sleep

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 ...Read More

path

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 ...Read More

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. ...Read More

ides

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 ...Read More

dance

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 ...Read More

wedding

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 ...Read More

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 ...Read More

pain

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 ...Read More

taj

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 ...Read More

kashmir

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 ...Read More

work out

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 ...Read More

roses1

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, ...Read More