“How to become a professional travel blogger? Naturally, this is a right thought, because you cannot rush into a new adventure being unprepared. Understand that starting a travel blog is not difficult; it ‘s hard to develop it properly, and not to give it up after a couple of weeks because it turned out to […]
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Saluting The Ghost Ship
The conference room was cold. Maybe, it seemed colder because I was waiting to be interviewed by two editors. I had applied for the role of a reporter/sub-editor at a popular newspaper. My brain was almost ready to shut down, for I had already written a long test that checked my understanding of ‘affect’, and […]
An Offline Life Of Purpose…
I’m back after a long break! It feels great to be blogging again but I am happy that I decided to take a break from all kinds of social networking media. It has been a refreshing two-month break from Facebook and I do not plan to return. I have had enough of people- watching and […]
Why Do I Write?
I write because of an innate need to connect. I love it when someone relates to what I have written and they go, “That’s exactly how I feel!” Or shake their head and think, “Oh dear! That’s so true.” I love this unseen bond you make with the reader. It is exciting, exhilarating and addictive. Be […]
Feeling Murakami
I often read what someone else is reading, or if the title seems interesting. In fact I was drawn to the latest book I am reading because its cover glows in the dark. Clearly I don’t really go by the “don’t judge a book by its cover” philosophy. A couple of days back someone’s Facebook status […]
Writer’s Block
The mind fails to catch Ideas floating like sperms Waiting to be hit by conviction; To gestate and come to life Myriad images, like Vibrant butterflies Tempt; and then run amok, In the dark recesses of mind Across the hills and rivers, My thoughts run wild Then slip through my fingers Like bubbles bursting in the […]
Nature or Nurture
I was recently writing an article about genetics and came across the nature versus nurture theory. I’ve heard of it before but never applied it to my life, until now. You see I have been fighting nature and possibly nurture all my life. My Dad and I have a lot in common. We are both […]
“Why Do You Write?”
To a question am asked often (Why do you write?), my answer is simple. I see people. Really see them. When I see a mind, a talent, an imagination at work, the world falls away. My own imperfections fall away. I connect with the energy at work and my own energy feeds on it and […]
To Chekov
When I was young, I was a little bit of an ugly duckling, not that I had no friends, but I was always conscious about my appearance, and to get out of this self obsessing habit, I used to read, I read almost everything I could get my hands on. Reading opened my world, I travelled around places , across time and […]
Blocked..
Words become the bane of your existence A blank page, your enemy Your sharpest pencil, nothing more than a blunt weapon Your cup of coffee, just a pool of disappointing company Others don’t seem to notice the difference The longer days and shorter nights The precision with which the cogs toil And the elegance with […]
Review: What I Talk about When I Talk about Running
When I picked up Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk about When I Talk about Running, I was excited about reading it. And the book didn’t disappoint me. Well, not entirely. What I Talk about When I Talk about Running is a very personal and detailed account of Murakami’s running and writing life, about how the […]
Backspace..
“That’s no good.” Before she could even contemplate a title, she found herself tapping at the backspace button. It wasn’t good enough, her first thoughts almost never were. She wished she could switch away from the brightness of the blank page on her screen. It reminded her of her empty mind, or was her […]