburban Mumbai, interactions with the people living on the same floor as me is never a routine affair. We can spend days without seeing each other but do devote a minute or two to ask about each other’s welfare if our paths cross. Both of my parents grew up in an era when associating with neighbours…

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Jobs I would Love if Financial Constraints did Not Exist

List three jobs you’d consider pursuing if money didn’t matter. Wikipedia defines money as ‘any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a particular country or socio-economic context.’ Money however goes beyond just an economic medium that acts as store of value, a measure against which goods and services…

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'The Architect's Apprentice '- a vivid Elif Shafak fiction that takes us back into a bygone era and is an ode to love, artistry and apprenticeship

The Architect’s Apprentice- an Overview (Warning- The above review may contain spoilers) A reader may be surprised to find a 2023 blog reviewing a decade-old book, neither a classic nor a publication that has been the subject of some recent trend amongst literary enthusiasts. Nevertheless, whilst cleaning up a disorderly shelf, I came across this historical fiction that had been suggested by an…

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The Resplendence of Indian Culture

What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in? As many bloggers before me have explicitly stated, Indian culture is a kaleidoscopic array of spirituality, architecture and other socio-cultural aspects of our life. Our culture combined modernization with spirituality and it is practically impossible to favour just one factor over the other. I would relish the…

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I Strongly Affirm a Lack of Brand Affiliations, or do I?

What brands do you associate with? I realized something when I saw this daily prompt. It was a topic that I had ignored, but it resonated with me. I don’t think anyone among us is completely unbiased in brand preferences, no matter what we say. There are some brands and campaigns that attract us more than others. I am not a fan of Apple or Coca-Cola, but I have a preferred brand for each item I…