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A Culinary secret-The Rammaseri Idli!
My cook was from Palakkad, and it was his sambar that started all this.I was posted in Cochin then, and had fallen for Kerala completely. But Palakkad sambar is its own thing, unlike any sambar I had…
The Pen That Passed the Test!
Gandhiji emphasized Swadeshi as a core strategy to achieve Swaraj (self-rule) and dismantle British colonial power. Long back during the years of non-cooperation, when K.V. Ratnam visited Gandhiji i…
The Letter That Outlasted the War!
(what survives when the guns fall silent) Twelve minutes. That is how long it took the USS Indianapolis to sink on July 30, 1945, days after she delivered the components of the bomb that would fall o…
The Heart That Came Back Softer!
I did not go to Kamakhya asking for anything. Not powers, not visions, not an altered state. Only grace. That is what I had told myself before I climbed Nilachal Hill — that whatever came, I wo…
My Second Home!
I arrived in Cochin in 2021 carrying the wrong map. Everyone hands you the same one before you go south — backwaters, God's Own Country, a postcard with a houseboat on it — and I took it …
The Mountain We Go to Worship!
Rasuwa has been torn apart.The route pilgrims take toward Kailash Mansarovar was hit by a flash flood. Roads gone. Bridges gone. Settlements buried under mud. The mountains, which usually seem to st…