September 16, 2020
Bragging about being married for a lot many years, I have given myself the certificate to give relationship advice. Surviving a marriage for that many […]
August 24, 2020
Every woman deserves a day for herself during her periods. What she chooses to do with it should be her choice. Some go through hell […]
May 28, 2020
A highly dramatised version of what the first half of my day looks like. In no way should this be compared to the real people […]
May 19, 2020
Yup! Successfully completed two months of covid-19 lockdown today. Honestly in the beginning I didn’t know what the fuss was all about? How difficult could […]
November 20, 2019
Getting a child de-addicted from electronic media! A challenge for parents. Here's how we did it.
November 11, 2019
A bunch of fresh teenagers were having a discussion when I saw them. Dressed swag, some of the girls had their hair high up in […]
November 1, 2019
I don’t live in a joint family but I used to once upon a time and I now live very close to my mum’s, which […]
October 16, 2019
“If you don’t study now, you can work as a house-help when you grow up!”. Why do we keep telling this to our children and […]
October 10, 2019
I try to find a Cafe Coffee Day when I am travelling. Serves all purposes. Best cappuccinos, lightly toasted sandwiches, clean toilets, air conditioned outlets […]
October 4, 2019
I live alone. I am not single. I am not a widower. I just live alone. My wife works in a country thousand of miles […]
October 2, 2019
The Hindu calendar is looking colourful, marking almost every other day with auspicious times and events. All the households are gearing up for festivities. Families […]
October 1, 2019
I have two kids aged almost 10 and almost 5. If you thought that the 5 years age gap was perfect, so did I, before […]
September 27, 2019
You have worked hard for a year with all your might. You managed to get to work even on sick days and saved up those […]
September 21, 2019
Do you remember the student studying in a college nearby where I live, who burnt himself to death a couple of years ago? A friend […]
September 20, 2019
Minimalism As the World economy is changing rapidly, the concept of minimalism is gaining momentum. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the term, […]
September 17, 2019
Top educational institutions and schools have something to say to the parents every parents teachers interface. The head of the school will say somewhere in […]
September 16, 2019
To all the girl clans out there, You want to go and earn a living, do it. Don’t do it because men are doing it. […]
August 16, 2019
Raksha Bandhan was always special to me as I shared my name with it. When I was a little girl I loved this festival the […]
June 12, 2019
I drove into the air checking bay after I had refuelled our red skoda rapid family car. I lowered my windows and felt the hot […]
April 10, 2019
This is the last nail in the coffin and the last part of my Miscarriage story. For many years I sulked over my miscarriage at […]
February 28, 2019
I wrote this just before the Valentine’s Day but figured I should wait for a safe time to publish it. While my husband is busy […]
November 19, 2018
Anything fed to the human brain in a repeated manner during the growing phase is etched onto it forever. So was the sound of cuckoo […]
October 9, 2018
I grew up in a small village in coastal Karnataka along with my 6 siblings. Our father was a Hindu Brahmin priest. He wore the […]
July 13, 2018
Women empowerment has become the much talked topic of the year 2018. Be it news channel debates, political party’s agenda for their promotion, school essays […]
June 8, 2018
The last scene I remember when I think about leaving United Kingdom in 2012, is a bustling Kirkgate Farmers market in the very Asian Bradford […]
March 23, 2018
I have to tell you, this might make the some of you very jealous but that’s exactly why I am writing this. Ever since I […]
March 3, 2018
Don’t make it harder than it already is for me, The board needs to judge, for they not know me, Together everything we can do, […]
October 3, 2017
I love my dogs, even if they don’t talk, They enjoy with me every walk. muzzle and sniff, to know where I have been, For […]
March 25, 2017
The world is not enough. This held good for Bond and holds good for us all now. Quite literally, when I say it. The last […]
February 22, 2017
It’s one of those days when I am held up at home having some time to chit chat with the two part time domestic helpers […]
February 13, 2017
No matter how many blogs, articles, theories and thesis get printed, the damned towel is still on the bed! I wonder if the towel made […]
February 11, 2017
This is the story of an ordinary IT couple who did ordinary things until being ordinary bored them. Their life so far was everything but mundane until Priya graduated and landed herself in one of the top IT companies that recruits humans like herds of buffaloes from universities. This is where their run of the mill lives began. Priya was excited with the prospect of working for a “MNC” (short for Multi-National Companies, you must see the way the “HRs” {Human Resource Personnel} use the term MNC with such ease and snob) .
February 7, 2017
Talking about men is very difficult. Writing about them is even more. Though they say women are more complicated than men, being a woman myself […]
January 29, 2016
One of my friends, after seeing my recent FB post on Republic Day celebrations, asked me to write on the school that I visited and without giving it any thought I agreed. After that I switched on my thinking mode and I questioned myself why I agreed to it? It is not only because I enjoy writing but I enjoying writing about places where I enjoy being.