Tranquebar’s peace somehow felt shattered. There was a tightening around the heart. In the light of the setting sun, waves were crashing across the jagged shoreline. With a slight tilt of my head, I could see his shadow. Standing quietly, inches from where I was. I had chosen Tranquebar as…

Have you ever looked at an empty notebook and felt, “Wow, that looks pretty?”. The beauty of a new book. The beauty of a blank page. Or maybe it’s just me who is weird. There are brilliant books that you only want to fill with things that hold meaning. …

“So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. …

“I can’t do this. I am not good enough.” “You will never succeed, just give up already.” Has your mind ever started thinking in one of these lines? These are lines of negativity, directed inwards or outwards. There are times when you question yourself about a task that you are…

and how Harry Potter helped me become stronger — With the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, all of us are cooped up inside our houses. While it is necessary to stay home and stay safe, it can be frustrating. Reading a book can be a way to step out and travel the world without leaving the comfort of your house. …

We have all heard the trending “Try New Things” mantra. You could try new things every day, every week or if you are lazy like me then every year. It is said that trying new things or experiences rewires the brain and gives a new perspective. It was exactly what…

How many times have you picked up a new hobby? In my case the list is a little too long. It includes Carnatic music, canvas painting, sketching, coloring, learning a guitar to my latest being origami. …

Early on, my engines gave out. My flat sails had lost their wind. My boat was stranded. But that did not scare me. What scared me was my dream slipping away, inch by inch. My dream of sailing the seas in a boat that I had built. Was I foolish…

Wikipedia aptly (albeit boringly) defines a pun as: “a form of wordplay that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use of homophonic, homographic, metonymic, or figurative language.” To make things simple, Here…