While on vacation with my parents and my younger sister in a town set in the Himalayan foothills, I came across a renowned fortune-teller. He bestowed this knowledge on me that I was about to meet a tall, dark, stranger who would be my soul mate. For a 19-year-old who grew up in the romantic …
Picture yourself smiling ear to ear with no cares in the world and your heart fluttering with happiness. You feel so light, like a feather soaring high up in the sky. Oh, I am literally living this feeling. While perched on my bar stool and leaning on my kitchen counter, I am inhaling my favorite …
“Mirror Mirror in the heart, who’s the most beautiful of them all?” Ring a bell? A slightly different take on the famous quote from the children’s fairy tale “Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs.” So, what does beautiful really mean? Based on the very wisdom of others on the internet, and my own, it means …
He was sitting in his usual corner with his head hunched over a computer, totally aloof and disconnected from the rest of us at Café Da Vinci. That did not stop the remaining café habitués from throwing distasteful looks at him and labelling him persona non grata. No one dared to say anything to his …
It was a chilly Saturday night in the month of September. I was alone at home. Something or someone was moving outside — I could hear a scraping and scratching noise. Suddenly, I felt a wave of cold air come in from somewhere. Oh god! Did I leave a window open or was there someone …
It was a beautiful morning like any other in Shimla, a city nestled in the foothills of Himalayas, as I sat on a bench right outside my hotel, on the most coveted tourist hot spot — the mall road — savoring a delicious cup of tea. Even at six o’clock in the morning, the street …
How do you stay happy and keep up your spirit when the world around you does not feel the same? What do you do when every step of the way you interact with people who have something going on and don’t share your spirit? These are often the people who depend on you to support …