Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors – it’s how you combine them that sets you apart. ~Wolfgang Puck, Australian Chef
Category: Artifacts
Hidden Treasures
When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives. ~A. P. J. Abdul…
Dancing Queen
“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth.” ~ William W. Purkey
Listen Up!
“The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.” ~ Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book “I shouldn’t have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that’s the only way to find out the truth.” ~ Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
In Peace
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” ~ Rumi
Small Pleasures
I love flowers. Most girls do. There is this lovely line in a beautiful Tamil song from the 1992 film Roja that I absolutely love… pen illaadha oorilae adi aan pooketpadhillai pen illadha oorilae kodidhaan poopooppadhillai (In a town without women, a man doesn’t ask for flowers… In a town without girls, flowers don’t even…
Spice It Up
This in a miniature version of a traditional Indian spice box. We love flavors in our food and such boxes you will find in every household. It has spices commonly used in everyday cooking such as turmeric powder, chilli powder, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds, fennel seeds, and coriander seeds just to name a…
Bravo!
From the time I started collecting miniatures rather seriously, I began observing the time, effort and energy every artist puts into creating the art they feel so passionately about. I picked up these tiny pots from a small stall on the side of a narrow yet busy by lanes in Pune. The hand pump and…
Where art thou?
Have you been in a spot where you are in a splitting hurry, the open store but the store keeper has decided to take a break exactly when he reaches your order? Well, several times you say? Then welcome to the club!
Ring in The Rains
Coming from Mumbai, I am not a huge fan of the rains. For people like me, who have lived in coastal cities in India, rains are followed by heat and more humidity. What acts as a bigger turn off is the post-rain muck. As the southwest monsoon winds set in, here’s a last shout out…
Snapshots of my World 