All your firsts are special—first day of school, first time using a pen or getting your hair coloured, first time frying or baking a bread, first time going on a date or quarantined, first …. (long list, fill at your own leisure). First own hair cut. Even saying that makes me happy. The sound of…
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एक रंगीन सफ़ेदी- A Hindi Poetry; Use Google Translate to understand **An ode to my devotion for HANUMAN** मेरी ज़िद है वो,मेरे धड़कन को हिम्मत दे वो;मेरे आसमान का रंग भी वो,वो हौसला ही नहीं, मेरी जुनून भी वो। मैं ना सोच के भी सोचूँउन्ही की छवि के बारे में।वो इस तरह समा गए ज़हन…
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Living in the routine, sometimes we get so busy that we don’t even realize when and how our morning went and we’re already dressed for work and leaving home. Until we board the lift and (unconsciously pause to) take a deep breath of sigh (provided you’re not looking into your phone). I’m sure, staying at…
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In the midst of all the social distancing from Corona it’s a good time to look inward. Where else would be the best place to find that power?
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A world where everyone is a super hero!
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‘Hide And Seek’ ..A poetry piece on— ‘how I met my sly cat?’ Hiding in plain sight,Was this sly little cat— A voice in my head hissing;“You’re lost and I’m here to find you I’m here, look at meYou’re looking for me and that’s all you need.”I stop in the middle of the day, as I…
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“I am looking out of a glass piece,Wondering what to see.The circles of light on the edge of my eye;The green grass; or the spotless sky. Something tells me the wind feels good;Something tells me the sound of a blue bird.Whatever I choose to see, I will miss something,So is life just a pile of…
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I was sharing the news of my friend’s marriage getting fixed, with someone and they went- “oh! Good things happen to good people!” I agreed with this notion until they said it that day. I thought to myself, what makes someone good or bad and who is judging us anyway? Does karma brand people with…
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It’s 7:15AM and it’s my last window to quickly reach the gym; but the weather has gifted me a runny nose this Christmas and I just won’t stop sneezing. So I miss my workout fourth day in a row. I could die of guilt at this point or fret about losing muscle mass, losing momentum…
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Oranges are such versatile fruits. It can easily be incorporated in many dishes! I had this salad at The Lazy Suzy (Bangalore, India) where they put citrus fruit segments in their salad along with beet root. It tasted heavenly. In your leafy green salads don’t shy away from adding orange segments to it. You can…
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Every morning I stand on my mom’s head for making her have tisané (brew recipes) and stop having her morning cup of milk tea for the caffeine kick. It is really bad and why I have mentioned in my previous post of Tisane Over Chai. I prefer these healing brew recipes anytime and I’m not a…
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रोज़ की तरह एक सुबह, मैं
छत पर, सूर्य के उगने की आस में खड़ी थी।…….
To watch the entire Spoken word performance visit the Instagram handle @mycoffeeweather
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If you don’t workout at all then this read is going to make you super happy to join the fitclub; If you’ve just started off, then maybe you can learn from my mistake; If you’re a crazy hardcore killer-of-workouts, breaker of PRs and mother of all flash diets then you definitely need to read this.…
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Spinning on the dresser chair with half my body hanging in the air, I would eye my mother’s cosmetics, every time she was setting her room up: one of my time passing activities as a kid (because there were no gadgets and the television was timed). I loved fiddling with all her stuff, especially the…
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ये पीली shirt पे लगे, चाई का दाग़
ने मुझे, वो याद दिला दिया।……..
To watch th entire Spoken Word performance visit Instagram profile @mycoffeeweather
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There were so many times, I recall, coming home from school I would run to get my hands on the remote before my cousins and siblings, just so I could watch National geographic on TV. It was slow with this deep voice saying something in an accent I didn’t understand, but it felt almost meditative.…
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In one of those weekly fights with my elder sister (when we were really young), for a change my mom had taken her side. I was furious and not knowing how to channel my anger, I put some home-made scrub into the back pockets of her jeans, that were hanging behind the bathroom door. That…
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I was in my single digit years where kids normally want to be treated older than their age. However, I was very content with, age not being a ‘thing’. My heart was like this butterfly fluttering at the slightest fragrance of fun, nature and outdoors. All this and my mind somehow felt stressed as years…
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सोच ही जड़ है अगर तो नयी सोच की भूक जगानी होगी। सोच बदलोगे, तो हम अछे पूर्वज कहलाएँगे।फिर भी सिर्फ़ कहना “Remember your roots”;क्यूँकि समय के साथ नयी जड़ो की ज़रूरत होगी,नयी सोच की ज़रूरत होगी। हम नहीं रहेंगे पर, कुछअच्छा छोड़ जाएँगे। पेड़ों को काट दे, कचड़ो को जलाकनदियों में बहा दे;धुँआ की जैसे आदत ही हो गयी है,और जानवरों को खाना हमें सही लगे।क्या यही हम कर के जाएँगे?क्या इन जड़ो के साथ जी पाएँगे आने वाली फ़सल, और नई डालियाँ?कौन देख पाएगा लटकते आम,और हथेली पे महसूस बारिश के बूंद?क्या सोच…
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Recently I was in a situation where I was so attached to the person, in conversation and obsessed about the relationship that I didn’t realise who I was being. I’m normally so chatty that I don’t realise I’m completely exposed emotionally. I give away too much of myself and only realise after I’m ambushed and…
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