A friend in need is a friend indeed. This is the quote that often plays in my mind whenever I turn to some book on a gloomy day. I would like to begin by clarifying that I am not a bookworm. However, since my early college days, I did have the habit of reading at Read more…

Nostalgia is in the brown half-toothed smile your sister flashes upon you after you buy her the chocolate-chip ice cream instead of the cheaper vanilla. Nostalgia is in the surreptitious smile you catch your mother in, as she stumbles upon an old song that must have rewound the time for her. Nostalgia is the echo Read more…

As a South Indian girl who looked forward to going to the North, passing my twelfth-standard exams offered an opportunity to fulfill this long-term goal of mine. I clearly remember the day when I reached the university where I was to graduate in the coming years. It was a scorching day in July 2018. My Read more…

Well, we will need to go a long way back to understand my chemistry with books. I feel that my penchant for books is purely genetic as both my parents and grandparents had healthy reading habits. As they say, when you enjoy doing something, you lose track of everything around you. That’s just how I Read more…

Coming from a small town, studying in a state-board school and choosing the science stream for my high-school life (yep, checking all the boxes for an engineering career), I was told that I was supposed to be reading every day. And read I did. I read my textbooks, every single day. For all its benefits, Read more…