The blue sky

30th June 2006 and 30th June 2014. What has changed and what has not? We, once carefree individuals have become more grounded, no wonder why, because now we have the most important person in our lives, our 2 year old son. We overlook each other's shortcomings and tend to focus on the good aspects of the personalities.

A person say C, who is very close to you and shares a lot with you, who is a very close relative, but more like a family, suddenly decides to stop interacting with you due to some misunderstanding and cuts off all the contact with you for many years. He/she doesn’t bother to keep a tab of any proceedings in your life and one fine day, after 7 years, he/she decides to come back into your life and asks you to forget everything that happened in the past and urges you to start a new chapter with all ‘goody goody’ relations. How would you react to this person?

My mother is my best friend. I can talk to her about everything and anything. She is in general very enthusiastic about life and extremely positive spirited. She is a trekker and is extremely fit at the age of 59. She just celebrated her 59 th birthday on 28 th May and I had to make it special for my dearest aai.

I was tired of my own cooking routine and I wanted to break away from the usual roti-sabji, dal-rice stuff. As I am a strict vegetarian, I do not have many options to eat outside and I was tired of whatever options are available e.g.   Bread, pasta, salads etc. I wanted to eat something which was definitely vegetarian, but not from the routine. In Bangalore, I had a cook and she took care of the food there. But here, in Germany, every afternoon, the question ‘What’s cooking for dinner’ stares at my blank face. I then took to searching food blogs and I was amazed to see 'n' number of people writing blogs about their experiments with food and they had won a lot of accolades too. And I was even more surprised to see that many of the food blogs that I came across were for vegetarian stuff only! I read and referred a few blogs for a few dishes and prepared them in past 2-3 weeks. Tanay and Atul were my subjects for experiments, but they survived and me too! I prepared apple...