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,…
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Book Review – Fighting for Tara by Sunanda J Chatterjee
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…
3 Day – 3 Quote Challenge : Day 3
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…
3 Day – 3 Quote Challenge: Day 2
Even before you wake up in the morning, technology has you in its grip, with the alarm you set on your cellphone waking you up. As you open your eyes to another day, and to switch off the alarm, you can’t help but sneak a quick peek at all the messages that flooded various mailboxes…
3 Day – 3 Quote Challenge : Day 1
The reason most of us find it so difficult to Let Go is because we believe in being in or wanting control. Rather ironic isn’t it, to realise that whatever it is that you wish to control actually controls you. Letting Go may seem seem difficult, but once you learn to you realise how liberating…
Book Review: Cabbing All The Way by Jatin Kuberkar
12 People. 1 problem. 1 solution. A dozen office goers decide to cut out the misery of the daily to and fro commute from their homes to their far away from civilization office by deciding to carpool. It seems like the perfect idea until they realize that 12 different people equate to 12…
Faces
Faces tell tales they say Is it true or just something that old wives say? Some have lines etched dark and deep, Did they laugh a lot or did they weep? Some eyes are happy, shiny and bright, While others are like windows, shuttered to keep out the light Did they see too much you…
Dining with Celebrities
If you had 6 chairs on your dining table, which celebrities would you invite to dinner and why? As I read this post on Ruchi’s blog I just knew I wanted to write my own. And here it is! Imagine what an ideal scenario this would be! I admit I didn’t need to think long,…
Dear Blogchatter
Dear Team Blogchatter, I had so much to share with you that I decided to write you a letter. Let me start with a heartfelt Thank You. I have been blogging since 2004 and all that mattered to me was writing a post and putting it up on my blog. That is it. I have…
In my book…
My relationship with books began from the time I was old enough to interpret one. Amar Chitra Katha was the book that first nudged me towards reading and I steadily progressed to Tinkle and Chandamama. Mark and Mandy were my best pals till Enid Blyton introduced herself to me. And from then on I had adventures galore with ‘The Famous Five’ and ‘The Secret…