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For my home away from home who is now away from their home, For Rishika- because she never replied to my mails. lol hahaha कहना बहुत कुछ था पर बोल नहीं पाई Remember when we first met? Back then I was the one with short hair and your wore a braid You always had the…
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To the child in you who is a little scared to step out of your comfort zone, There is a whole world outside the comfortable homes your parents raised you in, There’s cakes and candies, hard work and hardships, pain and pleasure. Step out to try it all! Because Once you have tasted the natural…
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You enjoy the late nights,Wash the dirty dishes with ice-cold waterCollect the empty beer bottles two days after, andMop the floors only once a weekSome days your anxiety might peekAdulting is hard work but the freedom is your prizeIt’s okay to go to work with puffed eyes becauseYou are struggling on some nights and on…
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I am trying to write in hindi, bear with me. Hi I moved away from home, it has been about 16 days and I have been super overwhelmed to have written anything. No no, I have written plenty this month. Perhaps more than I did in the first 10 months of 2021 but you see,…
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There is this girl She pulls her hair a little every time someone compliments her Or someone else “Touchwood, kahin nazar na lag jaaye” She has the weirdest logic- her skin is all red when she steps out of the shower Because she showers in boiling water “I burn to the ground and rise again…
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Just me ranting:)) Girls from good families don’t abuse. 11 years old, I hear these boys calling each other names that I didn’t get I heard a similar one when my elder sister was hanging out with her friends So I ask them what it meant She was about to tell me but her friend-…
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This one is from the archives. A tale on quarantine, obviously fictional. Is it though? Mr. Darcy was a grumpy man. He was as thin as a bare skeleton and so tall that he had developed a hunchback; no one would be able to guess that he was only 62, his loose skin and grey…
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Coke Studio Season 7: Chaap Tilak in the voice of Abida Parveen and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is a version of the 14th century ghazal composed by Amir Khusro in admiration of his spiritual mentor Nizamuddin Auliya. Disclaimer- I know that many interpretations of this song say that it is a conversion song as chaap…
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William Congreve said that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned but I think heartbreak has that effect on everyone. Be it rejection, infidelity, deceit or just plain falling out of love- the heart hurts the same. A heart broken is an ego scorned. And when hurt, aren’t we all a little too mean?…
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For Kiya, who read my blogs with her “midnite tea” and loved that I love to write. I hope you are happy and one with god. Love you more than any gods will & miss you more than our hearts can bear I lost someone to covid; someone very near and dear. She was the…