Musings...

If you know me at all, you must have known I’ll get to this eventually:-) It’s the hot topic since past four years and everyone has an opinion. Here’s mine: Hard to believe but I was not such a political person till about the time when Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy. Before that I loved watching Obama and all the things he was doing and the decency and smartness he had brought to the WH. But with Clinton’s announcement, suddenly it was a chance of a lifetime to work for the campaign of the first woman President of the USA! Having been a feminist all my life, working for a female candidate for president seemed like the culmination of all the ideas I would talk about in my social circle and family. And that too for a woman who had proven her worth over a lifetime of work for women’s rights and children’s rights. And having come from a country where we’ve had a woman as a prime minister and then a president, this seemed a no brainer!  As a mom of two daughters, i...

Dedicated to all who have lost a parent or both parents. Know that you’re not alone and that it’s ok to feel the way you feel. I’ve been there.  Death. A word that has so many connotations for people. For some it’s a relief, for some it’s a pain that stays with you, for some it’s a shock, for some it’s a natural process. Whatever it might be, it’s an end. An end to a love, a relationship, a life. So many things end with that one event. All you’re left with are memories and thoughts that bring that aching pain back to surface every now and then. And time does nothing to lessen the pain. It just becomes a throbbing dull ache. Even though we are surrounded by death all the time, it still has the power to hit us in the guts and make us gasp for a breath.  A loss of a parent is something we all dread because as we grow up, we know it’s going to happen eventually just not anytime soon and surely not to us. We are surrounded by death from the moment we grow up. But when it h...