Society and Life

This very day, I somehow don’t feel the energy. I am battling. I don’t feel like waking up. I don’t feel like showing up to people. All things considered, today I don’t want to stick to my daily routine. I feel like giving up today. …

Unpleasant memories leave a bitter aftertaste. Especially those that bring a lot of pain and suffering and leave you in a trauma for life. I was one of those unfortunate ones to have gone through circumstances that were so ugly and…

As the attacker has taken a deep rooted hearth for itself and embarked into the arena of our personal space ruling mankind under the rage of fear, trauma, anguish; it’s become really essential to arouse our inner biases sleeping inside us.…

It has been since months now that the entire world has been battling with an invisible enemy which has spread its venom and dragged all of us down to a jeopardizing dark pit-hole for us to live like mice. It has literally engulfed the…

As per dictionary definition, Taboo is “a social or religious custom prohibiting or forbidding discussion of a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing”. In simple words, all the things that…

It is pretty canonical to celebrate the World’s Tea Day, (supposed to be on the 21st May) which sips in the simmering flavors of 3 billion cups of tea a day! A 5000 years old traditional medicine has spruced up as an elixir of pure…

Ernest Hemingway wrote in the Oldman and The Sea(1952) : Why do old men get up early? Perhaps to have a longer day! He had not bargained for Netflix and Amazon , which has made even the oldies baying for a longer night, binge watching…

On the first floor of my parent’s house is a locked room, beige on the outside and yellow-ochre inside. It’s unlocked only when we visit —  ma says she never lets anyone use the room, or its attached bath, even when the house is…

I remember my two plants in Pune which never came out of their owner-induced coma. The Gerbera only opened up its nursery-gifted buds and died right after I managed to sprinkle some water on its pink flowers and relished the clichéd shot…

Recent cyclone (Amphan), which luckily spared Odisha coast, reminds me of previous devastating cyclones of last year (Fani) or the other deadly super cyclone which happened 20 years back. The Super Cyclone of October' 1999 was the most…