WELCOME TO BITE AND BROOD

In one of the blogs I wrote previously, "Love what you do?" I wrote about how having a passion can wait until you have a steady career, a means to support yourself, and how your love for your passion would die once associated with being your primary source of income. But now I'm beginning to rethink my stance on it. It was a dull day at the office the other day, and I was talking to a colleague, saying something on the lines of me wanting to go for some hobby class a year ago

When someone tastes wine for the first time, especially in India, they are instantly reminded of some Ayurvedic kadha (medicinal liquid) their mom or grandma made them drink. I know I was. I thought it tasted exactly like my cough syrup. Fortunately, my college held a wine appreciation course, for us hotel management students with aspirations to become a sommelier, and guess what! I actually started appreciating wine! Then, over time, I tasted some more wines, well, a little

I lost 14 kilos over the past year, not a big deal for many, but for me it was everything! Last year, during my sabbatical, since I had absolutely nothing to do, I was forced to look at how I lived my life, and it was startling! I looked in the mirror, and someone I couldn't recognize looked back at me. It was someone dependent on (ultra-processed) food to stabilize my mood, someone who couldn't get rid of her joint pains (because of Chikungunya), someone who lay in bed/on th

Instant noodles, or what us Indians like to call "Maggi", no matter what the brand is, is an invariable evening snack for most us. Maggi...