Tag: Creative Writing

• GTG, ROFL, NVM, OFC, YOLO, SMH – Is English Dying?

  

  I call myself a writer. I mean that’s what I’d like to believe I am for reasons more than one – a) I no longer have a full-time job that I can tell people of when they ask me what do I do, b) because I have been diligently writing a blog since 2016 and  […]

  Smitha V

  July 27, 2019

  Creative Writing, Experiences, Management

  #breakingbarriers, #changingtimes, #corporateenglish, #diary, #emojis, #Englishisdying, #experiences, #generationgap, #life, #mydiary, #myfeelings, #opinion, #relationshipbuilding, #savingenglish, #slangs, #todayslingo, #truth, Creative Writing, Experiences, My diary

• Mumbai Diaries – It’s a Year! I have a secret to reveal!

  

  Someone recently asked me, ‘ It’s a year! So, how has it been ?’ As of July 2nd we completed a year in Mumbai. There could be many ways to answer this question – the good versus the bad, the strengths versus the weaknesses or the positives versus the negatives. But being a student of […]

  Smitha V

  July 5, 2019

  Creative Writing, Experiences

  #ayearinMumbai, #bookofpoetry, #bookrelease, #coverreveal, #diary, #expatriatediaries, #experience, #goodversusbadofmoving, #India, #indiadiaries, #Indian parents, #inspiration, #learning, #life, #lifeinmumbai, #mumbaidiaries, #reading, change, Creative Writing, Experiences, My diary

• Water – The Elixir of Life

  

  The rains have finally hit Mumbai after a long spell of summer. And everybody is rejoicing. No one is complaining of traffic delays, clothes not drying or not being able to play outdoors. With no rains in Chennai, there’s an acute water shortage in the city. Its been all over the news since the last […]

  Smitha V

  June 29, 2019

  Creative Writing, Experiences

  #conservewater, #critical, #Destruction, #do, #eachdropcounts, #help, #helpsolvetheproblem, #India, #life, #makeadifference, #reality, #savetheworld, #savewater, #truth, #water, #whatcanyoudo, Creative Writing, Experiences

• NaPoWriMo Day 11: Of my roots

  

  Our optional prompt for today is based on another poem of Elhillo’s, called “Origin Stories.” Like “To Make Use of Water,” this poem struggles to make sense of the distance between the poet’s beginnings, her point of origin, and her present self. Have you ever heard the phrase, “you can’t go home again?” This poem […]

  Smitha V

  April 11, 2019

  Experiences, Poetry

  #day11, #India, #inspiration, #iraniraqwar1980, #life, #mangalore floods1979, #mumbai, #NaPoWriMo2019, #originpoem, #roots, #truth, Creative Writing, Experiences, My diary, Poetry

• Returning to the Nest

  

  I am sitting at my desk, in Mumbai, in the early hours of the morning. The words in my head play havoc. And I must follow their command and rise even as the rest of the family continues to sleep, tired after the holidays that took us home. Its 5.45 a.m. The sun is yet […]

  Smitha V

  March 24, 2019

  Creative Writing, Experiences

  #buildrelations, #countryside, #diary, #experiences, #family, #fiction, #goingbackhome, #India, #life, #lifeateacher, #Mangalore, #mangaloredays, #memories, #mydiary, #nest, #nostalgia, #parenting, #people, #returnhome, #roots, #SouthIndia, #truth, #villagelife, change, Creative Writing, Experiences, My diary