Once upon a time we had a life. We all had a life, and then Facebook happened. Do you remember the time when we used to laugh, talk, gossip and have a good time, without constantly thinking of sharing it. Not so long ago when we didn’t have to take a picture of […]
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‘I have a teenager at home’ and if it doesn’t sound like the cry for help from way under the debris, nothing else will. I read somewhere, “We all are great parents, till we actually become one”. I used to think exactly like that. I had life changing ideas about parenting, I believed, I would […]
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When I first heard his talk, (Andrew Solomon Ted Talk) I was puzzled about how could someone reach out to my heart so effortlessly. The more I heard him talk, the more I realised the similarities between his insights, thoughts and mine. He is a professional and I am a parent but he has an […]
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Welcome! If you are the kind of parent who has understood the sarcasm in the title and is here out of intrigue; you are welcome. And if you are the parent who have really come seeking the answer; You’ve come at just the right place. This post is for you. Please stay and let’s try […]
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The frenzied ragbag of thoughts that occupy every square nanometer of a woman’s mind from the time she opens her eyes in the morning till she closes them at night (only to resume the same in her dreams in the form of a motion picture!), can easily outscore the number of galaxies in the universe. […]
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Somebody has rightly said,‘The best times in life are random, unplanned and completely spontaneous.’ And I couldn’t agree more. When Papa the dearest, came home tired in the evening only to know that his little girl has seen a dog’s movie trailer and is super excited about the film, he proposed to watch the […]
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Being a special needs mother isn’t the best thing in the world as propagated by many but it’s not the worst either. It’s somewhere in the middle! Like that tiny sole boat which keeps bobbing because of constant ocean currents or high tides. The bad days seem like you’d be eaten alive by giant waves, […]
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This happened recently. I am in the wrong side of 30s and was going through an early onset of mid-life crisis where I was extremely unhappy about my job but wasn’t able to leave it. My safe full-time job provided me with a perceived notions of ‘independence,’ and I am not only talking about financial […]
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It’s a cozy winter afternoon. You have played with them till they got tired. Bathed them. Gave them a good oil massage. Fed them. Again played with them until their battery has drained fully, and finally… put them to bed. Children!! They can be exhausting sometimes. As you hear the sweet sounds of their […]
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Two days ago, a news startled all the residents of our small colony. A 19 year old boy from our society was killed in a road accident. A boy that almost all of us had seen growing and blossoming into a handsome, 6″2 tall young man. Everyone was shocked and horrified calling each other to […]
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This was long before Delhi was unofficially declared the rape capital, when I had my little princess. The daughter I so badly wanted. My pride, my heart and my soul, all turned into a bundle of 2.6 kg, given to me wrapped in a white towel. Her face shining like a bright light, her brown […]
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This letter was written for the thirteenth birthday of my son. He celebrated his birthday last month and just like any other mother of a teenage boy, I felt the need to tell him how I felt on that day and how I could never share all this with him verbally ( he never has […]
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