What plans for the weekend?

The weekend is here It’s time to unwind An occasion to relax And get out of the grind   48 hours of bliss! I’m excited beyond measure I’m going to fill it up With recreation and leisure   But I’ll make it productive Maybe head to the gym Or a walk in the park Or …

The ‘joys’ of having an unusual name!

I was born and brought up in Uttar Pradesh, India. I’m Anglo-Indian, so I have a bit of an unusual name for the region. When I was around 13 years old, I participated in my first classical dance competition. I had been learning Bharatanatyam for a few years by then and my dance teacher felt …

Smile!

Last weekend, I was in Dresden for a weekend trip. Dresden is less than 3 hours away from where we live, and my husband and I thought it would be a nice weekend getaway. We spent the day walking around the city and I clicked a lot of photographs. It's a beautiful and charming old …

Choices

(A short story) So colourful! Olivia had just stepped into the food aisle at the supermarket. Sunday afternoons were for grocery shopping. She'd always found supermarkets intriguing. They were magical places with aisles that stretched out forever and rows of shelves that seemed to touch the ceiling. Hundreds of products with colourful labels adorned the …

Happiness is…

Last weekend, I had gone for a short trip to Dresden with my husband. We spent the weekend walking around the city, clicking photographs, deciding where to eat, what to go see next and so on. All the usual stuff. At the end of the trip, we were walking back to the bus stop and …

Green

(Illustrations by Vaishnavi Gopal) Green. The colour of jealousy, that vile monster. The colour of her eyes. Anita walked into the bedroom. Green drapes here too. They would have to go. She couldn’t stand the colour. She spotted a movement outside the window and turned her attention to it. The moving truck had arrived with …

Out to lunch!

This evening I was heading home after my German language class. It's been four months of learning German, and while it's not exactly a breeze, I'd still like to think that I've picked up quite a bit so far. I practise my vocabulary when I'm out shopping by reading the product labels in German, I …

Where’s the snow?!

The first thing that most of my friends and family in India said when I told them that my husband and I were moving to Berlin last year in the summer was "Ooh! It gets really cold in Germany!" Friends and acquaintances who had visited gave us advice about what kind of winter clothing we …

Decades and deadlines

I’ve been feeling very enthusiastic about the new year 2020. Something about it makes me feel like it’s going to be a great year, I’m going to get a lot done and accomplish great things. At least that’s how I’ve been feeling. Then, this afternoon, right in the middle of my mid-day coffee (that’s between …

Happy New Year 2020!

Happy New Year 2020! This year is going to be a good one, I just know it! Maybe it’s my 2020 vision! Hah! I’m sitting with my morning coffee and pondering over the last year. It was a rollercoaster, and it flew by so fast! 2019 went by like a blur. But 2020’s definitely going …