MOSAMBI season! Some fresh fruit juice with 2 cubes of ice..and some kala namak!(black salt) Mosambi juice has been my lifeguard during two of my harsh times in life. One being when I got typhoid back in school and fresh juice was what was recommended, especially mosambi. For some odd reason Mosambi is preferred over lime juice when you are sick. My school hospital didi, I remember made me all the “limboo paani” in the world and made me watch her favourite serials on zee tv late at night after my throw-up intervals. However, after my disease was declared non-handle-able, I was sent home, where my mother, was the real florence nightingale who fed me the juice which tasted like elixir, spoon by spoon..WOW! The only other time I have enjoyed it is on a hot, harsh day in the 45 degree heat of ahmedabad! Aashram road. 
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MOSAMBI season! Some fresh fruit juice with 2 cubes of ice..and some kala namak!(black salt)

Mosambi juice has been my lifeguard during two of my harsh times in life. One being when I got typhoid back in school and fresh juice was what was recommended, especially mosambi.

For some odd reason Mosambi is preferred over lime juice when you are sick. My school hospital didi, I remember made me all the “limboo paani” in the world and made me watch her favourite serials on zee tv late at night after my throw-up intervals. However, after my disease was declared non-handle-able, I was sent home, where my mother, was the real florence nightingale who fed me the juice which tasted like elixir, spoon by spoon..WOW!

The only other time I have enjoyed it is on a hot, harsh day in the 45 degree heat of ahmedabad! Aashram road. 

An Elephant apple, it seems is also found in Bombay, Godrej Hillside colony, besides Assam, -where an elephant would eat it as a whole and poop it as a whole, sucking its juice out alone(common tale from Kaziranga- Patiala, Pathankot  and DehraDun.

Assamese delicacy: Outenga, cut into small pieces and cooked with fish curries or masoor dal. You know exactly when it is cooked, is when the whole room smells of the OUTENGA! Some also make outenga pickles.

How to pick up one for eating that day itself: it is just ripe when it is greenish brown in colour with a sour smell coming from the navel of the fruit.

How to eat one: It is fibrous like coconut husk, so either squeeze the juice out after pressure cooking it a bit, or chew it up!

When I saw this video, I really felt that I have seen so many people around me pursuing jobs that they feel is so undignified. The only reason they live to work, is so that their children never ever have to go through what they are going through now. And in reality, everyone cannot deal with this kind of mental pressure throughout their lives while bringing up their children or siblings, thus resorting to a lot of drug abuse, alcoholism and a general life tendency stemming from anger all the time. 

Primarily why they feel that their jobs are undignified is because of the way their time is utilized. They would not feel it is worth all of that. 

Leila Jannah’s work sparked a wave in my head as well. I am going to elaborate about it soon.

I had a very happy holi, while I skyped with my mom this time. All this while, as I have known my mother to have forever taught everyone to only pick up flowers fallen on the ground only, anyone who plucks flowers for her must abide..but this time, here came someone’s unconditional love for her! The little girl, recovering from her lice attack on her head brought my mom an entire rose bush! How wondrous and what a happy holi!
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I had a very happy holi, while I skyped with my mom this time. All this while, as I have known my mother to have forever taught everyone to only pick up flowers fallen on the ground only, anyone who plucks flowers for her must abide..but this time, here came someone’s unconditional love for her! The little girl, recovering from her lice attack on her head brought my mom an entire rose bush! How wondrous and what a happy holi!

I have a friend who juices everything he eats. Whenver he offers some of his strange mixes, I am just amazed at how much humans are willing to work for their food.The juicer is like his gas stove. 

Humans are probably the only specie that prepares so much for their consumption and probably enjoys it to the double. It is definitely the only specie that desires and can get what he needs more easily that others. Below is how we juice back at home, mostly in winters, which is the kinnow season. We’d do anything for the tinge of sweetness!:B

I got to attend a day’s BMW Guggenheim in Mumbai. Thanks to a friend who was invited to give a talk there. The guggenheim seemed like a culture lab to understand the development scenario in india and the talk participants were developers, designers and architects for the same in the context of a constraints-based city, where the needs of people are constantly evolving. How do people share spaces and how they would like it personalised and what is happening right now!