2018-07-20 16:50
I'm done with this place, after all these years :) I was this opinionated, starry-eyed twit with a buttload of dreams of becoming a writer (because of the feedback I got on the stuff I wrote… Read More
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The blog of a 20-something who has more dreams than she has time. Hop on over to find some fiction, a dash of abstract writing, a little bit of opinion and loads of cookies :)
2018-03-20 09:43
I woke up dreaming of Jim and Pam this morning. Then I realized I might be in Jim+Pam.
Am I? Only time will tell.
In other news, it's been 5 years, 11 months, and 20 days sin… Read More
2018-03-19 05:21
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What a weekend it was. Ammu said we meet to part, and every parting is painful, and left for home, I love how much that makes sense. Then I walked around in the hot sun, intendin… Read More
2018-03-16 05:24
My 75 yo grandmother got a clean chit of physical and mental health from a doctor yesterday, despite being a long-standing diabetic who doesn't actively do much to cut down her indirect gluc… Read More
2018-03-13 07:51
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Have you heard of labneh? It is Middle Eastern, stupidly easy to make (I make it regularly, that should tell you something), stays in the fridge for ages (okay, about a coup… Read More
2018-03-13 07:51
I woke up this morning, dreaming of my Appu (grandpa). I was putting together a plate of dosa and sambhar for his lunch, Ammu (grandma) giving me instructions on what to put where (because A… Read More
2018-03-05 03:23
Lets do this Read More
2018-03-01 12:12
January was a tornado of great food and random conversations (family came to stay with me) but well-disciplined and focused (if you know me at all, you'll know why this is both funny and sup… Read More
2018-01-23 04:53
ISBN: 154204796X
Pages: 334
Published: 2017
You know what I did? Something blasphemous to a reading purist. I peeked.
20% into the book I peeked at the last few pages to find ou… Read More
2018-01-16 13:41
ISBN: 1503948706
Pages: 335
Published: 2017
This is a typical mystery/thriller; a lawyer struggling to cope with the hand she was dealt, aided and abetted by a PI, decides to defend t… Read More
2018-01-10 04:38
I have very vivid, very detailed dreams; some terrifying, some good, but mostly very weird. They usually have nothing to do with what's happening in my life and I remember most of them after… Read More
2018-01-03 04:04
.... quoting my brother here.
Have yourselves a productive, conscious, happy, healthy 2018, okay? Read More
2017-11-29 03:59
"Sometimes, sambhar is just a distant dream"ft. idli and molaga podi Read More
2017-11-27 15:32
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I woke up this fine Monday to @themoodyvegan on Instagram sharing this article. I try to cocoon myself in ignorance for all the reasons I've mentioned here but this, I wasn't able t… Read More
2017-11-24 16:53
If we were having coffee, I'd tell you I'm three books behind on my Goodreads challenge and I'm worried I won't be able to reach my goal before the year ends. I know I'll beat myself up if I… Read More
2017-11-08 09:48
I’m a very firm believer in people doing what they want with their lives and in their bedrooms, it is absolutely no one else’s business. Of course, that they must be consenting a… Read More
2017-11-05 15:42
OMGOMGCHRISHEMSWORTH+IDRISAELBAINONEFRAME *fans self*
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Okay, now that I have gotten that out of my system, let's talk Thor: Ragnarok. Right off the bat, let me make it cl… Read More
2017-11-02 14:21
Note: A round-up post ahead. Quiiite long, to say the least.
Ha. I wouldn't let 2016 leave without saying goodbye here, would I?
I keep hearing people say 2016 was a shitty year and… Read More
2017-11-02 10:38
So I did the Dewey’s 24-hour Readathon this year (October 20-21, 2017), considering it was my first ever readathon of any sort (and one that I actually completed), I’m excited en… Read More
2017-10-30 10:34
Anybody here?
I’m surprised you stuck around, thanks for that 😊
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Yes, I’m alive. No, I did not lose the password and forget I have a blo… Read More
2017-10-30 05:26
Possibly the most painful thing about being in love and being loved back is not knowing where the lines are. You fit together, you make things work, you have fun, and you fight a lottle. But… Read More
2017-06-02 18:00
When a butterfly flaps its wings in Gaffney, it sets off a tornado in 1600, Pennsylvania Avenue.
