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Travel nostalgia – Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur, India

How much I miss the game of light and shadow!

Pandemic life musings I

Maybe at this time, we can seek the brightness within.Who knows the outer vibrancy might come to us soon!

Hope for future

We will bask in such views again,But first we have to wade throughThese murky waters of pandemicLearn from the previous wavesAnd take all safety precautions.

Last summer, I finally got to open the seductive looking bottle of La Rioja, a Spanish wine that I brought from Düsseldorf airport duty free. I had expected La Rioja to be a sweet tasting wine but it was weirdly not sweet although I wouldn’t call it bitter. I paired it with cheese, pasta and…

Fantasy fiction – Potter mania

I wish we could all conjure a Patronus charm to counter severe anxiety and mental exhaustion that we are going through.Or we could Avada Kedavra all the covid variants!

Fantasy fiction musings

Fantasy fiction keeps me sane, it makes me believe that things will be fine in the end. There is another world, a writer’s world, that can transfer you into a fantasy filled arena. This place is magical and maybe it helps me keep my inner magic (if that is a thing!) in place.And the one…

Travel haiku – Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

I went awaySearching the solitudeFrom love and hatredI turned awayAnd somehow in that numbnessyou found me.

Toxic positivity

Why toxic positivity is dangerous?While law of attraction & positivity affirmations work very well in a normal situation, what can be said about a super volcanic pressure cooker circumstance such as this pandemic? Stress is a normal response of our adrenaline glands/nervous system to any challenge – adrenaline & cortisol released help us in thinking…

Menstruation and vaccines

There is no relation between reduced immunity 🤧 and 🩸🩸🩸 periods. Period.If it really was, then we’ll get be getting all sorts of viral & bacterial infections during menses and the ensuing immune system reactions such as fever, cough etc. If you cannot scientifically explain reduced immunity during periods, then don’t spread misinformation about not…

Earth Day special

Happy Earth 🌎 Day!Preserve the greens and release less pollution into the blues so that the whites stay white and we can enjoy the rest of the colours as they are!