Opinion – Meandering Dialogues

A Solo Life

A solo life can be fulfilling and happy.

Death Cleaning is Life Affirming

All our lives we collect possessions, accumulate assets, we hold physical objects as memories and pride. We want not to be erased.

There often days and weeks of intense work and pressure. Its fun, its invigorating, high on adrenaline. When its done I am looking forward to not sleep in as others normally do, but to do mundane stuff. To go to the vegetable mandi to look and feel the vegetables while menu plans drift in andContinue reading “Mundane”

Grief

There is no one way to grieve like there is no one way to live. My tryst with grief has been fairly different from many others. I wondered why for a while. I questioned myself about my inability to grieve. Every time I consoled someone else, or counselled, I kept checking how I felt aboutContinue reading “Grief”

Frailty of Life

In a world where “youth-like” and productivity is celebrated, where does the gradual and natural aging fit in ? I watch my father quietly negotiating spoonful of “maach bhat” gingerly into his mouth each afternoon, which now takes him an hour to finish. A meagre meal of dal and maach bhat , or 2 chapattiContinue reading “Frailty of Life”

A Me I didn’t know

Mental health is complex … an enigma … a road full of blooming trees, sudden potholes, detours, often absence of maps, dark, lonely, sudden ray of sunshine and birds singing, thunder, downpours, fellow travelers, cheering crowds, jeering folks … but I am here ! I think I am here. My doctor has to certify thatContinue reading “A Me I didn’t know”

Myth of Silence

Tune into Silence

Are You Selling Attention

Technology is a tool for both helping humans and destroying them. This is the paradox of our time which we are compelled to face. Frank Herbert

Courage

If you ask me to write down my virtues, I wouldn’t have written courage as one of them. It would have surprised a lot of my friends, family and colleagues, knowing I have had plenty of situations and circumstances where I did or went through things rather stoically or heroically. Maybe I am brave. CourageousContinue reading “Courage”