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Lighting a Gas and #Gaslighting

It’s Ka Youbi .   Out for some serious fun?   Got to share this with you folks. Amidst the lockdown buzz and the #stayhome #staysafe motto, had to venture out with Amma to shop for something she had been wanting to get for a long time now. And me being me, was not the obliging type. But this time around, no excuses worked. I had to give up in front of her might. After all she is the “ LADY ” of the house. So we went out to the neighbourhood Kitchen Appliances store and exchanged our GasStove for a new one. Got a glass top in place of a steel one. I have been wondering ever since. Does it even make a food taste better on a glass top gas stove? What part of it adds flavour to the food being cooked – the fire, the burners or the glass top itself? Is it really worth putting in so much thought into a gas stove that is already home and is doing its job. When Amma asked me to make something to celebrate the homecoming of the gas stove, a thought crossed me. No!!! I am an excellent cook. I

A MUSICAL MYSTICAL TALE

Welcome to yet another week full of surprises, thrill and of course sharing.   This week on my #DigitalDabba , I am going to take you to meet Sufi and Sujata from #AmazonPrime . A love story which is far beyond being called just a love story. One look at the name and you are guessing that it is going to be another Hindu – Muslim love story with intense love, hard core drama, seat gripping violence, music that sways you away into another world. What if I say it is a Malayalam movie on the block? Now go ahead and imagine the coconut trees, backwaters and Banana chips. Oops ! I guess I just went a little overboard. If you want to know what it is that makes Sufi and Sujata stand out of the rest all you have to do is go and watch it on Amazon Prime but you could as well give this piece a read before you do that.   #LIFEGOALS – Sufi’s life goal was to attain salvation and reach God with his devotion. Though he dwindles from the path for a while when he meets Sujata, I am sure he made it f