What does a home feel like? Is it where you feel safe and secure, or is it where you find solace? Is it where everything is familiar, or is it where you can be who you are? Is it where you have a corner of your own or is it where you feel like you …
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Journal Therapy
My sister and I started writing personal journals when we were super young, less than ten years old I guess. I don't remember who pushed us towards it. It must have been either Ma or Koka, our maternal grandfather. People would gift us corporate diaries, which they had received at new years and we would …
The CJ
When I am travelling, even when we are commuting within the city, music is an essential. Over time, when I have traveled either with friends or family, the task of carrying a playlist has often fell on me. And I am quite particular about the playlists. Not to boast, but my co-travelers have mostly enjoyed …
Warm Winter
Unlike most people, I love winter. Winter makes my heart cozier and everything around me also feels cozy. Winters are so cold on the outside, but it never fails to make my heart warmer.Every winter, I am home (my maternal home) at least for a few days. I spend the days basking in the soft …
Bit by Bit
On my birthday this year (it was last week), my husband gave me a card which said "To the wonderful woman I married". Today we were talking about the card and he said laughing, "I had married a wonderful woman, no doubt about it". And added gently that but the woman I am today is …
Precious Lemons
I am an Assamese and I have grown up on elongated lemons specific to Assam. This variety of lemons are simply known as Assam lemons. In Assamese we call them 'nemu tenga'. While growing up, I had never thought that one day I would yearn for these lemons as the dry earth yearns for rain. …
G for Guwahati
Guwahati cityGuwahati is an ancient urban area, largest city of Assam and northeastern India. It is one of the fastest developing cities in India and is a major city in Eastern India, often referred as "Gateway of North Eastern Region" of the country. It is also the capital city of Assam. The name Guwahati is …
Guardian of Sentiments
I have often been ridiculed and criticized for insisting on careful usage of things and stuff. I get visibly upset when coffee mugs I hand-picked get broken or chipped, when people borrow my stuff and damage or lose them, when things are roughly used and the like. The following are snippets from different times of …
The Bygone Year–2013
It has been a good year. A year of change. After five months of marriage, I relocated to be with Az (my husband). I quit my comfortable job. I left my home state and moved to Delhi.It has been a year of adjustments. Adjusting with my new family members, adjusting in a different house, adjusting …
Dream’s Mystery
Dreams (the ones we see while asleep) have always fascinated me. Wikipedia defines dreams as "Dreams are successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep". I had read somewhere that if we maintain a dream journal, it can be interpreted to reveal hidden significance or …
Natasha'z Points To Ponder 