The Lifestyle Blogazine
Viren was your quintessential Late Lateef. Late for appointments, late for work, late for everything. Why, he was even born two days AFTER the due date given to his mother for her delivery! It was a long-standing joke among friends that Viren would even be late for his own wedding and funeral. Well, at the…
I HATE YOU!!! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I REALLY DO! I HATE YOU! The words still reverberated in Nishka’s ears as she remembered her last day at home. ‘Gosh! It’s been 5 long years’ she said to herself. Like she did every time her memory pulled her back into the past. . Nishka…
With each new day I start once more the salty sea air my perfume my riches strewn on the shore Your waste is my treasure your thrash brings me pleasure You use and throw my mountain of joy grows Crumpled candy wrappers like diamonds they shine the candy, your child’s reward the wrapper, mine A…
I have a sweet-tooth, with a special weakness for Ice-creams. With Summer making us sweat I crave for a scoop of Ice-cream often. But we know that eating Ice-creams too often is not such a great idea, for your weighing scale. A few years ago when I came across this recipe for ‘ice-cream’ I was…
Pic Courtesy:Google I want my words to touch you caress you like silk I want my words to burn you till under the fierce flame of them you wilt I want my words to drench you when you didn’t even realize there was rain I want my words to help you erase all your pain…
A while ago I wrote a story called Hot Shower, and had people ask me what happened next? Read on to find out 🙂 Varun thought he heard a whoop. Or did he? Everything seemed blurred through the fuzzy curtain of sleep and he turned, cocooned himself within the quilt and went back to sleep….
The well-known Ramakrishna Mission Hospital and Math stood along the route between school and home. Every Pujo season, on the way to and from school, I peeped out of the car window to see if the Pandals were being set up yet. The excitement of spotting the bamboo skeleton of the Pandal being set up…
Pic Courtesy: Google We don’t have control over certain choices in life. Like, we never got to choose our genes, our relatives, the color of our eyes, and our surname. Yes, surname. Well, I hated mine! There! Out with it finally! Feel so much better now! From the time I learnt what a surname was,…
13 year old child-bride Hansa is left bereft when her 60 year old husband passes away and she is ordered to kill her new born daughter, a decision forced upon her by her husband’s brother whom she is supposed to marry in the next few hours. Helpless and scared she sits with her 3 month…
You hear so many people saying this these days. What does it even mean? When you love yourself, it is like being in a relationship with yourself. And the basic requirement for every relationship is respect, trust and understanding. So when you love yourself you respect yourself enough to say no to all choices may…