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 …
Tag: Relationships
New Mothers and Grandmothers
I had always wondered why it is a ritual in our society that a woman goes to her mother's home to deliver her child. When I was pregnant with my daughter last year and once she was born in the first month of this year, I got my answers. The reason is the mother of …
The Turning Point
It was the end of my first semester of graduation and I was home for a winter break. I was studying in Kolkata, which was the first metro city I actually stayed in. I was a small town girl, so studying in a metro was a different experience altogether. Suddenly, the world felt bigger and …
The Cursed Relationship
It is a popular prejudice that a mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law are meant to hate each other. If not mutual hatred, then it is one-sided ill treatment. Such notions have been reinforced in our society time and again by our beloved movies and soap operas. An innocent and simple DIL is mistreated by her …
Kai – The “Dog” Cat
Young Kai with his mother Kai was a tomcat with a soul of a dog. His mother was a stray who chose my parents' home as her home. She would come and go, but usually had her meals at home. She was not even a year old when she had her first batch of kittens. …
A True Feminist
In the recent years, "feminism" has become a buzzword. In general terms, women who believe that they are better off without men, or fiercely argue that men should do domestic chores, or who rebel against age-old notions about a woman's responsibilities and limits are understood as feminists. Feminism is actually defined as the belief in …
When You Care
I believe you can take care of other people only when you are truly concerned about them. An exception may be when you are a caregiver by profession. But again, you can truly be honest in the same when you empathize with those who need your care. Families spend years together under the same …
If You Have To Compare
The problem with most of us is that we always want to live someone else's life. We set the so-called "happiness standards" based on the visible lives of others. We are haunted by their apparent happy and happening lives, all thanks to the omnipresent social media. Based on their visible lives around us and …
Family is Family
When you get married, you just don't get married to your spouse, you get married into his or her family. And unless you embrace your marital family as your own, your marriage is not complete. No family is perfect, so neither is yours nor your spouse's. It's natural to see your maternal …
Wishing For A Hearth
Lonely heart, lonely alone, Cold people, coldness adorned; Intense thoughts, laughter long gone, Home doesn't feel like home. No one cares, nobody knows,Like guests, come and go;Like mismatched puzzle pieces,A wrong picture, they always show;What do you expect?With a closed shutter;What can you find?When hearts are not aflutter. So much can change,With people alone;Sinking …
Natasha'z Points To Ponder 