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When Love Has Secrets, How Well Do We Really Know the Person We Love? — The Almost Perfect Wife by A

We often imagine that the most dangerous secrets in a relationship are the ones someone tells us.Perhaps they aren’t.Perhaps the more dangerous ones are the secrets someone successfully keeps from us.That thought stayed with me while reading Anubha Gupta’s The Almost Perfect Wife. Because beneath the murder mystery, the twists and the ancestral house in Mashobra, this is really a story about somet...

The Comeback

(part 1 of 4)AbandonedLeft on the street with no guide or map,I picked myself up and closed the gap.They said I was done, said I’d fall and break,I built from the ashes for my own sake.Storms tried to pull me under the tide,I learned to swim with the hurt inside.Scars on my back, but fire in my crown,They left me to sink. But I did not drown.part 1 of 4stay tuned to this channel for the rest.

The One With Dragon Warrior : Po Ping

As a podcaster I get asked by many celebs to be intereviewed. But this week we decided we ll reach out to our favourite (fictional) hero. And the choice was just one.Easy - Po Ping !!! The Dragon Warrior. The panda who eats too much and somehow keeps saving his village, and China.And since I've met him and had lovely chat about our lives, family, I decided to do the sensible thing — put two mics o...

Dear Zahira, With Love by Sachin NG — Sameer Gudhate on Love, Loss and the Human Cost of Partition

When a Border Separates Two People, What Exactly Does It Fail to Separate?Some love stories are about two people trying to find each other.Dear Zahira, With Love by Sachin NG is about something more difficult: two people trying to remain connected when history has decided they belong on opposite sides of a border.That distinction stayed with me.Because we often talk about Partition through numbers...

I have a machine

I have a machine that writes for meIt writes code and proseIt writes social media postsI have friends who like these postsI want more likesSo I crank this machine upIt is prolific at this settingIt doesn’t need me anymoreIt writes by itself, this marvelIt sounds a little strangeBut it is ok, who will noticeI keep postingI keep getting likesThe writing is stranger than beforeNo one noticesLikes kee...

Painting of Life

Wrote this in 2012On this canvas of life, everyone I've met has added their color.Some with delicate strokes of love and friendship,While some just have colored with thrown ink.Some, giving their trust have drenched it complete,with the scarlet of their hearts, and blue of their loss,While some, their own, soothing verdant.Color it or deface it, the canvas still stands unbought,It waits for your b...

Wither and Bloom

Dilemma of an Orphan Teenager

Last Sunday my friends and I, lets call it our gang since we are almost always together, got into a wedding. Nobody invited us (obviously). But thanks to our art and skill of making things happen, nobody stopped us either. We ate whatever we could reach and then a little more. Two of my friends fought over a chicken leg so long that a third one quietly walked away with it. That is how it works in ...

Celebrating India - Trek to HarKiDun

It was 2015, just after we had passed out of our MBA college, when we three friends decided we needed a different kind of break. No fancy resort, no new city to “check off” a list—just us, our backpacks, and the mountains. That’s how Har Ki Dun happened.We didn’t know then that this trek would stay with us long after our sore muscles had healed.Stepping Out of ComfortOur biggest concern before the...

The Pursuit of Wellness

First off, I’m deeply grateful to my parents and good fortune for being born healthy, there is zero credit to me for that. I see it as my duty to remind myself—and the people I care about—to stay fit and happy. I say “I take zero credit for being born healthy, but I’m 100% responsible if I die unfit”I’m not a certified trainer or dietitian yet, but after 30 years of lifting dumbbells, jumping rope...