Author Archives: dipskharude

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Attention is the purest form of generosity. The ability to attend, to notice is a luxury in this ‘information- overload’ era. On a particularly uneventful and insipid day, I chanced upon a book cover.  This book and I shared a fierce camaraderie, back in school. It tugged at my heartstrings. Transfixed, I lapped up every […]

The Pinky Finger – Rony D’Costa

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This year, I have been trying hard to practice mindfulness meditation. Simply put, mindfulness meditation is about being in the present without judging your thoughts. It is a practice, so the struggle is always to show up every day to do 15 minutes of meditation. It should also be practised in your day to day […]

Can’t hide my Crazy…

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I tend to find wisdom in some wonderfully weird places…sometimes in fortune cookies too. Everyone has their guilty pleasures. Mine are sitcoms. To think of it, they aren’t exactly ‘guilty’. They make me believe in the simplicity of life when convoluted profound theories threaten to steal small joys. I feel like I share a string kinship […]

Nocturnal Wonderland by Ranjib Majumdar

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Night. Night after night. The endless nights. Nights that can envelop, consume, devour. We, shrouded in our loneliness. I often wonder, how you must be, in your little world. Do you also feel the aching lyricism that nights offer? I wonder and wander. I wish our nights could speak to each other.  To end the melancholy […]

Souvenirs

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Souvenirs are tokens of remembrances. I have always relied on memory and therefore mementos for deriving the pleasures of miniaturization. A long journey can be conjured with a mere glimpse of a souvenir. On a rather dull morning, I flipped through the pages of my diary and found this perfect reminder of a happy place. […]

Window Seat

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Few things are rare in Mumbai – a crisp breezy day, relatively empty roads and a window seat in a bus. A few days back, this combination graced me. The cherry on the cake was the fact that my Ipod played my favourite song on shuffle mode. These uncommon moments of perfection in a magnificently […]

Manasi’s Botanical Experiments

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I usually make lunch earlier in the day, so that I can reach work in time. It was a sunny day, and I was multi-tasking between making lentil soup, green beans and putting together a salad. I normally experiment with my salad. Today I thought of putting together green tomatoes, radish, green chili pepper and […]

Flower Power

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I dislike bouquets but I love flowers especially yellow, white and purple ones. Bouquets look like they are choking…loose clusters of flowers on the other hand exude some kind of liberation. Most people I know generally avoid Dadar (Railway) Station since it is crowded and dirty but if you start early; the spectacle of sidewalk […]