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Mumbai City – Made of Great

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When it comes to my favorite city, it cannot be anything else other than Mumbai . There is no thinking required nor are there any two thoughts about it. Mumbai wins hands-on in my mind when it comes to being my favorite city. Yeah yeah … you have all heard about the horrors of Mumbai Locals, the rains and the incessant flooding and of course the Blasts have made the city famous time and again. Yes, it is a notorious city that way but the reason these things happen is because Mumbai is unequivocally THE most important city in the country. Thankfully, I have lived my entire life here and have grown to love it. For anyone from outside, it is difficult to fall in love with the city. It is a difficult city for people who are not use to it. In case you are the one amongst many who actually enjoy the Mumbai brand of life and living, there is no looking back.   The Drive One of the things I have always loved about the city is the sheer driving ease as compar...

Book Review: Soul Warrior (The Age of Kali #1) by Falguni Kothari

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  Book: Soul Warrior (The Age of Kali #1) Author: Falguni Kothari No. of Pages: 404 Genre: Fiction Publisher: Falguni Kothari (seems like self-published) The book blurb reads thus … Twisted myths. Discretion advised.  Fight fate, or succumb to destiny?   In the dark Age of Kali, the Soul Warrior alone stands guard over the Human Realm, protecting its denizens from evil-willed asuras or demons. When a trick of fate appoints him guru to a motley crew of godlings, he agrees to train them as demon hunters against his better judgment. Suddenly, Lord Karna is not only battling the usual asuras with sinister agendas, but also rebellious students and a fault-ridden past.Spanning the cosmic realms of mythic India, here is a tale of a band of supernatural warriors who come together over a singular purpose: the salvation of Karna’s secret child.   It was definitely an interesting blurb but I was already suffering from a Mahabharata overlo...

Sugar Free Delight

With so much coffee in office that keeps the body machine running through the day (and week); the sugar levels tend to go up for any working professional and so the advice these days from docs is to get the diabetes check done every quarter once you cross 30 (I remember the number being 40 just about 10 year ago). Additional suggestions are to keep the sugar intake limited. Can't really control the sugar intake in office coffee since it is either machine made (too much sugar or no sugar unfortunately) or made by our 'office boy' who is unfortunately 100 years old (at least it seems so) so any suggestion to alter the composition of the tea or coffee falls on deaf ears (literally). So either u get sweet (cross that, make that very sweet) coffee or you get 'no sugar' coffee. So as bad as machine made coffee So I am left with controlling sugar intake in terms of 'sweets' intake. As an indian, I am sure you will appreciate how diffi...