Lifestyle
Gardening Gadgets To Help Build Your Home Oasis
Getting Some Help for Your Green Thumb. Indoor and outdoor gardening can be a relaxing and fulfilling activity. However, time sometimes prevents us from maintaining our gardens and plants as much as we'd like to. Incorporating some gardening technology systems can help with this problem by ensuring that every plant flourishes with a little help from gadgets so that your home-grown
Recipe: Mango Scallops With Basmati Rice
Summer Cooking You may not typically think of Asian-inspired food when you think of light summer fare, but I'm here to tell you that there's more to the story with Indian flavours. Besides being one of my favourite summer fruits, mangoes are a go-to specialty of
One And Done
Being "One and Done" Is A-Okay. Traditionally, South Asian culture involves rearing large families. Now, single-child households are on the rise. In Middle Class Dreams: India’s One-Child Families, Alaka M. Basu and Sonalde Desai write, “Among the urban middle classes, it
Five Steps For Getting Your Home Summer-Ready
How To Prep Your Home For Summer Before you kick up your heels and start enjoying those hot summer days (think Shahrukh Khan and Rani Mukherji frolicking in the picturesque Grecian backdrop in
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Nepal: A Target For Disaster
Nepal’s Earthquake Was Expected Warnings from expert geologists proved warranted for Kathmandu (the Nepalese capital) and its surrounding region when a devastating earthquake with a 7.8 magnitude hit on Saturday, April 25, 2015. Experts had place Kathmandu ...
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Our Parents Never Meant To Abandon Us
Dealing with the Biggest Betrayal — a Parent's Abandonment There is a deep wound that has been passed on among the South Asian community. This wound has intensified with each generation. The pain of this wound is now so great that it's unbearable. On t ...
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A Nanny, Daycare Or Your Mom's Help?
Being a Parent Is Hard No Matter What—Especially when Finding Help. Traditionally, after baby is born, the newly appointed grandmother moves in to help. This can be quite the relief. It definitely takes a village to raise a child. This also comes w ...