Category: growing up


  • Preamble: I took this up as a project for NaNoWriMo. Our writing community had a great setup for this. Carve out morning time to write-write-write. I had it all worked out. Of course, life happened. I could not complete heck even begin writing this. So I extended it saying ‘lets-try-to-finish-it-this-year-Y’ trying to meet the Dec…

  • pre-script – I have two important and dear to me drafts ready to be edited and then published. But I wrote about this and published it instead. Please don’t hesitate, go ahead and question my priorities as I am questioning my entire existence right now. Are you a ritual person? I am into specific rituals.…

  • This past week has flown by. Travel, work, Diwali, meeting aunts and uncles, helping parents fix things at home (fixed a Chinese lighting set using good old soldering techniques learned in Junior College, with Fathership watching over as lead technician and Brothership helping out with getting the soldering paste and cord from local electrician 😎), Diwali…

  • Guilt tripping

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    I did some impulse shopping last Sunday. Went to watch Newton, came out feeling really positive and saw a very pretty dress hanging on a mannequin by a shop window. Made a dash to the changing room-tried it-it fit me!-paid the bill-and came out of the shop beaming. Even more than before.Now a lot of…

  • Of unfinished/unstarted/left in random state projects. Because Upasna who I am constantly in awe of wrote one with the most apt illustration.1. Books – 9 physical books have piled up on my to read list. I don’t know how/when I am going to arrive at them. 2. Photo memory project – I am not big…

  • Baths/showers are for the weaklings. If you are from the drylands or plains (or cities) and want to live in the mountains, then, forget what a bath feels like. Because when you are up there freezing your exposed body parts, read toes and fingers (if not wearing socks or gloves. But why will you do…

  • Book Love 2016

    Book Love 2015 here!  Starting to pen down this year’s ‘read’ book list well in advance. Because I’ll be in the mountains on new year’s (mild show off) and don’t want to fall behind on my yearly ritual. A slight change this year, is I am also going to put down the list of books…

  • Thoughts – filtered through the sieve

    Getting that itch to write a philosophical post. Maybe also because my birthday was around the corner and I cannot help but make a list. Of thoughts, things, and my musings. Travel – I increasingly feel that I live in a silo. I read only particular books (despite the efforts to include writers from different…

  • Baby H

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    Dear (baby) H,I know you will not be a baby forever. One day you will grow up and read this and roll your eyes like your mother* does. And then you will laugh at this Mavshi of yours, an even louder laughter. I also fear you’ll stop visiting me for my soppy attempt at trying…

  • Growing up in Nagpur, after father’s (baba) office on Fridays going to watch Amitabh Bachchan movies at a nearby theater was our definition of family outings. Baba is an AB fan. I also get my movies love from him. Watching movies was never considered as a frivolous thing in my household. Of course my book…