• The quest of the self

    The quest of the self

    Last year, I introduced on my blog something called as Listen to your Heart Song – handwritten notes from your wise child. It has evolved into a newsletter (for now) but thanks to that initiative, people who have known me came to know about a different side of me. A side that was into the…

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  • What makes you normal?

    What makes you normal?

    My sister is hearing impaired. I don’t like to talk about it because no matter how much I love her or empathize with her; I will never truly understand what it means to live in her shoes. To live with a disability where one of her senses is absent. 

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  • Rewind: a bookish round-up of books read in 2024

    Hello, hello. It’s December which means I can finally talk about the books I have read this year (50) and brag about them. As always, I did not want to do a usual round-up so I asked my trusty pal ChatGPT for some prompts.

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  • Not a book review: Heartstrings and Harmonies

    I met Manali in Bombay for a Blogchatter meetup this year and she was kind enough to give me her latest book Heartstrings and Harmonies. I knew the book combined fiction, love stories and of course music. But reading them, especially the lyrics and trying to figure out which song they were from, was an…

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  • I am the one I seek

    I am the one I seek

    About a year ago, I was on a lunch cruise on the backwaters of Alleppey where I saw something that I remember to this day. It was the afternoon. We were in a post lunch haze and the kids were playing hide and seek. This boy decided that the space under the cloth covered table…

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  • 3 reasons I blog

    3 reasons I blog

    I have written many, many blog posts that attempt at answering the question – why I write. My recent one perhaps comes closest to answering that question. But I haven’t ever tried to write a post on why I blog.

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  • 29 things to do when life gives you lemons

    Before writing this post, I checked what the phrase “when life gives you lemons” means. It means when life throws curve balls at you, you should stay positive. I’m not sure what lemons have to do with curve balls or who decided that lemons represented bad things. In India we use lemons to ward off…

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