I recently discovered the world of blogs, while searching for a recipe to make banana walnut cake.... people who know me for a considerable while might be a little taken aback... banana walnut cake is not what they would envision me doing with some spare time.... read yes, go for a long walk, watch a movie, go shopping,,,, perhaps even paint... but cooking is not an activity i used to indulge in unless absolutely forced.
But after coming to the US and being forced to live without Mummy's food and the nearest udipi and irani restaurant, made me resort to surviving on my non existent cooking skills. R still remembers occassions when he came home for lunch to a teary eyed me with burnt cabbage bhaji and rice.
thank heavens those days are over, well almost!!!
anyway this blog is a way for me to keep in touch with my old friends and family, people who I used to meet and chat with regularly , but now am seperated by atleast a few hundred kilometers.
Email and regular phone calls cannot compensate for the age-old institution of 'manapasun gappa' ( long conversations , for lack of better translation skills).
So heres to my family and PP in London, JB in Ithaca, AS in Pune, AK in Mumbai, VS in Florida, RK in Pune, MD in Mumbai , RB in Singapore / Pune, DL in Mumbai, AS in Dallas and JG in Austin.
But after coming to the US and being forced to live without Mummy's food and the nearest udipi and irani restaurant, made me resort to surviving on my non existent cooking skills. R still remembers occassions when he came home for lunch to a teary eyed me with burnt cabbage bhaji and rice.
thank heavens those days are over, well almost!!!
anyway this blog is a way for me to keep in touch with my old friends and family, people who I used to meet and chat with regularly , but now am seperated by atleast a few hundred kilometers.
Email and regular phone calls cannot compensate for the age-old institution of 'manapasun gappa' ( long conversations , for lack of better translation skills).
So heres to my family and PP in London, JB in Ithaca, AS in Pune, AK in Mumbai, VS in Florida, RK in Pune, MD in Mumbai , RB in Singapore / Pune, DL in Mumbai, AS in Dallas and JG in Austin.
Those cups of coffee and uttapams at Vaishali, the long walks on the tekdi - gazing at the pollution tinged horizons, short walks over Law College grounds, sharing the batata wada sambhar at the IMDR canteen behing Fergusson, the absolutely oil soaked but delicious bread pattice in the college canteen, window shopping on Main Street... all my favorite activities i can no longer indulge in.
Even with a longggg trip to India, however long, all of us are scattered too far and wide to ever relive those days again.
So hopefully this blog serves as a virtual gappa session and u guys hopefully respond to my updates!!! :-)
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