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What is a small town life? Well,here is my routine. Most well to-do people i know in this town wake up late,so do i. Sleep seems to be a luxury only the saabs in the bungalows can afford.By the time i walk down,my breakfast is ready. I hardly ever meet the morning angel that cooks
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I’ve realized so many new qualities in me in this new phase of life. Makes me wonder if we are ever the same person through all the chapters in our life. I had limited myself to believe that there is only one way to be happy. That I am this ‘one kind’ of person. Marriage,
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Growing up is quite an involuntary process for most of us and comes as an eventuality in life. I find that I have become quite hard on myself since I’ve got married. Behave in a certain manner, wear only ‘marriage appropriate’ clothes and most difficult of all : be nice all the time! It’s a
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Getting married is more about an inward journey than about the change in external circumstances. What is funny is that both are incorrigibly linked with each other. It’s amazing how mere objects can make someone so emotional about a change- emptying my cupboards,donating my books, missing my bed etc. These are just symbolisations of the
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Life has turned a new leaf. When i was growing up,i kept telling myself one thing-you are not one to stick to societal norms.i taught myself to be fair and learned through logic and rationality.i was kept grounded by my visits to the orphanage,the slum school where i interacted with lively under-privileged children.it felt nice,to
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Times have changed now-We have all grown up-shifted into different homes. Hostilities have found their way in, so have formalities. Most of the cousins I grew up with are married. We are all busy with our lives and have built a comfortable circle around us. I don’t feel like the youngest anymore (except for the
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I was born in an ordinary,’marwari’,well to-do,joint family of 20-odd people as the last child of the 3rd generation.I was very lovingly,customarily named by my dad’s sister as ‘Reshma’-‘Born of silk’ is what it means.Indeed, a regal name for a royal hearted Leo. I didn’t realise at that time that I was lucky to have