This Indian life by Shoba Narayan: 27 things to do while in isolation Don’t let the Coronavirus get you down Yes, I know the meme going around. Shakespeare wrote Macbeth and King Lear during a plague. Isaac Newton discovered gravity, calculus and optics during the Great Plague of London. What are the rest of us doing? In this age…
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The writer loved the neighbourhood aunty with that unabashed sincerity of starving little kids who saw sunshine in a samosa and rainbows in the raw mango slices she fed
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Differences vanish when you embrace a person’s humanity
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Could it be that a marriage lasts because both spouses value what they have more than what they give up?
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When you move you can duplicate many aspects of your homeland….But you cannot recreate your relatives!
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White or dark, it’s all normal. All chocolate. And love is love.
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Don’t shut out the hypocrites and bigots in your family. Engage with them instead. You may be surprised.
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All great cooks have three qualities: stubbornness, irritability and an instinct for proportion
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The problem with a WhatsApp text is that it doesn’t detect tone of voice. It allows you to forget who you are speaking to since the audience is largely invisible.
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There are two types of WhatsApp groups: one with a zero-tolerance policy towards forwards and the other with a laissez-faire attitude towards all content including forwards.
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