Life Stories is where the ordinary things sit before they become stories. A sentence overheard, a room remembered, a small irritation, a moment that looked harmless at first and then refused to leave. These pieces are about everyday life, memory, family, work, identity, and the strange ways we become ourselves while doing everything else.
Hey guys, Ankita of Corallista fame has been doing Fun Sundays for the last few months and I love those posts of hers. I decided to shamelessly copy get inspired by her format and do this post; since she tags everyone in the post anyway! 1. Weekend Plans?My weekend plan was a bucket list of things […]
Winter is coming, there is a nip in the air that I am quite enjoying. my morning coffee tastes (and feels) sooo much better these days. I have yet to get the woolens out of hibernation! Speaking of cold, I am headed up north next week. Its definitely going to be colder there but rafting
Karwa Chauth is the most celebrated festival in Hindi movies. Isn’t it? Thanks to Yash Chopra (RIP), the entire nation knows about the rituals of it! I think he is also responsible for a new breed on converts who want to fast even if it is not their tradition to. I have always pondered what
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So, I am trying to blog daily and today, dreams are on my mind. I started the day with weird dreams that left me happy. I don’t even remember the dream now, just the fact that it left me happy. Funny, right? Some of my dreams are so strange I wonder where they came from.
I want to write again. I haven’t written anything significant in a long long time now. God alone knows why. probably because I felt that I didn’t have any significant idea or intelligent thought to blog about. But today I realised that waiting has not helped. This blog is for me. It is my space
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In my Nth viewing of Kung Fu Panda this Sunday, we pondered over why Po became the dragon warrior (those of you who haven’t seen this animated film, see it NOW!) and it call came down to two things. First, he always had it in him to be the dragon warrior, he wanted to be
Hey girls, how many of you have gone through the weight loss drama? The gymming, the dieting, the sugar ban, the caffeine ban, the juice diet, the gm diet, the soup diet, the yoga, the pilates and god knows what else…. how many websites or books have you tried to read? What happens when none
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Hi ladies, travelling during pregnancy can be a pain… More so when it is an international travel. Right? I went to a conference when I was pregnant. Let me take you back in time on that journey and tell you what I learnt on What Not To Wear when travelling during pregnancy. Day1: Flight from
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The other day I was talking to a colleague in Mumbai. He started talking to me in Marathi all of a sudden. It started with a few simple words every person who has stayed in Mumbai is likely to know. Then, we proceeded to have a full blown conversation abt our project deliverables, agreed timelines etc
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My daughter is playing with her blocks as I write this… she stacks them one atop the other… on every successful stack, she claps her hands in glee.. every time the wobbly tower collapses she says “dhamm ho gaya” (it fell) and laughs. She then promptly picks up the pieces and restarts her stacking… if