Of dreams and devastation
I am not one for clichés but, at this moment, seems like every cliché in the book applies to my life, starting with: Your life can change drastically in one moment At 7:00 a.m. on January 31, 2017, my husband and I were sipping coffee and talking about the day,...
Holiday Gifts 2016
I am sharing a few things I love – books, foods, appliances, services etc! I hope you will find something useful here as well. Link on the image to go to the sales page Gifts for the book lovers in your life Books – Cookbooks This book, by Ramin...
Who should define us?
(This appeared on Writers Unboxed in 2015) Last week, I made a rather harsh decision. I decided to quit writing. Forever. To know how hard this decision was for me, consider this: all I have wanted to do is write stories. But sharing stories, in my culture, is the...
Top ten things I have learned from exceptional women
Get Monica’s free Indian Expresss recipe eBook when you sign up for email updates. Thanks for visiting! **** This past weekend I was delighted and honored to be a speaker at the local conference for the lovely DC Les Dames – CELEBRATING FOOD! Women in...
How I found my destiny
I was one of those people who never dreamed of becoming anything. I never had a dream. I grew up in the Middle East, in a lovely, functional and practical apartment, reflective of the lovely, functional and practical nature of my parents – my mother was a school...Meet Monica
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Meet Monica Bhide, author of Karma and the Art of Butter Chicken, which is “set in contemporary India and seasoned with gentle love, dramatic loss, enchanting poetic verse, and exotic food”. Books available for sale[...]
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