Navratri Celebration at Home - 2015

The most awaited Festival is here, the Navratri Bombe Habba. I took up job recently and not able to be regular on my blog. Its been a week now since Navratri started and finally I managed to post few pictures of the Navratri doll arrangement at home.

Its the same set of dolls as previous years, with few added new ones which I have been collecting. The first step has Ganapati, Ram, Seetha, Laxman and Hanuman and Radha Krishna Idol. The Radha Krishna idol was similar to the Ganapti idol, I painted and decorated it with glitters and stones. The second step has Krisha in different forms, Pattad Bombe, Shiva, Parvati and Ganapathi, and Tulsi Pooja set along with small idols of god and goddesses.

Third is for more god and goddess idols along with Meera and a set of Portugal men and women set, as called so by my granny. The next step is for Shivaji Maharaj, along channapatna doll of a couple and a set of five men and women playing music. That red charriot was bought from Mysore, while I got the dolls playing band along the charriot from Jaipur.

The fifth step has few of my souvenir collections, most of them are gifts by my cousin. I got that face mask from Mahalaxmi temple, here in Mumbai, which I tied to the Kalash I had prepared. I just loved the beauty of devi's face. To add to the step is kiddo's Gungru. She started her Bharatnatyam course this year and thats her new set of Gungru, which she will start wearing after Gungru Pooja on Dasara day.

The last step is collection of few old clay toys, along with new added ones, which hubby got from Mysore, the Lion and the Rabbit tale, a cobbler and a potter. I wanted to highlight the small utensils which I usually place with the old couple(so called Shetty angadi in Kannada), so thought of arranging them separately in plates on either side of main steps.

Finally our ever fav doll house, which is a permanent display in our TV rack.

Hope you enjoyed our Bombe arrangement, will get back with more Devi pics from around my place. Till then A very Happy Navratri to all of you..

Pampers Premium Care Pants - Review

Its said it is mother's touch which the child feels first after birth. But for me it took me almost 5days till I took her for the first time in my hands. She was a preterm baby, and I was on general anesthesia during her birth. She was taken immediately to NICU even before I gained conscious. A day later I was taken to NICU to have a look at my new born. She was in incubator, busy sleeping all in just a diaper, every time I visited her. Must say, it was diaper, which she felt even before feeling me. I was worried, how she felt, in the closed box, and each time I was told the box would give the baby a feel in the womb and she was perfectly ok. Other thing I was worried about was her diaper. We have always been hearing from our moms and grannies, nappies are the best, they are natural and give the best feel to the baby, and when I used to see my baby in diaper in incubator, I used to be really worried if it bothered her, but I had no other choice but to leave her so. When I heard about the features of Pampers Premium Care Pants a the premium, the first thing I felt was, why didn't Pampers launch it a couple of years back.

That moment when you baby won't notice the diaper

That moment when the baby is in playful mood and the diaper doesn't bother her.

Not to let go the good features of Premium Pants, I handed over the sample pack to my sister-in-law, who has a 4 months old baby and this is what she has to say,

“I was really tired of my initial sleepless nights with my baby, when she used to wake up everytime she wetted her nappies. And I was not ok aswell with making her wear diapers every night and I used her diapers only while going out. Even with few hours of diaper and few minutes of wetted nappies, she used to get rashes, and she looked so relaxed when she wore nothing.

Using Pampers Premium Care Pants reduced her rashes to certain extent and my baby behaved as though she was not at all bothered about her diaper. We ourselves can feel the softness of the diaper and be relaxed they are soft on delicate little bottoms. A drop of lotion added to the diaper, too protects the baby's precious skin. The Wetness Indicator is something I really liked about, I need not check the diaper each time if need to be changed. I would recommand all moms to use Pampers Premium Care Pants to their little ones.”

I am happy for introducing her to a Premium product, which she can easily rely on and protect her baby's precious skin.

“This blog post is written for the Pampers #SoftestForBabySkin activity in association with BlogAdda”

Explore Indian History, Heritage, Culture and Food Through EPIC and #TATASkyTransfer!!!

Off late I hardly watched TV till one fine day I came across EPIC channel. I had come across their posters, at most of the places around the city during their launch in last November, but never did I check it out on TV. Ever since I started watching it, my whole family has become fond of the channel, and its very rare that we even switch to other channels. 

For those who love to explore History, Heritage, Culture and Food of India,  this is one of the channels, you shouldn't miss. 

Travel: While Sanrachna takes you to different monuments of India, highlighting their architectural significance, Ekaant takes to the ruins of the historical places, majestic states of their time which have lost their significance. And Kahi Suni, takes you to the religious places, narrating the stories from the past, be it to Mathura, narrating Lord Krishna's childhood or Kurukshetra, with the battle between the Pandavas and Kauravas.

Food: Raja Rasoi and Anya Kahaniyaan, one of my favourite shows, for it includes travel as well. An awesome narration of food from different states in each episode, with its history and origin. Lost recipes, as the name says, a cookery show from different parts of the country, with recipes which have lost their existence off late.

Facts: EPIC ke Dus, a superbly crafted show, with handpicked top tens of the country, be it the Novels of India, or the top Indian Brands, or the top ten love stories or top revolutions which made an impact on the Indian History. Made in India, is yet another series, which highlights world's top products or service, which originated in India, but the country has lost the patent. To name a few are Sushruta Samhita, the text on medicine and surgery written years back even before the Western countries knew about Medicine or the board games like Ludo which originated from our own Pachisi. Through short videos on the series on EPIGRAMS, they showcase the origin of different products, be it Saffron or tea, coffee or chilly and their arrival to India. Awesome narration, beautiful animations everything makes it a perfect show.

History: Rakkt and Adrishya, non fiction series on Indian history. A must watch show if you are interested in History of the country.

Through their three new shows, Stories by Rabindranath Tagore, Jaane Pehchaane with Javed Akhtar and Mid Wicket Tales with Naseeruddin Shah, the channel has stepped into Indian Cinema, Indian Cricket and Series on Gurudev's Novels.

If all my narration tempted you to watch EPIC channel and you are worried you wouldn't be able to make time to watch them at home, then worry not, try out #TATASkyTransfer. Record, transfer, carry your favourite TV shows, wherever you go. Check out EPIC channel on TATA Sky HD Channel 133.