I have not given this year credit enough for being an important year of my life. In so many ways I am still stuck to the memories of my year in Boston and how wonderful it was. How it expanded my horizons, how it gave me friends who have become an important part of myContinueContinue reading “Walking ahead”
Category Archives: Life
Word Play
P surprises me endlessly these days with the way he uses and observes words. While channel surfing this evening, we chanced upon a soap which showed a woman being kidnapped. My 4-yr-old immediately quips. ” Why is it kid-nap? It should be elder-nap.” I patted him proudly on the head. I am such a Mom.
My random morning poem
I have decided, to write for half an hour. Let the unwashed clothes wait in a pile. I’ll allow the rice to soak a little longer, ignore the un-ironed clothes in the basket, watch my mother-in-law mask her irritation. Dust settles every second on every idle thing. My mind, untouched for a year, now hasContinueContinue reading “My random morning poem”
Oblique rants 2
At some moments, a greater intelligence speaks with urgency. Her voice tells me lessons that I have closed my worldly ears to. So she nudges my heart and asks it to set my mind free. Often she succeeds and then her wisdom lends itself to me. Like a road trodden by a million feet, myContinueContinue reading “Oblique rants 2”
Friendships, feelings and forgiveness
I have few close friends and even fewer people seem to get me. At first I thought there was something wrong with me. Then I felt that I didn’t communicate enough. With time I have realized that the problem is dual. First of all, I don’t speak too much about me. When I don’t speakContinueContinue reading “Friendships, feelings and forgiveness”
Rolling in the deep
Over a period of 6 years, I gave up most things that brought me joy. Why, I don’t know. I didn’t even notice it. Books slipped past me, music climbed charts and fell, steps disappeared from the feet. I lost joy in my work and it became more about money, I ignored my health soContinueContinue reading “Rolling in the deep”
Inside you is an Ugly Betty
Inside you is an Ugly Betty, an Elle Woods or a Desperate Housewife. A flawed woman, an imperfect woman eager to make herself more perfect for someone else, to be what someone else thinks of them, someone who is sometimes overwhelmed by the things she doesn’t have but wants to live a happier life andContinueContinue reading “Inside you is an Ugly Betty”
Conversations with God
An excerpt from a conversation with my 2yr 8 month old :- Me: You keep asking me why for every little thing Pranav. I don’t know everything! Pranav: Why don’t you know everything? Me: Because only God knows everything and I am not God. Pranav: I know everything. I am God. Me: Fine. You areContinueContinue reading “Conversations with God”
First Draft
Has already been edited. Here is the second. ……. The moon emerged from her mouth. She swallowed the universe whole, chewed on little planets, pushed aside galaxies with her tongue till comets came rushing out Laughing, tumbling over each other zooming away before they clash into smoky nothingness. Little asteroids falling out burnt the moon’sContinueContinue reading “First Draft”
Being a woman
is learning to be ok with what you dislike to be happy, sad or neutral, learning to live your emotions making an uninfluenced choice is finding freedom in little things – a meal, book or dance, to float even when you think life is tied down, to sink so you rise above is knowing toContinueContinue reading “Being a woman”
Atha : Returning to the Now 