Author Archives: Bhavana Bindra

We all know the great man who said it… but for those who may have tried to live by this adage, you would know the mixed chances of success it has. You will be lucky if the change you wanted to see (And were being) actually turned out that way! So think about this stay-at-home […]

Growing up and for a very long time thereafter, Navratri, or the “nine nights” was a festival of abstinence and good food.. yes co-existence it was.. and continued to be even as I learnt more and more- of the Demons and the Devis. The supreme divine form annihilating all that is not good for us. […]

Nature’s soft nurse… Yes, borrowed from Shakespeare it is.. the great litterateur too extolled the virtues of this very important aspect of a living being’s life. For now, I am going to only focus on the homo sapiens.. much as I would love to be broader on coverage. Volumes written by experts, talks given by […]

So birthday week had begun and the question from birthday boy was on why the celebrations weren’t initiated yet.. well, I have no one but me to blame for this expectation to have taken root. You see, deep into the nationwide lockdown, when none except essential services were to venture out, was my little one’s […]

Music it was to my ears… or so I thought… until it was obvious that this wasn’t from the great ghazal maestro’s collection but a jarring Indipop number! The issue wasn’t the genre… the issue was the romance that I anticipated as the rendition began, having been slowly, agonizingly smothered. Well, lyrics was never a […]

In fact I couldn’t understand (and maybe still don’t) what was so depressing for everyone…  yes it did take some effort to get used to not being able to leave your floor (thankfully we had the whole floor to ourselves with a lovely balcony and also a terrace garden!) People were wondering how they would […]