Phew! I finally finished the book. I gave it a long hug and I sat silently for a long time, and then I lovingly placed it back on my shelf. I have not been so overwhelmed by a story in a long time, the way I was with Eleanor’s. …

“My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.” Do you look at the mirror and see the same face from ten years ago staring back, except you know its just the face that has remained the same, and everything else has changed? Have you? I have. …

“I’d trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.” It’s amazing how when you think of your life, the small moments stand out so much more than the big ones, the life-changing ones. I am sure this isn’t the case just with me but with every single person reading this…

“Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.” What is spirituality? The textbook definition says it is “being concerned with the soul more than with material things” I’d like to start by confessing (and not to appear modest or anything) but really confessing…

“You’ll stay with me?’ Until the very end,’ said James.” Driving around at night has become my number one escape. With the cool breeze against my face as the car speeds, in this beautiful Bangalore weather, I feel alive. I want to shout out from the window- I am here…

“Hearts are breakable,” Isabelle said. The other day, I had an epiphany, but we will come to it later. I thought I had experienced life in all its facets till the earth shattered around me. Come 5th May ’21, and my entire family was diagnosed with Covid. …

“I know what I have given you… I do not know what you have received.” ― Antonio Porchia There was once a village boy who took his buffaloes out to graze. As he was waiting for them and whiling time, he observed someone walking ahead of him. …

“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.” Every time I would call Dad on Father’s Day, he would jokingly say, “What’s this fad? You should celebrate me every time I am around and not just once a year”. I’d…

“Tragedy alters everything.” If I wasn’t who I was yesterday, would I be who I am today? …