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Recipe: Spicy Squid Masala

Over 10 years of blogging, Godyears has pretty much gone through every possible genre there is - politics, romance, real life events, humour, anger, movies and books, cars and products and yes, even God.
And yet, somehow there have been very few food posts, which is blasphemous for a self-proclaimed foodie like me!

When I sat back and thought about it, it occurred to me that it was not for want of food or pictures. Over the past year, my mother has been actively trying out various recipes at ho...

My #Gratitude circle: August 2015

As a fitting way to end the month here, I decided to take part in the Gratitude Circle post series, co-hosted by fellow bloggers Vidya Sury and Corinne Rodrigues. The premise is pretty simple: every fourth Thursday of the month, we submit a post expressing gratitude for the things in our life that have made us happy this month.

And August has certainly been an eventful month for me. So without further adieu, here are some of the things that I am grateful for this month.


I joined a new...

Trust others to listen to you #1000Speak

While I was in Pune, a dear friend of mine went through a particularly bad and abrupt relationship breakup after being in a committed relationship for years. Neither party really was at fault... circumstances and differences in certain religious equations which were unacceptable to 'the elders' were at play there.

Heartbroken, the two did split so as to respect their parents wishes. I met the girl a few short months later in town while walking down the street. It should have just been a superf...

Why #FundsIndia is the perfect option for long term wealth creation

In a financial world where the stock market fluctuations tend to be unpredictable, I have always preferred the security of mutual funds over individual stocks. You get to be a part of the market while simultaneously being buffered from the extremes of rises and falls. Sure, we all would love a good quick rise in our portfolio but trust me, you don't want to be at the receiving end of a lower circuit fall.
I started investing in stocks around 2007, I think. Over the years, I have watched the ma...

WASH Programmes for Strengthening Water and Sanitation in Urban Settings

At the start of the century, the United Nations had set up a Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for the various countries of the world. Two of the key goals they looked to achieve back in the year 2000 was to halve the number of people in the world without drinking water and sanitation by 2015.
The sad aspect of this goal for India, seen as one of the key beneficiaries owing to its huge population, was that had the goal been achieved, that would still have meant that over 330 million Indians d...

A castle within my castle #HomeCanvas

Every time I return to my hometown after an extended work schedule, my smile grows wider as I watch the landmarks pass by one after the other, indicating that I am reaching my house. (Of course, the converse holds true as I leave but we will leave that sorrowful face for another day!)
There is no denying it - in our house, we transform. Outside at work or even in the streets, we are lost in crowds of hundreds; just another brick in the wall. But once that foot crosses the threshold o...

#8PhotosOfHappiness - 8 isn't nearly enough!

Even before I had completed Parul's post, I knew I wanted to be a part of the #8PhotosOfHappiness tag. I have always been the go-to guy for pictures, right from my school days when I would be hounding everyone for the camera roll negatives so that I could get a pic to the present day when I keep reminding people to Bluetooth or NFC me the pics I wanted.

So when the post asks us to choose 8 photos of happiness, it was a tough choice going through literally thousands of pictures. Tough, but...

Can our tuberculosis patients get their drugs back, please?

23 billion dollars. Or 1469470000000.00 rupees as per today's rate, according to Google.
Keep that number in mind. We will get back to it.
Do you remember the atmosphere that greets our cricket opponents when they walk into Eden Gardens in Kolkata? The greatest cricketers of our generation all talk of how intimidating it is to be there on the field, the gladiatorial cry of 1 lakh spectators making their allegiance felt? Can you picture it from your TV viewing memories - Eden Gardens packed to t...

The foretelling of human nature

Image source: MagpieTales
This was how it would end, she had foretold. I did not believe her. I had faith that they would be more... human with her."You see your innate goodness in the humans, Lord. But it is the very audacity of believing they are built in your form and thus Gods themselves that will lead them to savage me." she had said, apprehensively. Nonetheless, she had ceded to my will and accommodated them.
I gaze at her now - a withered husk of the woman she was - and&nb...

I am glad your dream is over, Bhagwan Chowdary.

Today, a man's dream finally ended... and I could not be happier.

Every year, we see sickening images of the mass animal sacrifice held in Nepal during the Gadhimai festival. A country with strong roots to a religion of tolerance suddenly goes insane in the name of that same peace loving religion, with devotees from Nepal and India literally running through herds and chopping the heads of living lifestock including goats and buffaloes. Estimates from the 2009 edition stated that nearly half a...