Because of the pandemic, a lot of us had to turn our lives 180 degrees to create a different meaning. I was supposed to graduate and get into jobs. But my graduation got postponed, and my unemployment got extended because of it.
After chilling for two months and wallowing in…
I have read close to two thousand fiction in my life. That means I have read almost everything that I could get my hands on. I have read all the genres and tropes there are and found the ones that are my absolute favorites.
No matter what genre I read…
I don’t know how this night started.
“I am fine” had truth behind it.
The lights were bright and friends were close.
But suddenly I was sad.
I look for the reason, as no one else will
What’s wrong?
Nothing is out of the ordinary,
Nothing is out of balance.
Everything is strange,
‘Everything’…
My taste in reading changes with my mood, as I suppose is true for most readers. But when I am reading a certain type of book, I seem to want to read more of that until I tire of the whole thing. I don't know how many people feel that…
My mother has been hell-bent on getting me married for the past couple of months. The seed of this behavior was most likely sown during this pandemic when both of my best friends got married. At that time, people were getting married left and right. I couldn't understand what was…
I saw death for the first time when I was nine years old. Our neighbor’s three-year-old daughter had choked on food and passed away before they could understand what was happening. I don’t remember what she was eating, but I remember her small body lying on the hospital gurney. That…
After waiting for the Netflix adaptation of Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone series for about a year now, I have to say that I was terribly skeptical. As a reader and viewer, I wanted it to be good but also feared that it might be a monumental disgrace. But after…
If I got one dollar for each time someone dragged my glasses and my not so perfect eyesight, I would have enough money to get lassic done. I don’t know about you, but a lot of the young people around me need glasses to see clearly. …
The year of 2020 is almost to an end. This year has been devastating and exhilarating all at the same time. Thinking back, this year has been nothing but a modern-day fairytale: dark, brooding, with bits of color and happiness shining through. …
These days, we are too content with our ‘me-time’. We crave them, we long for them. But what does it mean? For me, whenever I try to spend time by myself, I’m never concentrating on me. Instead, I’m lost in the world of the broader media. But I convince myself…
