Writing is tasting life twice, once when you experience it, and second time when you write the experience. The best way to write your story is to just start writing. Some interesting writing practices shared by Chetan Mahajan and other writers. Endeavour to get into flow researchers suggest comes from being intrinsically motivated, one has …
Writing Right Retreat
Noololyako chenni, noololyako the base voice of the singer was crooning. Asking his glamorous lady love, why doesn’t she spin? “ratiyillelo jaana ”she replies, that she needs a spinners wheel...the dialogue goes on in the nasal twang of the folk singers. Once upon a time these singers would never enter Durbar-e-khaas. But the song is …
Getting Technical
I have been requested by a group of young doctors, who are into public health to help them communicate better in the health education sector, Both my areas of work that is dentistry and theatre fortunately are hands on subjects. So there is no dictate the notes happening. What I realized is that people tend …
Who changed me…
My story by Kamala Das has a statement, “ask the books that I read why change. Ask the authors dead and alive who communicated with me and gave me the courage to be myself.” ... Did they? I do not know, I was brought up by parents and grandparents who were voracious readers, membership to …
The weekend column.
News paper column. What does one write about newspaper columns, albeit I did write a column once upon a time every Saturday at the local news paper. My NGO even ran kids newsletter where kids created their own newsletter the layout, the content all that was their creation. The only thing I did was to …
with Malice to ….
People always talk don’t they? I think I shall start calling myself a witch. The wicked witch of the west. I mean people have called me acrid, nasty, rude sarcastic whatever. so might as well have a blast and get benefited from it. And why not? Believe me it is orgasmic it liberates you from …