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Coffee With Mi

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…

An eventful year

This has been an eventful year – and during the last week, I’ve been reading “the year that was” kind of posts everywhere. Hmm….I am not sure I’d be able to do one of those smashingly immortal posts now, but I can definitely think back and recall and come up…

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…