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Finding happiness in bread
“How’re you liking your new home?” I asked my cousin. He had recently moved to a new city, his first time out of our home state of Maharashtra. “It’s all right, I guess,” he said, in a somewhat non-committal fashion. … Continue reading
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Tagged bread, chapati, citylife, cosmopolitanlife, family, happiness, Maharashtra, Marathi, momscooking, movingtoanewplace, mumscooking, poli
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Am I in a town or city?
Is Aurangabad a city? I was asked the other day by a friend who lives in one. Not exactly, I said, though it’s not really such a small town anymore either. That got me thinking. What makes a city? Of … Continue reading
Posted in small town life
Tagged Aurangabad, auto rickshaws, city, culture, Food, foreigners, language, Maharashtrian, malls, Marathi, motorcyclists, Nasik, seatbelts, stares, town
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Are you bored yet?
“Are you bored yet?” Family and family friends peer curiously into my face as they ask me this, searching for affirmation. They wonder, how can a city-bred like me be happy in a place like Aurangabad? It has been a … Continue reading
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Tagged Aurangabad, boredom, English, gyms, Hindi, language, Marathi, women
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