The clouds seemed to be darkening by the minute thought Mia as she looked up at the sky yet again. She then craned her neck to look down the winding road as far as her eye could see. No sign of the bus yet, she sighed to herself her shoulders…
As kids summers meant Sundays spent at the beach. At the crack of dawn, my sister and I would be up, waking our favorite uncle (only for the beach Sundays, please! We could afford to be picky. We had 5 uncles, you see!) from the deep slumber he had fallen…
Let me start with a confession. In Bombay or Mumbai, as it is known, we don’t really have what other states of India called ‘Winter’. What we do have is a change of season. So, from the end of October onwards when there is a slight nip in the air…
‘…aur ahista kijiye baatein, dhadkane koi sun raha hoga’…if you grew up listening to this soulful ghazal by Pankaj Udhas there are chances that you remember the pavadai (half saree)clad, long-haired, dusky beauty from the music video too. That beauty was Sameera Reddy. That video was her debut and it…
Everyone has their own way of untangling the crossed wires of their mind. My way happens to be playing online games. When I hit a mental block, or feel too overwhelmed by more thoughts and ideas than my brain can handle, or when I just need to destress my go-to…
For their weekly Blog Hop, one of the prompts by Blogchatter for this week was, ‘Would you rather visit Moon or Mars?’. Mars! Mars! I want to visit Mars! Why? That’s where the men are supposedly from! ‘Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus’, remember this line? How…
Reading and Writing are both my loves. How do you choose one over the other, and in this case one without the other? I read so that I can write better. I write what others would like to read. When I go back in time, I realize that I discovered…
The only constant thing in this world is change. When I was growing up change used to be gradual, even slow if I may add, but the pace is not the same anymore. The speed of change is now dizzying. Change is exciting and it is also scary but if…
‘Form a single file, put your finger on your lips, and follow me’, rang out Ms. Phadnis’s clear voice in the corridor. We looked at each other with barely contained excitement, furiously whispering behind the finger on our lips. ‘No talking, Girls!’, Ms. Phadnis turned back to glare us down.…
Buying a house is one of the most important decisions in a person’s life. It is also one of the most expensive ones. One can find that buying a house is confusing and overwhelming. There are many steps to buy a house and it’s important to find out what you…