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The week went in the blink of an eye. We had our annual Dēva kārya on 27 th . First two days went in   preparing😥, next two days in relaxing!😴 Every year during the last week of May or first week of June comes this ritual of doing Gaṇa hōma and Satyanārāyaṇa kathe at our home. From kitchen to cow shed, from cupboard to fridge this is the time we deep clean our house. Close relatives, 60 to 70, attended. I put this Kolam for Dēva kārya. I like putting rangolis, But I don’t have that creativity to put free styles. I follow pinterest posts. The best of the best Chikki’s made by my chikkamma - Suchi. She has a home business of making this. We had ordered 250, to give it to all the relatives and friends. She makes delicious food. Her insta handle is plates_of_joy_78 . Follow for quick veg recipes . My relaxations has lead to binge eating. I shouldn’t be doing that; I tell you why. Somewhere in summers of 2023, I started to suffer from lower back pain. I c...

Rain Rain (Don’t go away). It rained whole week. Depressions in Arabian sea + pre-monsoons = double the effect. I like rains, I like stepping out into woods during rains. But this time I am bound home – with Dhruva around. We sat on the door steps, watched rain-made Mango rasayani-ate Mango rasayani- repeat (Eat – “no” sleep – repeat). Can't get out for four months 😑 We are habituated to rain. But it can take anywhere around a week to prepare for rainy season. House become flooded the first day due to water leaking from the roof (our roof is tiled- the old style), checking them and doing necessary arrangements, umbrellas, raincoat, plastic sheets, drainage channels, beheading the tress around home, many many things. No electricity (No mixer grinder washing machine) No wifi (No mobile, No network, No phone calls, No connectivity), setting up a new routine with no modern amenities takes time. Anyways, Rain can’t stop us. We went to relatives, went to my parents’ hom...

‘Rarest of the Rare’ kind of a program happened in Sirsi on May 13 th - ‘Sāhitya sahavāsa’ organised by ‘Azim Premji University’ to celebrate the works of few famous Kannada writers from our Uttara Kannada district. story telling session by 'Chintana  repertoire' For a book reader like me, it was a  treat. More than that was meeting theatre director Dr.Shripad Bhat. Many don’t know that I am a theatre artist. I would better say “I was”. I discontinued (I have all the hearts to resume). I appeared, was in lead roles, in several drams that participated and won national competitions; ‘The Life of Galileo’ which won ‘Best Science Drama’ award at national level, ‘The Children’s Tagore’ which was enacted at ‘Jashn-e-Bachpan’ ‘Children’s Drama Festival’ at ‘National School of Drama’, to name a few. All under the guidance of Dr.Shripad Bhat. I am forever grateful to Dr.Shripad Bhat and theatre for my academic excellence, my habit of writing and reading, my way of thinking...

This week started with me catching cold. Sneezing, Itchy eyes, Runny nose, headache… Common cold is common with me, from childhood. Sometime it gets over in a day. Sometimes it continues the next day to throat infection, cough and fever. I am very lazy of inhaling steam, gargling, sipping hot water or hot pepper-turmeric milk. Swallowing a tablet is easier (I know not good). Pheniramine, cetirizine, levocetirizine, levocetirizine montelukast, now I am treating this issue with Bilastine (All these are anti-histamines or anti-allergens). Sudden change in the weather, dust, stress, dry air from the ceiling fan, ice & cold drinks, over eating junk, few fruits like grapes and jamun, I am yet to find out what I am allergic to. At home we drink natural water that streams down from the jungle, collected in the pond and pumped. I think I am allergic to that too! I boil the water and drink now😪. This week’s cold ended in a night. Next day I got back to work. On May 4 th a revolutionary c...

I am writing from Sunday to Sunday this week. It was busy. Tiresome too. As i said, from last week me and Dhruva are back home. Dhruva is enjoying his time with his appayya.Me too. After long long long break of 8 months I am with Sujay. Can't explain how that feels! I have started to learn driving MG Comet, our new electric car. My Japanese classes are going great, difficult day by day. I am trying to build a free WordPress static site for our company. I already have a wix website, but it is going to expire soon. Wix is getting costlier year by year, and its not worthy spending so much on website which no one visits (according to Sujay I am wasting my time building a blog too, which no one cares to read/see). I was very excited about 1st May, attending my friend Suhasa's wedding. Suhasa is my classmate from BSc Horticulture, 2014-18 batch. He got married to Shriya, who is our super junior, from 2016-20 batch. I was expecting many classmates, seniors, and Juniors to attend ...