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I’d always heard the phrase a lot can happen in a year. In the sedentary life I lead, the last excitement occurred in 2008, where I went from being comfortable financially to being broke in a matter of months (Recession). Still, I knew the only thing I had to do was find work. Whereas this […]

Cultural expectations What are ‘cultural expectations’? In simple terms, the layer of expectations piled on us, based on the culture we belong to. With the ever-changing world, it is difficult to fulfil all the expectations placed on you growing up. Especially if you live in a different culture and have examples of people being happy […]

There are two more posts in the ‘expectations’ series coming your way. I’ve been distracted a lot by other things happening and before I knew it, focusing on being mindful about writing a post resulted in this post 😉 Most often, when we hear the word Mindfulness, our immediate thoughts head to meditation. We imagine […]

From family, the expectations begin early. Sometimes right from our childhood. ‘You are a child; you need to do what you are told,’ or ‘Girls don’t laugh loudly,’ or ‘boys need to hold it all in.’ As we grow old, they just get compounded, ‘You have to top the class to get a job’ to […]

Have you ever imagined what would be like showing up to a board meeting wearing casuals? Or telling your family you’d rather spend major holidays like Christmas/Diwali alone with a book and a blanket? Or telling your ‘well meaning’ relatives that you don’t want to get married and have children? Yeah, I know the mantra […]

काल करे सो आज कर, आज करै सो अब | पल में परलय होयगी, बहुरी करेगा कब || (Finish tomorrow’s task today, And today’s task right now. When would you finish them, If the world ends next moment.) Early millennials like me grew up reading this couplet from a renowned poet Kabir Das. I was […]

One of the lesser-known facts about me is that throughout my teen years, I was an avid Diary writer. Dear diary, why my life is so messed up, why my parents don’t understand me…the usual. Everything that happened, anything of consequence that is, went right into my journal. Sometimes, when I was low, I’d read […]

When I tell people that I am an author as well, they often ask about the stuff that I wrote. And when I respond with, I write fiction, romantic fiction to be precise. They go ‘How can you be a life coach and write romantic fiction?’ Usually, at this point, I activate the distract mode […]

Neel woke up with the shuffling noise. He opened his eyes a crack and saw Durga moving around in the room, opening cupboards, banging against things. Usually he’d get very annoyed at this, he hated his mornings to begin in a hustle, Durga knew this and she’d tiptoe around him till he’s had his morning […]

Most of us have been raised with Fairy tales as bedtime stories, the shoe fits Cinderella, princess kissed the frog, prince rescued the princess, once upon a time and then they lived Happily Ever After. I grew up curious. Spent the first part of my teens desperately trying to fit in, and the second part […]