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{R} is for Reminiscing the Yesteryears: #AtoZChallenge

{R} is for Reminiscing the Yesteryears: #AtoZChallenge

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{R} is for Reminiscing the Yesteryears Peals of laughter echo through our fifteenth floor apartment. The kids are building a tent-house that they call a hotel room, with the dining chairs, cushions and bed sheets as props. We are sprawled on the bed reminiscing our yesteryears. Those good old days when we hung out as one big family, made merry, had endless conversations that spilled into the wee hours of the morning, over copious glasses of wine or gin tonic….

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{Q} is for Queer and Quirky: #AtoZChallenge

{Q} is for Queer and Quirky: #AtoZChallenge

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{Q} is for Queer and Quirky Radcliffe is born on the Easter of April 1995, to staunch Catholic parents, in Manila. His hazel eyes, dark curly mane and rosey lips has people marvelling and confusing the little cherub for a girl. His orthodox parents find this very queer and quirky. Radcliffe goes to mass every Sunday with his parents. Unlike his peers who play with cars and aeroplanes, Rady has a penchant for Barbie dolls. Mommy doesn’t know, as he…

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{P} is for Painted Not Tainted: #AtoZChallenge

{P} is for Painted Not Tainted: #AtoZChallenge

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{P} is for Painted Not Tainted She has painted her face using deft strokes. The eyeliner, mascara, foundation, the garish red lipstick, the cherry blusher highlight those ordinary features. The transformation is unbelievable. The concealer hides the cigarette-butt marks on her face.

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{O} is for One With Nature: #AtoZChallenge

{O} is for One With Nature: #AtoZChallenge

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{O} is for One With Nature We are beings of Mother Earth and as much part of nature as the trees, the nodding poinsettias that sway to the rhythm of the gentle breeze, or the mammoth mountains that stand tall and the regally flowing rivers. But how often do we consider adapting ourselves the way nature does? Do we flow downstream like the brook by the countryside. Or do we insist on flowing against the tide? Do we learn to…

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{N} is for Never Say Never: #AtoZChallenge

{N} is for Never Say Never: #AtoZChallenge

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{N} is for Never Say Never You’ve probably heard the phrase, “Never say never” a multiple times. It means nothing is impossible. Anything can happen. Never say never is also a James Bond movie starring Sean Connery. It’s also a Justin Bieber song, featuring Jaden Smith (Will Smith’s son) from the movie Karate Kid. The phrase, “Never say never” came to haunt me in my linguistic skills. I’m a Bengali who has lived a major part of her life in…

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{M} is for Mystic’s Magic: #AtoZChallenge

{M} is for Mystic’s Magic: #AtoZChallenge

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{M} is for Mystic’s Magic Have you ever experienced a mystic’s magic? Did it transform your life? Or was it just a one-off  experience that took you to a unique level of mysticism? I’ve had a brush with a mystic’s magic. A life transforming experience to say the least. This is an anecdote from February 2005 which actually spilled into my April and the months and years ahead. The mystic here was none other than Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev.

{L} is for Love Conquers All: #AtoZChallenge

{L} is for Love Conquers All: #AtoZChallenge

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{L} is for Love Conquers All “Good morning Mamma. Love you. Wake up now, it’s eight-thirty already,” says little Sam, enveloping Zaira in a warm hug. Zaira tilts her face towards Sam, sleepily rubbing her eyes, while trying to plant a kiss on his chubby cheek. Her head is still throbbing and she has no urge whatsoever to get out of bed. She hasn’t slept all night again and it is only in the wee hours of morning that she…

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{K} is for KISS: #AtoZChallenge

{K} is for KISS: #AtoZChallenge

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{K} is for KISS Did you kiss today? How often do you kiss? How many times a day? Or is it once in a while? Or once a fortnight? Oops! Am I being too intrusive? Well, here’s a thing; this kiss is not the one that you plant on someones lips or cheeks! This is that one kiss we forget to base our lives on. I learnt this lingo early in my life, during my advertising days, and thereafter I…

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{J} is for Just Like That: #AtoZChallenge

{J} is for Just Like That: #AtoZChallenge

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{J} is for Just Like That Just like that, the month of April descended upon us. A quarter of a year already gone by! Wow! What were we thinking? No, I’m not going to use the cliché, “Time flies”. It’s way too overrated. So how have you utilised your last three months? Did your year begin with a bang, or did all the pages of your life go fluttering away in different directions? Either which way, I’m sure you will…

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{I} is for Intimacy: #AtoZChallenge

{I} is for Intimacy: #AtoZChallenge

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{I} is for Intimacy This winter has craved too much intimacy. It’s been a long drawn one and has over extended its stay, even though it is April already. Cara and Jonathan met last year at a friend’s Halloween party. It wasn’t love at first sight. Cara was known as the “Mighty Prude” in the Yale circles. Some even went on to call her “Frigid Cara”. Cara preferred her books over socializing. She barely had any bandwidth for the opposite sex….

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