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Wambatu Moju and creativity

A few days back someone mentioned the dish Wambatu Moju on Twitter. And it led to me googling about this brinjal based Sri Lankan dish. I was sufficiently inspired to try it out, bored as we were with our regular cooking repetoire.

The ingredients were there, the enthusiasm was there and it was sufficiently out of the comfort zone from a taste lens (vinegar + mustard) and it was acted upon.

The end result was a "meets expectations" but nobody knows what a good Wambatu Moju tasted like (in the family I mean).

Why this story?

This is a typical approach of how I work. I find something. Get inspired. Try it out. Some of them are easy like Wambatu Moju. Some of them are difficult and never see light of day like the Great Leadership Digital Simulation. Some of them are in between, sufficiently inspiring upto a point of trial and error.

This is creativity for me. Constantly exploring an area just outside comfort zones. Pushing boundaries physically (till the knees give up) or mentally (like my latest attempt to learn Sanskrit) - and often that opens up a door somewhere else in the head.

So, Wambatu Moju for lunch! May the brinjals be with me.
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