Tag: #returninghome

• Travel : Dubai – the place, the people, the food

  

  This post is not really a travel post as I lived most of my life in Dubai before I moved out in 2018. So, when I returned to the country on a ten-day trip in early October, it was more about meeting friends than visiting places. However, for all those who haven’t visited Dubai, I […]

  Smitha V

  October 20, 2022

  Experiences, Travel

  #colleagues, #customerservice, #diarywriting, #Dubai, #experiences, #food, #friends, #friendship, #gratitude, #life, #love, #nostalgia, #people, #returninghome, #tourism, #travelogue

• Diary entry -A short trip to Dubai

  

  1st October 2022 10.00 p.m.  I’m travelling to Dubai after 4 years and two months to be precise. Dubai is the place I lived in practically all my life and yet, strangely, I am not as excited as I should be. Maybe, it’s because I know I’m going there for just ten days. The more […]

  Smitha V

  October 18, 2022

  Experiences, Travel

  #dhaka, #diary, #Dubai, #familytrip, #India, #journey, #life, #mumbai, #nostalgia, #prose, #returninghome, #travelogue, #truth, Experiences

• In the land of my forefathers

  

  I wrote this poem on Father’s day but couldn’t post it then as I was traveling. Returning to my hometown after three years and three deaths, wasn’t easy. I wasn’t even sure why I was going there except as a mark of respect for the people who were responsible for the person I am today. […]

  Smitha V

  June 21, 2022

  Experiences, Poetry, Travel

  #aftercovid, #childhood, #community, #family, #fathersday, #home, #India, #life, #Mangalore, #memories, #neighbours, #poem, #returninghome, #roots, #SoCs

• The Homecoming

  

  Time flies. Last week, at this time 5.00 p.m, I was sitting alone, sipping on my tea and watching Cinderella on T.V. with all the latches on the door put; the only sounds being of the sparrows and the grandfather clock in the living room. ‘Mamma don’t leave me. Keep holding me,’ my younger one […]

  Smitha V

  May 16, 2019

  Experiences

  #children, #diary, #difficulttrail, #homecoming, #kids, #learning, #life, #lifeateacher, #lifelessons, #mother, #parenting, #parentingdilemma, #returninghome, #schooltrip, #withthearmy, Experiences, My diary

• Return to the Homeland – India Diaries – Part1

  

  The smells that once excited me had no effect; now that I knew this was where I was going to be staying, for sometime at-least. “Ma, we’re home. That peculiar smell…a concoction of burning firewood, soil after the rains…is so Kerala,” my younger one quipped. She was so excited as I was used to being […]

  Smitha V

  July 4, 2018

  Creative Writing, Experiences

  #diary, #feelings, #India, #kerala, #life, #nellayi, #returninghome, #thein-laws, #Thrissur, Creative Writing, Experiences, My diary