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Feeling hot? Eat chilli curry 27 Aug 2013 | 01:01 pm
I knew something good was in the air. The weather folks predicted a few consecutive days of hot weather, then we got warnings of a heatwave. Britain was finally going to get hot weather in July. In mo...
Package treat 3 Jul 2013 | 02:15 am
We’ve long avoided the family holiday. Someone said it was “the same shit, different location”. ‘Nuff said. It didn’t take long to flip. The tots are growing fast. My time with them is limited to say...
Surprise encounters 8 May 2013 | 11:10 am
There are two things a long career in PR has given me: 1) thick skin and 2) a great shoe collection. But this scathing critique for my Saag Aloo recipe sent a stiletto piercing through my epidermis: ...
Quest for Karma 30 Apr 2013 | 11:45 am
The quest for karma continues, with yet another set of yoga classes. I snuck into the back of a heaving local class popular for using scented oils. All great, until someone fired up a sausage BBQ behi...
Curry in a big hurry 17 Apr 2013 | 01:27 am
Shubho Noboborsho to you all. As I was going about my business towards the end of the Bengali year, I got a cryptic email in my inbox. It was on behalf of none other than Patak’s, the British Indian c...
Bake off 8 Mar 2013 | 02:01 pm
I am no baker. I never was crafty. Mother, a staunch feminist, insisted we didn’t have to learn to sew and knit. Until my all-girl school in Kolkata saw sense in teaching us carpentry and light metal ...
Alternative Life 11 Feb 2013 | 06:07 pm
The man packed his bags to go to LA for “work” for two weeks. The pint-sized princess, i.e. little sis, moved in to “help”. And I had a crash course in the life of a single mother and the grapes of An...
Older not wiser 25 Jan 2013 | 04:47 pm
I have been fretting for weeks about the inevitable happening. A birthday. And, hey presto, it did. And now I am a whole year older than I used to be. Every year, I go through the same old emotional ...
Waste Not Want Not 11 Jan 2013 | 04:39 pm
The weeks in the run up to Christmas are a blur. A crisis of sorts was brewing on the client front. Which means, not much was brewing on the home front. I got ready in near darkness, pulling last nig...
Out with the old 31 Dec 2012 | 10:47 pm
It’s hard to be inane when the world is falling apart around you. Two weeks ago, I had it all sussed. I was going to write a mega post. The one in which I regale you with tales about my office Christ...