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House of Cards Season 5 Premiere - The Homecoming Of Terror
[Mild s… Read More
2017-03-09 04:07
Statutory Warning: Rant ahead.
I watched Hacksaw Ridge, Moonlight, and Deepwater Horizon back to back and couldn't shake off the feeling that all three highlight the supreme stupidi… Read More
2017-03-01 04:30
I have updated the last post; managed to get exactly half of the list ticked off – some of the most important of the lot weren't and I feel absolutely terrible about it beca… Read More
2017-02-28 08:09
Behind Closed Doors
Pages: 351
This book truly creeped the fuck out of me. And gave me nightmares for a week because I was still obsessing over it. The only problem: I get low self-esteem… Read More
2017-02-02 14:45
I’ve been wanting to do a “my goals for the month” post and resurrecting my monthly roundups forever now but somehow got caught in the nitty gritties. Posting it on the blo… Read More
2017-01-27 21:00
I hope you know what kind of lasting damage those paragraphs you wrote (in a fit of anger and later deleted) had on my life. Read More
2017-01-24 04:01
Serendipity is what led me to the movie last evening (because I usually don't go looking for almost-a-year-old Bollywood movies on weekdays).
And I can honestly say that Kapoor and… Read More
2017-01-16 10:51
....I wish more people would do more often
10) Place needs over wants
9) Be able to laugh at themselves
8) Compliment people (so I won’t be the only weirdo telling th… Read More
2017-01-09 07:43
I sit here, flipping through The Time Traveler’s Wife and marveling at the prose, my cold toes stuck under your warm bum and fingers tangled in your messy hair. Your head rests on my s… Read More
2016-11-23 10:29
I trained to be a journalist. They taught me to construct ledes and communication theory and I sponged all of it up without meaning to. It was never a question – I was a writer, I need… Read More
2016-11-09 07:44
chrome-plated dreams.
silver-backed needs.
seam-rending feels.
toe-curling scenes.
heat-inducing sheets.
skin-searing treats.
musk-laden meal.
dug-in heels.
sinfully-swee… Read More
2016-10-25 03:30
do you feel it?
the rusty taste of betrayal
jagged-edged, blood-red
desperation. coloring skin like
maggots on garbage.
chest heaving, nerves splitting
at t… Read More
2016-10-24 04:57
Someone recently told me that they felt sorry for me because I don't "do" anything during the weekends; I had to fight hard to not snortle (snort+chortle).
Let me put it this way.&n&hell…Read More
2016-10-18 04:39
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There are so many things I will do.
I will read A Handbook for My Lover after I finish this last book. I will clear out my shelves and organize everything on a weekend. I w… Read More
2016-09-27 06:38
THERE IS NO PRO-LIFE AND PRO-CHOICE ARGUMENT – there is only me and my body and what I choose to do with it. YOU don't GET TO HAVE AN OPINION ON IT. Period.
I may have turned… Read More
2016-08-31 05:40
you wake up and call
her honey and let her
trod all over you
with her needs and wants and
expectations, and
fake convictions.
Remain irrevocably in
love with
her eyes, he… Read More
2016-08-30 04:41
scars have stories to tell.
some barely there, you can hardly even see them. like those times you touched the hot iron or miscut the onions. a little nick, a sliver of silver skin. … Read More
2016-08-23 08:20
TRIGGER WARNING.
Listen, let me stick around. Let me stay and lick my wounds. I’m used to watching the sun rise and the bruises bloom just under my translucent skin, togeth… Read More
2016-08-17 03:43
I want to love you, I do.
I want the kind of companionship that I only read about in yellowed classics. I want to sit in silence and enjoy the lack of conversation. I also want to w… Read More
![Promise [BarAThon Day 7]](https://cdn.blogarama.com/images/posts_thumbs_site_id/3233/323289-206122253.w320.jpg "Promise [BarAThon Day 7]")
2016-08-06 20:08
I promise not to judge when I see someone wearing green pants with an orange shirt – if they love it, who am I to question that?
