How to survive gaslighting

How to survive gaslighting

“So, you’re imagining things again.” “You’re stupid. You always get it all wrong.” “I never said that, it never happened.” Rings a bell? It’s true that there are times when we can misunderstand, misinterpret or overreact to a situation. However, ask yourself, if it’s always true by putting your thoughts on trial under the light […]

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The Gift of Closure

The Gift of Closure

So there’s a term for an unnamed ache. Ambiguous loss. Such a loss leaves behind sharp objects, doesn’t it?  Memories.  The ones that made us feel something for the first time like in forever. There’s something compelling about this  grandiosity that makes us see ourselves with new eyes as we say; “I was a bright […]

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One Breath At A Time

One Breath At A Time

I walked into my first yoga class with no background in movement training or sports of any kind. It was no surprise that I couldn’t get a thing right and frankly, I was a bit disappointed! Earlier, my level of physical activity was rather limited to walking when necessary and nothing more. I have always had a petite […]

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Unvanquished Light

Unvanquished Light

Only last night, I finished reading Lights Out, a brutally honest book by my former journalist colleague L Subramani who has written about gradually going blind at 18 from a degenerative retinal disease called Retinitis Pigmentosa; and this morning I have this sudden desperate desire to speak to him. I manage to get his number from a common […]

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My Tryst With Smoking

My Tryst With Smoking

It  took  decades  for  the  ill effects of tobacco on health to  be  made  public  and  many  nations took some  more  years  to  ban  smoking  in  public  places and  spend  on anti-smoking  campaigns.. Between the two world wars, cigarettes were  part of a soldiers rations.  There was not a single film where  somebody  didn’t smoke.  […]

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