Oh god, I am nervous about this. It’s a nervousness that comes with worry and doubt, packed with layers of “What are you thinking?! and topped by years of insecurities. I decided to start a series that you must pay to read. Phew. Last year, when Khushi Bun came into my life, she did so […]
One thing you may not know about me is that I once co-authored a book published by an independent Australian publisher. That book, Worlds Apart, wasn’t a book I set out to write. It was a series of letters that I sent to a German friend I had never met. I came across her blog […]
“How are you feeling today?” This is probably the most difficult question you can ask me. When I first started therapy about 1.5 years ago, my therapist would ask me this question first, and I would freeze. I didn’t know the ‘correct’ answer. Do you actually respond with what you feel? Because we have been […]
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I wasn’t in the mood for a run today. 🏃♀️ I wanted to curl up with a book, a cup of coffee and not get out of bed at all. Yet, I did run. Because there were birds 🐦 calling out to me. A warm summery morning inviting me. 🌳Trees beckoning. Grass winking. So, I […]
Many years ago, in 2016, I went on a solo trip to Japan. The country was everything I had imagined it to be – a bustle of contradictions and sweeping contrasts. It was also, expectedly, expensive. And being a vegetarian in Japan was even more expensive. There were two ways I could get vegetarian food […]
Today marks a confluence of New Years. I love celebrating New Year’s. There was a time in my life when I made it a point to celebrate the New Year in a different country every year. I have seen the New Year ushered in Wadi Rum, Jordan, with a singing bedouin who proposed marriage to […]
Can you find the fun in today? Mine was in my run. I didn’t think it would be fun. I woke up late after a restless night. I was worried if I could run with no toenails. I had already lost one toenail and another was dangling on to dear life by the last skin. […]
When I started writing this blog, I used this as an open journal. A place for my words to nestle. A space for the unsaid and unspoken. I have never actively promoted this blog. There are no Meta Tags for any of the pages. No keyword optimization. For a long while, I would give a […]