Cheers To Life As I See It!

When too many thoughts clog your mind, use a pensieve but if you are a muggle, then all I can say is: DEAL WITH IT!

This is a poem by Elizabeth Bishop, which features in the movie "In Her Shoes" which I absolutely love (both movie and poem!). It ...

This is a poem called "Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep" by Steven Cummins which I had penned down somewhere and mislaid. I came ...

Today, I realised the futility of education. As a matter of course, we students of BBA are required to study a subject called 'Organizat...

There are times when you don't know whether to laugh or to cry and in all likelihood you end up doing a bit of both. So what would you c...

We build walls, not to keep people out but to see who will break them down...

When life throws you lemons, make lemonade...I just love this saying. It just encompasses in itself everything that you need to know to surv...

It was pointed out to me today that all of us at the moment are nothing without our parents. I mean think about it, no matter how much we st...

As the IPL (finally) comes to an end, one can't help but wonder how much more cricket one can digest. Don't get me wrong, I am a hu...

Solitude: Painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity... I read this quote in the Mumbai Mirror today and it got me thinking t...

A dream, more real than anything that had ever happened to her, enveloped her subconscious, completely in control of her senses. She was fal...

Yesterday, I saw a beautiful sample of Bengali cinema, although I was ill-fated enough to have to watch the Hindi version (no offense but I...

Trouble, like Beauty is in the eye of the beholder...P.G. Wodehouse

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Yesterday, I saw a beautiful sight. In an auto rickshaw stuck in the endless Bombay traffic, a woman travelling with three little children w...

What do you do when you are feeling blue? What is the one guaranteed method to get you out of the dumps? For me, it's writing. Writing w...

The greeness of leaves...have you ever wondered what that is all about? I mean why are leaves green anyway? No, the answer I am looking for ...

Sometimes life is just one big mess, everywhere you look there is nothing but misery and pain. No hint of a silver lining, just dark clouds ...

Just imagine for a minute what it would be like to be a book, sitting on a dusty shelf most of your life, taken down once in a while and pag...

These are just a few examples of the genius of Ishita Sharma. Her wit and humour have brought us all respite during the dark days of the exa...

I came home to Mumbai for the holidays on Friday and my first thought on entering the city limits was about the endless traffic that would p...

Today I learnt an important life lesson, it's called CHOICES, we are faced with them every day of our lives, practically from the minute...

The time has come for fond farewells and a few tears (in some cases a lot!). Yes, thats right it's the end of a year and although it fee...

Exam Fever is back! And this time it's knocking harder than ever before (or does it feel that way every time?). As Ishita would say, ...

Hope is a funny word...but only because I think it's a combination of HOME and ROPE. You see there can only be hope if you are tied firm...

k. This little alphabet has certainly gained a lot of importance these days. Just in case you, like me a while back, are wondering what the ...

I know it's a little late in the day (actually it's the next day), but Happy Women's Day! This is a tribute to all the women I ...

I sometimes wonder at the pace of life....Things happen at the speed of light and before you know it (and sometimes you don't even know ...

I think the time has now arrived to explain exactly how and why this blog was created. The original idea was that the bunch of us are so cra...

This is bizzare! This is more than bizzare! This is the first time in the history of the world that students are being allowed to access the...

Well, here goes nothing...This is my first ever blog and hopefully not my last. A year of college is almost up and it's only now that I ...