Relax, nothing’s in control
” What’s the matter?” “I just feel like the world is spinning, and nothing is in my control..” “And?” “And what? It’s irksome..”
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Leave the last candle burning
He had expected the day to feel like any other. He wasn’t the sentimental sort himself, but his daughter had insisted. “What do you mean you won’t cut a cake? …
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TV Sociopaths and The Good Wife
This post is perhaps about stating the obvious. Except that the obvious is sometimes so omnipresent, that you can easily miss it. So, I watch some television. Not much…some shows, …
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Ajaya: Roll of the dice
The victor wins not just the war, but all the rights of retelling the story- the chance not only to shape history, but also to shape the narrative that will …
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All that never happened
The ache.. is from nothing that has happened. The ache is of all the things that haven’t. They take birth with a surge somewhere in the chest, change form into …
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Alone Together
It had been a long day. I was at last out of office, and had now been on the bus for ten, maybe twenty minutes. I couldn’t tell how long …
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How to Love
“To love without knowing how to love, wounds the person we love.” I had come across this quote a little while back and found myself nodding. Turns out it belongs …
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Movement & Stillness
I went running- I was fast, I was focused. My shoes were thumping the ground in quick succession. The air cut whooshing sounds about my ears, and so I did …
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In Books: Unfinished Business
I’ve never been much of an avid reader. But I was always a finisher. If you started something, you finished it- it just never even occurred to me that it …
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Keep Calm and Throw a Punch
You know how you wake up some mornings with a clear list of people you’d like very much to punch? And how no amount of Yoga seems to get your …
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Evolution of Idleness
There I sit, one foot propped on the other knee, eyes looking at nothing in particular, face turned up towards the sun. Perhaps I look silly and happy.. or perhaps dazed …
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Bol, Croatia
Hello stranger! From all who have been here Now.. and since countless years The wind and the sun The sky and the ocean And you are here today Pause before …
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And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini has this unusual gift of leaving you uplifted, and with an unmistakable lingering sense of loss at the same time. Each of his books does that, and the …
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Eye of the Beholder
“ This place is too elitist,” she sighed, putting her bag down as they entered the hotel room. “ Really? You got that from the check-in at the reception?” he …
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Some thoughts on Mother’s Day
My mother is an incredible woman. I know every child feels this way about their mother, and that is how it should be. However just like every other child, I …
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Places that Scare You
For a book that makes such a whole lot of sense, ‘The Places that Scare You’ does surprisingly little for me. Maybe it’s to do with the fact that things it …
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Venice, Italy
So, it happens something like this..On the train to Venice, I am reading this book called ‘The Places that Scare You’- which essentially implores one to sit face to face …
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Verona, Italy
Most people hear of Verona in the context of the tale of ‘Romeo and Juliet’. These two protagonists of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy belonged to rival families from Verona. It seems …
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That night..
The sun had set already When I heard the hooves on stone I saw them coming up our little fortress With an expression that would chill one’s bones
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Goa!! India (2016)
So what makes an epic trip? Thank you Goa, 4 times and counting. I will be back!
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The Power of your Sub-Conscious Mind
It always amazes me how little one is able to say about the things that impact one the most. The thing could be a book/ person/ experience. Perhaps it is …
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