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My first impression was of the green lawns lined precisely by those white and red painted bricks and the unending lines of the three tonners and two tonners. This was a world alien to me. This was the OG world to which my husband belonged. Coming from an entirely civil background, I had no clue as to what I had let myself in for. And my husband had done nothing to alleviate my ignorance.

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Thus I started weight training or strength training. It wasn’t easy. Firstly you have to know exactly what you are doing to convince others who confuse weight training with weight lifting. You have to start with the lowest weight. 1.5kg is reasonable enough. 10 minutes daily or 20 minutes on alternate days bring pretty good results. And here is the rest of it. STRENGTH TRAINING: A BEGINNER’S

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Relationships have a tendency of descending into habits whether one likes it or not and then they become too difficult to break. And my relationship with Chennai was no different. Despite the fact that it was not at all love at first sight. Quite the contrary, in fact. It took me at least six months, excruciating ones, to get used to a place where there are only three seasons: hot, hotter and

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My husband handed me something. “Your tickets for the Queen of hill stations”, he said. I looked down. “Oh Ooty,”I looked and felt disappointed. When families all across were on a ‘going abroad for a small holiday’ trip, Ooty was like falling down from a peak. ....From Chennai we were to travel to Mettupalayam, which would be a good 9 ½ hours. From there we were to board the narrow gauge ‘Toy

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Scanning the newspaper for tributes to the great Bengali Bard, Rabindranath Tagore, I came across a presentation by Sujoy Prasad Chatterjee. And my mind raced back to an evening in the past; an evening of recitations and songs I had experienced in Bengal Club.(please note the word experienced) a year back. A friend of ours had invited both of us, husband and wife, to this musical evening in

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I literally sank into the sofa. I was trying to regain my composure. Three of us had ventured out to do some thing meaningful for society. We had heard of this place called “The Banyan” a home for destitute, mentally imbalanced women. And all of us felt, due to some reason, that the time had come to go out and do something for the socially downtrodden. We drove ourselves to this place. With

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after the fireworks, muted, and tambola its time for the ladies to gather around and pose with the rangoli which was put together, hurriedly, in the last minute

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The central Govt officers' quarters at 30, Belvedere Road all lighted up for diwali

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even the children want to participate in the proceedings be it fanning a dhuno into life

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shaped like a palki but diff fro putiari club as it is made of cloth not bamboo

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idol also made of terracotta

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terracotta theme

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nothing prepared for the experience inside. we did the devi darshan amidst the continuous chanting of ohm. oh what a calming ambience it created in the middle of our mad pandal hopping- somewhat similar to our experience of 25 palli, kidderpore

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the pandal was a stupa amidst a waterbody

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the turban display on the pandal as seen from outside

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the idol made of slate aimdst a riot of turban decor on the sides, in the interiors n exteriors, and the chandelier too which i missed

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in the decor was used matir putul like Badamtala

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on the pandal were dried "amra" painted in lots of diff colors. at the side they had also done the zodiac signs with these "amra"

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the idols attired in lungi were quite inspiring

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the color combination was also pretty impressive

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