“That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietszche The last few months have truly been some of the worst ones in the history of the human civilization and we are all trying to cope with them in our own ways. There are the memes, of course. Nothing ever happens these days that doesn’t get documented on…
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This is a love story… – Part 1
“Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.” – William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing Shri was angry. Sitting inside her brand new hatchback, that she’d bought with her hard earned money, she was fuming. “How is this my life?”, she asked no one in particular. The reason for her consternation? The ill-fated call from her father. She should’ve let…
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The ‘Forest’ Less Traveled…
“No one will protect what they don’t care about, and no one will care about what they have never experienced.” Sir David Attenborough We were on a trip back from Vienna when I realized the stark difference between the city and the countryside. As our train made its way through the thick pristine greenery of the typical European landscape, the…
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Stories on the move, Chapter 6 – The wrinkles of Annamarie
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.” – Mark Twain Wow! What an year… I feel that I have gone through a transformation and that I have lived a lifetime in these 11 months. Each experience I’ve had, every person that I met, every single song that I’ve heard and the places that I’ve visited. All of them have inspired…
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When you feel… Dance!
“Without music, life would be a mistake.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols “I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra I am a firm believer of following Music as a religion. For me it has always been something that transcends all kinds of man-made barriers: languages, religions and nations. That’s not…
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The Nature of Colours
“I must have flowers, always and always.” – Claude Monet “Let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in…
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The Ideal Woman – A strictly fictional account
“There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” – Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own “I took a deep breathe and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” – Laurel Thatcher…
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Mum’s the Word… :)
As I have mentioned in my previous posts, I was hardly an angel while growing up. I was rebellious and angry most of the time and was only in a good mood when there was something good to eat. I was the poster child of angry difficult teenagers and did everything opposite of what my mother would tell me to.…
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I SWEAR!
Today I had the extreme pleasure of stumbling upon the trailer of a new Hindi movie called “Veere di Wedding”. What a happenstance! While the almost 3 minutes long video successfully shows the gist and the premise of this new rather fascinating movie, what shook me the most was the A-list actresses such as Sonam, Kareena and Swara swearing up…
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The Joke that is Modesty!
I have written, deleted and re-written this post over 5 times now, yet I am unable to properly express myself. This almost never happens to me, but the recent events have left me dumbfounded and speechless, scrambling for the words that have inexplicably escaped me. So, I am writing this post as a distraught mother about the epidemic of the…
