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It was the imageries of the iconic, intricately crafted, milky white âChattrisâ-symbolic of the Udaipur architecture-pillared alongside the clear blue lakes of Udaipur, that made me go stark raving mad over the City of Lakes-Udaipur. The exoticness of the City…
Read moreIâm 47 trying to look 30. Someone there is 60 trying to look 40. âRidiculousâ is what it may have sounded in the 70s; we call it âI-n-s-p-i-r-i-n-gâ. From a skinny college girl to a mother of two who weighed…
Read moreA heartfelt, unflinching piece written by my grandmother Rani Jasjeet Kaur upon the birth of her twin granddaughters. The courage in her thoughts flagrantly fill up the murmurs on the paper through her meticulously written, flawless and unedited reflections on the hypocrisy and the disdain over the birth of girls in an aristocratic family of Punjab where women acquired social and educational equality, with nevertheless, chauvinistic Zamindars.,
Read moreAnd it’s just about the time of the year when I get a lot of these annoying questions thrown at me, “What’s your new year resolution?” UhâŠNew, What? Year after year there is this clichĂ©d sameness about this thing so…
Read moreThe dramatic encounter killing all four alleged rapists, this morning, brought cheer and a craving for the poetic justice to many at large. Yet I scroll through these boisterous discussions and heavily opinionated tweets streaming along on the social media debating the extrajudicial killings. The netizens seem to have their intellectual take on just about everything.
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