• Ghost in the mirror

    Ghost in the mirror

    When I first looked at myself in the mirror, I didn’t notice that my eyebrows were a little more arched than usual. I didn’t notice the pallor or the half-crazed look in my eye. Hey, I had a reason for missing the obvious. I was hungover. I had to attend the engagement party of my…

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  • 7 things that make life magical

    I was having a hard time coming up with fun and humorous topics to write on so I went to my trusty ChatGPT and asked it to give me some options. The first batch was so boring I had to share feedback and the second batch was better. Today’s topic is from that second batch…

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  • Making the perfect cup of chai

    I have had 1, 2, 3, 4…9 people telling me that I make an excellent cup of tea. Yes, they may be friends or family but being tea connoisseurs, if they say they enjoy the tea I make, there’s some truth in it. So today, gird your loins because I’m going to teach you how…

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  • What to do when you feel angry and helpless

    If I had to write an opening to describe 2024, or really the past 5 years, I would probably write: the world is broken. It feels like we’re going through our own version of an apocalypse, a B-grade movie where all tropes have been added. And on most days, I go through such tremendous rage…

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  • Not a book review: Whispers, lies and secrets

    Winning blog hops is a novelty for me – it is like a hand has reached from outside of me, giving me that much needed validation for my writing and blogging. Thanks to Sukaina and Manali, I have now won 3 of their blog hops and 5 books!

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  • Sweet as sugar and everything nice

    Though I love to say I don’t need more friends than the ones I already have, I have had the privilege of making friends wherever I have existed. Whether it was a boss during an internship who wasn’t even physically present and since this was pre-covid, we didn’t have any face-to-face conversations in the three-month…

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  • Not a book review: Truck de India

    First a confession: the epiphany I had around nonfiction books at the beginning of the year has actually paid off. The realization that I was judging this entire genre on the basis of popular books that didn’t speak to me was stupid. Since then, I have read 5 nonfiction books in the past 7 months…

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