• Chupke Chupke

    Chupke Chupke

    It seemed like the sun and breeze had made a pact that morning because the weather was perfect. Not too hot and not too cold, just right. It reminded Chanderi of Goldilocks and she wondered if the story was too childish for Chiranjeev’s students. They were about 8 or 9 and if you believed him,…

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  • Band Baaja Baaraat

    Band Baaja Baaraat

    Her room was in chaos. Her mother and mausi were sitting on the bed, talking over each other, the gold in their sarees shimmering in the tube light. Her younger cousins were in front of the mirror, checking each other’s eye liners and working hard to match the thickness of the lines on the eyelids.…

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  • Ae Dil Hai Mushkil

    Ae Dil Hai Mushkil

    The haveli in front of Chanderi looked like it had sauntered off a Karan Johar set and planted itself such that it became the very definition of picturesque. It was tall and a gentle noncontroversial grey colour that only served to enhance the trellis above the double doors filled with bright green leaves. She could…

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  • #BlogchatterA2Z theme reveal: Chanderi

    Ah it’s that time of the year again where I go a little crazier than usual. Its time to do a theme reveal for the mega blogging challenge – BlogchatterA2Z! Since I started blogging in 2017, I have been a fan of this month-long challenge. It happens in the month of April and the rules…

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  • 10 foolish ways to pick your next read

    I am undecided on how this makes me feel but exactly like dad, I have come to love window shopping. One of my self-care routines is to put a bunch of makeup in my Nykaa cart before removing it a week later. If it’s not Nykaa, then I’m window shopping a phone, or a dress…

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  • It takes a village to raise a girl

    As a woman, people seem to have a lot of opinions on me. Whether it is my job, my health, my body or my marital status, everyone has a lot to say about how I should be living. How I am failing if I’m not doing x or y or z.

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  • Not a book review: At the Existentialist Café

    I have always been proud of the fact I’m not a genre-specific reader. I will read anything, as long as its sample on Kindle incites my interest. Since most samples are about 10% of the total page count, I have found this to be a fair way to judge books before I jump into them.

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