After February 22, 2025, the 9th of March 2025 will hold a special place in my heart. I participated in a 5K run. Though it was a Fun Run, for someone like me, it was a serious event. Here’s my secret dream—well, not a secret anymore: I’ve always wanted to run a marathon (half or full). However, over the past…
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The other day, while I was scrolling through my Instagram feed, a reel popped up where a man was asking one question to many women: “Is alimony okay? Why is dowry not okay?” From what I could see, the women he asked these questions to were young and probably unmarried. Even if they were married, these aren’t the kind of…
Few people have such a strong grip on their language and clarity of thought that when they speak, everyone listens. I have a few personal favorites. Here are my favorite Indian female leaders who speak brilliantly and with great insight. This list is not in any particular order of preference. I cannot resist listening to their talks or speeches. Share…
The Samay Raina and Ranveer Allahbadia’s India’s Got Latent controversy made it to the top news this week and several actions have been taken against the makers of the show, all the videos being deleted by Samay Raina, Ranveer Allahbadia’s apology and suddenly everyone wants to stop this show. Today, I came across several notable social media ‘influencers’ who are…
When you reach a certain level where you can influence people and their lives with what you speak, you ought to be extra cautious of what you say. We Indians have reached a stage where people are dying because of stress and overworking. Some people are taking therapies and some are giving sessions on managing work-related stress and striking the…
I came across a rather long video of the celebrated social media influencer – Ankush Bahuguna – yesterday where he shared how he became the victim of the widely popular scam of Digital Arrest and that he was thankful to his friends and family who helped him get out of it and the mental stress that he went through. While…
If you think about it, all of us come across several people for a brief or a long time who touch upon our lives in some or other magical ways. Several. I, too, have been extremely fortunate to have met some wonderful people in my life thus far. This blog is dedicated to one such man with whom I have…
“What? Are we going to go on our trip on this rickety bus? In the brochure they showed such beautiful Volvo buses”, I protested I was on a South India trip with my parents after spending a week in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. This was during an era when the Internet was still not used heavily to make prior…