Being A Woman
It almost seems a sin not to write a blog post on Women’s Day! I absolutely love being a woman. To me, a woman is like the sky; everchanging, yet…
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Is Anyone Ever Ready?
Image by Rebecca Scholz from Pixabay My nephew got married on the 15th of this month. I remember the day he was born. We were so excited to see him. A tiny little…
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Losing Our Idealistic View Of The World.
There are moments in life, when you are thrown a question and you are stumped for an answer. Last night, my student, Anmol, send me a message saying, “Teacher, Mummy…
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Word of the year, 2025
Happy New Year! It’s that time of the year to put past mistakes and failures behind us and look to the future with hope and optimism. It’s that time of…
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Mortality And Life
Yesterday was my 60th birthday and I had great plans for the day. I was on my way to Matheran where I was to conduct a writer’s retreat. As we…
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September Stories
This month, I thought I’d try my hand at writing a review-of-the-month post. While I have written a yearly review, I have never ever done a monthly one. I wonder…
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The Stage
The stage is my friend. My home. Ironic really… A hardcore introvert, I hate interacting with humans. The stage is different. On it, I am different. I am so many…
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You are free to be different
Last week I met with a few of my friends and left the get together feeling very naive and uninformed. I felt so childish compared to them; the way they…
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Anger and Frustration
I sit at the window, watching nature as she mourns. The sky is overcast, yet it is not raining. It is as if the sky is sad beyond tears. Nature…
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My Morning Pages
The beginning of the week, early in the morning, sitting with a chai and my Morning Pages notebook. My morning pages are really important to me. They anchor me. They…
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Fear & Ego
In my last blog post, I wrote about the gift I received from my friend Corinne : “The Way of the Fearless Writer” by Beth Kempton. Though I truly want…
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Tilting at windmills
A few days ago, I read a post by Sunil Bhandari on Substack. It was titled “Why I won’t protest”. His post reached somewhere deep within me and dragged out…
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