I promise not to judge women who choose to have chil… Read More
![Wishful Thinking [BarAThon Day 6]](https://cdn.blogarama.com/images/posts_thumbs_site_id/3233/323289-2517058942.w320.jpg "Wishful Thinking [BarAThon Day 6]")
2016-08-05 18:30
I wish I were on the window ledge of my old house. I wish it were raining outside. I wish Shaeba came and curled up on my feet. I wish Dad asks me I am reading and strikes up a conversation… Read More
![Tiny Shoes [BarAThon Day 5]](https://cdn.blogarama.com/images/posts_thumbs_site_id/3233/323289-810049058.w320.jpg "Tiny Shoes [BarAThon Day 5]")
2016-08-04 17:57
She held the onesie close and inhaled that sweet, sweet fragrance of baby-ness – all powder and drool and innocence and gurgles. She folded it precisely across and once more, and then… Read More
![Padfoot. [BarAThon Day 4]](https://cdn.blogarama.com/images/posts_thumbs_site_id/3233/323289-3215807872.w320.jpg "Padfoot. [BarAThon Day 4]")
2016-08-04 17:53
There are always defining moments in our lives, when one wins a scholarship, find someone they can laugh with, have a child, go to a place, get a promotion….. you get the idea; this i… Read More
![Fragile Lives [BarAThon Day 3]](https://cdn.blogarama.com/images/posts_thumbs_site_id/3233/323289-270474581.w320.jpg "Fragile Lives [BarAThon Day 3]")
2016-08-02 18:30
My grandma has a very green thumb, so green that my home has an Amazonian tree cover and plants covering every available bit of land around. So when I moved into a place of my own, I decided… Read More
2016-08-02 05:09
What you don’t know could fill a library.
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We watch her sashay down the aisle, resplendent, picture perfect. Right into the arms of the perfect man – handsome, NRI… Read More
![Stranger Than Fiction [BarAThon Day 1]](https://cdn.blogarama.com/images/posts_thumbs_site_id/3233/323289-1668480737.w320.jpg "Stranger Than Fiction [BarAThon Day 1]")
2016-08-01 16:29
I woke up at 5.45 am today and found my gym clothes hanging by the bed, cleaned and fresh. I drank a litre of water like I should and wasted no time scrolling through social media feeds. Dur… Read More
2016-07-25 11:37
Every time I start writing a post on the Blogger dashboard after my last post, I have wanted to vent. SO BAD. But I refrained from it. Because I'm not 16 any more. I don't use my blog to get… Read More
2016-07-09 08:50
A photo posted by Cookie Crumbs Inc. (@cookiecrumbsinc) on Feb 13, 2016 at 8:54am PST
This book (which I read a decade ago, I just realized) gave me this strategy – when you fe… Read More
2016-07-09 08:13
I started reading the moment the courier reached me and I swear I tried to keep an open mind, I did.
The story is about a seventeen-year-old who lost both parents at birth. He seems… Read More
2016-07-05 18:30
This burning desire to come over to your desk and reach for your hand is consuming me.
I remember what your fingers felt like from last night; each slender digit wrapped itself in t… Read More
2016-07-05 05:58
Me vs. Mondays. No prizes for guessing which one is who.
Some 300 years ago, when I was in school, I remember seeing these random "inspirational" quotes everywhere - on the stone walls… Read More
2016-06-30 03:30
My FitBit daily average has been 13k steps. And three liters of water a day. ‘Nuff said. Third longest streak I’ve had in this lifetime, are things in my head shifting around fin… Read More
2016-06-28 08:07
Maybe I don’t catch a ride with you to work.
Maybe we don’t pull mismatched clothes on in a rabid hurry
(because you were so cozy that my body refused to part with yours)… Read More
2016-06-27 09:23
So Sanch did her reading roundup for the first half of the year and I thought I'd do one too (mostly because I am SUPER excited about one particular challenge but go with it :P).
A HUGE per… Read More
2016-06-02 04:00
I lost Appu (Grandpa) a few years ago.
