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  Simplicity is of course a virtue. Undoubtedly, if adopted would save us a lot of time, energy, money and chaos. It is a value that has been believed to be hoarded by great people. True it may be, but when I personally look into the generations just before mine, I find out that there wasn't any lack of this great virtue even in places that do not demand high ranks for itself. I remember the probiotic meal that everyone is talking today is actually a product of simple living in houses of Kerala. I have seen my grandmother and my mother preparing it simply not even knowing that one day it would be in the menus of the stars of the society. The staple food of Kerala is rice to be more specific boiled rice. There was no custom of preparing the exact quantity of rice required for a family, in those days joint family. The concept is to have at least enough rice for an unexpected guest or passerby who drops in meal time. He could be served the rice with curd and pickle at least and both a...