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"Grains, Pebbles, Flowers" is an account of my inspired living in the busy city of Hong Kong.

You are welcome to read my posts on nature and food, and those on poetry and music.

न्यारी न्याहारी

रोज न्याहारीसाठी एक नवीन पदार्थ!
कोविड काळात घरात बंद असताना स्वतःला आणि घराला काही बदल, आनंद मिळावा म्हणून केलेला हा एक प्रयोग आणि त्याची फेसबुक ब्लॉग स्वरूपातील नोंद...

Clicks, here n there!

With a smartphone's smart camera at one's disposal 24x7 how difficult is it to capture moments of inspiration?

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Nature

Seasons

The city of Hong Kong decks up weeks in advance for Christmas and the holidays, followed by an uncomfortable cold lull for a while before...

Nov 20, 20231 min read

Katy did Nothing!

A hot, humid, rainy summer night, the split AC's steady hum, and a strange long hiss that seemed to be coming from the wall - these were...

Jun 9, 20221 min read

The Chinese Juniper

Spring always has delightful tricks up its sleeves. Or maybe our ability to garner all that it brings every year is limited owing to the...

Apr 30, 20221 min read

2 3 4 5

Musings

Venn Diagrams to the Rescue

Recently stumbled upon a very new way of looking at HCF and LCM using Venn Diagrams. (Well, new for me – “the trained to think in a...

Nov 22, 20232 min read

A Question

As much as one may choose to believe that contradiction cannot be a path leading to anything, paradoxes do rule life. It is just the lazy mi

Sep 5, 20232 min read

Languages Galore

The beauty of being in a multilingual culture is that one speaks most of what one doesn't read much, one reads most of what one doesn't...

Jul 18, 20232 min read

2 3 4 5

Life in Hong Kong

Driftwood

यथा काष्ठं च काष्ठं च समेयातां महोदधौ| समेत्य च व्यपेयातां तद्वत् भूतसमागम:|| We are just driftwood on the capricious waves of life. We...

Nov 30, 20232 min read

खळ्ळ!

कितीही इलेक्ट्रॉनिक payment करा. घरात नाणी गोळा होतातच. आणि ती जमलेली नाणी कितीही वापरायची ठरवा, वेळेला परत नोट पुढे करणंच सोपं जातं आणि...

May 12, 20232 min read

चिनी नववर्ष

चिनी नववर्ष हा हाँग काँग मधला फार मोठा सण. आपल्याकडे दिवाळीत जी गंमत असते ती स्थानिक लोकांसाठी नववर्षाला असते. भेटी गाठी, भेटवस्तू, नवीन...

Feb 8, 20222 min read

2 3

Art and Culture

A Question

As much as one may choose to believe that contradiction cannot be a path leading to anything, paradoxes do rule life. It is just the lazy mi

Sep 5, 20232 min read

Tour to the Tower of London

A nearly 1000-year-old congregation of grand buildings in the centre of London, The Tower of London, is awe inspiring at first glance. An...

Jul 15, 20234 min read

Nine Lives and Colours

My FB reel is full of cats. Fascinating individuals these are. Their eyes very clearly see something that we don't and they clearly know...

Sep 28, 20222 min read

2 3 4 5

The Covid Days

Masked!

Such a strange year it has been To see people without a nose and chin Reading faces and eyes has been such a task All the while guessing...

Sep 7, 20211 min read

भाय! टेन्शन नई लेनेका!

नवं वर्ष, जुनं वर्ष, येणारं वर्ष, गेलेलं वर्ष, सगळंच माणसानेच निर्माण केलेलं. काल एक संपलं, आज दुसरं सुरू झालं म्हणायचं आणि सगळ्यांनी...

Jan 5, 20212 min read

A Year of Covid

Dear Covid, I read somewhere that it's been a year since we humans realised that you had become a part of our world. Only you know how...

Nov 18, 20202 min read

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Food

The Healthy-n-Hearty Metkut!

What Indians have done with combinations of the humble rice and dal is astonishing to say the least. From classic rice and dal...

Apr 3, 20221 min read

Typhoon Kompasu

A second typhoon in four days, cool air, windy conditions, the observatory issued a typhoon alert and the government asked everyone to...

Oct 11, 20212 min read

टायफून कॉम्पासू

आज इथे कॉम्पासू नावाचे वादळ आले आहे. चार दिवसांपूर्वीच अजून एक वादळ येऊन गेले आहे आणि आता हे. त्यामुळे हवेत गारवा, वारा आहेच आणि आता पाऊस...

Oct 11, 20212 min read

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Dec 30, 2019

Content

न्यारी न्याहारी

Clicks, here n there!

Nature

Seasons

Katy did Nothing!

The Chinese Juniper

Musings

Venn Diagrams to the Rescue

A Question

Languages Galore

Life in Hong Kong

Driftwood

खळ्ळ!

चिनी नववर्ष

Art and Culture

A Question

Tour to the Tower of London

Nine Lives and Colours

The Covid Days

Masked!

भाय! टेन्शन नई लेनेका!

A Year of Covid

Food

The Healthy-n-Hearty Metkut!

Typhoon Kompasu

टायफून कॉम्पासू

Weeding Away

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Content

न्यारी न्याहारी

Clicks, here n there!

Nature

Seasons

Katy did Nothing!

The Chinese Juniper

Musings

Venn Diagrams to the Rescue

A Question

Languages Galore

Life in Hong Kong

Driftwood

खळ्ळ!

चिनी नववर्ष

Art and Culture

A Question

Tour to the Tower of London

Nine Lives and Colours

The Covid Days

Masked!

भाय! टेन्शन नई लेनेका!

A Year of Covid

Food

The Healthy-n-Hearty Metkut!

Typhoon Kompasu

टायफून कॉम्पासू

Weeding Away

Send us a message and we’ll get back to you shortly.

Send us a message
and we’ll get back to you shortly.