A perpetually hard thing to resist
I have stayed alone in an apartment for five months. I interacted with people only over the phone or when I was outside for work or shopping. Nothing seemed unbearable, though my close ones advised me to be more social.
I slept and woke…
…their faceless identities empowering the subtle more than the substantial… Their tours were not actual but virtual!
It’s been a ‘trying’ time for most of us. I mean in both parts of speech. Exhausting and experimental. I was losing a semblance to my preferred self and succumbing mostly to domestic…
It’s been a year. Though the first 7–8 months of blogging were difficult, defining, and yet gratifying, very much like nurturing your own child, the last four months have suffered distraction and distance. In fact, even right now I feel like the way Malala Yousafzai (well-known author of the book…
…we need to go back to our grandparents, re-examine their lives as a whole and then try reconstructing our own on those very principles that pervaded theirs.
Besides politics, these days the next issue which is being talked on, diligently discussed, argued about and fought over for finality, is food…
With years of roles foisted upon her, she has forgotten what it is to be herself.
A certain Mrs Sen was staring hard at life. Four decades of scathing remarks and constant belittling had reduced her to an entity she could hardly recognise as being her true self.
Irritable and lost, all that she could remember of her past was the warmth of her childhood home…
Cherishing the simple stuff of life, staying close to nature, using a positive vocabulary, hanging out with the right kind of friends, rejecting retirement, inculcating new hobbies to boost the brain and the brawn can add to the inventory that holds the secret to a-century-and-still-batting league.
As I had mentioned in my previous article, a steady purpose and a somewhat slow pace seemed to be the secret makings of the successful life-stories of centenarians. …
Why would you wake up tomorrow? Why should you take it a little easy?
Being a teenager who was fascinated by the ‘carpe diem’ concept (seizing the now), popularised by poems like Robert Browning’s ‘The Last Ride Together’ and as a woman who still binge-watches on shows like ‘Little Things’, the present and the little are all that matters and makes sense. …
A new journey begins for a new Durga designated to vanquish the new Asura, more appropriately, Asuras.
After a precious interim of ten months, my little Durga was coming home. The joy was immense as was my anticipated relief. Through all my years, I never missed the opportunity of being in the proximity of the unique festival, the Durga Puja. Its exuberance overwhelms me every year and…
“Badi mushkil baba badi mushkil
Gore gore gaalon pe hai kaala kaala til” ~ a song from the movie Lajja, (a 2001 Bollywood drama) in which Madhuri Dixit had performed.
I am a big fan of Madhuri Dixit. Her distinctive dance moves and animated expressions seriously make many skip a…
The mind’s eye can yank you from reality into an alternate world in seconds.
The mind is a magician. It harbors the special but mysterious power of imagination. When it gets to work, it makes us see more than what could possibly meet the eye. …
