हे मेघ, मित्रता के कारण, अथवा मैं विरही हूँ इससे मेरे ऊपर दया करके यह अनुचित अनुरोध भी मानते हुए मेरा कार्य पूरा कर देना। फिर वर्षा ऋतु की शोभा लिये हुए मनचाहे स्थानों में विचरना। हे जलधर, तुम्हें अपनी प्रियतमा विद्युत् से क्षण-भर केलिए भी मेरे जैसा वियोग न सहना पड़े। O clouds, in…
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Continue ReadingHayastan or Armenia was the first country in the world to adopt Christianity as it’s official religion in 301 AD. The Armenians played an important role in world history as merchants and power brokers. In India, the oldest reference to an Armenian dates back to the year 780 CE, when an Armenian merchant named Thomas…
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Continue ReadingThe afternoon sun in Delhi is already showing it’s true colour after being subdued by an extended winter. It is not long before it will be impossible to imagine that Delhi was cold a few months back and it will be cold again, though not sometime soon! The diet in this period of changing seasons…
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Continue ReadingMa would make kosha mangsho once in a while. Especially in the winters or when she got bored of having chicken every weekend. We were pretty much a minimal red meat, less salt, less oil household, owing to Baba’s cardiac problems. And I loved chicken so much that Ma blamed it on the fact that…
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Continue ReadingThe Chettinad Potato Roast is a perfect match of two very important things in my food experience – potatoes and aromatic balanced spices! I am a spice addict. Days when I have had long tiring experience I open my spice cupboard and stand in front of it. That is my home-grown therapy! Hence the natural…
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Continue ReadingI am scrambled egg Nazi. So critical am I of scrambled eggs that I hate it 98% of the times it is served to me, whether at home or out of 5 star kitchens. I also steer clear of the anda bhurji served by dhabas and restaurants because it is murder of the eggs! I can…