Sundays in Thane in the 1960s
I have been born and brought up in Thane. Though today it is a bustling metropolis, fifty odd years ago it was a small cluster of villages and everyone knew…
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Set Their Love Free
Yes, I love dogs. In fact I love all animals; sometimes more than humans. I think that they are smarter than us because they understand us, while we don’t understand…
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Of Cluttering and Letting go.
Yay! I managed to declutter this much paper today! This bunch of paper is finally, finally going to go out of my house! What? You want to know why I…
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Little Things
Today I had an hour between my two sessions of Creative Writing at Just Books Library, at Siddhachal. It was not long enough to go home, but enough to have…
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Words When I decided to publish my book of poems, “Who Shall I be today?” , I had a hard time trying to figure our the first poem. That is…
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Talking to kids about patriotism.
She sat on the kitchen platform, legs dangling over the edge. I moved about putting dishes away and generally pottering around. “Mamma,” she said suddenly, “Do you know what I…
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Kids and Freedom!
The prompt for today was, “Giving Freedom to kids” Once upon a time childhood was synonymous with Freedom. The freedom to lounge around the house on a holiday. The freedom…
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Freedom? What’s that?
For the first time in my life, I could not immediately begin writing when I was given a prompt. The prompt was , “What does freedom mean to me.” This…
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Putting others in our boxes
Today as I walked from the library where I conduct my creative writing classes to the auto rickshaw stand, I saw an old couple and a younger woman talking on…
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My word for 2018
Sometime ago, Corinne Rodrigues had blogged about her word of the year. The concept intrigued me and as I read about it, I realised it really made more sense to…
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My 500 Words : Day 1
I first came across Jeff Goins as a result of a Google search a couple of years ago. He and Michael Hyatt are the two people I have been religiously…
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2017: A real mean mom of a year!
I think this year, the universe decided that I needed to be shaken out of my complacency and that I needed a mean mom to do that. Because that is…
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