Published in Show Your City·PinnedShanghai — A Small Town Girl In the Big City“Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would… and then someone passed me a bit of some sweet stuff, and suddenly I realized that I had been to China. So to…Travel5 min read
Feb 19What’s your favourite quote and why?“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing” — To Kill A Mocking Bird, Harper Lee I have always been a reader for as long as I can remember. As a child, I read everything — newspaper that was used to…Books2 min read
Feb 18Take me to 2122, Please!I want to travel to 2122 and see how the lives of women have changed. Virginia Woolf wrote “A Room of One’s Own” in the 1920s and I read it almost a century later. She expected women will cease to be the weaker sex after a hundred years. Although conditions…Personal2 min read
Feb 17My Favourite PhotoIt was the fall of 2017. I was in Shanghai for an official assignment. For someone coming from the hot and humid part of India, the fall in Shanghai was an entirely novel experience. I landed there in the scorching summer, witnessed the gradual transition to autumn and finally immersed…Personal2 min read
Feb 16A Mysterious ForceOne day, Uncle bought a black square box at home. It was called a VCR. Sorry kids! This is an early 90s thing when the Internet itself was unavailable, forget about Netflix. It was such a joy for us 90s kids. There was no need to wait for those boring…Short Story4 min read
Feb 15What book is next on your reading list?A difficult one, I must say. For the past couple of years, I have been reading multiple books at a time. This includes multiple non-fiction and one fiction. It’s been pretty great so far. I am able to retain more information and I no longer get stuck in reading. When…Reading2 min read
Feb 14What’s a superpower you’d love to have?My philosophical self knows that mistakes are part of life. There is no point in carrying around regrets throughout life. But there is a small voice in my head that whispers, “what if I could time travel and make it right?”. …Personal2 min read
Feb 14Corfu Trilogy By Gerald DurrellHow do you feel when the most delicious sweet you have been savouring for so long is about to finish? You will try to slow the process. But in the end, all good things, or bad things for that matter, have to end. The same happened with Corfu Trilogy as…Book Review2 min read
Feb 13What is a cause you’re passionate about and why?Reading has changed my life for the better. As a kid, I read everything that I came across, without paying much attention to the genre or quality. Though it created a thirst for knowledge, sometimes I do wish that I had proper guidance and access to better books. Everybody should…Personal2 min read
Feb 11What is a life lesson you feel everyone can benefit from learning?Ever had those long and dreary days when you felt like you cannot get out of your bed? What a stupid question, am I right? Part of us that makes us human is the unavoidability of such days. What we make out of such days is another question altogether. I…Life Lessons2 min read
