My love for dogs is not hidden from anybody. Love is an understatement. I am crazy for them and my craziness goes beyond all logical explanations. Guess that’s what ‘being crazy’ means. Since I love them so much, I feel I understand them also very well. Understand their feelings, their emotions and hence what they […]
Go with the Flow : Shubhra
I am a gal who plays many roles at a time in my life. Let me sum it up for you as best I can. As my social media bio explains – I’m a Solo Nomad, an explorer, adventurous, Certified yoga instructor, an amateur illustrator, photographer, a sports person, passionate trekker, can also ‘cook’, have […]
LET HER BE THE WAY SHE WANTS TO BE
“बूढ़ी घोड़ी लाल लगाम” – sexist and often shrouded in a sense of humour that is expected to be accepted as friendly banter. his is a saying in Hindi that is often used to sarcastically question the motives and character of any lady usually in her late 30s and beyond who doesn’t appear sartorially or […]
A happy child is the window to your home. Every window tells a story!
I am sure, my readers will agree that when we were young, there were rarely any mothers who raised their voices, were aggressive, lost control of emotions in fury or yelled their vocal chords out. The image of the ‘old moms’ was poised, calm and composed. What happened in the last 25-30 years? I wonder. […]
How do I plan to get away from these winters?
Every year seems colder than the last and then the strange weather forecast that says, “Coldest year in the last twenty five years …!!” I can never get this logic. They say the same thing every year! Probably that’s the only way they think they can console us for the bygone years. Like how […]
Of Everest Widows and a Man Called Ang !
Long, long before my metamorphosis into a Travel Journalist, which I believe from the core of my heart to be the most thankless job on Planet Earth, I too was a normal guy- about- town wanting to land up with a cushy corporate job – Microsoft, Wipro, Infosys, Thomas Cook etc… etc…But who would have […]
“THE UNFORGETTABLE DYEING DAY”
Okay, readers let me narrate this anecdote that we witnessed at our home in Dehradun. Well…the cast of this act was my handsome old fauji father in his late sixties, then, 65 to be precise, and whose partially bald head, with scant hair on the sides of his head were grey and were to be […]
Dare Anybody Insults My Beloved Alto
This was a few days ago when I was driving down to my bank in my Mercedes Benz. I mean my Alto 800. I can only dream about owning a Mercedes till Ambanis or Tatas decide to own me. Kya zindagi hogi tab! Ek dum Jhakaaas!! While everybody in the family gets to inherit or […]
Patriarchy wins every time……
When the home she is born into, is suddenly not her home anymore. When despite giving her all, the house she is married-into is still not her home after years. When she is shown the way out, each time she voices her opinion in ‘her parent’s house’ or ‘her husband’s house’. When a woman feels […]
Grandparents-A bond beyond words
While I watch my child swim like a mermaid, a lady came and wished me. She shared, “I have attended a few parenting sessions of yours and we are fascinated to hear about your real-life incidents and the ease with which you bring on the shelf the issues pertaining to child development.” She continued with […]