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Published food, health and lifestyle columnist for newspapers, magazines and websites
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Food blogger since 2006 on Saffrontrail.com
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14/11/2025

Sending out my fifth book into the universe today. ✨
After over two years of creating short videos and writing a weekly health column, I felt the need to bring all the essentials of a healthy life together in one place. And that’s how No Gods, No Gurus: A Radical Guide to Your Wellbeing was born.
This book dives into the most important conversations in health today - nutrition, movement, sleep, mental health, hormones, your home & environment, and longevity, all explained in an evidence-backed, practical, and easy-to-follow manner.
It’s now available for preorder and will be released on 2nd December.
I’d be truly grateful for your support in preordering and in sharing it with anyone who might find it useful. Thank you🙏❤️
Preorder 🔗 in the comment

28/03/2025

Friends helped me generate these art-ified images of myself yesterday- riding the new wave of image generation by ChatGPT released yday and my whole Twitter timeline was in the style of Studio Ghibli. It’s not a straightforward thing to use AI to take on the style of artists who have spent decades fine tuning their art, it is definitely a topic for much debate and I am equally conflicted on how to accept this or where it will go. My 16 year old son feels this is not right and he had no appreciation for this trend. Sharing a few of these images as a matter of record keeping of this important day on the internet - it’s the sign of bigger waves to come and we have no clue how it’s going to affect our lives.
1. Ravi Varma style
2, 4 and 5 Studio Ghibli style
3. Vermeer style

26/03/2025

Last evening, I was at a special dinner hosted by Gurugram’s award winning restaurant .in (no. 79 on Asia’s 50 best in 2024). They have an ongoing pop up at Zarf in Sheraton Grand Whitefield(24-26 March- dinner). You can check the details on their page

It was a delight to meet Chef Anuj Bhalla .bhalla.129 and his passion for cooking and serving Indian regional food was evident in our converations with him.

We had a mix of small plates and main courses and the desserts were irresistable. You can take a look at the dishes and their names in the post. The barley-quinoa salad with strawberry vinaigrette was juicy and perfect for summer. The corn khichdi, a take on Indori bhutte ki khees had corn in different textures and topped with crunchy sem ki beej and a trio of chutneys is the way a plate of elevated comfort food should taste. The husband (and dining partner) raved over the haleem (not greasy or OTT spice laden) and the gongura chicken (tender and just hot and tangy enough from the gongura sauce). The bakarkhani served with the haleem - I could smell the saffron aroma wafting across the table. One of the desserts was pure nostalgia (a thick layer of cream on brioche toast topped with honey comb) and the other was an utterly playful take on chocolate kulfi.
As husband and I are both teetolaers, we had their highly recommended . Their award winning mixologist .mixologist and his love for creating all natural flavours inhouse for the beverages served in the restaurant was evident in the refreshing glasses of house-soda nimbu chilli lemongrass and the Saffron Mule we had. It’s amazing to have restaurants that pay attention to the teetotalers as well :)

Thank you for hosting us! It was a memorable and delightful experience.

04/03/2025

Wore this saree to Khajuraho, thinking it would pop against the brown monuments. Instead, I ended up twinning with the most glorious bougainvilleas.

20/02/2025

Been a while since I said a proper hello and introduced are due to the people who have followed me in the last couple of months (since I started posting regularly here😂). Drop a comment, say hello and introduce yourself :)

12/02/2025

I posted a pic of my bookshelf yesterday and I want to share a few thoughts with you ❤️
TLDR- enjoy the beautiful things in life without over analysing

31/01/2025

It was amazing experience to be a part of this week, organized entirely by student volunteers of in the massive campus of - also got a chance to give a talk to the students of hotel management from all over the country and foreign students too.

There was an engaging panel discussion on Daawat-e-Diplomacy with esteemed cookbook authors and
It was lovely to meet and connect with fellow Bengaluru author

Came back feeling energized after interacting with the students and the student volunteers who had organized this large scale event impeccably.

Thank you for having me as a part of this prestigious litfest 🙏

26/11/2024

If you want a year of happiness, get married.
If you want 10 years of happiness, get a dog.
If you want a lifetime of happiness, take care of a garden.

Martha Stewart

So here’s how November is in my garden

November update from my kitchen garden
Some old residents, some new joinees :)

Planted saplings of cabbage, chillies and brinjal varieties

Purple speckled beans, brinjal and mulberries are fruiting

Rosemary is flowering - if you’ve watched The Bear, you’ll know how precious these flowers are.

Ginger or is it mango ginger (I’ll know on tasting) is getting ready for harvest in another 6 weeks or so

30/10/2024

Grab a big chopping board or lazy Susan- scatter some fruits, mobile khakhras/crackers/ vadams, a couple of dips (premade or bought), cherry tomatoes, carrots and cucumber sticks and you have an easy snack board ready for a Diwali party!
This works perfect when you want light snacks for people who drop in early evening or something to get the party started before an Indian meal as cheese boards with nuts/cheese etc tend to be very filling.
Let me know if you try this idea out :)

11/10/2024

9 days of Navratri spent channelizing our inner Devi, in the company of sisterhood, praying to the goddess for strength and grace 🌸

9 days 9 colours, colours of Navratri

01/10/2024

September memories
1. Beloved community Ganesha
2. Dressing up for Ganesha festival
3. Spinach ricotta toast at
4. Photo op backdrop at
5. Ganesha corner
6. Gym bro ing on a Sunday noon
7. My first dahlia
8. Heliconias from my garden
9. Dhoop and gorgeous light one morning
10. Tomato soup in the making
11. Perfect match
12. Pookalam
13. Perfecting dosas
14. Fab fajitas at
15, 16- Evenings at home
17. Tofu salad that was delicious
18. Morning walk
19. Music performance
20. Proud of myself

September photos, life in Bangalore, festivals, Eating out in Bengaluru, Bengaluru home and garden

07/09/2024

Happy Ganesha Chathurthi - Ganesha Habbada Hardika Shubhashayagalu 🌺
Add a dash of colour to Modaks using turmeric, beet powder and butterfly blue pea 🌺
The remaining dough made into Ammini kozhakattai where it’s rolled into small shapes, steamed and tossed in a tadka of urad dal, curry leaves, chillies and coated in some molaga podi

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