It was the imageries of the iconic, intricately crafted, milky white “Chattris”-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 Palace and the turquoise lakes…
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No Butter On My Toast
I’m 47 trying to look 30. Someone there is 60 trying to look 40. “Ridiculous” is what it may have sounded in the 70s; we call it “I-n-s-p-i-r-i-n-g”. From a skinny college girl to a mother of two who weighed 78 kgs more than a…
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“No Congratulations For Us”
A 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…
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No Year Resolutions
And 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?” Uh…New, What? Year after year there is this clichéd sameness about this thing so not ‘New,’ a New Year!!…
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Justice Delivered, Full Stop
The 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…