"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 [...]
Why Not To Give Up
Let's make a pro-con list. Number of reasons to give up: hundreds Number of reasons to press on - hard: only one Then WHY still keep going? Why when everything is going against us and there is not the faintest hope that things will improve? Why when we ourselves have sort of given in to [...]
Making Them Cry
They don't know you. You don't know them. You write something. They happen to read it. They end up crying. You end up winning. This is basically how any really good piece of writing works. The genre doesn't matter. The age gap between the writer and reader doesn't matter. The stark difference in the lives [...]
Old Friends
You are friends with someone. You can talk endlessly to them. Over time, due to personal or work commitments, the two of you slowly lose touch. But then one fine day, one of you calls the other or the two of you bump into each other and you pick up from exactly where you left. [...]
We In Our Stories
Every story we write may have different characters, settings and themes. But there is a constant that always slides in effortlessly in each of them. That constant is us - the writer. Here, I am not referring to the style of the author but the characteristics that the author possesses as a person. Somehow, somewhere, [...]
When A Woman Speaks
You like it when we sing. You love it when we whisper sweet nothings. You fall for us when we smile saying nothing. But when we speak - speak aloud - about issues that really bother us as women, most of you turn a deaf ear. Men! I know some really courteous men. They know [...]
Blessing
Be a blessing if you really want one. We all love it when someone says to us, "God bless you!" It sounds so much better than "thank you" or "good day" or "take care" or any other sort of closing remark. No matter how low we are feeling, it gives us a little hope. It [...]
I Choose You, Stranger
He was the love of her life. There were no two ways about it. Yet when anyone asked, she would always brush aside their "vague" thoughts. Maybe, she wasn't sure. Maybe, she was scared to admit it. "So the two of you are going to end up together, right?" they would remark. "What? Us? Are [...]
