June 2025: Living with an Invisible Crisis #418

June 2025 was a mixed bag of progress and pause — some days swept me into work wins and structured routines, while others pulled me into spirals of exhaustion and quiet despair. Between mindful one-episode-a-day habits, deep cleaning marathons, emotional burnout, and reflective walks, the month became a slow but steady journey of showing up — for work, for others, and sometimes, even for myself.

December 2024: Juggling between Necessity and Luxury #403

December 2024 was a month of balancing chaos and reflection. From navigating hectic travels and exams to reorganizing my space and tackling slow work weeks, I found moments of growth amidst the hustle.

While health issues and unfinished tasks lingered, small victories like baking from scratch, learning new skills, and finding spiritual inspiration added meaning to an otherwise demanding month.

pink cherry blossoms

Charting Progress: A Deep Dive into the Chapters of My 2023 Story #320

Looking back at every month of the year 2023 for a yearly retrospection of my personal and professional life.

green leafed tree beside body of water during daytime

Is Parks and Recreation a good show for binge-watching? #305

After watching The Office last year, I came across another interesting series from the makers of the popular sitcom. Even in a mockumentary format, its quite different from all the movies/series I have watched in my lifetime- a political satire.

Republic Day Then and Now (Celebrating 72nd Republic Day, India) #260

Reminiscing Republic Day celebration at school and how we celebrate now as grown ups. Also talking about some interesting observations made in the day.

We visited Karunamayi Kali Mandir/Amdanga Kalibari #256

Here’s our experience of visiting Karunamayi Kali Temple along with some guidance and pictures of the temple.

How to Make Delicious Chal-kumro Bora with an Interesting twist #255

Chal kumro bora is the best way to consume this otherwise boring vegetable, chal kumro. This can make a great combo with plain rice and dal.

How to make Rosh Bora – Bengal’s lost delicacies #254

Rosh means syrup and Bora means fritter in Bengali. Basically Rosh Bora kind of a lentil fritter that is dipped into sugar syrup.

How to make Restaurant-style Paneer Butter Masala but HEALTHIER #253

Paneer Butter Masala is a North Indian cuisine made from Cottage Cheese (Paneer in India) and a smooth and creamy, moderately spicy gravy.

This Prawn Pulao can easily beat the best Chicken Biriyani! #246

Prawn Pulao is a beautiful blend of long grained fluffy rice and mildly spicy, semi-dry Prawn curry. Find out the Prawn Pulao recipe here.

First time experience of “Work from Home” #217

On Day 5 Lock-down in India : Sharing my experience of doing “Work from Home” for the first time. Maintaining work in wori-hours is the main challenge now.

Is The Lion King (Live Animation 2019) any good? #194

The Lion King is an animated movie produced by Disney back in 1994. Disney decided to remake the movie in 2019 as a live action. After watching the new movie, here are my thoughts and reaction…

My thoughts on the Movie, Maleficent #189

Maleficent a 2014 fantasy movie, starring Angelina Jolie as “Maleficent”. As Maleficent 2 will be soon in theater it is a good time watch the movie if you haven’t watched already!

Watch My favorite Telugu Movie – Fidaa(2017) #188

Fidaa, a Telugu romantic comedy movie starrring Varun Tej and Sai Pallavi released in 2017.

Grandparents are the strong roots of a family #178

Today my beloved granny was discharged from ICU after 10 instense days… It was the same time when I visited home.I went to see her in the hospital… They gave us a visiting card. Only one person at a time would be allowed. Hospital authority allows relatives to visit the patient for maximum of 1 […]

When you read it, you know it #177

I am writing this at my home. By the time you will read this I will be in Hyderabad once again. I came home after 7 months… I don’t visit home very often. Even though I am incredibly happy to meet my family, there’s a sadness and anxiety building up inside me. This is the […]

Are you a fast food lover like me? #172

On a typical Sunday morning, I usually don’t leave bed before 12. So most of the times I don’t see the Sunday morning at all. Today it turned out to be different. I woke up by 8.30 and kept on rolling (on the bed) and scrolling through my Instagram feed till 10 AM. The other […]

The Juicy Grill, Hyderabad

The Juicy Grill ~ Restaurant Review #170

Visiting The Juicy Grill- Tasting some of the best picks from their menu and meeting the team…

“At the end of the day you are what you are, I am what I am” #163

Not taking a hint or just giving constructive criticism? Sharing a real-life conversation with my colleague for you to decide.

Flechazo ~ Restaurant Review #161

It was my sister’s birthday and I had to take her out to a nice place for dinner. After a lot of research Flechazo, Madhapur, Hyderabad seemed to be the most convenient option to me. I called them and had a table booked for two. Dinner date with my sister is a rare thing to […]

Smokey House ~ Restaurant Review #160

Recently I visited Smokey House, Hitech City, Hyderabad with a team of around 20 people for lunch. Our booking was done one day prior to our visit. We could acquire the tables as soon as we reached the restaurant. Almost 40 percent of my teammates opted for vegetarian menu whereas we were among the non-vegetarians. […]

24 year old girl drinks alcohol for the first time…! #159

Is there anyone reading this has waited for 24 years to drink for the first time?I don’t think so. I’m 24 years old, working and single. Drinking is not looked upon as a glorious thing in my family. I didn’t have any close friend during school or college who used to drink. I myself had […]

Getting Invite for Tasting Food and Reviewing Them for the First Time!! #157

I got a tasting session invite with other food bloggers for the first time in my life. This happened a while ago but I wanted to share my thoughts with all of you… I would like to give you a little background first. 1. Almost a year ago, a guy reached out to me on […]

Summary : August 2018 #155

August 2018 is over!! What is happening right now? How on earth time is flying so quickly? I don’t know. I am trying too hard to just be present and live. Let’s just revisit my goals and judge myself on how I did this month. 1. Studying:For the first half of the month as usual […]

What I learnt from “The Secret Life of Jeffree Star” #154

After witnessing so much craze on internet about Shane Dawson’s 5 episodes long docu-series on Jeffree Star I was wondering that this must be another internet drama. I do watch Shane Dawson’s for some time now. I am not a die hard fan of him but some of his work has made me come back […]

Disintegrated Chaos? or Rather I should say Life #153

I’m not feeling good… neither physically nor mentally. Yesterday was a long day. By night I had tremendous headache, I could barely eat because of that. I went to bed early. Today when I woke up, my headache was gone.This is best about sleep, you forget about pains (if pain is moderate, if pain is […]

Is this how Friendzone looks like? #152

A Conversation – Are you free today?Can you return my book today?I’ll come then. # Yep, sure. – Tell me the time convenient to you. # Afternoon will be fine. – Hey, wear a red dress. 🙂 # Why? O_o Okay, I will. … – OH MY GOODNESS! You look unrecognizable! You have become so […]

August Notes #151

I’m almost through half of the month as I’m writing this… Here are the main things to focus on- 1. Read, write, repeatI would try to focus on the things I’m not particularly good at- maths. Yes. It’s the one thing I was never confident about even in my student life. But at this point […]