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Do Ingredients matter or the Curry?

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                                                                                                                                             The Ingredient or the Curry? As a child, I always wondered how fish curry was made and consumed by the people who lived in my native down south in a small corner in India. They had it day in and day out, seven days a week. Can you really eat fish Seven days a week, throughout the year? all your life? Impossible but they do it How? these questions made me observe my dear grandmother who in all her through experience, went about giving advice to her Daughters in law how the curry was done. I reme...

Work, Work, Work

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  Everyone i know in my circle of life, is obsessed with this single word. They tend to think of it highly when no one has it and when we get it, they talk about how time management is very poor and how the family suffers because of it. This dilemma drives me to question the fact as to why do we actually work? Why do we risk what we risk working? why do we support those whom we support? Basically why do we do it? I know for sure that it is not done to please a group of people, nor is it in anyway done for pleasure. Maybe perhaps it is done to earn a living. Well, a decent answer to a complicated question. But what is the truth really? When you go to work in the present world, you get the opportunity to live a timeless life. The only time that matters to you is the bio-metric time. The crowds on the busy road-crossing, the rush in the metro trains, the traffic on the roads are all just obstacles you need to cross every single day. Have you been offered a job? Well, Congrat...

Wish I...

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Image by Meir L from Pixabay " I am Sorry, said someone already having planned to die, I just can't help it."  "This is the end I thought, if there is a way out then this is it." I was so sure that I decided on the end. Why do people have to come to this grim conclusion about their lives? I wonder now but the truth is that I too was a person who felt the same way when my problems arose. If only we can stop take a look around and know the greater and deeper meaning Life has to offer. Life is hard in present times, even with all the technological advancements, we've only seen increase in demands that can cost one's life if one isn't prepared. but the truth is "LIFE itself is Fleeting" No matter what happens, it is up to us to make it worth living. If we are struggling, let's struggle well, If we are happy and content let's be that way. If we are sad at the moment let's be sad for now. You never know what tomorrow holds or even wha...

Spiritual Abuse

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What is Spiritual Abuse? Does it seem strange like you haven’t heard it before? Has it happened to anyone at all? Can even something like that exist in the present postmodern world? The answer is yes! To all the questions above, yes, it has been experienced by many people, and yes it does exist unawares in our present advanced world. To make it quite clear, I will give you my own example, being a victim of Spiritual Abuse myself, I will tell you of the implications and the trauma it has had in my life. I am not proud of my experience or disgusted at it instead I am shocked, even now at the level through which I was dragged in life in the name of Religion. N B: (Before I share my personal experience, which can be read and reread in many ways it is my will that I choose not to blame anyone involved in the abuse both from my family and the Preachers. By this article, I only wish to open people’s eyes to the horror of spiritual abuse so that no one else undergoes w...

I know the place of the Manjal, the Malli and the Milagai...

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Dedicated to my Sisters in law and my Husband without whom I would never have known where these spices places where supposed to be in the Kitchen or what they were meant to be used for. Kitchen spices can turn out to be the defense or knowledge of a Homemaker running a home in all its perfection. The one thing that is dormant on most of the Women’s minds is being so sure of oneself, with the belief that anything is possible by them, no matter what the circumstances; while actually cowering deep inside not knowing what to do being a fresher in the Kitchen and in life. A world of pretence and bravery combined, living life either on the pretending side or being brave enough to face life. This two in one Life requires you to be a responsible Woman building a Home and a Family while you still remember the first time you rode a bicycle as a kid or played cricket once in a while. Those memories lie fresh on your mind, as a girl who enjoyed life no matter the consequences running ar...

Living in fear of our own Shadows

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“I woke up one morning with puffy eyes and half- closed eyelids wondering why I could not ever get a good night’s rest? As I wondered, I thought of all the hidden hurts inside me that came pouring out like flood waters. I looked around for help but there was no one with whom I could share; who would relate to my hurt and understand. So I kept going quietly carrying this entire burden with me inside my heart… “ Is this your story too? I am here to tell you that this is nothing but idiocy as some brainers would like to call it sugar – coated as maturity. When have we, Lived Freely, Given Willingly, Forgiven Heartfully, and Loved Unconditionally? Not every single individual in this world could possibly achieve this state of mind. It’s impossible because most of us live in fear of our own shadows; the society has trained our minds to camouflage and blend living like machines with flesh and blood. The one thing that haunts us is our own memories we feel are not wo...

Why Blessed and Doomed

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Someone once told me in my difficult times "what good is there in loving only those who love you?” It made me think. Indeed i agree with this thought that it is equally futile doing so and it also could be an opportunity for endless possibilities. Why Blessed and Doomed at the same time? A woman's truer blessing depends on outside factors An endless list of 'If's' to tune her to rhyme, along with the rest of the world and all that matters. Blessed or Doomed choose any one! For each human is an individual like the spectrum seen in a single light Even in a marriage differences are a garment worn You are either blessed or doomed; it is your own fight. Doomed i say is this world, look around you! Rumors of war and basic rights of a human being are at stake. Yet there are a few, who don't bother, about the old or the new, happenings that make us question if there really is a heaven, when we wake. Blessed or Doomed i don't car...