Did you ever feel like you wanted to eat this and that and also that, but tried to keep calm lest others might judge you? And then, voila! You find someone with a food urge just like you. Boy, are you glad! Enjoying food alone is also pretty satisfactory. But having someone along for the [...]
Author: Mia Winhertt
A Story’s Expiry Date
They say, nothing lasts forever. Everything comes with an expiration date. So what is the expiration date of a story? When does it stop making any sense? When does it lose its impact? Every story is placed in some context of time, place and the reigning standards. It will be a hundred percent true to [...]
Wheelchair Love
What is your first reaction when you see someone on a wheelchair? Empathy, pity? Surprisingly, mine today was, "I want something like that!" So much so that my eyes welled up... An old woman was on a wheelchair, with her right hand upright in a weird manner and her face sort of permanently turned slightly [...]
The Reason to Smile
As a child, whenever someone smiled at me just as a courtesy, I never smiled back. Even when my mother asked me to, I did not. My explanation was a question, "Why???" "Because it is polite," Mom would reply. "But why should I smile without a reason? They did not crack a joke," I would [...]
Believe
At times, we really, really want something. The odds might be against us yet we want it. But the sad part is that there is not much that we can do about it. Though there is always one thing that we can - wherever, whenever, however! We can believe. It might sound a little too [...]
How Game of Thrones WILL End
Daenerys, Jon, Tyrion, Arya, Sansa or the Night King or someone else? Who will finally win the Game of Thrones? How will the tale of gore, cold betrayal and heartache finally end? Now that the post-production stage of Game of Thrones is in full swing and the different actors are going on to experiment with [...]
Simple Writing
What use is such writing that only you, the writer can understand? Writing has been associated for the longest time with a high level of intellectualism. The more the usage of big words, the better the writer's vocabulary. The more complicated the sentences, the more talented the writer. The lengthier the paragraphs, the more credit [...]
Happiness Through Food
"What makes you really happy?" This is a question that will invoke numerous varying answers from different people. But somewhere in everyone's list will surely be a few food items. After all, there is a reason why food is beyond doubt the most important basic necessity of life! We need to eat to live. But [...]
Daddy’s Daughter, Daddy’s ‘Precious’
Remember how Gollum used to call the ring "my precious" in The Lord of the Rings? How his eyes were always on it and how he was ready to go to any extent for it? How he was madly in love with it? Strange as it may seem but that is what I got reminded [...]
OCDs Like Sheldon’s
Penny once called Sheldon "a creature of habit" in the hit show The Big Bang Theory. Anyone who has seen the show knows how right Penny was for Sheldon had an obsessive compulsive disorder for too many things under the sun. From his Sheldonian calender which had a clearly marked food menu and demarcation of [...]
An Author You'll Remember 