Everyday, I freshen up and head out for breakfast. I don't cook in the morning except for making my coffee that I enjoy with a smoke. As far as I can look into my recent past, a South Indian breakfast is how I've started my day.

I'm told constantly by people that eating outside everyday isn't good for me, which I do register, logically, but as soon as I wake up, my body naturally falls into the rhythm of showering and heading out like it has been doing since my college years, when I had breakfast at a tiffin centre near St. Mary's in Hyderabad and going in for my classes everyday. I'm following the same basic routine years later. This is my morning ritual and I quite enjoy it as well.

Until this one day I go out per usual and literally everything's closed. I didn't realize that there was a strike that day and I freak out out about the fact that I had to, on this unfortunate day, make breakfast. Now, I do know how to cook, but the break in my pattern had shaken me a little bit. I remember it was a Wednesday because I had just made one of the best egg sandwiches I had ever eaten in my life. "I should do this more often," I said, only to ride straight back to my usual Dosa spot the next morning.

I think about this now because we have a few new voices here at Homegrown. And even though I enjoy writing and working at Homegrown exposes me to something cool everyday, I was kind of set in my ways and had fallen into a monotony of sorts. Until a new writer here wrote an article about 'Bathrooms in Mumbai' that blew my mind. I couldn't have imagined such a piece that caught me off guard with its absurdity but still felt refreshingly 'Homegrown'. It was the egg sandwich to my masala dosa that I didn't realize I needed.

We are entering a new era and I'm super excited to find out what comes with this new team. I hope you are too. Here's what we have for you in our Culture Bulletin this week:

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