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#Life, Reminiscences, Thoughts, Uncategorized Posted on5th August 2016

Tiny,shiny shoes and giant pair of feet

It was my friend’s baby shower. I wore a pale pink saree and light makeup. Reaching for the shoe rack, I started digging in the […] Read More

#Life, Reminiscences, Thoughts, Uncategorized Posted on4th August 2016

Curious case of arranged marriages – Caught red-handed

Indian weddings are a celebration. In most of the cases, this lifetime event is characterized by grandeur, pompousness, high decibel levels, extremely musical, peppy and […] Read More

#Life, Reminiscences, Thoughts, Uncategorized Posted on2nd August 20162nd August 2016

Fragile Lives

Her heart is neither pure nor strong Her thoughts are neither right nor wrong She’s timid and scared, but survives Fragile lives.. She is old, weak […] Read More

#Life, Reminiscences, Thoughts, Uncategorized Posted on2nd August 2016

What you don’t know about Sweden – Two life’s lessons

When I first got to know that we have to move to Sweden as expats, I opened up the map to check the coordinates. It […] Read More

#Life, Reminiscences, Thoughts Posted on1st August 20161st August 2016

Football Penchant – Stranger than fiction

I have always been a “dreamy eyed, star gazing, lost in my own thoughts” sort of a woman. Often laughable, largely misunderstood, many a times […] Read More

Uncategorised Posted on30th April 201514th May 2015

Zenith as I dream #ATOZCHALLENGE #1000SPEAK

  A cleaner greener earth Love will have no dearth Crystal blue gushing water Twinkling stars and your laughter!   One religion, being human Race, […] Read More

poem Posted on29th April 201515th May 2015

Happiness Yonder #ATOZCHALLENGE

  Its dark my foot sinks as I cross the marsh there’s a thorny bush to hold disheveled hair and the wind is cold   […] Read More

poem Posted on28th April 201515th May 2015

Being Xenon #ATOZCHALLENGE #1000SPEAK

The world makes me Xenon inert,  lifeless,  invisible colorless yet invincible!    This post is written as the twenty fourth in the series of AtoZ challenge and a […] Read More

Uncategorised Posted on27th April 20153rd May 2015

WALKING IN THE WARZONES #ATOZCHALLENGE #1000SPEAK

    Yesterday, I started reading the wonderful book by Murakami – “What I talk about when I talk about running”. I had picked the […] Read More

poem Posted on25th April 201515th May 2015

Virtue of prayers #ATOZCHALLENGE #1000SPEAK

 As I write this, somewhere in the world, a few thousand kilometers away, a young boy is half buried deep in rubble. His body is […] Read More

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Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
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Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
by Farah Bashir
Cobalt Blue
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Cobalt Blue
by Sachin Kundalkar
A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India
it was amazing
Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India
by Madhur Jaffrey
A Passage to India
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A Passage to India
by E.M. Forster

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