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My guest post at Everyday Gyaan

When Corinne  asked me to do a post for her very popular blog "Everyday Gyaan" , how could I refuse it. As her blog tag line says "Keeping life simple, authentic and holistic" , I have tried to write a post that was true to these words. Here is the excerpt of the post I have written.  When I talk about finding  positivity during chaos , I am actually talking about trying to be positive during the inner turmoil that happens within each one of us, when we go through stressful situations and are tackling our inner demons.  Since the past five years, my life has been thrown into chaos for various reasons, some of which, I willingly chose to go through and some things that crash landed in my life and has a left a huge crater of confusion, depression and negativity strewn around. Hop on to 'Everyday Gyaan' to read more . Do let me know what you think.

A brand new experience

My friend Kautubh  has invited me to write guest posts on his blog. I have written the following post for him. Just posting an excerpt here. You can go and read the complete post on his website ' ekoshapu '. Thanks Kaustubh for giving me this opportunity. You can also go and check his two wonderful blogs ' Cipher ' and ' Swataha '- A Marathi Blog. ______________________________________________________________________ Writing- an Art or Passion? As children our parents try to inculcate in us various hobbies for our development. I remember going to painting, dancing, singing, guitar classes and whatnot. Writing on the other hand was not even a choice. Also writing was left to professional writers or mainly journalists. Things changed after the explosion of Internet throughout the world. Writing an online diary became a hobby for many people at the start of the millennium. This slowly changed to writing Blogs which were not limited to online diaries but have mo

Great Expectations

Hey people, This is 2nd guest post by my friend 'Radhika'. She is funny and opinionated and really feels strongly about this subject . Her experiences of raising twin boys and coming from an Indian family reflects in this post. ************************************************************************************************************** So, we live in the very hub of tomorrow’s technology, aka, Silicon Valley, aka, The Bay Area (like there are no other bays!!)!  Living here all these years, I have heard many conversations among our desi friends about how competitive schools are, how competitive other parents are and finally how driven the kids are. I was on the other side of this equation, as an Elementary school teacher.  I always assumed, we Indians went overboard about education and did not let our kids be. We structured their lives too much etc, etc. When I made the big mistake of verbalizing this to some friends, whose kids are all in  accelerated programs (Math and

Scrooge or a Confused Hindu?

Please find below a Guest post from my friend ' Radhika '. She has a funny bone and I bet you will be tickled silly with the below Blog post . Christmas in America is the single most frustrating event of the year for me. I love the lights and the feel good movies on TV as much as the next person, but Christmas in America confuses the hell out of me. Since all my education in India was in a Catholic establishment, Christmas was about the nativity play, cake on the last day of school, before holidays began, getting bebinkas and cakes from Christian friends(kind of a thank you for the Diwali Besan Ladoos I gave them) etc, etc. In short it was about Christianity, the birth of Jesus, the three wise men , the star and so on. Cut to 17 years later in America. Arguably, the most conservative nation in the western hemisphere, where every 4 years politicians are out to prove what good Christians they are, where you could win or lose the presidency depending on your Good Christian quot