Published in New Writers Welcome·Oct 11, 2021Almost 20 years on! To My Love — October Competition.18 years ago today, he picked me up from work at 3 in the morning in the freezing Delhi cold, as promised. A promise I doubted he would have kept, given the fact that he had no cell phone for me to remind him. He proved me wrong, as he…New Writers Welcome5 min read
Published in New Writers Welcome·Aug 31, 2021To have or not to have: Read this if you are considering another child!A while ago, a friend found out she was unexpectedly pregnant. Not quite sure what to do, she reached out and asked me my thoughts on the pluses and minuses of a second child. Being the good friend I am (who loves her own voice 😉), I proceeded to give…Parenting6 min read
Aug 23, 2021A love re-”kindled”The euphoria of going through another year of the pandemic mostly unscathed has been extinguished. …Mwc Reentry4 min read
Aug 22, 2021The Kitchen Wars — A fight for shared spaceWhen they said trial by fire, I did not expect my marriage to go through one so literally. At the time that the husband and I decided to get married, we thought we had very smartly placed our bets right. Having lived (in sin?) together for a significant period of…Mwc Space6 min read
Aug 21, 2021How we broke up and rebuilt our relationship : 7 rules that helped us build a solid marriageMy husband and I have been married for more than a decade now and have been partners for almost double that. Today, we have a fairly solid marriage; meaning there are days we absolutely cannot stand each other but still manage to work like a well-oiled machine. …Marriag9 min read
Aug 19, 2021Eyes, Eyes, Baby — A throwback to young loveAah young love! It does not have the finesse and stability that comes with years of partnership. But, it more than makes up for it with it’s rush of hormones, with how it manages to gloss over all faults, with how it makes our hearts and eyes flutter. Remembering young…Love2 min read
Aug 17, 2021Patience: A labour of love and enduranceOn a long weekend, as newly weds often do, I found some of the rose tint wearing off. Not being used to domesticity, the husband and I tried to find a rhythm to our oddly jarring gears. The whirring, the creaking, it took a while for us to get our…Love2 min read
Aug 2, 2021Leadership Lessons I found in ParentingHaving started a course on Strategic Management recently, we had a few sessions on leadership especially in these uncertain times. We all need to be able to find a way to relate to new learnings and for me, that happened when I was instantly able to recognise so many principles…Leadership5 min read
Published in A Parent Is Born·Jun 29, 2021Murphy and Me! Lessons in Motherhood and JudgementWhen Karma and Murphy’s Law get together — watch out. — You know how Mr. Murphy shows you your place in the world ? Typically when you’re standing in queues or stuck in traffic on days you JUST HAVE TO GET IT ALL DONE? I have come to the saddening realisation that Mr Murphy absolutely loves showering his attention on mommies…Motherhood3 min read