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Category Archives: Lifestyle
My Parents’ Travel Chronicles! Season 1 (South India Pilgrimage) | Episode 1
My Father is 67 years old and my mother is 60 years old! Sharing the below experiences shared by my father M.S.Goutham : “MY TWO-WEEK SOUTH INDIA PILIGRIM TRAVEL EXPERIENCES.” “IT’S MY FIRST TRAVEL WITH MY WIFE FOR TWO CONTINOUS … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle
Tagged Indian Railway, Journey, Parents, Pilgrimage, South India, Travel
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Stand Up Comedy Wala Blog – II
Ok so for all those people who thought my 2nd blog was going to be about Thalaiva, sorry, that was just a classy twist-ending to hook you on to my 2nd blog ok?[Insert laughter] That was typical season 1 episode … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle
Tagged Amazon prime, Amitabh Bachchan, Anurag Kashyap, Bal Thackeray, Biku mathrey, Dhanush, Family Man, Jagame Thandhiram, Manoj bajpayi, mumbai, Netflix, Politics, Raj Thackeray, Rajnikanth, RGV, Sarkar, SrilankanTamils, Stalin, Tamil, Thalaiva, Uddhav Thackeray
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Stand Up Comedy Wala Blog – I
Ok so, you might have heard about stand up comedy ya? This blog is a twist. I have a lot of comedy (comedy in my opinion) to be rolled out but I can’t do a stand up comedy video or … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Series, Lifestyle
Tagged Amazon prime, arya stark, Bus Conductor, Comedy, game of thrones, Jennifer Lopez, jLo, Lannister, Lokhandwala, Mirzapur, mumbai, Ned stark, Netflix, Stand up comedy, Thalaiva, Thalaivar, Wadala
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A Millennial Girl In Search Of Her Roots!
It was 31st December 2020. That time of the year when the whole world would let go of old thoughts and welcome new thoughts. But I met a person who was so closely connected to her roots [old thoughts as … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle
Tagged 100, 2021, ayodhya, bihar, genz, Indian Languages, Indian Rupee, INR, lord rama, millennials, mithila, mythili, rama, ramayan, roots, sita, siyaraam
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Love Aaj Kal [Love These Days]
So, you might have heard of all the fairy tales on Love stories. Do listen to this story too! Because this is no story nor is it a fairy tale! Now, I know you would protest that love is made … Continue reading
Food Preferences in a Mumbai Family
When you (Varun Mannava) are from a strict vegetarian family and your partner (Shraddha) is from a strictly Non vegetarian family (from Mumbai) and that too with three siblings – one younger brother, one elder sister and one elder brother, … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle
Tagged cuisine, family, food, food preferences in family, mumbai, mumbai family, non vegetarian, vegetarian
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Lockdown Gyan: Why moving to Chennai was the best decision my Father ever made!
My Father Srinivas Gowtham Mannava was born in Baapatla and studied in Guntur (near Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh). He was into stage acting during his childhood and had moved around all of Andhra Pradesh in his capacity as a stage actor. … Continue reading
Posted in Hobbies, Lifestyle
Tagged a r rahman, Amma, Amma Canteen, chennai, illayaraja, Jayalalitha, Lockdown, Lockdown Gyan, mani ratnam, Tamil, Thiruvalluvar
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Vedanta in Dating
Ok, so 5, 000 (yes, Five Thousand!) Years ago, what was the most toughest task in Indian Civilization? Think deep. People were all goodnatured back then. At least that’s what we can deduce since they didn’t have a greed based … Continue reading
Posted in Conversation Starters, Dating workshop, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Relationship Gyan
Tagged dating advice, dating approach, vedanta
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Community based Matrimonials in India : Facilitators or Distinguishers?
I was watching a regional (Tamil) comedy channel on TV. I was inconveniently surprised to see a matrimony ad where two people are happily married because they married within the same caste. Being within the same caste helped them understand … Continue reading
Posted in Hobbies, Lifestyle
Tagged caste system, community matrimony, discrimination, indian weddings, matrimonial, matrimonial sites
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Who Am I? : Part One
When you are a party bee who hangs out with your wolf pack at least twice a week and converted your passion of hanging out and making new friends out of strangers into a Dating Guru, the last thing you … Continue reading
Posted in Hobbies, Lifestyle, Uncategorized
Tagged Atma, Consciousness, Lockdown, Who am I
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