I finally managed to watch this movie. I find it very difficult to sit through these movies with unnecessary songs and new actors and actresses because I don’t like any of them! But someone had recommended me to watch it since it was on consent. As a movie I did not find it that great …
Satyaprem Ki Katha: Well Intended But Problematic Read More »
1st February 2021, my grandmather passed away. I have blogged about her before. Somehow, I feel the world has been crazy since then. The second wave of covid happened. So many people died. Age or health had no connection, people just died. The war started. And as insignificant as I may be in the grand …
Raw Emotions On My Grandmother’s Birthday: The Black Hole and A Door Read More »
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 …
2022: I Welcome You With Open Arms, Do Not Disappoint! Read More »
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 …
I have always hated February. My grandfather died on 24th February 1967. Of course, I did not exist then. I never met my grandfather. But growing up, I heard my Dadi say how she hates this month and thinks it is jinxed. Dadi never travelled in February. She did not like any of us travelling …
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 …
Broken in spirits, And broken in thoughts. Deprived of every joy Her mind is in knots She was fooled yet again, In the life she detested Everything she ever liked Was brutally contested The pretense was too much She wanted to break free Keep going on without a word Was her family’s decree …
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. …
Dear Tanvi, Would you be interested in moderating a panel discussion? We would be discussing how women are enjoying outdoor spaces. Me? Moderating? I felt a slight fluttering in my stomach. I drank some water. ____________________________________________ At the age of 5 – Somewhere in a convent school in Patna Mother looks at her daughter’s quiz …