I love almost all the fruits and vegetables belonging to the Cucurbitaceae family. My most favourites are sweet pumpkins, watermelons, muskmelon and such. They are not only juicy, fragrant, sweet delicacies but they come in a variety of beautiful shapes, colours and designs. I am always looking for different kinds of pumpkins and melons to try. And that’s how I […]
The Mango Tree
Originally written in the diary-cum-book by Ruskin Bond – Words from the Hills on 5th March, 2018. Every morning while preparing breakfast I stand in front of the kitchen window for a couple of minutes to look at the mango tree in our neighbour’s yard. Since I have come to live here, I had only seen dusty green leaves or […]
Book Musings: Underland
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane I had bought this e-book in a sale a couple of years back but I deferred reading it because I don’t like reading longer books (more than 350 pages) in Kindle (I love holding fatter paperbacks, highlighting passages and placing post-it notes/page markers as I read along). But, now my unread list […]