2020 could very well have turned out to be every Parsi’s worst nightmare. Right now, in this virus-filled bleak world, the word ‘celebration’ conjures up images of slightly dressed up friends and folk – slightly, as everything above the waist is relatively picture perfect – anything below is anyone’s guess, with all on a zoom-call, […]
Sitting, waiting, while days rolled into weeks and gradually into months, we’ve all had time on our hands during this lockdown to understand how fragile every aspect of our existence really is. A lot has changed in the last few months; a lot will continue to change well into the future. A time of learning, […]
Are you a lover of stars? I don’t mean when they twinkle and paint a pretty picture in the night sky. As inspiring as the stars are in all their cosmic beauty, there has been a legitimate fan-following of these celestial beings since the inception of time. It is said that the position of stars […]
Have you ever come across those individuals who somehow exude confidence and self-assurance in all that they do? Oh! They seem so put together… no task ever too herculean, no scenario unsettling enough to rattle them. True confidence – as opposed to false confidence has a look all its own. Truly confident people have the […]
The way humans behave in society is based largely on the rules of etiquette one tends to follow. The original social manuals of Western civilization were in fact success manuals. In the Middle Ages, knights and nobles followed stringent rules and proper forms of conduct in the courts of kings, which is where the concepts […]
If you are a woeful Travelista with cancelled holiday plans and rescheduled flights for the year 2020, chances are 2021 may not be too different. The refreshing reprieve of holidaying abroad – a distant reality even now, especially with most countries and Foreign Offices still warning against non-essential travel and quarantine rules – makes most […]
If the almighty ever played a sport or game, He would undoubtedly give Magnus Carlsen, or our very own Viswanathan Anand, a run for their titles, even on his worst day. It’s no wonder then, how perfectly he times his move, strategizes the game-plan of our lives, and annihilates all opposition. And just like chess, […]
Veera is a published Author (‘Endured’ and ‘#LoveBitesLifeHacks’) and Columnist; a passionate Educator and Counsellor; Poet and Philosopher… but most of all, a lover of all things literary. Even as India, and other nations across the world work towards flattening the dreaded COVID-Curve, the protocols of the lockdown has a large number of us struggling […]
It’s been close to a month now since we were unceremoniously hurtled into this lockdown mode. Unprepared, uncertain, the nation reeled under the imminent threat of all that it would entail. While we gripe and complain – safe within our homes which are stockpiled to the ceiling, guaranteed to pull us through a flood or […]
Welcome, dearest world, to 2020! Fearful, anxious, panic stricken – are we? Think back, to how long we have been plundering, corrupting and marauding it! It took a tiny virus to bring us to our knees, to understand how copiously vulnerable we are, despite all our advancement in medicine research and technology. The globe is […]
Veera is a published Author (‘Endured’ and ‘#LoveBitesLifeHacks’) and Columnist; a passionate Educator and Counsellor; Poet and Philosopher… but most of all, a lover of all things literary. I find it uncanny, in these times when a pandemic is unfurling its vicious wrath, how little our understanding of the imminent danger to life and its […]