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  • The Ghosts Who Live In My House

    I thought being middle-aged, managing the health and emotional requirements of 3 elderly family members and a teen while valiantly facing off with (peri)menopause would be the main things I…

  • The Hair Oil Negotiation

    There are few battles more pointless, more repetitive, and more emotionally exhausting than the battle between an Indian mother and her teenager’s hair. Not homework. Not screen time. Not the…

  • The Gym Diaries: Stronger, Sorer & Slightly Unhinged

    After many days of not going to the gym, I finally went back. Not because I missed it. Not because I suddenly discovered discipline. And certainly not because I woke up thinking, “Today…

  • Of Monkeys and Circuses

    Kielbasa isn’t the most famous import of Poland. The phrase “not my circus, not my monkey” is apparently a translation of the Polish saying, “nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy”…

  • I Came, I Saw, I Was Asked to Do One More Thing

    There comes a magical stage in a woman’s life when everyone around her suddenly needs her. Not wants her. Needs her. Her elderly parents need her. Her in-laws need her.…

  • In Powder We Trust: A Bengali Summer Survival Guide

    There are many ways to identify a Bengali. Some will say it’s the love of fish. Others-Rabindra Sangeet, heated debates over football, or the uncanny ability to locate the nearest…

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    I was and am stuck for a title for this post. That hardly ever happens. And when it does happen in other aspects of my life, it usually pertains to…

  • It’s Only Words

    I didn’t know how much power words have over us. How they can define us and our lives at various stages. As an expectant mother and a new one my…

  • The Magic Of the Indian Autos

    It suddenly occured to me, after I took three autos in the course of the same day, that Indian autos are quite like the Knight Bus from the Harry Potter…

  • Movie Review: Maa

    Let me start by writing that if you haven’t seen this movie yet; don’t. It’s a travesty of a “horror” movie. Whether it had marketed itself as a scary movie…

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