The Hon-K-ing

Yeah! The King I am referring to here is the autowala that happened to be my charioteer this morning.
Thirty minutes of this ride turned out to be  a continuous horn testing session.
Honk test on truck, on bus, on cars, on bikes, on bicycles, on humans, on stray dogs and for that matter of fact even on empty roads with not even a single ant in 600m distance. Even after getting out of this half an hour honking session , entire day my brain had this honking illusions...

Was it autowala's frustration of riding whole day in busy roads / horrible traffic which he was taking out by honking unnecessarily or the the boredom made him do so or  is it just that our rules are too flexible to let people do what they want to.For the former reason, the frustration is obvious.The thirty minutes of my commute makes me irritated to the core even though I am travelling by car most of the times, happily shutting noise through the raised glasses.What life do these people have who are on the road amidst pollution,noise,dirt for two-third of their day just to earn the money that barely suffices their basic needs.They strive hard to get some extra bucks from their passengers, jump lights to cover more rides in the same time, smoke to lighten their stress and the once who are sensible enough make the best use of their earned bits to send their kids to school.

Be it our honda city or SUV's, looking outside through our glasses the life seen is full of struggle.Thirty minutes on road and it shows you the poverty status of this country.Not just the autowala it is the common story of all the people who work for us- the maid, the sweeper, the doodhwala, the presswala, the labours.. each one. We turn a blind eye because we are too busy  in our lives enjoying the comforts that money brings to us.

I wanted to rebuke this Hon-K-ing but my anger gradually waned. Life can be tough and harsh and unbelievably miserable.

The CoConut chutney

The Mum's south Indian shtylleeee Coconut chutney which tastes yum with dosa/idly.
So here goes the recipe of the nariyal chutney...


Ingredients:
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1 cup of freshly grated coconut
Chana daal [1 tbsp]
1 green chilly [May be half ]
Mustard seeds
Curry leaves [meethi neem]
Garlic [6-7 leaves]
Ginger
Mint leaves [Pudeena]  optional
Coriander
Oil
1 red chilly, make it into 2 pieces




1. Roast chana daal in little oil until red.
2. Put coconut,garlic,ginger,coriander,green chilly,mint leaves,chana daal in the grinder.Add salt to taste.Add liitle water and grind them properly.
3.In a pan, prepare 'tadka' by heating little oil and adding mustard seeds,curry leaves and  red chilly to it. Pour this tadka to the grinded mixture.

Post wedding post!

Nearing to 3 months of wedlock... and nearly 3 years of acquaintance with Mr. hubby.
Yes, its different, no doubt, before and after marriage.
Your definition of love changes gradually and as they say your love grows at platonic level.. True it is !

With the big decision of life comes in an entire  set of responsibilities.A new family, a new home and a new life style.You aren't sure of so many things but the solutions keep unfolding with time.

Cooking with all the available expertise,sneaking into recipe sites to make sure that somehow end results of the cooking are good.Discussing recipes over office lunch or calling up aunts to confirm some recipe, isn't your part of the world till you are married...   Experiments aren't successful every time though- like the pudina chutney disaster  the other day plus there is no guarantee,too, that the thing cooked well last time is going to be equally good the 2nd time too.

Long hours aren't spent any more on laptop.The telephone bills have come down by a drastic amount.The long book reading sessions have almost come to an end...Minimal telephone usage......No frequest escapes for tea/coffee/masala dosa.... No time to think over 'time pass' options. :) No wedding shopping discussions... No dance practice sessions.... No cribbing for the unwashed clothes and no hour long washing them by hand...[yay, I have a washing machine now.] .... Looks like my world has turned topsy-turvy..

Yaa, but the real pleasures of life lies here.Cooking, sipping coffee together,candle light dinners, setting up home, buying plants, irritating each other - the real fun lies here. Real pleasures of life indeed lie in small things!
The joy of being called someone's wife, having someone to dote on for little things, seeing someone smile at me with all the love and dancing to the tunes of togetherness is what I am enjoying these days....

Wishing for it to stay here forever :)

Hoping to write consistently... marriage makes you busy , you know !! :P