Aura with Writing

Category: Days of Enlightenment

  • #AtoZChallenge- Dream Destination

    2002 “Are you done with your day dreaming yet?”, asked Roni as he watched his sister Adah fancy pictures of New York from a magazine. “I just can’t get over it. What a great city!”, Adah sighed while flipping pages. “What’s with this obsession lately?”, inquired Roni unable to understand his little sister’s fantasy. “You…

  • Evoked…Again!| Winter Musings

    Every winter evokes a nostalgic state of mind which takes me back to 2014. For most part of my life I enjoyed winter, as all it meant was an opportunity to wear sweatshirts and of course the holidays! But my stint with a real, freezing white winter was experienced when I first landed in the…

  • Bondage

    My first glimpse of you was more than a decade ago. The moment I saw you, was amazed at your intriguing personality. Instantly found you fascinating and my admiration for you kept intensifying. I considered myself lucky that I got an opportunity to know you. I was elated! You were my new found love! As years…

  • #AtoZChallenge- Appearance

     Sameera was walking down the street with her heavy backpack. She was returning home from school after a hectic day of team meetings for a group project. As she headed towards the bus stop, she couldn’t stop thinking about the difference of her opinions with team mates. The long discussion and argument in preparing a PowerPoint…

  • Overwhelming Chaos

    Overwhelming Chaos

    There comes a phase in everybody’s life where you find the outside world more concerned about you, than you are for yourself. While your mind may already be filled with the ifs and buts of life, the unwanted advises and suggestions from every so- called ‘well wisher’ and acquaintance, only adds to the clutter inside…

  • American Filter Coffee- #Short Story

    Originally published on Women’s Web as a winning entry for January 2017 Muse of the Month “Ladies and gentlemen, we request your full attention as the flight attendants demonstrate the safety features of this aircraft”, announced a member of the flight crew. Though Mrs. Kumar couldn’t stop staring at the attendant giving the safety demonstration, her…

  • Opposites DON’T Attract

    We grow up hearing so many conventions, sayings and cliches, that they end up secured in our sub conscious memory. Result- every choice, decision and judgement revolves around these adages unknowingly. One such cliched statement that disguises to hold true in relationships is – Opposites Attract! This was, or may be still is not only…

  • Aiming for the Atypical

    It doesn’t happen very often that a movie inspires or motivates me on various levels. But when it does, it will get to my blog. One such motion picture that stimulated me to write was Dangal (meaning ‘wrestling competition’ in Hindi). I was a bit late to witness this influencing sports drama, which happens to…

  • New Year? Resolutions Time?- No, Not This Time!

    Ah! It’s that time of the year yet again! When you feel afresh, basking in the glory of dewiness, leaving behind all the mess you’ve endured last year. The feeling of newness, with an assurance of a ‘new you’ via New Year Resolutions!  A moment of silence to your screwed up life, as the new…

  • For Posterity- Handwritten Letters

    When was the last time you ever sent or received a hand written letter? Never? (Too bad!) Has it been years? Like once upon a time? (So you are aware how they look like!) Do you still receive or happen to send out letters/ postcards adorned with your very own handwriting? (Lucky soul!!!) If I…