Strewn Ashes

My friend Shubhangi Joshi of Pandharpur  clearly has a green thumb , and a garden full of a huge variety of flowers, fruits  and vegetables.  She occasionally posts photographs of these. One ...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2018/06/lilly-learnings.html

My friend Arvind Khanna of New Delhi, recently posted this amazing capture of a Brahminy Kite in action. Perhaps this capture is from elsewhere in India, as he travels around.  I hesitate to e...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2018/05/kites.html

She has seen more of Mumbai on her bicycle trips in one year than I have seen in all my years in the city.  It has also allowed her to pursue her love for photography to a large extent.  This ...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2018/04/requiem-for-fish.html

Making Ladoos is all about willing ingredients and enveloping fingers and palms , that give the ingredients, reams of confidence in staying together.  Today, very clearly, the ingredients sh...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2018/01/politics-and-art-of-making-ladoos.html

लहानपणापासून सफरचंद खात आले.  चवी माहित असायच्या , नावे नाही . मग मोठं झाल्�...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2017/12/blog-post_31.html

We are a population that swings between two extremes.  In size, in availability of stuff, and what money can buy.  On one side there is the mobile cycle idliwala, wadapaowallas, and homebased ...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2017/12/saving-us.html

पुरीचा अथवा पोळीचा तुकडा श्रीखंडात बुडवून खाणे या सारखे दुसरे सुख नसावे . ...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2017/12/blog-post.html

Just came across some information on how caviar is made. As a pucca vegetarian , I had been aware of stuff like caviar being treated as some ultimate thing, but was disgusted to find out how ...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2017/11/survival-of-who.html

माझी फेसबुक वरील , मला कधी  न भेटलेली मैत्रीण , विशाखा पर्वते .   अमेरिकेत रा�...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2017/11/best-polpat-laatne-in-universe-dj-trump.html

My cousin Dr Madhuri Gore recently posted this photograph of  what she called the "ultimate remains of a tree"  spotted by her on the Elephant Beach, Havelock Island, The Andamans. So many ...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-final-cry.html

My young friend Swapneel Prabhu,  belongs to a community which excels in cooking seafood in many traditional ways.    He recently experimented with smoked mackerel , using some traditionl u...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2017/11/mackerel-moksh.html

Never thought that the humble delicious Khichdi would have its day in the sun.  Around 800 kilos of it is being cooked in Delhi today, by India's celebrity chefs and 500 kilos more in Nagpur by...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2017/11/life-and-times-khichadi.html

फेसबुक वरील  महाराष्ट्रीय खाद्य संस्कृतीशी निगडीत  , "अंगत पंगत " असा ग्रु�...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2017/10/blog-post.html

 My friend Vidya Vartak Joshi recently posted fotos of icecreams she enjoyed in Budapest, Hungary. What was special about these icecreams was that , unlike cones which are generally burdened...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2017/09/on-being-icecream-in-budapest.html

My friend Deepak Amembal , always enjoys his food. More so if it is a dessert designed to make his sugar and calorie-counting  friends drool. He recently visited a place called  Millenium Ha...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2017/09/yum-and-powerful.html

My friend Deepak Amembal posts interesting pictures from around the city, and this one was posted during the ongoing Ganesh festival. A contrast on the streets of Mumbai. Hordes of youth, i...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2017/08/and-lord-watches.html

If there was a field called Food  Art (and if there is one, I am not aware ), my friend Swapneel Prabhu from the "Angat Pangat : Rediscovering Traditional Maharashtrian Cuisine" Group on Faceb...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-bhakri-star.html

My friend Peggy Pearl Zambory from Minneapolis, is a prolific published blogger , and recently put up a post on FB , showing a lovely quilt her mother-in-law made and gifted her . (My mother-in...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-best-quilt-in-universe.html

फेसबुकवरील माझा मित्र अरित्र दास  याने नुकतेच एक आवोकाडो  विकत आणून , त्या...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2017/07/blog-post.html

आपल्याकडे जुन्या वस्तू टाकून, सोसासोसाने  नवीन उपकरण घेण्याची पद्धत रूढ �...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2017/06/blog-post.html

One of my friends on a certain Facebook Group dedicated to Traditional Maharashtrian Cuisine posted a query pertaining to various ways people cooked cabbage.   There was a huge response. It...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2017/06/a-cabbage-life.html

My friend , Prachee Gokhale   from New Zealand, recently decided to make Jilebis. This involves passing some fermented viscous dough through a small aperture (like that of a squeeze bottle) , a...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2017/05/a-jilebi-philosophy.html

My friend Deepak Amembal has an amazing wanderlust, which he shares with his motorcycle and his car. Currently driving through Goa, he has been posting wonderful scenic photos, and recently post...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2017/04/caramelized-lives.html

  When you live away from your folks in another country, and sometimes memories come flooding in,  it is comforting to look at old photos which you took.     My friend Preeti Deo who lives ...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2017/04/mind-calls.html

I came to Appe Patrams fairly late in life. And I thought they were such nifty stuff. Unlike idlies, the Appe excelled in a taste of their own, despite an inviting chutney lying alongside with c...

http://kavitalihi.blogspot.com/2017/03/on-being-appe-patra.html