Dear Reader,  This may not be the Christmas you had been dreaming of. Not even close. And maybe you had cooked up worst case scenarios in your head to save yourself from more disappo… Read More

“Why? I wonder why?”  I said with a wry smile when Abhishek told me how many people loved me enough to pray, help, and support in this difficult time.  Apart from… Read More

Warning: It’s a gratitude post. This may get boring for some of you, so feel free to skim or skip. But as promised earlier, this series pays tribute to the people around me. The mos… Read More

I want to start by saying that the purpose of this series “Ankle fracture diaries” is not to attract any kind of sympathy, or to worry you (especially friends and extended family… Read More

In my high school, one of my classmates was notorious for being moody. She had difficulty keeping friends for a long time, she often kept to herself, and each time she was offered help by we… Read More

Come 5.30 pm, and my feet would itch. My fingers would involuntarily start going faster on the keyboard. Whether or not my work was done, I would leave my desk by 5.45 pm, change into some c… Read More

This Christmas was extra special because we had a brand new member in the family. Her name is Esther, and she is my brother’s wife. And even though we were a tad bit late in our Ch… Read More

I didn’t wake up one fine day and a purpose flashed before my eyes. It has been a long tedious process of stumbling, and loads of confusion, and a totally weird sense of listlessness b… Read More

It took me two years to finally gather the courage and launch my podcast. In the past I have converted some of my blogs into podcasts, just to test the waters. But even that was a long time… Read More

June 29 2022. The much awaited day and it launched exactly like I had visualized it. Abhishek got together a bunch of his Photography students in a small studio and well, I was the canvas. T… Read More

Shillong. April 3rd, 2022. 10.30 am.  It is 18 degrees C. I am wearing a light sweater, green shorts, flip-flops. I am not thinking about all this obviously at the moment, when I ste… Read More

In January 2022, I made it a goal to work from the mountains at some point. Another goal was to finish writing my second book.  Come mid February and I was sitting on zero ideas for… Read More

It’s Christmas 2021 and the world has not ended. We still have the same hope of eternal life like we had earlier. We still have an unchanging God who offers salvation for free. And we… Read More

This is 12.40 am, September 15th 2021. At 12.40 am on this date exactly a year ago, I was super nervous. My book had been released on Amazon.com 40 minutes ago, and within a few hours was du… Read More

Singleness is not fashionable in our culture. It’s not something most people pursue. But here’s a bigger problem: it is often seen as a character flaw. We have sub-conciously all… Read More

It all began in October 2020. I was already feeling very Christmasy. So I just began searching ‘Christmas paintings’ and ‘snow paintings’ on Pinterest. Oh how a whole… Read More

Should I have married that journalist from The Chicago Tribune when I was 23? Should I have taken that banking job when I was 26? Should I have stayed in my full-time job in Pu… Read More

For any blogger who needs to know about this list. You are awesome The next following days , I am going to gather 200 the most inspirational christian blogs of 2020. I believe by h… Read More

Four tales of kindness. Extraordinary or not, you decide. Chandigarh. September 2015. I was fleeing my birthday that year too. To the mountains.  It was our first Bed and Br… Read More

Jane Brannon Snodgrass will turn 70 on July 11th this year. Her day starts at 6.30 am with reading her Bible and praying. She then prepares some coffee for herself and cooks breakfast for he… Read More

Will it be a plaque that sings of my wins? Or a bragging eulogy that would hide my sins? Or a crumpled leaf here now, then gone astray What will my gravestone say? Will it speak of a life l… Read More

So your love life’s DOA, it’s like you are always stuck in second gear. And that part becomes “surround sound” today. Alas, even your most faithful bedside companion… Read More

It used to be cold late nights of December and January when I would slip into a reading spree. School had winter vacation and it was Christmasy around the house. Despite my lamentation of &l&hell…Read More

[From Dear Diary. Year 2010]  Statutory Warning: All characters in this story are real. Any resemblance to any person, living or dead, is absolutely deliberate.  A fine cold evenin… Read More

It wasn’t the best evening for Cafe Mocha in the November of 2017. Danish and I decided to sit outside because loud music just made it unbearable. We were meeting to discuss an article… Read More

I was gazing at the moon, counting the stars Marking constellations in those nightly hours Writing sonnets in awe of the mist, the mountain Until, oh until, I heard your song again I was smi… Read More

I woke up with a start. The cold bit my ankles. Did the heater stop working? My left foot had lost the sock.  My hands mechanically reached out to my phone.  It was 7 am already. 7… Read More

She asked me to help her get down from her metal cot. I was surprised. She had told me only minutes ago that she had a severe backache, and her knees ached every day too. But I obeyed. I hel… Read More

Has a heartache ever left you numb? It’s like someone hit you on the head. The very first bodily reaction was a shrill sound, it seemed to engulf all of your other senses. You don&rsqu&hell…Read More

They cast it on your shoulders You held it like your staff They thought they could claim you By choosing to laugh You did have a choice To beat them in their own games But by the will of Go… Read More

The pillion rider comes back with sore thighs and sore buttocks (I felt like I was butt-less for good 48 hours, the most painful three hours of which I endured on an economy seat of a flight… Read More

So you got over your crush already? Yeap. Zero empathy dude. Two things I seek in a guy – One, he knows Christ personally. Two, he has atleast above average empathy. And if you look cl… Read More

I know where it will hurt the most I know when, and how Yet I am holding on to a hope, A little more hope for now Even if this love feels so clear in sight I know tomorrow you won’t… Read More

I would rather be a clown clad in a tattered gown Than be a neat clone of every pretty one I would rather cry and cry and let the whole being sigh Than pretend to forget  that we never… Read More

I am at a stage where in the ‘social’ and ‘worldly’ sense, I am beyond redemption. It used to sadden me only a few years ago and also make me bitter sometimes. But ov… Read More

This memory too shall pass like drops of April rain The one that agonizes my world and on my soul it reigns   So then what will it be? If not a reminiscence Will it be a passing though… Read More

Crush me with your goodness Walk on the ruins of my sins Watch me tumble down From the rumbles again I will build Shatter me with the weight of your charities Debase me from the pedestal of… Read More

I used to think I was a no-expectations carefree-kinda person till the day I started noticing something odd. If I helped someone, I expected an acknowledgement of the help. Thing is I urgent… Read More

Imagine a five-year-old boy with polio in left leg swimming against the current in a river. Yeap, that was my Dad. Those days, most kids were not vaccinated. So Dad learnt independence prett… Read More

I saw this self-styled charitable video on YouTube the other day. It showed the horrors of online chatting and the dangers to teenage kids. There’s a worried group of young men who are… Read More

One more time a beautiful survival story that she read in the paper moved her to tears, and made her stomach ache so bad. She noticed the wrinkles on her hand suddenly as she held the glass… Read More

Demand not forgiveness Nor burden them with pleas Say it gently but mean every syllable Even before you say sorry Get into their shoes But expect not to understand Give them some time to h… Read More

Pity yourself for a day. You realize it sucks. And the world will embrace your stronger self more easily. Heck, pity yourself for your own sake. To get your own hug. And before you know it… Read More