Ammupatti's thoughts

My handsome and charming son, who is the proud father of my adorable and perfect grandchild, who is just 4 months old, asks me, "Amma, ...

Having said that Navarathri is the celebration of the power of the Divine Mother, Shakthi, and hence the celebratrion of womanhood, it al...

The frequency with which I am writing gives me jitters that I might not finish the wedding episode by the time my children celebrate their a...

My husband and I reached Bangalore by middle November and we were glad that we had only recently had the house painted and refurbished just ...

Our house is being renovated and so I cannot find enough time to sit at the computer to write about Ganesh Chathurthi which falls on Sunday....

This is the first time I spent all the summer months in Hyderabad and what an experience it has been. For a person who has lived in Bangalo...

I had a whirlwind trip to Bangalore over Vishu and as has been happening ever since I started spending more time in Hyderabad, this trip was...

That was a long time off. Getting back to blogging after so long is like getting back to school or work after a long vacation. The mood just...

Happy Ugadi to all. It is new year’s day for many people on Ugadi or Yugadi. The new year that has dawned is known as Sarvadhari . The Sarva...

During the Christmas weekend I paid a flying visit to Bangalore and back which was eventful and hectic to say the least. Well, we had Thiru...

It has been more than a month since I sat to write a new blog post and what a busy and exhausting time it has been! I was actually all ready...

As promised, I am (finally!) ready to write about my trip to Kerala to participate in the Upanayanam and Choulam of my nephews. I would l...

This, my 100 th post, has been a long time in coming owing to various reasons, one of them being my moving to Hyderabad to spend time with ...

I have been preparing this curry for a long time. I don’t think I learnt it from any recipe book or from anyone. I just started making my ow...

Vangi bath is a Karnataka specialty and is a full meal in itself. It is prepared with the long green variety of brinjals. Ingredients: Brinj...

After getting the car repaired and getting it home, we all breathed a sigh of relief. We started getting busy with the other arrangements. ...

For sometime now, we had been planning to move to a smaller city/smaller place, just to get out of this maddening crowd in Bangalore. The ro...

Another Vishu. What was special about this year’s Vishu was that our son was with us to celebrate Vishu. Though Vishu is the new year day f...

When I had written about the Wedding feast , one of the commenters said that (s)he had never heard of Idichu Pizhinja Payasam and I had pr...

We celebrated Ugadi on Monday. We refers to the Kannadigas, the Telugus, the Maharashtrians and the like. We at home of course celebrate ev...