http://arunshanbhag.com Life is Beautiful! Love it the fullest! Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:12:48 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/b52466ccda2988166fd6712975cc97c3?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://arunshanbhag.com noLife is Beautiful! Love it the fullest!Life is Beautiful! Love it the fullest!shanbhaghttp://feedburner.google.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shanbhag/~3/w5vkau7cHdc/ http://arunshanbhag.com/2010/02/08/kala-ghoda-festival/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:07:26 +0000 Arun Shanbhag http://arunshanbhag.com/?p=2763 Meera at the Kala Ghoda Festival 2010 Meera was thrilled and shrieks at the sight of the towering giraffes! Onlookers are impressed as Meera tames the wild cat! Every time Meera sees this picture, she goes: Grrrrrr! *nazar utaro* Meera loves Zebras. This has been a great learning experience for Meera. All those animal pictures she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arunshanbhag.com&blog=1433352&post=2763&subd=arunshanbhag&ref=&feed=1" /><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/shanbhag?a=w5vkau7cHdc:_yairzOgylM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/shanbhag?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/shanbhag?a=w5vkau7cHdc:_yairzOgylM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/shanbhag?i=w5vkau7cHdc:_yairzOgylM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/shanbhag?a=w5vkau7cHdc:_yairzOgylM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/shanbhag?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/shanbhag?a=w5vkau7cHdc:_yairzOgylM:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/shanbhag?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/shanbhag/~4/w5vkau7cHdc" height="1" width="1"/> http://arunshanbhag.com/2010/02/08/kala-ghoda-festival/feed/ 5 42.361196 -71.070568 42.361196 -71.070568 Arun Shanbhag Meera at the Kala Ghoda Festival Mumbai Meera at the Kala Ghoda Festival Mumbai Meera taming the tiger at the Kala Ghoda Festival Mumbai Meera taming the tiger at the Kala Ghoda Festival Mumbai Meera with a Zebra at the Kala Ghoda Festival Mumbai Meera with rhinoceros at the Kala Ghoda Festival Mumbai Kala Ghoda at the Kala Ghoda Festival Mumbai Ceramics at the Kala Ghoda Festival Mumbai Ceramics at the Kala Ghoda Festival Mumbai Ceramics at the Kala Ghoda Festival Mumbai Ceramics at the Kala Ghoda Festival Mumbai Ceramics at the Kala Ghoda Festival Mumbai Ceramics at the Kala Ghoda Festival Mumbai http://arunshanbhag.com/2010/02/08/kala-ghoda-festival/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shanbhag/~3/skSrUOgM3S4/ http://arunshanbhag.com/2010/01/25/berry-yogurt/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:11:34 +0000 Arun Shanbhag http://arunshanbhag.com/?p=2660 Ganga&#8217;s post on thick yogurt got me salivating. I love shrikhand, especially from Parsi Dairy Farm, Mumbai, but I shudder just thinking of the calories it packs. I&#8217;d have to run 5 miles just to burn a cup of their nectarine shrikhand! No thank you! Here is my attempt at making [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arunshanbhag.com&blog=1433352&post=2660&subd=arunshanbhag&ref=&feed=1" /><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/shanbhag?a=skSrUOgM3S4:TVPt4bQEQy0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/shanbhag?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/shanbhag?a=skSrUOgM3S4:TVPt4bQEQy0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/shanbhag?i=skSrUOgM3S4:TVPt4bQEQy0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/shanbhag?a=skSrUOgM3S4:TVPt4bQEQy0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/shanbhag?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/shanbhag?a=skSrUOgM3S4:TVPt4bQEQy0:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/shanbhag?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/shanbhag/~4/skSrUOgM3S4" height="1" width="1"/> http://arunshanbhag.com/2010/01/25/berry-yogurt/feed/ 15 42.361196 -71.070568 42.361196 -71.070568 Arun Shanbhag Berry delicious thick yogurt Shrikhand Berry delicious thick yogurt Shrikhand Berry delicious thick yogurt Shrikhand Berry delicious thick yogurt Shrikhand Berry delicious thick yogurt Shrikhand http://arunshanbhag.com/2010/01/25/berry-yogurt/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shanbhag/~3/Zmeuo2Pdxs8/ http://arunshanbhag.com/2010/01/18/meera-is-two/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:50:04 +0000 Arun Shanbhag http://arunshanbhag.com/?p=2691 Happy Birthday Meera! May you live long and be ever happy! from amma and pappa Grab bag of Meera pics. During her first birthday aarti, Meera reaches for the flame. A moment later, she had &#8216;caught&#8217; it and all hell broke loose. M scolded me: What were you doing! &#8220;I was taking a pic of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arunshanbhag.com&blog=1433352&post=2691&subd=arunshanbhag&ref=&feed=1" /><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/shanbhag?a=Zmeuo2Pdxs8:HEr4HQQU1aQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/shanbhag?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/shanbhag?a=Zmeuo2Pdxs8:HEr4HQQU1aQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/shanbhag?i=Zmeuo2Pdxs8:HEr4HQQU1aQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/shanbhag?a=Zmeuo2Pdxs8:HEr4HQQU1aQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/shanbhag?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/shanbhag?a=Zmeuo2Pdxs8:HEr4HQQU1aQ:I9og5sOYxJI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/shanbhag?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/shanbhag/~4/Zmeuo2Pdxs8" height="1" width="1"/> http://arunshanbhag.com/2010/01/18/meera-is-two/feed/ 42 42.361196 -71.070568 42.361196 -71.070568 Arun Shanbhag Meera is all smiles Meera with Amma Meera with Amma Meera with Amma http://arunshanbhag.com/2010/01/18/meera-is-two/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shanbhag/~3/0ONeQC6kP20/ http://arunshanbhag.com/2010/01/14/talking-with-children/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:54:53 +0000 Arun Shanbhag http://arunshanbhag.com/?p=2675 News of the Haiti earthquake and related photographs have been so disturbing, that I skip headlines and scroll down to more mundane news. If we adults can be so disturbed, what about children who are exposed to the same repeating news casts? 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Tiil gool ghya, goaD goaD bola! Notes: Recipe for making tiil laddoos. More info on Makar Sankranti. 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