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This piece on my personal life was written when life took an important turn. When I wrote this, I was expecting my first child (and now he is seven years old!). How time flies! But well, this post isn’t just about that. It captures my amazement over how, no matter how far you have gone from them or how long you have been away, certain things in life never change when it comes to your parents .
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Ageing is a mysterious reality and even stranger, the inevitability of death. Death is perhaps humanity’s biggest fear. Those who have conquered the fear of death have conquered life, conquered truth. When her grandfather falls sick, a grandchild ponders over the concepts of ageing and death.
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It’s important to preserve one’s individuality and space in a marriage. But is it worth it to take it to an extreme? Can there be no room for some compromise? There’s nothing more comforting than the enormous scope that fiction offers. This story was just the perfect outlet for presenting a point of view – that it doesn’t hurt to compromise a bit. It’s about a woman’s realisation.
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I love the idea of writing letters. I consider it an art that needs to be kept alive, no matter what. Nothing, I firmly believe, can replace the human touch and closeness that a handwritten letter can bring. The letter has been a central theme for a good number of my stories. This is one of the first stories that builds on the letter format. A daughter writes to her father discussing children and parenting.
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Musings on childhood led to this story of an English girl. Spring and an English setup seemed to go hand-in-hand when I thought this story up. And when you find just the right kind of picture to complement the story, it all seems perfect – just like the childhood that we unfortunately leave behind in the process of growing up.
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