de-mystifying life

Some people would ring me up for recipes or for tips to save grocery items from getting rotten, stale or spoilt. Once such request came (a l...

I have been suffering from a swelling in the neck and shoulder on the right side for the past 25 years now. It affects my arm, palm and fin...

Dear Friends, The Hindu culture depicts almost all their gods and goddesses wearing heavy gold jewellery from top to toe. Is there some hid...

Until I write about this incident, I can't rest! I was passing the Cenotaph Road on my way to office by auto. Due to traffic conges...

During my childhood a laddoo would bring the image of boondi laddoo only and never of any other kind. By and by when we began seeing differe...

This is the one I drew for Monday. This one I drew for today - Tuesday. Kolam is a Tamil word for drawing a pleasing design in front o...

Yesterday we bought a kilogram of tiny mangoes which are called vadu manga in Tamil. They are tiny baby raw mangoes. They fall off the tr...

6 more of my creations. Kolam 13 Kolam - 14 Kolam 15 Kolam 16 Kolam 17 ...

In the early hours on the fateful 30th September of 1993 Latur, more particularly Killari experienced an earthquake in the magnitude of 6.3 ...

I am a member of a few Groups dedicated to a particular subject of mine. There is an elderly person (82 years) who contributes articles afte...