The secret seven and the sathyavan

Bharat vilas – that’s what I am going to name 10-c Mandalay point, not because we are losers like Indian cricket team, no! The season’s changed –positive outlook. We are moving towards a healthy hygienic lifestyle …

Disclaimer: The views expressed here are completely imaginary. There is not lifestyle at all and huh !! hygienic ? healthy ?? forget it.

Yes, where was I? Hygienic and healthy lifestyle. One year in Kochi had kindled a lot of things in us and one among them- culinary skills . As a part of our ‘be proactive in life’ resolution, we( eight –including sathyavan sai and the secret seven) bought a gas stove and there started a long process of making ourselves kitchen friendly. We were already dining table friendly. I am proud to say that we are now experts in making a variety of items ranging from hot water, coffee, boiling milk, rice, noodles and soup. Once or twice we have even tried out making rasam and sambhar much to the delight of our friend Kabali(name changed). There was a lot of zest to be involved and to show it to the ‘man’ that we can do it. ‘Ready to mix and eat’ items flew in by the day. ‘Paruppu podi’, ‘karuvepla podi’, ‘poondu podi’, ‘instant rasam’, ‘instant sambhar’ – you name it we had it. With an appetite that would please gatotgaja 25 kilos of rice were finished in about 10 -15 days time. Such was our passion and commitment (hunger rather :-). But the initial momentum died out, now the gas stove is rarely used other than for making ‘health drink’ by the captain himself and an occasional oatmeal breakfast by yours truly and oatmeal ‘by2’ friend. Is this the end of secret seven and their delicious dinner? Will they go hungry? Has the work pressure numbed their culinary skills? Will there never be the sweet smell of sambhar cooking in bharat vilas aka 10-c edapally. Only HE and the secret seven know the answer to that. Let us hope the new year brings in new spirit into the hearts of the secret seven.

There is however some hope, because till today even though the cooking has stopped, we still have breakfast in the morning in the form cornflakes thanks to the efforts of the courageous, omnipresent, kindhearted, lively, enthusiastic (ok may be I am crossing the line here) --- add other ‘good’ adjectives--- the great krk himself (that’s me J ) on every single day except a few days when he has been unable to because of various valid reasons.