Arts Become Therapy

I came to know about this from a close friend of mine runs an NGO. One of his activities is teaching children from the neighbourhood chawls, and he was facilitating sessions for some of these kids on Arts Become Therapy(ABT). So what is ABT? Here is the definition from the website of the WCCL Foundation [...]

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You wanna know about Roses? Ask me!!

Today is Valentine’s day.  My Valentine for the day was Pandey ji. Now I am as straight as straight could be, but when it comes to internet connectivity, exceptions can be made! I was expecting to put this post up yesterday night, but my broadband which was playing truant for the past few days finally [...]

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Kaas ki aaas (The Hope of Kaas!)

The long weekend towards the end of Jan saw me head out with friends to Satara. Now to a Mumbaikar, Satara doesnt exactly sound half as exciting like say a Lonavala or Alibag…its much farther out in the hinterland, conjures images of a sleepy rural town, is never a part of the ‘WTF..you havent been [...]

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Lost…

Today I realized that I had lost an entire folder containing my writings. What happened was that my laptop had crashed and the IT folks at my workplace had taken my data backup. And when they fixed the thingie, they put the data back in. Now this was a couple of days ago, and today [...]

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Decisions..

Over the past few days, this is something that has come up in most of my conversations of the third kind…hence the blog post

You see, there comes a time in every person’s life when he or she must make some key calls. You can clearly see the fork in the road ahead, and you [...]

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Protected: Sensible vs. Sensitive..

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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A Dark Week..

Its been a week since I have blogged. Things have been depressing since the attacks happened. Everything, every plan, every activity seems utterly insignificant in front of this tragedy. Whats been even more sad is whats coming out these days – of how different sections of the government, intelligence, armed forces were all aware of [...]

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Shaadi.come not?

Today we had an interesting discussion on the topic of post marital woes. The guys in the group who were married recently were recounting their experiences till date. Listening to them – one would feel that life after shaadi for guys is like running like a chicken on a landmine!  Some interesting concepts were discussed….
 
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Roger that…Federer says…’brb’

 
As much as this country is crazy about cricket and its 11 men, i would like to inconsequentially add that there is nothing more delightful than watching two men almost gladiatorially going head to head in that non-contact sport of tennis. To triumph in that game, you have to be the ultimate athlete – a [...]

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Multitasking!

I was talking to this friend of mine. And the topic of discussion was multi-tasking. She was saying that multi-tasking is something that comes naturally to her (and by extension to all girls). When I first thought about it, i was like…yaah…i am pretty bad at multi-tasking in any environment (home or office)….i usually like [...]

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