Actually,none !

What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings? I operate on the principle – ” This too shall pass”. Negative feelings don’t just come out of the blue, there has to be a trigger or a premonition or at least a situation that warrants negativity! It’s an aspect of our existence,our intellect and […]

Yes, I believe in it.

Do you believe in fate/destiny? The wheels of fate keep turning all around us,all the time, nothing else is actually at play in our existence. From birth to death, a superior design is constantly rolling out events after events. We become players in some, and onlookers in others, but we can’t deny this knowledge, that […]

Stay focused

What advice would you give to your teenage self? I know you have been wavering… Every day brings on new challenges… The hostel is proving to be a rotten place for studies… You have not been able to hold on to your position in the class, because of all the upheavals in the hostel, an […]

Have I?

Have you ever unintentionally broken the law? If jumping a red at the traffic signal is considered one, then I surely have; several times, all unintentionally and when thrown into a tight spot by bully vehicles and monstrous city buses which never stick to their lanes in India. I have received tickets, have paid fines […]

Eggs🥚🥚🥚

What’s your favorite thing to cook? Eggs are an all time favourite! They are so versatile and are a quick fix for anytime-meal all the time. So , quite obviously, they are my favourite thing to cook. There! I get very creative with eggs, when it’s on the menu , in my house of course! […]

Moments like those…

Can you share a positive example of where you’ve felt loved? When I am with my family and they keep asking after me, doing small things to make living easy… One recall… Our posting in Jammu and Kashmir… both of us in our first month of domesticity! Both soldiers, both on duty, perpetually always 😃 […]

My son’s childhood pictures

What makes you feel nostalgic? Whenever I come across his baby pictures, I think of the happiness and contentment that I felt as a young and tired mother, seeing him bloom before my eyes, while we learnt our way up the world. I also see my own youngish parents and my handsome husband in those […]

Brain Rot

The year is ending… just 48 hrs more…of reel watching, nonsense canned laughter and endless scrolling… I am stopping it all in 2025. Oxford University has identified Brain Rot as the word of the year! I can’t agree more… what with all that useless, senseless, meaningless “content” clogging the brain and driving youth and even […]

Papa

Describe a man who has positively impacted your life. As all daughters usually do, I too idolize my father and continue to do so, till date. While growing up, it was his reticence and calm nature that made a great impact on me. “Speak only when spoken to” was a living phrase in him; he […]

Mindful…

What are your feelings about eating meat? This is a subject which requires honesty as well as ethics in answering it truthfully. Well, I like eating chicken, mutton and fish… So far , my mind hasn’t allowed me to explore eating animals bigger than me, in size. Coming to the ethics of it, killing any […]