My Top-notch Enemy

We all have certain enemies who are temporary or short lived in our life for a nominal amount of time. But a few and peculiar ones will never leave your back. The more you want to get rid of them, the more prominent they become and follow you to eternity and sometimes...

Acceptance, a key to change

Acceptance is the key to change; sounds contradictory? Usually change is associated with non-acceptance or questioning or rebellion. Once there lived a very knowledgeable man, people used to come to him for advice from far away places. He had a son who was very sweet...

A letter to my teenaged boy on his birthday

How old a mother am I? I am as old a mother as you are…… Wish you a very Happy Birthday sweetheart and to me too. You must be wondering why am I wishing myself, right? Because when a child is born it is considered as a second birth of a woman as it involves a big risk...

Now you see her, now you don’t

Sometimes and I literally mean that ‘some’ time when you get time off to sit peacefully without feeling guilty that I am just sitting doing no work for a while. For some people it may be a sin, as it is the sheer wastage of precious time when you can do something...

The Ultimate Bakara (Scapegoat)…

As a teenager I always got irritated with my mom for her too much caring and ‘unnecessary’ worrying for me on trivial matters like, coming home late (Late in my days was 7:30 p.m. or maximum 8:00 p.m. that too with only girlfriends) I always asked her why can’t she...