Tag: #reality

• Book Review: He, She, and it- the grammar of marriage

  

  The book is an anthology of short stories. The interesting thing about anthologies centred around a theme, in this case, ‘Marriage’, is that you get as many different perspectives on the topic as the number of participating writers. When it comes to marriage, there can be two types- a happy marriage and a sad marriage. A…

  Smitha V

  May 14, 2023

  Book Review

  #bookreview, #emotional, #fiction, #India, #life, #marriage, #newbook, #reality, #shortstories, #truth, Creative Writing

• NaPoWriMo Day 1, 2023: The Feet

  

  P.C. John Lord Peck. Dress and Care of the Feet. New York: Fowler & Wells, 1871 ‘And here’s our own prompt (optional, as always) for the first day of Na/GloPoWriMo. They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but they never said you can’t try to write a poem based on a book cover…

  Smitha V

  April 3, 2023

  Poetry

  #bookcover, #day1, #Feet, #life, #NaPoWriMo2023, #poem, #reality, #truth

• What do we really want for our children?

  

  It’s that time of the year in India, when you find students pouring over their books, papers, laptops. I see them with their noses dipped at the building gates awaiting the school bus, in the coffee shop with their ear phones on – to shut the noise out, on park benches amidst cawing crows and…

  Smitha V

  February 16, 2020

  Experiences, Mum’s World

  #children, #exams, #goodpeople, #inspiration, #life, #mothers, #motivation, #parenting, #parents, #people, #reality, #timewithkids, #truth

• Cracks

  

  Don’t tell me you’ve never fallen Or ever felt broken? Haven’t we all, at some time? Some a wee bit; others’ a wee bit more. The cracks – they’re there We hide them, as best we can.   You know you can bear them, before me; with neither fear nor shame For the tools and…

  Smitha V

  January 12, 2020

  Poetry

  #inspiration, #inspirationalpoetry, #life, #motivation, #nobody’s perfect, #people, #reality, #truth, #wehavecracks, Poetry

• 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