My Quill
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A cancer diagnosis shakes the patient as well as their family to the core. With my mother’s diagnosis, we are devastated but we will fight.
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We moved to Mumbai at the beginning of monsoon season. The city arrived in my life already drenched — and slowly, through rain and books and Little Miss’s deeply held opinions about puddles, it is beginning to feel like home.
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This is a story of Priya and the first love shown in glances, smiles and Bollywood music.
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The monsoon came late to Allahabad that year, as though the sky too could not make up its mind. It was August 1942, and the whole of India seemed to be holding its breath. In the narrow lane of Tagore Gali, behind the post office and beside the old peepal tree, the Sharma household rose…
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We’ve all heard the advice: “Find your niche!” It sounds simple until you’re standing there with a bank passbook in one hand and a fantasy novel in the other, wondering how on earth these two worlds are supposed to grab a coffee together, let alone start a blog. For a long time, I treated my…
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In the corporate world, the “Annual Review” is often met with a mix of dread and formality. A scary meeting filled with KPIs, performance metrics, and professional goals. But what if we hijacked that structure for something far more important? What if we applied that same rigor to our personal lives? As I have seen…
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The cursor blinks. I stare. It blinks.I make some tea. I check the sink.I rearrange my desk at noon,I him old songs and relax by their tune.The great idea is almost there.I feel it, just beyond the air.I open Notes. I write “The”. Then I Google whether cats feel Zen.An hour passes. Maybe two.I draft…
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The special needs parent community is one of the most helpful communities on internet today. It provides a sanctuary to those navigating various medical issues, therapies and emotional highs and lows of parenting. However, in doing so sometimes our whole digital space can become completely about this. Being a “Special Needs Mom” is a vital…
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Writers are often told to “kill your darlings.” Bankers, on the other hand, would call that asset liquidation. And honestly, that framing hurts less. If you have ever stared at your draft thinking, This is brilliant, I just need someone to agree, you are now ready to edit like a banker: methodical, unsentimental, and slightly suspicious of…