Category: Women -as we are!

  • Life Doesn’t frighten Me

    Life Doesn’t frighten Me

    At times of distress, words like these help 🙂 A poem by Maya Angelou Shadows on the wall Noises down the hall Life doesn’t frighten me at all Bad dogs barking loud Big ghosts in a cloud Life doesn’t frighten me at all Mean old Mother Goose Lions on the…

  • Realisation!

    Realisation!

    I have come to realise that life is after all simple; it is us who keep complicating it again and again. As for me, my worst bane is overthinking!! If only I’d stop analysing so much I could really lead a simpler, or at least a more disentangled life.

  • The Last Name Drama

    The Last Name Drama

    We were just sitting at the tea table, sipping some tea when the conversation began between me and my mother. Of course I don’t remember how it started, but it ended quite abruptly and not in good terms. And I will admit from the beginning that I might not have…

  • Choking Me

    Choking Me

    The bond that you say love, Isn’t love, It’s choking me, It’s killing me.

  • The Talk of Safety!

    The Talk of Safety!

    Let’s talk a bit about safety. Shall we? (Warning, I am going to digress from the topic, totally!!) So today I was almost done with all my work and was about to return home early when my friend called and asked me to meet her at a coffee shop near…

  • A difficult task

    Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. -Joseph Conrad.

  • That Evening

    That Evening

      I was running on an empty lane outside my house, without any shoes, without a dupatta at 7:30 in the evening. My salwar being stained by the puddles caused due to heavy rain an hour ago. My kurta too was a bit torn around my high collared neck design.…

  • Whispered mocking

    Whispered mocking

    She stood there, staring blindly at the silvery wall, with no engravings on it. She hoped she would change them one day to a brighter colour, never liking the dull, un-happening colour. After all it was her personal space, where no one had the right to bother her, except of…

  • Why was I sleepless?

    I was awake the other night, (now at least three consecutive nights) almost the entire night thinking of a person I care about a lot. I thought I would let this go, I wouldn’t make it an issue, but it is and I am unable to just let that pass…