Here is a list of quotes and shayaris I keep going back to as I try to navigate through my peak adulting years away from a place I once knew to be home- 1. Zakir Khan’s kabhi kabhi na badi baat keh deni chahiye, uparwala dekh raha hota hai, aap jesa kehte ho na vese…

Arooj Aftab’s cover of Hafeez Hoshiarpuri’s Mohabbat Karne Wale Kam Na Honge is seven minutes and forty one seconds long. You left me four months and three days ago. For the first ninety days, coming across anything that you touched, liked, talked about or even knew of made my heart weigh about thirty three kilos.…

Happy 20th, rizzika Read True Love by Judith Viorst for the original 100x cute-r version of this She is my best friend becauseI read a New Yorker story about a college girl sleeping with an older man just because she forwarded it to meEven though midway through I knew I’d hate itAnd becauseShe never reads…

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni quotes Amrita Pritam’s There are many stories which are not written on paper, they are written on the minds and bodies of women in the very beginning of her latest piece of art- Independence.I read this line and the first thing I did was take a picture and send it to a…

“Girlll, is this now an exclusive relationship?”I laugh and ridicule your speculationWhat are you even saying? We aren’t even together!He is not my typeHe is young and full of lifeI got my driver’s license the year he was born!He likes to go out on weekdaysEat hot dogs from random stands on the corner of some…

The sun is out. Or at least it has started to rise from the horizon, I can see the light seeping in through the disgusting yellow curtains in your room We have been lying in bed, looking at the creaking fan and talking all through the night Well there were those moments when you got…

This is personal, almost as if a diary entry. I was feeling emotional. It is also quite long, bear with me. I can’t help but wonder if everyone has these relationships that they are born into and thus have a predetermined way of acting in but somehow the relationship has developed into something deeper and…

As I turn 51 the coming weekendI sit at my study, making a list of invitees for the grand soireeThat I throw for myself every passing yearNo no, don’t feel sorry for me,This is a choice I made many moons agoYou see my family is great at throwing formal dinners,But the birth of a wildflower…