Tamanna Mohapatra

In May 2021, after having lived for 10+ years in NYC, my husband and I decided to move to Switzerland. It took us a while to find a...

For a small country, Switzerland is quite special. It boasts 12 UNESCO heritage sites. As per the official definition, A World Heritage...

Before we left on the trip all I knew about Zermatt was that it was a car-free zone and housed a famous mountain known as Matterhorn. I...

A lot of friends referred to our move as a dream life. I hadn’t thought of it like that. For me, we were moving because I needed a...

In 2019, I read an article in Columbia University's magazine titled, "Must-Reading for Woke Foodies". Yep, I was one and so I had to read...

Listening to 5 minutes of his interview on NPR made me very intrigued on what was this breathing technique that in 15 minutes of his...

During this summer, I did a 3 day workshop on #ayurveda, taught by students of the venerable and famous #drvlad. He's from India and is a...

As I watched the news and got sent videos of countries doing well in the fight against Coronavirus, I thought it might be fun and...

A goal that I thought would be easy to complete since100 wasn't that big a number and I liked watching movies..yet it took me almost 3...

I have been meaning to blog for sometime now but had plenty of excuses not to. After 6 weeks of being indoor because of the covid-19...

MRFs is the acronym for Materials Recovery Facility . Last weekend I finally got to visit SIMS Municipal Recycling Facility in Brooklyn,...

Scandinavia is a beautiful travel destination. In summer it's magical and more than that- truly relaxing. My memories of Denmark & Sweden.

Ask anyone what they enjoy or what their dream life would include and most often the same answer will be heard- I like traveling. If you...

I have been learning french on and off for two years now. I have been watching french movies for a much longer period and is one of the...

For those of us who visit NYC as tourists, parades are one of the most delightful ways of experiencing the city. For those who live here...

I am not sure if this is an actual term but it's a term I heard my friend describe herself as this weekend. I thought it was interesting;...

2018 didn't go very well for me. Maybe it did but I just don't realize because it started bad (work contract ended in Feb, new job...

I resisted reading this book for a long time. I didn’t think there could be a one size fits all solution to such big life issues as...

I learned about this book first in the post-Trump world that we all found ourselves in towards the end of 2016. For many of us, who were...

Recently I was in Bhubaneswar (BBSR), the capital of Orissa and my hometown. As happens with most people, I had thought I had seen most...