• How I nurture my creativity

    If there is one thing that I have heard from the Blogchatter community and team members, it is the need to schedule free thinking time. For some of us, travelling time constitutes that time when one can think and allow the mind to just expand and flow. For others, it could be a walk among…

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  • The transformative power of empathy

    Any time I come across a brand on social media that claims it has a social cause angle to it as well, the first section I check is the About section. I love finding out how someone decided that recycling plastics to make shoes was a great idea. Or why someone thought of using rag…

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  • How do you rate books?

    How do you rate books?

    I dislike giving stars to books. I remember talking to a friend, telling her how much I love a book and she happened to see the rating I had given this book and she was confused because I had given it only 3 stars. When she asked me to explain, I had no idea why…

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  • Journaling: something new that has helped my mental health

    I have always been envious of people who could journal. A friend of mine still has her journals from school and she goes through them from time to time, just to reaffirm how she has grown and yet, maintained her child-like awe and terror in new experiences.

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  • Reading tales: Project Hail Mary and the Murderbot Diaries

    I haven’t written a post on my blog – or for #BlogchatterBlogHop – in a while and it does not surprise me that I’m breaking this dry spell because this week’s prompt says: a book or movie that deeply impacted you. And now I have zero excuses to not talk about these two books that…

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  • What is effective storytelling

    We are all storytellers. Whether it is the stories we tell our friends – of incidents where we were the protagonist or how we were appreciated for something at work – or the stories we tell ourselves – maybe I shouldn’t eat this extra roti because I need space for dessert – we love telling…

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  • 3 things on kindness I have learnt from my parents

    My household has always been one where birthdays and celebrations have been bookended by donations – either to old age homes or orphanages. I still remember the yearly letter we used to get from Help Age India and how dad’s contribution had been used to help someone’s livelihood.

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