I am his first grandchild and I was/ is/ will remain his favorite. He tried to teach me Math and told me all the stories in the Ramayana and t… Read More
2016-06-01 09:23
I do not believe in mob justice. I do NOT believe in selective dissemination of news. I believe that armchair warriors sitting at their keyboards and generating hate for fame or for fun do m… Read More
2016-05-31 09:22
• I learnt that grownass men can be little children. The Roommate scored four action figures for his birthday and he is unbelievably possessive of them; when I tried punching Capta… Read More
2016-04-30 12:25
There is usually a traffic policeman near the HSR underpass, he gets me wondering how he is in one of the professions that requires you to be most active and STILL managed to grow such a spe… Read More
2016-04-29 16:45
She has the solutions to all my problems.
All my loneliness fades away into wisps of thin air after a single phone conversation with her.
She ALWAYS has answers. Not in a self-ingrat… Read More
2016-04-28 03:30
She was a natural and had years of practise on different platforms. She wasn’t in the best of shape but she made up for it with the precision of her movements - she imitated the instru… Read More
2016-04-27 15:53
She was angry beyond words - how difficult was it to admit to one’s own mistakes, apologize, and get past the negativity to go on with life? When the reaction to rightful questioning i… Read More
2016-04-26 05:30
We broke up under an Ashoka tree by the hospital’s quarters, clutching Cuppa Noodles in one hand and dear sanity in the other. He wanted to move to the richest city in the world, buy a… Read More
2016-04-25 16:56
He is quite tall and is broad-shouldered – he seems the type that works out but not in the gym; you know the ones who do sets of fifty pushups and fifty lunges and whatnot in the morni… Read More
2016-04-23 17:31
She opened her reader up and tapped a manicured finger on her desk while all the new posts from the blogs she subscribed to populated on her screen. She started opening up the links and read… Read More
2016-04-23 17:10
He is short. And has curly hair. Not the pretty kind, either. He has glasses on, the frames are quite unbecoming. He wears shirts in violent colors and jeans that sag at the bottom. And his… Read More
2016-04-22 06:26
He dresses nice; dark blue pressed pants with a nice crisp white shirt that has a monogram on the breast pocket that held a Parker pen. A chunky watch (may be expensive, I don’t know w… Read More
2016-04-22 06:22
Her hair definitely looks real, she always has a string of mogra wrapped around her bun. Her saree is draped quite well and the arches of her eyebrows are quite enviable. The only giveaway i… Read More
2016-04-19 17:45
She is very fair and luminescent (the kind that comes with regular CTM). Her hair is silky (no-SLS shampoo). Her lips were always a pleasing shade of pink (Baby Lips in Strawberry and a ligh… Read More
2016-04-18 18:20
He is a compendium of superlatives.
He is tall, super tall. Like 6 feet 3 inches tall. And lanky. Super lanky. Body-can-be-used-as-an-exhibit-in-a-biology-lab lanky. He is also sup… Read More
2016-04-16 17:17
She typed down a sentence. And deleted it. Then she typed down a phrase. And then deleted it. Then just that one word that had sparked something.
And then again deleted it. … Read More
2016-04-15 05:31
People I know through their writing, through their blogs? I imagine what they look like. I let their words shape their image in my head; edges blurred, colors vague but bewitchingly exquisit… Read More
2016-04-14 15:33
He looks like he is a hundred years old, and I doubt he can see properly despite the thick soda-butty glasses that cover half his face; there are decade-old wrinkles that hang forlornly over… Read More
2016-04-13 12:17
From when I met her when I was ten, she has been thin as a rail and her skin, the color of chocolate milk that was set on the stove too long. The smallest blouses hang off her frame and her… Read More
2016-04-12 12:37
I set down the mug of tea by the window sill and go hunting for my favorite cushion. Then I prop it up in the corner and figure out a good sitting position. Sitting cross-legged is out of qu… Read More
2016-04-11 12:42
I scrolled through pages and pages of pictures before I found the perfect one – I added it carefully to the post, centered it to match the alignment of the rest of the blog, turned off… Read More
2016-04-09 17:44
He always wore a white shirt with brown stripes on it and raggedy dark blue pants that ended 3/4th of an inch above his ankles. He was maybe in his early forties (circa 2008) and the areas a… Read More
2016-04-09 17:33
Unassuming. That’s what you will first think of when you see her. She wears pastel-colored churidar sets and carries a maroon-colored handbag everywhere. She does not wear a bindi ever… Read More
2016-04-08 09:17
Unassuming. That’s what you will first think of when you see her. She wears pastel-colored churidar sets and carries a maroon-colored handbag everywhere. She does not wear a bindi ever… Read More
2016-04-07 04:00
He is flamboyant – always wearing new clothes, experimenting with hair styles, and strutting around (in the best possible way) with confidence that, frankly, I envied. He used to be ni… Read More
2016-04-06 04:00
Her hair flicks outward and she has slightly off-center eyes. Her fingers are stubby and her nails are always uneven. She is a goofball though, so you might just like her. But it is when she… Read More
2016-04-05 06:21
P.S: I LOVE people who can adapt. Maybe because I sorely lack the ability.
