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 …
My first school was a convent. We used to pray before every lesson (which was called period), before lunch, and during the morning assembly. Other than this, my friend and I would visit the chapel inside the school before any exam. This was easily praying about 10 times a day. If a fellow class student …
One day, I received a friend request on Facebook from Shomi Pandey. Shomi Pandey was a classmate of my elder sister. We attended the same school. It so happened that one of our mutual friends had tagged some old pictures of a school picnic. The picture included my sister and Shomi among many other young …
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It was sometime in 2012. I had just started living by myself in a PG in Bombay. This was the first time I was living away from my parents. I was 24. Not that young. Still, it was very tough for me. My parents had found a PG close to my office. My mother was …
Every girl wishes to be beautiful, successful and have a loving partner. Some manage to achieve it all. So did some awesome women who were well-known faces of Indian cinema and television. They had attained the status of celebrities and people like me thought that they had it all. Yet, they were so unhappy at …
Excerpts from Jiya’s diary: Friday night I don’t exactly remember how long I have felt depressed. It has been one long and painfully uneventful week. The monotony of the same days and the same nights. I cannot even distinguish the Tuesday from the Thursday. They were all the same. I was unhappy each day, each …