Cheers To Life As I See It!

I took the bus today, took me twice as long to reach home than if I had taken the train but that was fine. Just the simple pleasure of sitt...

It's been a while since I sat down at 8 in the morning to write. There have been a handful of instances across time when I have done t...

It's been a while since I sat down at 8 in the morning to write. There have been a handful of instances across time when I have done t...

There is a deep seated need in each one of us to be remembered. We may not acknowledge it, we may even laugh at someone who boldly states i...

Its nice to take a step back in time sometimes. That is exactly the feeling I got in the one month that I spent in Kolkata. Life has still ...

Well as suddenly as it began, the summer seems to be over. I say seems because the rain doesn't seem to have dispelled any of the heat....

At this moment, this is what my life is about: a delightful diary, a concise planner, an interesting book, a pair of much cherished earpho...

I thought for a while about what my best day ever would be, and well here it goes... There would definitely be reading involved, an '...

The world today is full of way too many options! I just wish sometimes that there were fewer. Don't believe me? Just think for a second...

Well in  part one , I was still a newbie enjoying the place with a wide eyed enthusiasm of a child and I had assumed that after a month he...

I am here in Gandhinagar for a month and decided to write a weekly blog about my experiences (well the plan didn't exactly pan out sin...

My cousin challenged me to write an essay on things I like and this was the result I like writing, it really makes me happy but strangely I...

Karen Walrond is a writer and photographer and the author of 'The Beauty of Different', a book about celebrating the uniqueness of e...

Read two amazing articles on the Harvard Business Review blog. The first one can be found  here . The second one titled,  How To Give a Ki...

Read two amazing articles on the Harvard Business Review blog. The first one titled,  Battle-Tested Tips for Effective Explanation  is the ...

We have all heard about the benefits of a good breakfast first thing in the morning. Well it's one thing to hear about it and quite ano...

Sometimes for no reason whatsoever, the urge to write something comes over you. You may not even have anything to write about but you decid...

I haven't actually seen the movie but I am going to shamelessly steal the title for this post just because it's catchy :P   ...

As I landed in Srinagar, the first thing that hit me was the unbelievanly fresh smell in the air. It is sunny outside but the breeze is ni...

The scene from the window was absolutely beautiful.  It was unbelievable how the bustle of a hot summer's day could lead to such peace...

Life is transitory. How do I know that? I looked it up in the dictionary and it says: Transitory   means “of a passing nature; not endurin...

Just yesterday a bunch of us were discussing how we view things differently at different points in our lives, in this case we were sp...

In my family, we have a practical habit which has now become a tradition, which is that of covering all our books with old newspaper. Well ...

The summer heat beat down on the ramshackle old car as it moved along the road, squeaking and squealing every step of the way. The driver, ...

I wrote this a long time ago on the back of a bus ticket printout. Just found it recently while cleaning out my desk, so thought I'd pu...

I just discovered that it is just as hard to try to fall asleep when you are wide awake as it is to try to wake up when you are fast asleep...

I have searched all day for inspiration for this post but have only drawn blanks everywhere I have looked. So I thought I'd write about...

I have often begun writing stories only to realise about halfway through that I am unconsciously basing my story on people I know or situat...

As this blog turns four years old,  the author is in a contemplative mood. So I do what I do best, stretch out on the couch, put on some so...

It was Thursday, the end of a very long day, not helped by the painful ankle caused by the car door slamming on my foot, the weekend no...

I am constantly amazed by the things you can do with +Google ! Yesterday I discovered Google Reader and Google News. I knew they existed ...

So here comes another year. Time to make (and break) all those new year resolutions. My new year resolution is very simple and not very ...