2017 was perhaps the most amazing year of my life, and I could not have asked for a better note to end my twenties on. When I made my 30 before 30 several years ago, I put all sorts of big and small things on it. I couldn’t say for sure if I would actually cross off any, I only knew then that turning 30 was supposed to be this ~big deal~, an event to …
Year: 2017
Day 2 of our hike to Machu Picchu dawned early and foggy at 6 AM. After a quick breakfast, our group headed towards the bus stop from which buses departed for the site. We were sore and sleepy (a lot of us had stayed up the night drying our clothes and shoes for today), but we were finally here, we were finally going to see for ourselves one of the most spectacular wonders of the …
“Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.” ― Sylvia Plath It took wayyyyy too long to put this post together (oops!) but I had to do it before the year ended, after all this …
Of all the things I thought I would inherit from my mother, I never imagined it would end up being her fondness of cultivating a garden. Last year, in a fit of sentimentality, I got home a Tulsi plant (ocimum tenuiflorum or the holy basil) because I missed home. For as long as I can remember, my mother had always had a tulsi around. I kept that plant (barely) alive for a few months before …
I have never been able to write poetry, but I have always enjoyed reading the works of those gifted in the art (namely, those who do not tag their work with #spilledink or break regular sentences into five different lines just to make it look like poetry). I’ll admit though, that outside of the works of Rabindranath Tagore translated into English from his native Bengali, I have never actually picked up a poetry book. So when …
To call me a Harry Potter fan is an understatement. I have been a part of the Harry Potter fandom for the last EIGHTEEN years. I am the original Harry Potter generation, that first bunch of kids who were the same age as Harry and who read the books as they were being published and waited anxiously to see what would come next, the first bunch who fell so deeply and irrevocably in love with the universe …