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Lessons Learnt
from something as implacable as grief There is a reluctance in me to write. Rather baffling, given that writing provides me more relief and clarity than any other form of therapy. Often, I don’t even understand what I am feeling or thinking, until I write it all down. Part of my writing journey is to Continue reading
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Take Grief Out of The Closet
(This was a post shared on my Substack account in July 2024.) I want to write about something that has been bothering me for a while. Elizabeth Stone had said, ‘Making the decision to have a child – it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your Continue reading
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Grateful, even for the grief
Two years… [Originally published on Paper Dreams on 6th July 2024] How does one measure the passage of time? Do we measure it in units of months, days, hours and seconds, or in units of learning. If the former, then it has been two years since Sakshi left her mortal body for more eternal shores. Continue reading
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Healing
A post about my journey towards healing and completeness. [Originally published on Paper Dreams on 4th June 2024] I don’t think anyone gets it. No one can, unless they have walked this path. How with a Herculean effort you gather yourself and stitch together the severed pieces, only to have it all fall apart in Continue reading
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18…
Moving forward with Sakshi in our hearts. [Originally published on Paper Dreams on 27 October, 2023] 18th birthdays are special. A child’s transition into adulthood… at least on paper. Our particular conundrum is, how do you celebrate your child’s 18th, when she has already transitioned on to bigger things. Sakshi’s batch mates have spread their Continue reading
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Almost a Year!
It is almost a year. In the last one year, time has flown, crawled, and downright stopped! I can count on one hand the number of times I have been away from her, since she was born. The longest was for five days, that one time when I went on a trek. And here I Continue reading
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An Update…
It has been more than three months since I last posted anything out here. A lot has happened since that post. I have lived a lifetime and died a million deaths. Over the last few months, I had shared glimpses of my daughter’s and our journey as she fought a rare and aggressive sarcoma called Continue reading
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To Be Free
To be able to speak one’s mind. ‘No!’ ‘I don’t agree.’ ‘I don’t like that.’ ‘No, I won’t!’ To be without excuses without explanations without apologies. Is that what it means to be free? To be able to express rage, in words that say just what they mean. And then… move on. No pent-up emotions Continue reading
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Morning Walk
I know we have not met. But I know you. Head held high, airpods in, Gap tracks on, arms swinging. Walking. Walking resolutely every day. Every day, before you reach the metro station we walk by each other. I am the one huffing by. Hidden silvery scars stretching across my skin Like a galaxy’s arms Continue reading
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The Road Was A Rainbow
I am writing my note at the start of my post instead of at the end as usual. This is a slightly longer missive than usual. This short story is nearly 3,000 words long, but hopefully a breeze to read. Hope you like it. On other fronts – I am on book number 12 in Continue reading
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