What begins as a simple evening to help a friend choose Valentine’s gifts slowly unfolds into something far more unsettling. Set in a time of landlines and quiet trust, this story lures you into familiarity, only to leave you questioning every detail. Read closely. Not everything is as innocent as it seems.
Savings and investing serve different financial purposes. Savings focus on safety, liquidity, and short-term needs, while investing aims at long-term wealth creation with higher risk and returns. A balanced approach, maintaining emergency savings and investing surplus funds, helps achieve financial security, growth, and stability over time through discipline and planning.
A mother resumes work, pursues higher studies, supports her child’s unconventional academic choices and outsources cooking, only to be judged at every step. Society turns motherhood into a relentless guilt trip. But every mother knows her child best. A happy, fulfilled mother raises a happier child, guilt doesn’t define good parenting.
This reflective essay explores how love evolves, from youthful fantasies of grand gestures to the quiet strength of companionship and presence. It contrasts enduring partnerships with lonely, transactional modern relationships shaped by technology. Ultimately, it affirms that true love thrives on equality, emotional labour, and self-respect,culminating in the most powerful love story: choosing yourself.
Reflecting on love beyond clichés, the narrator redefines Valentine’s Day as an act of radical self-love. Tracing her journey through desire, motherhood, body changes, and societal pressures, she embraces her evolving body with pride and sensual confidence,urging women to reclaim beauty on their own terms and “strike a pose” for themselves.
Mishti revisits her childhood home, where shifting spaces awaken layered memories — of innocence, laughter, and something unspoken that changed everything. As past and present collide, she confronts the weight she once carried alone. With her sister beside her, she finds steadiness, reclaiming power, healing, and a quieter, stronger self.
The morning after Diwali brings quiet exhaustion, but a small act of kindness transforms it. A delivery boy humbly asks for extra sweets for his family, and the house help selflessly gifts him a new kurta meant for her brother. Her generosity reveals the true spirit of Diwali—compassion, humanity, and heartfelt giving.
In this edition of Tickling the Humerus, the author humourously tackles the hassles of being a parent to a cat, who thinks nothing of dragging a bird or a lizard inside the house. She recounts her experiences in cleaning up the mess and wonders if she is now fit enough to be a real-life crime cleanup specialist. It should be a cakewalk. Right?
This article explains five low-risk, government-supported investment schemes ideal for beginners—focusing on accessibility, returns, and security—especially useful for those from the unorganized sector or risk-averse investors.
