Beyond Love ( Pages From the Diaries of Indian Women-Chapter2)
Love is the purest feeling. How cliched and how untrue. It took a lifetime to realize this. I loved him with all my heart for as long as I can as much as I can. I was so naive. I was so smitten by his...
View ArticleCan a mother ever be wrong? (Pages From the Diaries of Indian Women-Chapter3)
I have analyzed motherhood from multiple angles and though I always feel if there is anything selfless relation on this earth, it is that of a mother and child, we must stop glorifying a mother and...
View ArticleDiary entry of a teenager’s mom (Pages From the Diaries of Indian...
In the orientation of class tenth today I met a couple of wonderful moms with whom I left for a cup of coffee where we all discussed a lot of what is happening in our teenagers’ world. We all are at a...
View ArticleExpect Nothing, Do good and forget it (Pages From the Diaries of Common...
When I was very young, once when I worked very hard and still got a second rank in class, I asked my mother what could have gone wrong. She sat me down and lovingly told me that I must not lay so much...
View ArticleFinding True Happiness when one faces Midlife Crisis (Pages From the Diaries...
Every stage in our life is crucial. Our childhood and youth pass in the blink of an eye for most of us, studying, building our careers, and then family, it is midlife when the void hits hard. I have...
View ArticleGratitude Practice Heals (Pages From the Diaries of Common Indian...
Sometimes when everything around me starts going hazy and I don’t know where to start, I sit in a peaceful place, like I am now in the jungle behind my house and just begin penning my gratitude list,...
View ArticleHarrowing and disturbing patriarchy in India (Pages From the Diaries of...
Why do men in India don’t learn to bend down? Why aren’t they taught to accept their partner’s viewpoint even when she is right? Why is a loving and caring husband called a Joru ka Gulam and a loving...
View ArticleI take a bow to my co-authors of Brave Inked Emotions
You know dreams have no meaning until they are powered by genuine intentions. When I dreamt of creating an emotional wellness genuine resource, my dream was fuelled by pure intentions of some precious...
View ArticleBraving Vasti panchkarma as a treatment for Endometriosis and Adenomyosis
Today is the fourth day of the 8 day vasti procedure I am undergoing for treatment of my endometriosis and adenomyosis and I have braved it so far albeit with a lot of pain and weakness. Vasti is a...
View ArticleComplan in Focus: A Comprehensive Review by a Parent #63PercentMoreProtein
Proteins are the building blocks of our body and they are extremely vital, no matter what age we are. But proteins are categorically more important in the case of children as they are growing at a...
View ArticleAm grateful for today: Taking one day at a time
The whole of June passed in a blink of an eye with me itching to write every moment. Come July, I take back to my pen with all my heart, promising myself to complete the umpteen half-penned articles...
View ArticleBook Review of Tiny Habits Massive Results by Jaishree Nenwani
Our habits indeed define our life, they determine how long we will live a healthy and happy life sans all stress. Still, we often feel entrapped in our old sometimes not-so-good habits and despite...
View ArticleThe Tale of a Lost Ring
Whenever I am v happy I have a habit of doing something good for someone and it multiplies my joy. Last Sunday, I was at a gorgeously cozy cafe called Mia Bella to have a tiny Friendship Day...
View ArticleWhat benefits can you get from shaper swimwear?
For many people, buying swimwear can be quite challenging. to shop for and sometimes to wear. Sometimes the idea of wearing a swimsuit in public evokes self-consciousness and anxiety. People feel...
View ArticleLosing Maa Is Never Easy
When I lost my mom in my early twenties, the wound in my heart didn’t heal for years. The void felt irreparable and I cried at the drop of a hat. I was guilty of what could have I tried differently to...
View ArticleRevealing the fuel to my soul
It is a beautiful morning today and I stole time to write. The way wherein the purest feelings of my heart, the voice of my soul just flow out and I let it be not hindering or judging it but rejoicing...
View ArticleBEYOND PERFECT
The authorArden had lived a loner’s life on a small ship left to him by his parents, sans any communication with the outside world, for the past 17 years. He had an advanced distress tech invented by...
View ArticleThe Delhi Chapter, second innings: Just Thinking Out Aloud
When I came back to Delhi in 2019 after 9 long years I felt like a fish out of water and 5 years later today, do I still feel so, or has Delhi embraced me, or rather have I adapted to it a little bit…I...
View Article2024 Summarised in Six Words For Me: A Gratifying Meaningful Year
It is customary for me to sum up my reflections of the year gone by, every year end but this year I choose to do it a unique way by summing it up in exactly 6 words. These reflections are the...
View ArticleVision 2024: My Three Personal and Three Creative Goals for 2025
It is a chilly winter morning in Delhi today with sunshine playing a peek-a-boo from behind the clouds. While I am busy enjoying Mother Nature caressing all my plants and talking to the huge mango tree...
View ArticleSolo Trips in Forties hit different
I started my career as a twenty two year old automobile engineer in Tata motors and in the next decade flew solo infinite times all over the world even after switching jobs to Honda Cars and Ikea of...
View ArticleLife is beautiful with you in it my love
P.S. This poem is for my love and can you guess his hilarious reply once he read it?Shobhu I guess I have not composed for you, from so long Wonder why but surely not because your AI poems offer...
View ArticleKadhi Chawal
Inayat was barely 4 when she was separated from her parents. For a four-year-old, this was extremely overwhelming, and at her Naanu’s place, she felt abandoned. For days, she could not process what...
View ArticleWhat should we do when nothing goes our way?
A million thoughts are gushing through my brain today, and yet I don’t know what to write. Life has its unique ways of challenging us always and momentarily we may feel displaced and a streak of...
View ArticleSitare Zameen Par Review Direct Dilse
As a sucker of meaningful cinema I was so pumped up to know about the release of Sitare Zameen Par by Aamir Khan Productions. Of course, I had watched Taare Zameen Par multiple times with tears...
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