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A New Year Or A Year Anew?? Another year is drawing to a close- a year that was filled with panic and trauma and a year that sadly saw many succumb to the deadly Covid-19 virus. Life across the globe…
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Silence Speaks Volumes Have you ever sat alone and watched the sunrise and the sunset? Have you watched the twinkling stars at night amidst the quiet, inky darkness around you? If you have, you’ll fathom the magic of silence. Filled…
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The corridors of Asia reverberate with the clink of cups and saucers as the ‘contagious tea-drinking culture’ pervades West Asia, extending to regions of the Middle-East. And today, that’s where our tea-drinking journey will take us. So let’s go! Azerbaijan…
Tea-Drinking Culture- The Unending Journey, Part 3
Tea-drinking culture is as old as the hills. It dates a long way back- more than 5000 years. Like aging wine, tea has caught the fancy of cultures across the world. It has evolved from being a medicinal drink to…
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Tea Drinking- A long journey If ‘Tea drinking’ is an art, then ‘Tea brewing’ is a science-non-pareil. That’s why books accompanied by a ‘cuppa tea’ is music to my ears. Perhaps that’s what prompted C. S. Lewis to say “You…
Tea Drinking – Traditions and Cultures Add Flavor
Tea Drinking Across Traditions and Cultures Tea drinking is as old as the hills. It began a long time ago. Legend has it that tea itself was an accident- a dried tea leaf fell from the tea plant into the…
Which is Your Cup of Tea? Steep Yourself in it!
Ah! The infinite joys of a cup of tea! A triple hurrah for Camellia Sinensis– the plant that gives tea lovers across the world that elixir of ecstasy- “Tea- the cups that cheer but not inebriate”. William Cowper couldn’t have…
5 Books You Simply Must Read In 2019!
Before I rattle away a list of must read books for you in 2019, let me tell you a very short story. The year was 1997. The setting- a school classroom filled with Grade-2 students watching as a teacher taught them…
3 Oft-Repeated New Year’s Resolutions That Are Seldom Kept!
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Love Marriage: Expectations vs Reality
The Vagaries of a Love Marriage! My mother used to always say that ‘someone somewhere is made for each one of us’. All we need to do is find that perfect partner. Sometimes we find our perfect partner at college,…
7 Must Read Books on Amazon
A List of Must Read Books for You! The best way to de-stress, for me, on those ‘not-so-good-days’, is to simply curl up with a good book. I feel that reading transports you to a different world, away from your…
Halloween in India- A Trick or A Treat??
Halloween- What’s it all about? It’s that time of the year again when scary legends do the rounds as ghosts and spirits haunt the terrain. Shelves in supermarkets are weighed down with pumpkins, folks dress up in dark colors and…
The Outrageous Lifestyle of Teenagers Today
Do Teenagers Really Have An Outrageous Lifestyle? All over the world, teenagers are just the same. They are stressed, volatile and edgy- as if waiting to break out of a harness that they’re tethered to. It’s a difficult period…