Have you realized the importance of getting sufficient amount of sleep? Late night partying, watching movies, studying or working till late night and then getting up early the next day, over a period of time, all cause a long list of problems. It is only when you sleep, that the growth hormones are secreted by the master glands in the […]
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Month: November 2011
Forgetting…
Love is never a constant. Especially human love. There is nothing you can count on. There is nobody that will stay. The lips that pursed up with anger and impatience, bordering on hatred and malice yesterday may as well kiss you today. What must you feel? Yesterday’s agony or today’s joy? Do not wallow, though. […]
Breathtaking India!
I am obsessed about this country. I love it to the point of hating it and then tumbling back into loving it all over again. I hate the callousness. The chuck-a-plastic-wrapper-outta-the-window attitude. I hate people spitting all over the place. Wonder if they would spit on their dining table. I hate the chalta-hai (anything goes) […]
Downright Genius
All hail Emperor Clooney! The Ides of March is such a smart movie. It explains politics the way Stephen Hawking explains the cosmos – with flair. It distills pure entertainment from a subject most of us find either aggravating or plain dull. And then to make it Shakespearean where you delve into what drives character […]
Dance With Me
You reach out and caress my neck And look magnificent in glimpses I twirl but poise eludes me There is no sense of gravity.. My eyes can’t keep up with you Though the heart leaps, matching your feet Wrap your arms around me and glide in poetry I have waited and longed To one day be swept […]
The Tam Brahm Glossary
I have nothing against weddings. They can be emotional and funny, colourful and sweet. By virtue of being a tam-brahm, I have had the privilege to watch tam-brahm weddings from close quarters. Hell, I even had one of those. They can be entertaining. Well, most times. Except when they happen in Delhi. In mid-April. And […]
Hello
Reproach me for the mistakes I have made, Protect me from those who will break my heart, Tell me your love is enough, and I don’t have to look anywhere else. Stand by me when I am weak, pat my back when I come through, Teach me the subtle lessons that my naive mind can’t […]
Mind The Niggles
How many days pass without anyone of us complaining about lower back pain or pain in the upper back-neck-shoulder region? Considering our increasingly sedentary lifestyles – especially at and to-and-fro from work, it does not take a rocket scientist to predict the range of health problems that can arise. The problems arise since the discs […]
The Terror Within
Terror is not a body count in a news report or a headline for those who have lived through it or lost a loved one to it. It is the twitch of a lost limb, the memory of a loved face and a sense of random victimhood and the question, why it had to be […]
Custodial Deaths Mount
More than four persons per day were killed in police and judicial custody in India between 2001 and 2010. The total of 14,231 persons includes 1,504 deaths in police custody and 12,727 deaths in judicial custody from 2001-2002 to 2009-2010 as per the cases submitted to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).The New Delhi-based Asian […]
Are You Overtraining?
Do you sleep, dream, eat, drink, walk, talk exercise? Do your discussions start and end with how much and what exercise you did today, yesterday, the day before, the day before that, and so on? Are you obsessed with a certain type of body, which may or may not seem attainable? Then you may belong […]
This Thing Called Love
This is a sappy, mushy, gooey post. Quite unlike me, but hey, I haven’t been a mother for that long. Give me time and my inner gushing self will emerge from the closet. When Ankita was first placed in my arms, I felt nothing. I waited and waited for thunderstorms and lightening but nothing happened. […]