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The email came at 4:12 p.m.Westbridge Holdings: : “We are positively inclined. Awiting revised implementation framework before final confirmation.”Adrian read it twice.Positively inclined.Not confirmed.Not yet.He leaned back in his chair, thoughtful. They were close. Closer than expected. But the revised framework they were asking for wasn’t minor - it required recalibration, projections, timeline...
The first thing that came to my mind while reading Self-Made Maverick by Dr. Reza Zahedi was a memory from a basketball court many years ago.I was already past the age when most players begin slowing down. Yet there I was, tying my shoelaces before a state tournament, hearing the usual whispers: Why continue? Why not step aside?Sometimes the world quietly hands you a script about how things are su...
Some books are read.Some books are experienced slowly, like a conversation that returns to you every year.October Junction by Divya Prakash Dubey felt exactly like that to me.Imagine meeting someone in a city that itself lives somewhere between reality and dreams. A city where time feels slower and conversations linger longer. In that setting, two strangers meet — not to build a conventional relat...
This is the story of two women (one mother, other mother-in-law of the author) from different cultural backgrounds who brought their families together through - food!One represents Tamil tradition, known for simple and balanced South Indian flavours. Tamil cuisine developed from agrarian practices and temple culture, with rice, lentils, coconut, tamarind, and spices forming its base. The other rep...
I recently signed up for a \Thindi Hopping\ event, an organized walk to explore authentic breakfast spots in and around Malleswaram. I joined in for few reasons1. A break from routine: I was stuck in the daily grind, even on weekends, rarely doing anything new or interesting. This felt like the perfect excuse to get out and do something different.2. Exploring a new side of Malleswaram: I only kn...
There is a particular kind of love that does not begin with conversation. It begins with watching.While reading Heart Overruled — A Bengali-Tamil Romance by Debanjana Mukherjee, I kept returning to the image of a sixteen-year-old girl at her sister’s wedding, standing amidst marigold garlands and ritual chants, quietly memorising the face of a man who barely registers her presence. That first enco...
There’s something unsettling about the idea that six ordinary days can reroute an entire life.Not years. Not decades. Six days.That quiet tension hums beneath Six Days in Bombay, the latest standalone from Alka Joshi, and it caught me off guard. I went in expecting historical richness and atmospheric detail. I did not expect to feel personally confronted by a young nurse’s hunger for a life larger...
The message from Adrian came at 11:17 a.m.“Client presentation tomorrow 10:30 a.m. Conference Room A. You’ll lead the relationship strategy.”Kaia read it twice.Lead.Not assist. Not support. Lead.A steady breath left her.She walked into his cabin five minutes later, notebook in hand.“You called for me?”Adrian looked up from his latop.”Yes. We’re pitching to Westbridge Holdings tomorrow.” He slid a ...
Morning unfolded like it always did - Measured, routine, predictable.But Kaia wasn’t.She stepped into the office with her usual grace, but the lightness that normally followed her seemed absent. Her hair fell softly over her shoulders, her bag resting neatly by her desk. Every movement was proper..Controlled.Adrian noticed.He had been pretending to review a file, though his attention had been fixe...
There are cities that glitter at night. And then there are cities that swallow light whole.Reading City Without Stars by Tim Baker felt like walking through one of the latter — a place where hope doesn’t disappear dramatically; it erodes quietly, layer by layer, until even the sky feels complicit.Set in Ciudad Real, a fictionalised border town echoing the tragedies of Juárez, the novel drops us in...
