
FIND COURAGE WITHIN
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
– John Steinbeck
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A Solo Life
A solo life can be fulfilling and happy.
Death Cleaning is Life Affirming
All our lives we collect possessions, accumulate assets, we hold physical objects as memories and pride. We want not to be erased.
Mundane
There often days and weeks of intense work and pressure. Its fun, its invigorating, high on adrenaline. When its done I am looking forward to not sleep in as others normally do, but to do mundane stuff. To go to the vegetable mandi to look and feel the vegetables while menu plans drift in and…
Grief
There is no one way to grieve like there is no one way to live. My tryst with grief has been fairly different from many others. I wondered why for a while. I questioned myself about my inability to grieve. Every time I consoled someone else, or counselled, I kept checking how I felt about…
Frailty of Life
In a world where “youth-like” and productivity is celebrated, where does the gradual and natural aging fit in ? I watch my father quietly negotiating spoonful of “maach bhat” gingerly into his mouth each afternoon, which now takes him an hour to finish. A meagre meal of dal and maach bhat , or 2 chapatti…
Love
Love has always been projected as between a man and woman … leading to either tragedy or happily ever after. This heteronormative image has been created and reinforced over and over through preaching, family tales, literature, societal events and pop culture. But the beauty of love is that it is universal, all encompassing, life giving…
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