Will there be a Six?

I turned 5 yesterday. Instead of blowing candles, I blew dust off of my 2-year-old sister. She didn’t get hurt but got scared and started crying. I calmed her down, I shushed her, I caressed her back, her hairs, but all went in vain. She cried and cried and cried for hours. Pain of a…

I was born a Human!

I was born a human, but the world degraded me to an eye-candy, turned me into an object, excluded me from being one of them, one of human baby. Even before one is born, a mother mourns. Not because she is having a girl, but because her baby girl is doomed to live in a…

Talking about how to follow the UNFOLLOW!

“Seeking perfection is probably the best way to feel bad about yourself.” One of the best advices I learnt from the book. From now on, it’s not going to be the perfection I’ll strive for, but rather the best I can possibly do will be the motive. There exist some books that might not be…

Over a Blank Page

When the days grew longer and the nights grew darker, She sat beside the unlit candle, to think and to question her gradual dismantle. What meant world to her, was lost somewhere. Somewhere in the dark among the lights, in the lights that shone so bright. If it were anything else, she would have coped…

A Room of One’s Own- Women’s Right to Write!

The world did not say to her as it said to them, write if you choose; it makes no difference to me. The world said with a guffaw, Write? What’s the good of your writing? This book and writer that I’m going to talk about need no introduction. Virginia Woolf has been a much talked…

23rd brought some more Wisdom!

On the night of my birthday, I had a feeling that the moment I step out of bathroom, I’d be stabbed to death.
But…

A woman behind the veil

Mahira always used to wear a black, plain veil; even at her workplace. Nobody ever asked her to not to wear it. She was from Kashmir and had recently shifted to Chennai for her work. But she didn’t shift alone; her husband- what he seemed to, at least, people around- did too. Nobody ever saw…

Have we started loving others on the expense of ignoring ours?

Birds chirping, sun shining perfectly on the horizon, winter winds by not being too harsh on living beings blowing pleasantly, and the gone shade. Yeah, I daily find a new one to sleep. And no matter what and where I find it, it always goes away when sun gets into doing its job. “Mom! My…

India-A filthy Nation!

All in black mood, he rushed out towards the road from the dingy apartment where he lives with his wife. The road so crowded but none of his people to be seen. While walking on those pavements, strolling through those parks, eating roadside vada-pav, he only had one thought in his mind-London. No, it didn’t…

This new house is my token of love for her, for my mom!

Sometimes our love for others blinds us, and other times we use our love to blind others. Alarm rang; it already was 6:00 am and here she was thinking how time flies away. She pressed the button on the top the alarm clock to make it stop screaming, an alarm clock which Tanya and Jay…