It’s friday again and it’s time to talk to you all about being healthy, living a holistic lifestyle and of course, being happy! Eating well, exercising moderately certainly helps but I think a little ‘me time‘ helps immensely too; a little foot massage or perhaps
The discovery of water on Mars got most of the world really excited; I quizzed my son on why he thought it was such an amazing find, and his quick response was ‘where there is water, there is life!’ before moving on to talk about the very exciting
Mention the beautiful state of Kerala to anyone, and more often than not, conversation will move speedily on to Kerala’s exotic quotient, it’s ‘lushness factor‘; to how everyone these days seem to be travelling to ‘God’s own country’ for a relaxing holiday; and then, before you even realise, it’s food from Kerala that
‘I am a big fan of Yoga’, I hear myself say often but it was only recently that I realised that there is so much more to Yoga than what I had learnt and practised in the last few years. My typical Yoga practice starts
Maggi had been a big part of our lives for eons and then suddenly, on a fine sunny day it was taken away from all shops, from our life!! I worried, my friends did too, about how we would cope in a world without ‘Maggi‘! Would
Many years ago, while I was in school, my family and I moved to Bangalore. It was a big change for us – the language, the culture, the people and the food, having come from a city in north India. We were put up in
Ramadan (in Arabic: رمضان, Ramadān) is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar. This month is about fasting, being kind and giving to the less fortunate. Fasting from food is practiced from sunrise (Sahour) to sunset (Iftar) and the fast is broken with amazing food. Traditionally the
Amaranth has been cultivated in India for thousands of years and is a big part of Indian cuisine. It comes in various colours and sizes and has amazing benefits for the body. It’s been re-discovered or talked about again in the past couple of years and
Every year there is a new diet fad! A few years back, there was this fight against ‘wheat’ and it ended up being a nasty food to consume! This year (or maybe, I have just caught on to it now!) there seems to be an
Warning for all wheat haters: Glance through this post with caution as simply reading about bread may well serve as the catalyst towards breaking the awkward silence between you and that innocent slice of bread! For all others, the instructions are to get yourself a cuppa, a slice