Showing posts with label Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Challenge. Show all posts

Monday, May 4, 2020

Reflection-A to Z Challenge



Reflections lead to learning. I agree. It allows you to relive your past and if it has been a pleasant one it adds to your sense of well being. This is exactly what the reflection on this challenge has help me to achieve.

Years back, thanks to my niece Nisha and sister Deepika, I started blogging. Life happened and the blogosphere faded away from my life. And then came the 'Lockdown'. Once the chaos started settling I started thinking about getting back to blogging. Earlier in the week a chance conversation about A to Z Challenge at a read meet got me thinking. I registered. Just for a lark.

April 1 dawned and I had no clue what I was going to write about.  Writing fiction seemed easy and I decided to write short stories. But did I struggle? Of course I did, and how!! With no back-ups ( alright, I had 3-4 stories  which I edited and uploaded) but most were written and posted on the same day. Did I want to give up? Yes -many times. The pressure of planning, writing and editing, along with endless household chores and work commitments, drove me crazy. Thanks to the encouragement by my fellow-bloggers, I plodded. And here I am with 26 posts under my belt!

I know planning helps, but this month I realised how imperative it is  to produce good work, so hopefully next time around I will be in a better place. The satisfaction of achieving a goal as well as building the courage to share my work have been my key takeaways from this challenge. Thank you#BlogChatterA2Z Challenge for this opportunity.

I read many interesting blogs and enjoyed the journey immensely. Here is a list of my favourite bloggers. Show some love to them and hop on to their blogs. You will love every one of them. 
 Nisha Punjabi  Sonia Dogra , Noor ,  Ira Mishra,  Arti Jain Shweta Suresh,  Srivalli,  Pradeep Nair,  CRD

Inspired by some of you I have also jumped on to Instagram. Do follow, comment and share if you like it.

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Much love to you my dear readers for reading, supporting and helping me live my dream.

Do keep dropping by.

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Xerox

X is for Xerox



Xerox! You would think I am asking or telling you to make a copy of something. No I am not.

That`s my nick name. I am Xerox.

Yea that`s what everyone in my colony calls me. I have a twin sister you see.  Tapur. We are 13 now. Identical twins.  Only difference is that she is full 4 minutes 22 seconds older than me.Yet I am the Xerox and she`s the Original.

 Ma is the only one who can tell us apart. Baba calls us Tapur-Tupur. For him we are one. But Ma claims she sees us as two different girls. Yet she buys the same clothes, same shoes, same hair clips, same hair-bands, same socks for us. Identical. Only difference is the  colour. It is always pink or red for Tapur. I get yellow or blue or any other available colour. Even our school bags, water-bottles, tiffin-boxes, pencil-boxes, swimming gears are identical. Everything is identical.

Yet I am labelled Xerox! Why is Tapur Original?


Why ?


Saturday, April 18, 2020

Paawan

P is for Paawan


Paawan.
He traced the name delicately in his diary.He wanted to add a syllable to it. I.
And then he could be Paawani.

"Paawan," he heard his mother call out. The pen slipped from his hand. His heart thumped and he quickly closed his diary, "Yes Ma."




Thursday, April 16, 2020

Neel

N is for Neel


"Mamma you got a neel again?"whispered little Aman as he gently moved his fingers on the ugly bruise peeping from under her blouse.

"Hmm," she nodded.

"You slipped again?"

"Yes"

"You should be careful."

"Yes," she whispered as she gathered her 5 year old in her arms.


Neel means Bruise in Hindi.

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Marriage

M is for marriage



Peaches and cream is what he wanted

Coffee and chocolate is what he got.

He kicked and shoved and pushed

The bruises healed but the scars remained.


Thursday, March 26, 2020

A to Z Challenge 2020- Theme Reveal





I hope this challenge will inspire me to come back to the blogging world. I have been writing all these years, just missed doing it here!

I really have no clue as to what I will write about, but I think I will write fiction? All this while , this space was like my journal but now I want to try something different. Lots has happened since my last post in 2015 . Life happened , I moved on and then I took a U-turn :-).

So there. Look out for my posts , every day starting from 1 April 2020, and give me a shout when you pass-by.