#Microtale  By Nandita De nee Chatterjee The city shimmered and shone in the darkness. The air itself seemed holy. For a month now the anticipation had been growing.  A man of non-descript appearance stepped out in the cold. Trudging away from the glittering lanes he walked down dreary, dark roads and cold backways. He knew his path. Stopping now and then, he stooped and rummaged.  Tirelessly the frail man went about his way. Huddled in an oversized brown coat, an old

I have been wondering all this week what to share with you. Things around haven’t been exactly bright and sunny, and the mood has rubbed on to me. But I don’t want to write about it. One, I’m not as well read and would rather leave it to the experts and two, because I’m not up to a discussion that might follow. So, I am choosing to talk about the matters o’ the heart. not exactly a happy topic but

Listening to songs is just wonderful. The beats can fill you with enthusiasm, the lyrics have the power to calm your  mind , the aesthetic experience bringing  the real happiness. Everyone needs to beat the stress in today’s rushing life. Many tensions to be solved, many situations to be tackled and many people to make adjustments with. We as women face lot many more stressful situations at workplace and in family too. And to keep life easy-going it’s important that we find

Life, for me, is akin to climbing a ladder to reach the sky, just when we think that after covering many steps we will be able to touch the sheet of clouds, the reality is that the more me escalate, the more we realise we still have many hundreds of miles yet to be covered. It’s a never ending process. So is life. We are in pursuit of something from a purpose to an objective, meaning of our existence or

Whether you’re single or in a relationship, we should celebrate one type of love that is the most important of all – and that is the one we have for ourselves. “The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.” – Diane Von Furstenberg No matter how much we care about and love the people in our lives, unless we are whole ourselves, we

Christmas is in the air! – A timely, broad-minded, moving post by Preeti S Manaktalawww.thewonderwomenworld.com I went to a #Convent school in #Delhi. My #school had a big #Catholic Church within the campus. As I recollect, everything about my school was welcoming & modern. The school assembly was an everyday affair as we dragged through our daily rituals of the morning prayers like ‘Our Father in Heaven’ and other sing along hymns and rhymes. The assembly invariably ended with a ‘thought for the day’ by our beloved

What’s your IKIGAI? – Madhumita Sinhawww.thewonderwomenworld.com#Zen, #Nirvana, #Moksha, #Lagom are some of the magic words the world over, attracting mankind for decades. A new word #IKIGAI is the latest which has caught our fancy. It’s a #Japanese word meaning “the reason to live” A reason to be happy in doing things to make life purposeful. After all aren’t we all running after finding about our sole #purpose of life? We all want to be happy finally and this happiness is

What better could we, or should we, teach our children but Being Kind? I would say I live in a bubble of kindness. Children around me have helped me lead with kindness and a smile. I would enter classrooms and do my lesson with the students, which made me feel good, hoping they had a positive takeaway. Meeting children, be it my students or my own son, nieces and nephews, my words were reassuring and my presence, I believe, to

By Nandita De nee Chatterjee  It was just another evening. I was having an idle moment. Not thinking about anything as such. Then I saw a message from a friend. He wrote, what is art to you? Well, he was the artist! It should be my question to him. But he persisted. With the festival season underway, he was picking my brains.  After a while, I put some immediate thoughts to pen. What does art mean to me?Art is the

Actions speak louder than words, especially in today’s scenario where humanity has dropped to the lowest level. A lot has already been said since the last few days, but it will not matter if we don’t walk the talk. The recent cases of crime and atrocities against women has brought shame to humanity. One should not consider this issue as only of women who had gone through this but it should be the main concern of every Indian. We should