I found Bhajju Shyam sitting quietly on a shelf of the Airbnb accommodation at my recent trip to Edinburgh. Of course not in person but in a book. If there is one thing I like about Airbnb, it is the unexpected discoveries […]
That is the name of exhibition running at The British Museum. Postcard? When was the last time you heard the word? Have you received one lately? Even more so have you sent one lately? Have you ever thought of postcards as work […]
In ‘good old days’ it was up to the employer to find employees. He would put an ad in the papers for the kind of person and skills he needed for the job. It is not the case in the new age. […]
Rhonda was at a time in her life when she was facing challenges from every direction – business, relationships, family. That is when she stumbled across a book. Or to be more accurate, she says, it stumbled across her! She is not […]
I fell in love with the phrase “the beauty of sheer effort,” when I first read it in Anne Lamott’s book Bird by Bird. I was reading Anne Lamott’s book Bird by Bird perhaps for the millionths time (that should essentially mean […]
A lot of glories have been attributed to the humble act of walking by writers and thinkers. William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, and Henry David Thoreau were all avid walkers. Henry David Thoreau has written, “I think that I cannot preserve […]