took my niece to the zoo a couple of days back… thanks to the sunshine… the trip became a reality… the parking at the zoo costs three and a half times the zoo ticket.. entry’s free for bachchas below 5 years… wah wah… i like this place.. even for older kids… and in fact for…
i have studied too much to know that believing in something need not necessarialy mean that you have faith in it… but today i am not here to debate the finer epistemological nuances of faith and beliefs… i am probably not the right person to do so, with my lack of philosophical ability.. but more…
writing this for two reasons… one is coz a friend asked “where is the post that is titled chaos rules my life”… the other is that today i realised the full impetus of the chaos in my life… i wouldnt say that things have become chaotic now and werent so earlier… something or the other…
was clinging on to the last straw… drowning now… the house is shut and still.. the wind blows, bleak and shrill… no thats just a bit of nonsense.. shows how my mind is working.. well whatever hope i had has vanished today..the feeling of weakness, helplessness and aimlessness has overcome me completely… there is no…
ok so this is not the best time in my life.. but yeah… this is how it seems to be going right now… have had male friends all my life.. and have had more male friends than female friends all my life.. and i firmly believe(d) in platonic relationships.. they last.. and they are deep…
am not very clear as to why i am writing this.. or for that matter what i want to write.. aunty and uncle, i want you to know what a fabulous son you’ve raised… he is intelligent, a perfectionist, committed to his work, focussed, sensible and yet sensitive towards all around him… and he may…
i have been told i am not a very physically expressive person… except maybe with my niece… i dont like to sit too close to people.. even if i have known them all my life… i am not the hand holding kinds… when girls around me cry, i have often been told by those around…
“I hate the stars because I look at the same ones as you do, without you.” ‘love grows over the distance’.. or so i have often heard… i’ve grown up believing this to be the favourite quote of the insensible.. people living in a fool’s paradise.. wanting to convince themselves of things that have no…
last thursday was crazy… in the morning, i had no clue how i was going to survive it… i started from my place at about 9 in the morning.. for some strange reason, i got a parking space easily. which i think was the first sign that it was going to be a crazy day……
i, like many my age, have several issues with the well accepted traditional arranged marriage system so integral a part of “our indian culture”. a lot of my friends, particularly men, have asked me often, “do you believe in arranged marriages?” i always asked, what’s there to believe? the system’s right here in front of…
