Life as 30

CAUTION: The content hereafter may damage your optimism, sanity and immaturity. Today I proudly and successfully complete 3 decades of my life. I have reached an age where ideally I should not be too excited about my birthday and consider confining myself to my home, avoid birthday wish calls. I must get rid of answering the recurring question on my birthday plans and not to succumb to the pressure of celebrating the day like other homo sapiens...

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Mommyness

Sometimes you look into the mirror and don't recognise the person you see. The tired body, stooping shoulders, greasy hair and a drained mind; the paling skin due to receding hormones and dark circles due to infinite  hours of nursing at nights. Sometimes you feel like you are the only one awake in the world at those odd hours in the night. And then you soothe yourself by saying that there are millions of other moms across the world sailing...

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Book Review: City of Nine Gates

Book Title: City Of Nine Gates Author:  Pankaj Rajput Edition Language: English Genre: Fiction Pages: 308 Firstly, a big thanks to Blogadda for sending across the book to me for review. To begin with, the first thing I loved about the book is the quality of pages and the appealing bright cover. This book written by Pankaj Rajput is a work of fiction which efficiently merges mythology with philosophy and modernism...

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Divit's World at Eight Months

Mom is feeding me some paste with something she calls as purple spoon. Yakk, this doesn't taste great. These big people need to understand my choice. By now I know that feeding time means learning A,B,C,D and Johnny Johnny Yes Papa. And of course, the dog says bhaau bhauu and cat says meoww meoww. The thirsty crow is thirsty everyday, and slow and steady tortoise wins the race daily. I smile on hearing all this, because that makes you people...

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Diary of a Daycare Mom

His rattles spread on the mattress, his soft toy Tuffy lying alone in the corner, his little pants and those wet nappies waiting to be picked up and a mountain of his laundry waiting to be washed. I am already tired of packing and labelling stuff for his daycare adventure and googling to know when his first tooth would appear, browsing e-commerce sites to look for his needs, sterilizing those containers for him and preparing his feeds...

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Happy Half Birthday Divit

We never knew, Your delicate touch, Will make us love you so much, We never knew, You will make our days shorter and nights longer, Our clothes shabbier and life happier, We never knew, Those intial feelings of scare would turn into overwhelming joy, And you will be our favorite toy, We never knew, The innocence in you will steal our hearts, And with you we will begin our lives from the start, We never knew, How...

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किसका आधार मेरी पहचान

इस लेख का उद्देश्य रीतियों या व्यक्तियों पर नहीं किन्तु नीतियों पर कटाक्ष करना है। प्रिय बदलती हुई सरकार/ पुनः लौटती हुई सरकार, मेरे 4 माह के बेटे की पासपोर्ट अर्ज़ी इसलिए रद्द कर दी गयी क्योंकि मेरे आधार कार्ड में मेरे नाम के साथ अब तक मेरे पिता का नाम जुड़ा हुआ है। मेरा surname शादी के बाद भी मेरे पिता का ही surname है और मैं अब तक सभी सरकारी दस्तावेजों में मैं w/o की जगह d/o से ही जानी जाती हूं। और इसलिए मेरे बेटे के दस्तावेजों को अधूरा करार...

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Kriti Agarwal: 10 Of The Best Self-help Books

Author Bio-My name is Kriti Agarwal. I have always been fond of writing down my thoughts since childhood. It was a matter of time when that hobby became a passion and I decided to take on the professional path in the world of writing. Kriti also writes at  https://wrytin.com/kritia2  1. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Flock The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is one of a few notable works of art on this...

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My Little boy

My little boy, One day you will tower me, And become smart and clever, One day these moments may fade, You will become a man, And have your own priorities, One day you will have a life of your own, A family to call your own, And I will be gone, But till then, I will continue to nurture you, And to care for you, Till then, I will bask in the sleepless nights, Begging you to sleep and miss you when you might, For...

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Divit's Letter to Mumma Papa

Hello Mumma Papa. Here's my part of story of being on the earth for nearly 10 weeks. It was all good and dark inside Mumma's womb. It was so warm, and happy place to be. I could sleep and wake up anytime. I had been hearing voices of Mumma and Papa in there. I liked you people, I always wanted to know you more all this while. Though I hated the "office time" with Mumma, I loved the cab rides en route to her office, and also all the movie...

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