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spinning a yarn of life · 1d ago

Memory of Memories 2- The True Indian Summer

Only two long hours in intense heat and dust of summer afternoon, with strong hot dry wind, (loo as if is referred to in India), devoured not just the body but the soul too. It simply sucked life out of me. Mostly confined to the stabilized city life of 20 degrees Celsius in air-conditioned homes, …
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spinning a yarn of life · 3d ago

Memory of Memories 1 – Treasures from childhood

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. Gaston Bachelard  As a kid I never understood why my mother had a bagful of old letters, cards and another of little mementos, clothes from our childhood. It seemed like an extra baggage though once in a while I did do throu
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spinning a yarn of life · 3d ago

An email: Satyamev Jayate touched a deep wound. After almost 30 years I broke the silence.

Reblogged from The Life and Times of an Indian Homemaker: Sharing an email from a courageous victim survivor of child sexual abuse. Hi iHM, It is all very easy for us to expect that the child should come and report everything. How is it possible when the child is already traumatized, hardly aware an
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spinning a yarn of life · 1W ago

Photo Essay- Humayun’s Tomb And A Day Saturated With Prayers

It is all a matter of faith. They say, when there is a calling then only one can visit the Dargah of  Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya, Delhi’s 14th century Sufi saint.  After years of waiting I was finally able to offer Chaddar at the mazar. There is something in the air which slowly seeps into your being
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spinning a yarn of life · 2W ago

Last Fling Before The Ring – Lakshadweep Calling

It is unsettling to say the least when you watch recording of Oscars in the night and, next morning, bravely venture to get a free skin analysis done in a salon and then like an idiot decide to shed clothes to observe yourself in the full length mirror. Trust me it is not easy if … Continue reading
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spinning a yarn of life · 2W ago

Satyamev Jayate – Are you ready to do your bit?

It takes a special kind of moral courage and commitment to self and society to address issues that have been pushed under the carpet for so long. Issues that are associated with our everyday lives and yet we have an ostrich like attitude towards them. Female feoticide/infanticide ( do read the link
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spinning a yarn of life · 3W ago

Last Night

  Last night was longer and made for torture or reflection or for savoring of loneliness. Like an ancient tomb where the souls come out gasping for life and searching for potential bodies which they can occupy. The soul with as opposed to them struggles to escape. I lay taking in the  stuffy darknes
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spinning a yarn of life · 3W ago

The quality of mercy…

“It was never going to be an ordinary day. Ordinary days do not exist in the lives of those living in conflict zones marred by war and if you are a woman belonging to a certain ethnic group then life’s ordinariness lies in it’s not being ordinary. “ She suddenly leaped out of the chair … Continue re
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