During my childhood—we’re talking about the 60s—we usually traveled by train and bus. For joint families it was travel with kids. My Mom always made sure I carried a blank notebook to write down my experiences—essays about the trip. And that kept me focused mindfully on everything I saw and did.…
Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles
There was once a little girl named Rosalie. She was seven years old. She was a really nice girl—kind, polite and sweet. When she was around seven years old, she started learning to play the violin. The first time she played her violin, she sounded . . . umm . .…
On 10 May 2019, I was invited to the launch of the kid’s version of the popular movie franchise Golmaal by Sonic, titled Golmaal Jr. by Rohit Shetty. The animated show debuted on SONIC on 13 May 2019 at 1.30 pm. Nickelodeon has always been one of our favorite channels and…
As per tradition, here are my Reflections on the A to Z Challenge 2019–its tenth-anniversary edition, no less, and my seventh! I started off the A to Z Challenge this year with a bang on four blogs. Amazing, right? But that fizzled down to two because I just couldn’t keep up,…
In these days of information overload, don’t you often wish you had a reset button? With all the noise we hear online, don’t you wish there was a delete button you could use to get rid of the negative stuff, the FOMO, the fear . . . off your mind? Lately,…
One of the most stressful–but exciting–things you can do during your adult life is move house. But I am about to share some tips that work to make moving house stress free and exciting. I spent the first ten years of my life in our family home but after that, moved…
So, there was this teacher who asked her students to get ready for a surprise test. Of course, the students groaned good-naturedly because who likes surprise tests? Assuring them it would be quite simple as they waited at their desks anxiously, she handed out the question papers face-down, as usual. After…