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Just a note to say

Dear Friends, real and virtual, 2010 has been a mixed year for me – albeit a wonderful learning experience. Thanks for being with me. I am looking forward to a great new decade with you. Phew! Fancy that – a whole new decade! Wishing you health, prosperity and success, Peace,…

Back. Happy.

We had a lovely 5 days in the capital. And of course, the highlight of the trip was seeing the Taj Mahal. Superlative experience – breathtaking, overwhelming, ethereal, unbelievable – the monument, in spite of all the milling crowds looked like an untouchable heaven. We could have sat there and…

And so I did.

I lit the nimbu lamps (elumichai vilakkus). In fact, when I told Vidur its Hanuman Jayanti, and he reminisced about “if Paati had been with us now….” – so I made vadais for neivedyam – after teasing him about how she would have told him :thairsadam (curd rice) with whole…

Pins

The sight of this alone is enough to drive me into a frenzy of sad nostalgia. My Mom and I had this on-going war about safety pins. My pin, your pin. No, I gave it to you. Ah, it was mine in the first place. As generously as we shared…