Everyday Moments(#SOL- 2021)

14-06-2021 On the 14th evening it was raining heavily and we felt it was the right time to eat something fried. My mother cut the cabbage and I made pakodas. It was tasty. We were also feeling very relieved because we had lived two days without electricity 😃. It has been raining since 10th and…

Everyday Moments-(#SOL-2021)

8-06-2021 On the 3rd we read in the newspapers that Southwest monsoon had touched Kerala, the state to our south. We would get rains within a week. We were surprised when it rained heavily on the 3rd and 4th. How could we get the rains so soon? We learnt that it was due to a…

Everyday Moments- (#SOL-2020)

1-06-2021 This year the weather has been different, we have been getting rains on and off since March. Our summers are very hot with high humidity but this year the rains gave us a little relief. But all the time we were thinking whether the rains were good for agriculture. But nature has her way.…

Everyday Moments – (#SOL- 2021)

25-05-2021 Partial lockdown has been extended till June 7th. It seems strange that life is going on. I was telling my husband that our life was flowing on like a river. It is morning and then it is night, we are in the last week of May. But for so many life has become just…

Everyday Moments–(#SOL-2021)

18-05-2021 Saturday ( 15th) morning we woke up to heavy rains. It had been raining since 3 in the morning. It continued to rain the whole day and on Sunday too. This was due to the approaching cyclone in the Bay of Bengal. It did not touch the coast near our place. We read in…

Everyday Moments ( #SOL-2021)

11-05-2021 It is 11.30 in the morning and is quite cloudy. It may rain. This year we have started getting pre-monsoon rains. It is such a relief when it rains because the days are very hot. Humidity is very high here. It is also very quiet. We are having lockdown till the 24th. Shops are…

Everyday Moments –(#SOL-2020)

4-04-2021 We are living last year again but fortunately not exactly like last year when there was complete lockdown. Reading about the increasing number of cases in different parts of our country is heart wrenching. There is so much suffering everywhere due to lack of oxygen. And the tragedy is that trees are being cut…

Everyday Moments – (#SOL- 2021)

27-04-2021 The weather is different this year. We are getting pre-monsoon rains in April. Last year they started in May and the year before rains started only in July. Today afternoon it rained for more than an hour. There was wind too and we could see coconut fronds swaying to the beat 😊 From today…

Everyday Moments – (#SOL-2021)

 20-04-2021 January 1st is the beginning of the new year but for most people in my country it is the new year according to the English calendar. Our festivals and other religious rites and rituals are based on the Hindu calendar. Some follow the lunar cycle and some the solar cycle. According to the lunar…

Everyday Moments (#SOL 2021

6-04-2021 The March SOLSC was great fun and I enjoyed everyday of it. It was challenging to imagine what to write every day. On the 31st when I posted my slice I was feeling very happy but there was an empty feeling on the 1st 😊. I did not know what to do after a…