Turning twenty-five meant standing at the edge of change – marriage, leaving home, and learning to grow. Amid love, fear, hope, and loss, she discovered that home doesn’t disappear; it travels with us. With courage and trembling faith, she stepped forward, carrying her parents, her past, and herself into a new life.
Makar Sankranti marks the Sun’s northward journey, symbolising renewal, warmth, and gratitude. Celebrated across India with diverse names and rituals, it honours harvest, family, and nature. Rooted in mythology and memory, the festival gently reminds us of cyclical time, small beginnings, shared traditions, and the comfort of belonging.
Review of De De Pyaar De 2. Actors: Ajay Devgan, Rakul Preet Singh, R. Madhavan, Gautami Kapoor Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance Director: Anshul Sharma OTT
A personal reflection on everyday misogyny, consent, and misplaced progressiveness—revisiting a conversation that revealed how deeply patriarchy survives beneath the mask of modern thinking.
A playful, dialogue-driven ode to Bengali food culture, where nostalgia, humour, and history simmer together in a kitchen that celebrates flavour, memory, and timeless culinary companionship.
A powerful reflection on married women reclaiming strength, identity, and sisterhood—where the gym becomes a sanctuary for healing, confidence, and choosing oneself without guilt.
A reflective personal essay on healing, resilience, and self-reinvention—tracing how loss, mental health, and choice reshape identity, purpose, and the courage to live life on one’s own terms.
A counselor reflects on her own struggles while answering a friend’s mental-wellness prompt. She shares 10 practical, universal tips she’d give a client—accepting unpredictability, choosing possible over perfect, scheduling emotions, building routines, avoiding comparison, and honoring individual paths. A humane reminder that even psychologists wobble, but still rise.
Christmas is more than a date—it’s emotion, nostalgia, and tradition shaped by childhood carols, bakeries, bazaars, family visits, books, malls, and friends. It influences identity, sparks joy across borders, rewinds memories, embraces togetherness, indulgent treats, and quiet reflections. The real magic lies in kindness, warmth, and presence shared with loved ones.
Meet the Kichkandi, a ghost with backward feet that haunts Nepal and is kin to the Indian Churail/Shakchunni/Petni. This article explores how these terrifying, vengeful female spirits are actually symbols of “wronged women.” Death grants them the supernatural power to finally seek the brutal justice denied in their mortal lives.