Proper. That’s the first word that comes to your mind when you look at him. His hair is just the rig… Read More
2016-04-04 04:00
One is sort of pretty and the other is pretty plain but both are decked to the nines – bangles and bindi, mogra in slicked-back hair, dupattas pinned to the shoulders, and all business… Read More
2016-04-02 04:00
He’s got lashes that women would kill for. And a purple shirt with a picture of a giraffe on it – when I happened to make a remark about the randomness of the giraffe print, he s… Read More
2016-04-01 09:05
She is rail thin, and looks spiffy in her blue uniform. Her hair is always oiled and tied into a bun at the nape of her neck. I haven’t seen her wear a bindi yet.
We started ta… Read More
2016-03-30 07:15
She’ll pick up that book and put it down again. She’ll try to flatten out the dogears that someone else inflicted. She'll absently scratch the cat. She'll gulp down water and loo… Read More
2016-03-22 17:17
It is 34 degrees outside (at 10pm). This picture is more for me than for you or for the post.
Reading slump. Reading slump. Reading slump. I burned through titles in February. I coul… Read More
2016-02-29 15:53
The world of Quora is very interesting. Though I am only a lurker, seeking answers and spying on lives from the shadows, I find it almost therapeutic reading people’s opinions/ answers… Read More
2016-02-23 07:30
The win is not the plot itself. The plot is a big part, agreed. But the true hero of any story is your ability to make your audience feel the despair and the doubts right from the first word… Read More
2016-02-22 06:49
Look at me. No, really look at me.
Past the face and the eyes and the expressions and the clothes. Past the present, the situation, where we stand right now. Past everything that… Read More
2016-02-19 09:40
The freshness of the year – the possibilities of making 2016 my bitch excite me
Lean on – damn song makes me want to break a leg every time it comes on
Being home – n… Read More
2016-02-19 09:37
The warmth of cats stretched out in sunny patches in the garden
The sunny fragrance of afternoons when adults slept and I frolicked, often raiding the fridge for cold treats to aid my adv… Read More
2016-02-15 12:00
You were supposed to be one of the most important people in my life; our bond was supposed to be special. But you chose to stay far away, even when you were presented with a choice - you cho… Read More
2016-02-12 06:15
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2016-02-09 10:22
I hear about Mrs. Funnybones. I hear more things about Mrs. Funnybones. I hear even more things about Mrs. Funnybones. So I decide I HAVE to read Mrs. Funnybones.
Because.
EV… Read More
2016-02-06 13:10
She came to me when she was maybe a month old – at that point I couldn’t tell her apart from her brother. She is the timid one; I still can’t work out whether it is a girl… Read More
2016-02-05 09:45
Growing up, I hated Coimbatore. I hated it for being the most non-happening place ever. I hated its guts for not having people who I could discuss how amazing Blyton is for having named Fatt… Read More
2016-02-01 10:24
In the last year, maybe dating as far back as December 2014, there isn’t a single to-do list that I’ve managed to completely check off.
For someone as control-freak… Read More
2016-01-27 18:02
I can be a vindictive little brat.
You will say one thing. I will say another thing. You will say the same thing you said before. And it will all end in me feeling vaguely hurt. N… Read More
2016-01-23 04:31
I don’t remember the day we met. I don’t remember much of what happened when we kissed for the very first time, except that it was quite cold and that your hand on my arm was war… Read More
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