Rant
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Safety Shouldn’t Be a Privilege
Something happened recently in our neighbourhood, and I haven’t been able to shake it off. A young girl was harassed by a casual worker. She was lucky. She managed to escape before it got worse. And thank god, the man was caught. But I am shaking. Because this is my neighbourhood. The same place where my daughter,… Continue reading
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Grumpy, Gassy, and Glistening (with Sweat)
I’ve been trying to keep the ennui at bay telling myself life is precious and such other instagrammy quotes with AI-generated images. It’s not helping and so here I am, hoping that putting it into words might, if not cure the condition, at least air it out a bit. Technically, ennui is defined as “a feeling of… Continue reading
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Spammer supreme
Apparently that’s what I am. Spam. Any comment I leave on anyone’s blog either goes into their spam folder or disappears completely. Even my likes don’t get registered half the time. I re-comment on blogs telling people that I have commented and it disappeared, and those disappear too (duh). So those of you who visit… Continue reading
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Independence Day
We used to sing a song by Rabindranath Tagore back in school: Where the mind is without fear and the head held high;Where knowledge is free;Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domesticwalls;Where words come out from the depth of truth;Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;Where the clear… Continue reading
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Muggle Madness
When I write articles about parenting in the digital age for one of my clients, I often find myself in a delightful whirlwind of imagination and—let’s be honest—occasional eyebrow-raising moments. My latest assignment? Preparing children for the back-to-school season, which in quintessential American households is apparently nothing short of a national Event (the E is… Continue reading
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A work-related rant
It’s getting more and more difficult to be a professional writer. Remember my rant a few weeks ago about a client who ran my work through AI detectors, and said my work was AI-generated and so they wouldn’t pay me? That one is just about getting resolved – I am rewriting entire articles in simple,… Continue reading
The Burping Bullfrog 