Spicy Rasam

Not a cooking or food blog! I just share what's cooking in my mind.

A friend of mine once told me that grief comes in waves. I pretended to understand and nodded away. You never truly understand grief until you’ve experienced it right? My mom recently passed away because of chronic ILD. She was 72 years old. Yesterday, before I started to make lunch, I took my phone, connected …

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I witnessed a very candid, wonderful and rare banter in my afternoon local train travels. It was not crowded, and I got a place to sit. Woman 1: “…. And you just decided that you are not going to have a baby?” Woman 2: Yes. Woman 1: “WOW! I have never heard something so idiotic. …

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I feel the pressure to enjoy life has increased multi-fold in the past few years. It was a steady pressure, but it kept accumulating, nevertheless. This is affecting the growing population more than it should. My friend just went on a family weekend when all her family members are suffering from viral fever; “Weekend with …

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I was talking to a friend today for a long time. She’d recently been discharged from the hospital. Told her I started blogging again. She was very supportive. She’s been a friend of mine for 8 years now. She was 64 and I was 35 when we first met. She lives with her daughter in …

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