Travel Diaries: Mornings In Chail In Photos

We recently visited this quaint little town called Chail, very close to Shimla in Himachal Pradesh. I am in love with the mountains and hence, visiting them after months seemed like a treat I had been so longing for, even though this trip was just for a little over a day. We stayed at the …

#BookReview: Woman To Woman By Madhulika Liddle

The very title of Madhulika Liddle's recent short story collection, 'Woman to Woman: Stories', caught my attention and then when I read the blurb, I couldn't wait to get my hands on it. This is what the blurb says, 'A young girl finds herself looking on as her mother listens to the woes of the …

The Honeymoon: Sunday Photo Fiction Challenge

(Photo Credit: A Mixed Bag) I was speechless when I stepped into our honeymoon suite in Thailand. The rooms overlooked the cliffs and the clear beach next to the hotel was already inviting me for a relaxing swim. I stepped into my fancy bikini, one of the many I bought for this occasion. This one …

Friday Fictioneers: Public Toilet

(Image Credit: ©Russell Gayer) I swore and stopped the car. 'The road trip was your idea!' Veena huffed. 'Yeah but not stopping overnight in the village was yours!' I retorted. ‘Do you think it was safe for two women there?’ 'Shut up!' I shouted tearing the silence apart. My friend disappeared into the thicket with …

Life After #NaNoWriMo And How Do You Build A Regular Writing (Or Other) Routine?

  (Image Source: Author's Own) Many of us participated in the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) where we had to write 50,000 words for the month of November. We might have been tired, cranky, swamped under work, going through personal turbulence, and yet we kept writing. Some of us didn't even write at a regular …