Facing death truly puts life in the right perspective — The second Covid19 wave mercilessly devoured many countries, mine being one of them. News headlines raised goosebumps and spread even more fear. Then the horrors started hitting close to home when people I knew were gasping for air, waiting for hospital beds for days together, isolated, and even dying. The…

Because a new writer can use all the help they can get — Are you familiar with that nagging feeling in the back of your mind that there is something you are called to do but aren’t sure what it is? So you ignore it and keep pursuing other things, only to have to work a lot harder, feeling like a fish out…

What I call the ‘draw, sprinkle and pour strategy’ — Doesn’t the global pandemic seem more like an apocalypse on some days? Even knowing that there will be an end to this, perhaps through a scientific victory or sheer human resilience, still I feel like a zombie; half dead, half alive. A part of me hesitates planning for the distant…

Being an average writer is not a bad thing — The blog post was showing on the first page of Google Search Results. Sitting proudly amongst the ‘best of content’ as deemed by Google. If you have run a blog or ever researched the subject, you would know that Google doesn’t make it easy for content creators to make it…

Creative people are hoarders. It’s literally their biggest strength and biggest weakness packed into one big bundle of a mess. What do they hoard? IDEAS! Duh! But we struggle to put ideas into action. For mysterious reasons beyond us, we just can’t make ourselves to put our tools of the…

It's a trap and you better escape it It was a regular workday. I was trying to get some work done while my kids interrupted me every other minute. To be fair to them, it did look like I was drumming the keyboard for fun. Meanwhile, I was snooping, scrolling…

I am taking the liberty to break the norm of quoting research to back my arguments because issues faced by women returning to work post-kids have become increasingly common. Also, it’s high time we ban these sorts of mindsets from our workplace. Soon after my first child was born, I…

After three months of being in lockdown, there was one thing I surely did not miss, prompts from e-commerce websites, selling me yet another thing to buy instant happiness. Except for platforms delivering grocery, I had not been on any other shopping apps for three whole months…