Last night I had a dream. It was not a dream. It was a nightmare. I had watched a very scary horror movie late at night before going to bed. It is no surprise the movie affected my mind. In my dream, I was transported back in time to the house where I lived as …
Durga Puja has always been special for me. Since childhood it has been that time of the year that I prayed to Durga Maa. Alone, asking her for things that I was sure she would give me. In my head, I spoke to her when I saw her idol. Her striking eyes, her long hair, …
How do you say Goodbye to a year in which every family you know has said Goodbye to a loved one? How can you be positive about 2022, when you know you did the same in the beginning of 2021, and yet all it gave you was sadness, disappointment and grief? I read the post …
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This is a picture of Chartered Accountancy (“CA”) exam results. These are not my results. I qualified a long time ago. This is just something I found on Google. What triggered this post? CA results were announced recently. Some people I knew passed the exam this time and became a Chartered Accountant. I congratulated them. …
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Dream 1 Few days ago, I was tensed about something at work. It was not such a big deal, yet I was nervous. The night before, I dreamt that I was going somewhere in a car, and my late Dadi was sitting with me. Except that there was not one Dadi, but two Dadis! One …
I had written ‘lockdown’ posts in 2020. Lockdown 1, lockdown 2, lockdown 3, lockdown 4 and so on. These posts revolved around sanitizing milk packets, Maggi not being available in the market, Zoom calls with family as boredom relief and complaining about doing housework without maids. March 2020, my parents and so many other people their age received …
Some two weeks ago I was reading a book about grief. It was written by a woman who lost her husband and her son within a span of 10 months. The author who was a spiritual person shared her thoughts on moments before death, death itself and coping with it. The author said that people …
Not too long ago, my sister had forwarded this picture to us in our family WhatsApp group with a caption ‘Meet Cuddles’! ‘Wow!’ – Me ‘Is he real or a toy!’ – My mom ‘Diya (niece’s name changed) must have gone crazy to get such a cute puppy!! – My dad My niece had been …
The cute child “Bachche Chacha Nehru se pyaar karte the! Chacha Nehru khoobsurat the. Bachche har khoobsurat cheez se pyaar karte hain!” I listened, admiring my beautiful Hindi teacher reading out a chapter on Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. The teacher was very fond of me. “You look like a doll!” She would say. I would blush. …
A woman I know through blogging had lost her daughter who must be about 20. People were commenting on her post: It is all destiny. She is in a better place. It is karma. It is karma?? Whose karma? The young girl got hit by a speeding car who did not care to stop. He …