Moving on survival tool kit # Grief and death

Moving on survival tool kit # Grief and death The war begins and you are here to battle with the strongest heavyweight enemy. GRIEF. He is well equipped with weapons that he will be sending in your direction. His arsenal is PAIN loaded as cannonballs of all shapes and sizes. The days you become capable […]
Sexual Challenges: Decade of the Maiden

Sexual Challenges: Decade of the Maiden The virgin is sought on the day of Kumari Pooja (1) on the eighth day of Navratri(2). She roams around hiding attired as the small girls at their glittery best to feast and to bless. She is overhyped that day. And overnight something changes. Few drops trickling in her body as her womb […]
Bye Bye uncle

Bye Bye uncle He lay prostrate at my parent’s feet completely catching them unaware. They did not expect their daughter’s Professor paying them respect like this. It is always the other way round in our country where Guru is considered Brahma .They had not witnessed such humility from someone of his stature. His better half […]
Memoirs of the RED

Memoirs of the RED My MBBS batchmate missed me completely. She was least expecting to see me in a red dress with bare shoulders and the sun-moon tattoo on my left arm. She had seen me covered in my white apron mostly with pen or a scalpel in my hands in the later years. We […]
Decade of marriage

Decade of marriage A decade of marriage had fallen apart, she always knew something was not right and it was coming. She hadn’t taken her wedding ring off so that people won’t ask. She just felt it becoming tighter over her fingers as she tried to rotate it. May be her blood pressure was up. […]
Har Har Gange

Har Har Gange Are you coming along or do I go on my own , I asked my hubby dear? He gave me a customary quizzical look knowing I had some well laid out plot in my mind waiting to be revealed. He knows me well that way. Where do you want to go darling […]
QUARANTINE 2020

QUARANTINE 2020 A leap across six years from 2014 to 2020 and I am in self-isolation again. Quarantine period , the self-preservation exercise thanks to the Corona scare and Modi ji calling it the need of the hour. The situation may be different from six years ago yet it is so alike. For me at […]
SHUBH MANGAL SAVDHAAN

SHUBH MANGAL SAVDHAAN With only 14/36 gunas matching we were predicted to fail with not even passing marks on the astrological matrimonial scoreboard .Conceived in inter-religious differences I turned for some assurance from my wisest Brahmin uncle and he came up with the most heart-warming explanation that ours was a “Gandharva Vivah “ one of […]
An ode to the Womb

An ode to the Womb Sometimes somethings are beyond our own comprehension. Womb power for instance.Did we even know that we were capable of more than mere birthing? We have been programmed into believing that our bodies were the vessels we offered to another to help us birth a divine human being. For time immemorial […]
Return to Innocence

Return to Innocence He knocked at my bedroom door apologetically asking for permission to come in in the middle of the night . “Open the door mom! I can’t get sleep and I am scared. His voice was choky I asked him to jump in in between us and he slept with in minutes like […]