We are all aware about the magnanimity of HIV Aids, there are around 2.01 million people still in India who live with HIV. What is more threatening is that there are about 80,000 people who get infected every year? Not to mention the overall stigma & prejudice associated with…
Imagine a restaurant that is inspired by fashion. I am not much of a fashionista, but I definitely appreciate good food especially if that comes with an innovative story to tell. For the first time ever, I got highly impressed with a fine dining place that had such a unique…
If you are an ardent fan of Mumbai monsoons and tea then Taj Mahal Tea House is definitely a place for you. I happened to visit this serene and calm place a couple of months back. It has a distinct old-worldly charm to it, cocooned in a secluded Bandra lane, the…
I have divided this Blog post into four parts- Part 1 At Home Saas Bahu Saga. Pic Credit: TOI archives A few weeks back a discussion in the living room turned into an argument. And like most of the times, we managed to spoil our weekends over it. I think it…
I have been blogging for more than a decade. I have seen the blogging platform change drastically. From being a personal space and transforming into a professional arena. I have gotten collaboration emails, to blogger meets and attended many of those special “paid” campaign events. But, some brands win your…
“The eighth story. Nineteen years later.” “To suffer is as human as to breathe.” Yes, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts one and two is here and if I was to sum up my experience in one word, it will be “nostalgia.” For Pottermania this is an absolute blast,…
We have all grown up listening to stories from Ramayana to an extent, we have internalised the idea of good and bad vis-a-vis the characters from these epics. In fact, there is a certain bias between the two epics — Ramayana and Mahabharata itself. While being a literature student, I have always been critical…
I am not that great a morning person and my mother always tells me, “the early bird catches the worm.” This is her mantra on how to turn good mornings into Gold Mornings. She passed on her morning mantra to me, saying waking up early has its own benefits. In…
The only thing he wanted, was impossible to find, until he met himself. This poem was written by three strangers, who are anything but not writers professionally, who live in different parts of the world, through HaikuJAM app. HaikuJAM is a free collaborative haiku-writing mobile application through which people write…
Being a literature student, I have always lived in the world of fantasies, in the world where everything is beyond the ‘natural’. So, in a recent turn of events, someone asked me, what if you had some super powers that could let you live this fantasy world (well whatever of…
