There have been two deaths so far that have moved me deeply. The first was the death of my brother’s best friend, and the second was the death of a stranger. In both cases, the deceased died young. I’ve lost family too who I loved dearly, grieved for as well. Every loss was monumental in…
I once wrote an article on my birthday about my five gray hair. Yep. Five! I fretted all over the post about how it shocked me and how I was trying (‘trying’ being the operative word here) to take it positively. Fast forward to now, I’ve lost count of how many gray hair I have. […]…
At 65 years of age, Sandhya (name changed) is a busier woman after retirement than she was when she worked as a teacher. Before the lockdown, in her native Allahabad, she would care for her octogenarian in-laws. Every six months she would shuttle between one daughter based in Singapore, who can’t afford child-care for both…
This is going to be a #smallbookreview since I don’t think this book requires much more than that. As far as mysteries and thrillers go, this is a slow read, burning page by page, relying on cliffhangers at the end of each chapter but the beautiful narration, the intriguing story arcs will keep ypu hooked…
Read if extra work during the Lockdown is giving you nightmares.
No, no, this isn’t a preachy sermon about how you should prepare for life after death. Well actually, this is about that except its not your afterlife I’m asking you to prepare for, but for those you leave behind. Life has no surety. Death, however, is a certainty. We can get any number of insurances and jeewan bimas but nothing…
Hola, amigos! I’m back after a long hiatus from blogging to pontificate on pride and its follies. I’m not sure if I’ll keep coming back to blogging or this is just a one-off thing because I needed to vent. Either way, I’m writing tonight and I wondered if some of you felt the same way…
It’s been a long, long time since I posted something here. A few days back, I was checking my WP stats here (don’t know why though; they’ve only been going down) and I gasped when I realized that my last post, Empty Spaces, was published more than 2 months ago. Two. Months. Whoa, I’ve never…
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I feel so very happy to announce that I have been nominated by StoryMirror for Author of the Year Awards – 2018. I know I’m pretty tardy in writing regularly, and god knows of late I’ve neglected writing, the blog, and you all, but now I need your support to win the title. Please click…
