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Things to hold on to by Bhavya
The extra chocolate your best friend gave you at their birthday. The smiley you got in your notebook in kindergarten. The card your classmate hastily made after they got to know it is your birthday. The first flower that blooms in your garden at the beginning of spring. The friend who wishes you a happy […]
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1096 Days Later by Bhavya
Early 2019: I had to change schools. Again. A turn in the road of my destiny, I had to face my fortune of changing schools again. As much as I would like to give this exercise the narration I have written above, I don’t think it is destiny, it is a routine transfer. I would […]
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‘In remembrance, with love’ To the Nightingale of India.
I woke up to the news of the Nightingale of India, Lata Mangeshkar Ji, passing away. This loss, as much as it is national, is also a personal loss. My parents are music lovers and my house has always had a musical atmosphere. My early memories include, me and my sister waking up everyday to […]
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Books with Bhavya #2: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
I am anxious, about my career, about how life is going to turn out, about if this all is going to be fine. The point is I am anxious and you must have been anxious too; at some point of your life. Setting of the story Set in Sweden, Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (translated […]
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Of Understanding by Bhavya
“How are you?Are you okay?If you want to talk, I am there. Always.” These sentences have been a part of conversations I have had with my friends recently and they have sprung up more often than I had imagined. My friends ask me why do I ask them such questions, I don’t really know. But […]
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Of Words and Thoughts by Bhavya
Words are life, wrote Marcus Zusak in The Book Thief. And I believe they are all our life encompasses of. Dictionaries define a word as a single meaningful element of speech. Meaning. Something we all look for in our life. How do we try to give our life meaning? Through emotions. Many describe feelings as […]
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Books with Bhavya #1: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Trigger warnings are at the end of this post.I read about A Man Called Ove (written by Fredrik Backman, translated from the Swedish by Henning Koch) for the first time in 2019 and I was impressed by the premise and I,like any other reader, added it to a never ending TBR list. I finally read […]
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Of Happiness by Bhavya
‘It is so difficult to find something good in a day, so hard to find a source of happiness”, my friend said to me as he sat beside me in class.“Can’t we create our own source of happiness?”, replied another friend sitting beside me. When I was about to open my mouth in reply,the bell […]
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Of Remembrance and Memories by Bhavya
And what is notfilled with memories, wrote Rilke.It made me realise that all of usare actually memories. We exist in the minds of othersas memories. They associate us withdifferent events and things.All of us remember things differently. Life is a collection of memories,how there are unalike versions of thesame thing in different memories.It is how […]
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How Do You Tell Them? By Navya
How do you tell themThat you are exhaustedHow do you tell themyou are tiredHow do you tell themThat you can’t take this anymoreHow do you tell themThat there is a voidWhich is so hard to fillHow do you tell themThat the silence is hauntingHow do you tell themthat your mind is such a horrible placeHow […]
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