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It takes nothing to be kind to people, have you given it a thought???

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The motto of our group is community living and no competition within the group,we only compliment each other.

This year our group Eat Pray and Love that has 300+ people predominantly from the food industry met on a Sunday evening for High tea and early dinner.

My heart felt gratitude to Nirupama from Hanu Reddy residences who always gave us the venue to host our events, she has been doing it for 3yrs now and promised to do so forever!

The evening started with organising the pot luck. Home style food was extra delicious with that main ingredient that goes in abundance “love” everyone who got food for the pot luck was breaming with happiness when they got to know that their food was super special.

We had our round of photo session, networking and a quick few minutes introduction talk by me. I tried my best to talk a little about everyone present at the event and also talked about the food on the table so everyone knew what they were eating.

We had decided zero wastage of food and so organised takeaway containers. Now this was a big hit and everyone decided on their menu for Monday ( the next day) breakfast lunch and dinner, I personally was very happy because wastage is something that makes me very sad.

We also had return gifts by Gud fud box that make sweets and savouries using millets, honey from Ambrosia and biryani by Al safa biriyani.

The food was lavish spread by our group members. Cheese platter with condiments, 3 varieties of biryani of which one was vegan jackfruit biryani, Punjabi samosa, Patti samosa, paneer roll, lemon tart, vegan curd rice ( peanut curd) malida ( Bohri sweet) vegan mysurpa, sabudana khichdi, caramel custard, srilankan sambol and Korean watermelon drink.

The list of food purely talks about the diversity in our group, yet we are all bonded over food.

This post is my heartfelt gratitude to my community without whom Eat Pray and Love does not exist!

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Every Women’s Secret Dream ❤️

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Gone are those days when they would say that every women’s Secret Dream was to find the best life partner! I understood this over the years, but sealed it on women’s day this year 2023.

When I started by day at 4am to meet around 60 odd beautiful women at 5am on 8th March 2023 little did I know that I am going to seal my thoughts about a few things that has been running in my mind for so many years now. Like I always realised that everyday is a new day and every day we learn something new, that too from people whom you have least expected to learn.

A slum behind the most prestigious university of Chennai, the Surya nagar slum. I have been associated with them since 2015 in various social activities from cyclone relief to children education thanks to my previous organisation that I got to closely work with them and continued my association even after I quit the organisation 3yrs ago. Our focus when I worked with them was always children and education. This time since I was doing something on my own along with a group of friends I thought of doing something for the women who always put their Children’s need before theirs.

When I started the discussion with them 3 weeks before the event, they all seemed to have time constraints, since most of them work as house helps, the only time they could spare was early morning and so be it, I didn’t blink an eyelid before I said yes to the wee hours. I was as excited as them to do something that could create value in their lives.

Contribution poured in from my lovely community group called ” Eat Pray and Love” as always they are my strength and motivation in whatever I plan to do. Since Surya nagar is located on the banks of the river the place has its own charm, we decided to put up a beautiful tent with flowers to add colour to the location.

The day started with the beautiful view of moon setting and enthusiastic women who were dressed in their best outfits at 5.30am, when I saw this I knew it is going to be a energy filled day.

Over the discussion about what each one of them wanted to be and learn it was an amazing revelation middle age women wanted to learn driving and wanted to work as driver’s, few wanted to learn stitching, baking, beautician course and most of them wanted to learn to speak English, now this I thought was so much of a confidence booster.

Finally it is not about what we told them or what knowledge we imparted to them, for us it was so much that we learnt from them too!

Happiness starts from”YOU” we were able to convey to these women that happiness of their family starts from they being happy and if they pursue what makes them happy they will be able to cascade that happiness to their family and they all agreed. We all spoke about how beautiful life is for everyone and we could live a happy life if we had gratitude in our hearts and pursue our dreams! Saying that we are now on a mission to help them fulfill their dreams! The morning that started at 5.30am concluded at 7.30am with a hearty breakfast, goodie bags, loads of love, happiness and gratitude in each one of our hearts 💖