Awkwardness -2

Please read my earlier post, Awkwardness, to understand what has been going on so far. As time ticked past, the ice between Pari, her bus friends and Nina slowly started melting. They started having fun during their ride to and from school. Though Nina's father still wasn't friendly with us, but since the kids had …

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Awkwardness

I have been wanting to write this from a long time. To be precise, from the time Pari started going to school in a bus. But, I held back, because one, I wanted to give things a fair chance to change and secondly, I wasn't sure whether to add it to the school diary series …

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Stepping out of the nest

I have had an over-protected childhood. One where I never had to face the hardships of life despite being born in an ordinary middle-class family. I wish to clarify that it by no means implied that I was a 'spoilt child' because I did face the struggles every Indian child faces in having things their …

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Incorporating AND in my life

I have never been a multitasker. Despite being a woman, I feel no shame in admitting that multi-tasking makes me a loser on all fronts. I have been so focused on walking down a single lane, that when one-dimensional labels became my preference I can't even recall. Life went on smooth for a good 22 …

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The Facts About Miscarriages Everyone Must Know

Facts about miscarriages, I learnt only after I had one. Read to learn from my experience and to know the one thing my gynecologist told me that changed everything for me.