I still remember the day when, as a kid, I picked up a book for the first time. My teacher had informed my mother that my English reading wasn’t quite up to the mark and had hence the emphasized the need for me to put in more efforts. That evening, I went to the market Read more…

I was at a cousin’s place for Diwali. Since I just dreaded the din produced by the fireworks, I  locked myself inside the room. Out of boredom, I started to rummage around all the drawers and cupboards, but was unable to find anything interesting. Just then, something caught my attention. No, it nearly drew me 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…

At a time when, fortunately, our parents offered us a very restricted, if at all any, access to mobile phoContentnes, and soap operas mainly catered to the saas and bahus (read cheesy family dramas), we had no option but to look for other modes of entertainment. As fate would have it, I stumbled upon my Read more…

Years ago, the 10-year-old me was very excited as we made our way to our village on a fateful holiday, and I had every reason to feel that way. After all, I was exceedingly fond of my grandmother’s special pedas, which, mind you, are still my favorite. As I wandered around the old granary, I Read more…

I’m trying to convince myself that it’s alright not to be fine. The past two years have been a period of great mess. From trying to find my footing to coping with everything else going around, my life hasn’t been short on drama. It hasn’t been clear sailing, to be honest. But then again, life Read more…

For a kid who was into video games from his early schooldays, I did not have the time for or the interest in reading. That has pretty much been the story of my life, more than half of which has been spent playing video games. I still play them, though they have ceased being my Read more…

I had always been a very simple and down-to-earth person. I was fairly easy-going in almost every situation. All that changed on the day when I lost my baby in the sixth month of pregnancy. Those six months had been the most exciting phase of my life, until that fateful morning when my water broke. Read more…

My story started around 7 years ago, when I was in college. I was blessed to have got a chance to study at a University where I progressed not just academically, but also learned and inculcated life values that helped me enhance my personality. Being active by nature, I organized several social and technical events Read more…