"I will stop going to this place" – often, we resort to complete cut-off instead of slowing things down. There are so many things that we stop doing – we stop talking to a relative, to a friend, to...
Tisca just hates traveling. Whenever someone invites her for a trip, she backs out giving frivolous excuses. Once her mother asked her the reason she avoids traveling and pat came the reply, "It is exhausting, Momma"! Her mother smirked...
Summers these days are quite different from those that I experienced during childhood. Yes, the world is changing at a faster pace. But, some things can be kept the same as they were earlier. With the issue of global...
Raia wakes up in the morning. Her eyes are barely open but she can still prepare her favorite wake-up drink – tea. She prefers her tea with black tea leaves, milk, water, and sugar – nothing else. While tea...
"I am 40 now", pondered Ananta unintentionally, at her 40th birthday. The number 40 was getting on to her. The birthday cake that her family got her could not have accommodated so many candles and a double-digit candle was...
"Great minds discuss ideas, average ones discuss events and small minds discuss people."
I read this quote by Roosevelt a couple of years ago. Since then, I have got hooked on to it. While I discuss people in this post,...
Not too long ago – just a few years back, I remember that a greater part of menfolk was not aware of the strategy of grooming. I deliberately mentioned ‘a greater part of menfolk' because I remember the teenage...
Amayra's uncle invited the entire family to dinner. After a very long time, Amayra would meet her cousins, uncle-aunts and especially her granddad and grandma. Pretty excited, she reached before time so that she could warm up for dinner....
"It's not how BIG the house is, it's how HAPPY the home is"
Have you ever had an instant connection to a place, even if you have entered it for the first time – be it your friend’s house, a...
Unlike my friends, I had calm and composed December. I had taken a sabbatical from work and cocooned in an Indian town that did not know what Christmas is. I did not party till wee hours on the 31st...
