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Mumbai Tea Rituals…and the Hawai Sundari

India prides itself on hospitality. No matter where you go and for how long, you are offered something to drink and then something to eat. Tea is served regardless of time. Visitors are never sent home thirsty or hungry. Tea is a welcome drink after water. By the way, get used to being served water…

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Nana wants curry, kiddo a juicy steak and, I want everything

Navigating the 3-generation-family relationship As it is, the curse of deciding what to cook and eat every day is on us as the human race. But I tend to look for silver linings and this has a definite silver lining. Ours is a 3-generation-family household. My eighteen-year-old daughter, my 82-year-old mother, and I. We have…

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The Desi Grocery Store Sparks Joy

And Triggers Your Expat Elderly Parent’s Memory Grocery shopping at your native grocery store is a great way to trigger a memory in your elder parent. Not only that, but it also sparks joy! And the stories that they tell you! You learn a little more about their past too! Grocery Shopping can be fun!…

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Coping with Homesickness at Christmas

Day 1 – Kul Kuls Last year, after 27 years in the United States of America, I decided to tackle the homesickness I feel every year around Christmas! I miss Christmas back in Bombay – there is simply no other place I would rather be. But life dictates otherwise. So in order to battle the…

How to Make an Immunity Tea

Since the pandemic began we have been having an ayurvedic tea called ‘kashai’. Ayurvedic recipes are ancient Indian healing recipes. They are used to cure a variety of illnesses. This is not to say that science and modern medicine has no place. It does. However, ayurvedic remedies are more to boost up your immune system…