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How Hot is your Chocolate?

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In the medieval period we had days where hot chocolate meant 'Hot Horlicks', 'Hot Milo', 'Hot Bournvita', 'Hot Hersheys' ! In fact some where in the 6th grade when Milo distributed free cups of hot milk with Milo I was more than enthralled at the taste of its offering. I had thought nothing could beat that drink ever... But coming to the modern age and the total evolution of food and food outlets within our city, which has made authentic cuisines pretty much within the reach of any food addict, the cusp of the hot chocolate graph has shifted a bit. The search for the quintessential hot chocolate is still on but the drinks offered by some of the outlets within our city are way beyond blissful. My personal on the hotness meter is still 'Food For Thought'(FFT) at Fountain. The depth, texture, taste and hotness of its hot chocolate is indeed a sip for the yearning struck and choco crazy mind. I would not say that I am chocolate maniac but

Vipassana - Flip the Mind !

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Day 11 of the course had began,but there did not seem any adrenaline within the ephemeral thoughts of the mind to rush back to the city. All the days in unison had this tranquil texture floating around them. The 11 day course had come to an end but the mind has just began to ponder around the splendor of what had just happened. Before planning to visit Igatpuri, which is possibly considered the best center to learn Vipassana from the S.N. Goenka lead centers, the ghetto within the mind with all its troubled reasoning was trying to give up even before starting. Some people always try and push you back when you are trying to do something different, that would happen to anyone who is planning to visit this place for the first time. People would pull you into the cluster of religious taboo or brain wash syndrome and what not. But I wish to clarify that visiting this place did not make me change my religion and it did not even make me shave my head and become a monk, it precisely an