This sub-category is like a personal blog for writers. Writings primarily based in personal experience are part of this.
I started finding ways to regularize myself. The mood improved, and I started finding new hobbies and self-motivation. I’m starting to feel alive inside my home now. This has been an exercise in managing anxiety and retaining some sense of balance and control in life, even with all the privileges that I have.
In today’s time of dating and meeting, we have lost the value of true love. And bingo we have dating sites if one will go another will come. But when you are stuck in four walls of your room during this lockdown, you all must be realizing what’s next? Something parted away, and I have…
I conflict every day to see goodness. I try to find a pure soul, a soul with no evil shades, something so innocent that proves me wrong because I believe that the world is full of betrayal, jealousy, selfishness, ego, crime, and uncountable offenses. I believe it because I think I am one of them!…
Life is mysterious. So is death. Moreover, death is inevitable and a possibility that can come to confront any of us all of a sudden. One moment you are enjoying a telephonic conversation with your dear ones, and the next one may be your last call. There is a saying, ‘Life is the greatest lie, while death is the most painful truth.’
April sets in. The air fills itself with the scent of ‘Kopou’ (foxtail orchid) blooming in all its beauty; the Kuli bird bursts forth in its full-throated melody, and the fields are ready to be harvested. But where are they? Their houses seem grey devoid of any merriment or feasting. Their kitchens don’t seem to…
On his 80th birthday, we are taking a tour back in time to discover how the great Al Pacino, one of America’s finest actors, rose to fame in the entertainment industry and has become a household name ever since. Acting, according to Pacino, is about “getting in a state that brings about freedom and expression…
Let me tell you a story Once there were two boys who lived in a strange country. Not only was the country known for its spiritual people and their love for mysticism, but also for their love for drama, over-the-top celebrations, and preference for the spectacle and spice-heavy intricate cuisine. Though considered a ‘developing nation,’…
Since mid-December, only one news appeared every day, and it was about the protests that had begun in response to the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019. At the beginning of the new decade, a new news item made it to prime time, and it was about the spread of mysterious, suspected cases of…
Ever since the COVID lockdown started, I came across a lot of social media posts about how this forced isolation could be a blessing in disguise. People were gushing about how Shakespeare had written ‘King Lear’ in quarantine, Isaac Newton had done groundbreaking research when he had to spend a year in isolation to avoid…
Growing up is a slow process. The pace at which we age, is mostly determined by the speed at which a tired out ancient planet moves around a hot ball of gas. We tire and retire along with it. In the process of narrowing down definitions trying to figure out whether we have grown up…
I was pacing in my dining room today, agonizing over my Ph.D. research questions when suddenly I spotted a large dark shape in my neighbor’s backyard. I stopped and looked again to see what the shape was and found a peahen standing on top of a concrete fencing post, staring off into another backyard. It…
Playing a sport had no space in the culture of the town or the household I grew up in. Watching a sport, yes. Obsessively commenting on it, double yes. But playing, nope. Choosing it as a career, blasphemy! Nevertheless, the sportsman in me never shied away from showing his passion to my family. I had…
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