Sakshi was the villain long before she left for Denmark. One braid, one book, one bus ride, one refusal at a time, she became the girl who put ideas in other girls’ heads. Sakshi owns the reputation she never asked for and the life she chose anyway.
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We joke about girl math as if the strangest female calculation is justifying a handbag on sale. But the real girl math is quieter: outfit against commute, shortcut against streetlight, empty seat against stranger.
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I first met Ruskin Bond in a Standard 10 English classroom, through a boy, his grandfather, and three cherries. Years later, I understand why that moment stayed. His stories taught me that quiet writing is never small. It notices ordinary people, simple moments, and everyday details until they become unforgettable.
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We placed mothers on pedestals and called it respect, without noticing how quickly admiration turns into expectation. The moment women become symbols of sacrifice and strength, they stop being allowed complexity, mistakes, exhaustion, anger, ambition, or even ordinary humanity.
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I started the A to Z Challenge thinking I had chosen storytelling as a theme. Twenty-six posts later, I realised I had been writing about people, survival, identity, discomfort, and the stories we tell ourselves to keep going.
What The A to Z Challenge Taught Me About Storytelling Read More »
We call it a fresh start, a new chapter, ground zero. But sometimes the story of starting over is less about becoming someone new, and more about finding the courage to begin while carrying everything we always carry.
Zero: The Stories We Tell About Starting Over Read More »
Sometimes, Yes doesn’t arrive as a decision. It arrives as duty, peacekeeping, family expectation, and survival. Then, years later, we call it “how things went” because that is easier to live with.
Yes: The Stories We Tell When We Have No Choice Read More »
What looks like warmth from the outside often feels like responsibility from the inside. This is a story about overfeeding guests, hiding effort, and the inherited performance of hospitality.
Xenial: The Stories We Tell Around Hospitality Read More »
Women are often asked to explain choices that men make without a story. Work, travel, ambition, self-care, success, even distance from people. All arrive with a justification attached. Here are some of the stories women learn to tell before anyone asks, and the uncomfortable truth of how often we pass them on.
Women: The Stories We Tell About Ourselves Read More »
Viewpoint changes everything. Through motherhood, work, myth, judgement and myth, we look at what happens when the story moves from where we stood to where someone else did.
Viewpoint: The Stories That Look Different From the Other Side Read More »
