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Review: Rafiki, 2018

September 29, 2021September 28, 2021

To watch a friendship blossom into love feels like you are falling in love.

This movie has got to be my most favorite non-English movie in the foreign languages category.The word "Rafiki" means friend in Swahili and is a beautiful yet satirical title for this story. This is the story of a friendship between two high school girls - Kena and Ziki. They meet at an election rally where their fathers are contesting against each other. To watch a friendship blossom into love feels like you are falling in love. But it was bound to be tragic when this happens in a country where homosexuality is illegal. Their lives change after they are discovered,...

Books

Review: Girl With a Pearl Earring

September 28, 2021September 28, 2021

I see this more a journey of finding oneself rather than a romance between a muse and a painter.

Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring is a study of the relationship between the famous painter Vermeer and Griet, our protagonist. The book teaches how to understand life as a form of art by feeling and appreciating it. The author has portrayed this through the narrative of a sweet Dutch girl - battles her insecurities and matures into a fierce woman that knows her place in the world. I see this more a journey of finding oneself rather than a romance between a muse and a painter. She has an inquisitive mind. She deals with new feelings, all on...

19/09/2021

September 19, 2021September 28, 2021

Dear Diary,

Today was a typical Sunday.

So today is Tutun Didi's birthday and seems to be a pure coincidence, but I always start something new on her life events :) Dear Diary, Today was a typical Sunday. I eventually woke up after I couldn't bear the mosquitoes biting my fingers. The weather outside is terrible - cloudy and humid. Today is also Tutun Didi's birthday so, I wished her and sent her lots of love. She is an amazing elder sister, a wonderful daughter, and a beautiful mother <3 I read the newspaper and had oats porridge for breakfast. I practiced PostGRE SQL, and they are...

travel

Happiness

September 13, 2019September 17, 2021

What makes you happy?

Make memories of things that you do for yourself, things you do for yourself to make you feel happy. Life doesn't have to be so complicated so do what you can do to jump to the next level. There are no levels that others define, but levels you set to make yourself your competitor in the pursuit of being happy in life. Happiness isn't far-fetched or overrated but short-lived. So make it worth the while. Cheers

Art

Ocean of Freedom

June 3, 2019September 17, 2021

Where do you belong?

She stared at the ocean, and the ocean looked back at her, Every evening, she came and watched the sun go down, How uncountable flocks of birds flighted their way home against the orange skies, How the waves tirelessly kissed her feet and went back again and again, She loved how salty the air tasted, And she loved how goofed up her hair would be, Every time the wind hugged her tight. How the view pleased her eyes, from the continuous electronic glare of her screen, How refreshing the waves felt against her skin, How beautiful it was to connect...

life

Flying, my other dream

May 29, 2019September 17, 2021

Today, I fly in airplanes but I can’t fly one

When I was little, there used to be a commercial where a little girl used to chase airplanes with her father and grows up to be a pilot. And then there was Kalpana Chawla who was taking Indian women into space. When I saw them, I wanted to be them. Badly. I followed many women aviators. I wanted to study like they did and study enough so that I could reach where they were. I decided that this was it. I wanted to become a pilot whatever it takes. School happened and jee happened. Back in my time, we had...

travel

Time Travel

May 24, 2019September 17, 2021

Read, comment and let me know

Let's admit it. Time travel immediately brings back the image of some high end multidimensional time machine which can travel back and forth in time. We keep buying the stories that the entertainment industry keeps feeding us. Time travel in generic sense, is all but a fantasy. But it doesn't have to be like that. Time changes people, time makes things happen. Time teaches and time moves on. Time brings perspectives. I believe every person you meet or anything you see around you is a time machine. Every single person has a perspective of their own and each of them...

life

Dear Love

May 21, 2019September 17, 2021

An open letter to love in my life

This is an open letter. I am taking this chance to clear up my notions about loving someone and being loved by someone. I want to be loved in a way that makes me love myself more. I want to be loved in a way that celebrates me the way I am. I want to be loved in a way as if I was some festival that I could make so many people happy with my presence. (If you take pictures, make me feel beautiful. :D) Same goes for you. If I tell you I love you, you should know...

life

Big cities, Fast culture

May 17, 2019September 17, 2021

India is a beautiful celebration of its cultural shock.

In India of the recent ages, people are on the move for employment, for better quality of life. There are usual problems of how the migrants need to strive hard for survival in the competition and literally in life. Other than money, food and other basic amenities, have you ever pondered the cultural shock one faces? India is a beautiful celebration of its cultural shock.There's communal tension almost in everything and about everything, but it's just that some choose to endorse it or some ignore it and instead work for a living. But what can be done about it. Only...

life

Moon, the other woman in my life

May 13, 2019September 17, 2021

Did she know she could never see it’s other side?

She didn't know what she sought in the woods, She didn't know what drew her to the moon, Did she know she could never see it's other side? Did she know what the woods hide? She didn't know what bothered her Her ignorance towards real dangers in life, Or, that she had never seen her fear materialize Only she knew and only she could decide.

life travel

Charminar, my Prince

May 11, 2019September 17, 2021

Charminar is not Charminar without the constant bickering of its people.

To me, Charminar is not Charminar without the constant bickering of its people who want to make their life a full circle. Shops and hawker stalls strewn across the street and electrical wires hanging loosely, one could call this a "hot mess". However, the reality is THIS stays. It doesn't go away. It is happening. It throbs with life. The Charminar is thei testimony to all those dreams that thrive on it, over generations. The Charminar may not belong to our age and must have been waay better off in the era to which it belongs, but it has accepted...

Art life

The Runaway Bride

May 9, 2019September 17, 2021

She had everything, so why did she run away?

She loved him, she wanted him, but why did she runaway? They accepted the way she was, then why did she runaway? Did she run away from him? Did she run away from the responsibilities the society exacted from her? Probably she may not have run away to quit after all. Maybe she was chasing her demons in the dark, Maybe she was running away from life altogether, Or maybe, she ran away to find herself, before it was too late.

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