I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;I lift my lids and all is born again. – Sylvia Plath, Mad Girl’s Love Song My best friend asked me, “If you could back in time, to one moment.. where would you go?” So many memories rush into my mind- getting my first job, getting married or having our baby.…
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The art of singular art…
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas (1834-1917)’ “I am not an artist.” I grew up with this idea. I never thought that I was creative in any way. Sure my head was always in the clouds full of stories that I would write on multiple notepads, back of my biology notebooks…
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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 5 – Nostalgic Naaz
What happens when two strangers share an instant connection in a perfect little moment... Read and find out.. :)
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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 Great Indian Festival Spirit (and more…)
“Always at home. – One day we reach our goal, and now point with pride to the long travels we undertook to reach it. In fact, we were not even aware of traveling. But we got so far because we fancied at every point that we were at home.” -Friedrich Nietzsche Home. Homestead. Abode. Words that are a foreign concept…
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The Graves of Sweet Goodbyes…
“Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death.” Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare Why do we travel? I think it is mostly due to this irresistible urge to make use of our feet, walk and explore, new places, new…
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The shoes at Danube
A relic of the profound loss that the Hungarian Jewish community suffered at the hands of the Nazis. This beautiful sculpture was established at the bank of the river Danube in 2005, to remember those men and women who were shot with arrows into the depths of this river. Made of bronzed metal they remind us about the horrifying times…
