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Book Review – The Calling

…y a happy and healthy person. We hear about balanced diets, a balanced life is equally important. Arjun found his way, realized where he had gone wrong in his relationship and career but was it enough to turn his life around? Did his realization come too late in life? Does he get to make amends? What makes life worth living? Is it money, love or something else altogether? What is ‘The Calling’? What is your calling? By Sulekha Rawat…

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Air Travel Tale

…mber of that plane ride is the take-off and the landing, everything in between is a blur. That day was the first of the many times I travelled alone by air and to this day, I don’t understand my fear of air travel. I have struck train travel off my list now and have become a seasoned high flier.   Sulekha Rawat    …

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Prayers…

…, chant the same prayer, He has no option but, to give in, surrender.   He tests us continuously, and constantly, Wanting us to come up, with flying colours.   He shows us, the importance of love, its intensity in our lives. He lets us see and feel, the healing powers of prayers.   Sulekha Rawat       Visit These Sites and Cheer Them On! NaPoWriMo 2012 Participants Sweepy Jean Explores the (Webby) World Lyric Fire AscendingTheHills 142 Books Sulek…

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She looked most beautiful – Wednesday Prompt

…reparing drafts for the cases she is working on at her Law firm, my son studying for his business studies exams and me brushing up on social media articles and info graphics, Sparky is the constant in all these scenarios. If she could speak, read and write, we are sure that she would ace all the tests and come out with flying colors. Lately she hasn’t been keeping too well and had to be taken to a hospital for blood transfusion, on the way back ho…

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Meditate and Heal

…e –needle aspiration cytology– a diagnostic procedure used to investigate lumps or masses under the skin) But I was fine, or I appeared so to the world but I wasn’t anywhere near being sane and normal. As a result of these emotional issues I started feeling hollow inside and tried to make myself feel better by gorging on food. The temporary satiation helped me feel good for a while and to keep this feeling permanent, I started binge-eating. As lon…

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Why 8th January is so very special to me?

…ery long time I blamed myself for his death. My dear friend Alka helped me understand and cope with it. She said, “Your father loved you so much that he chose your birthday as his going away date; he was the first one to call you up on the morning of your birthday. He wished you, and told you how happy you had made him, showered his love and blessings on you before saying goodbye. Your bond with your father has become stronger; he has proved to yo…

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Sugar n Spice and everything Nice…..

…t can make do with bhelpuri For dinner. Has an eccentric rice cooker, They complement each other. Temperamental to the core, But beautiful inside out. She loves her coffee, with milk, But some days forgets to buy it And is a lost case then. Huh..What..how..are her pet questions, In the absence of milk in her coffee. She is a workaholic but refuses, To work on Mondays and Fridays. She is a computer geek And brilliant at her job, But ask her how she…

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Book review – Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

…nd Buddhists, the 108 beads in the malas and the numerological meaning of number 9, the number for supreme balance. She further divided her story into three parts, Italy, India and Bali, 36 chapters each in every city. She herself was 36 years old at the time and trying to find balance in her life while writing this book, so this added a nice touch to her storytelling. The three parts are- Pursuit of Pleasure, Pursuit of Devotion and Pursuit of Ba…

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Book Review – The Angel’s Share

…e, the core of the book is vulnerable and sensitive, it envelops your heart in a soft bubble of varying emotions. The angel’s share was not justified; the young law students’ lives were torn apart and some of them couldn’t come to terms with this upheaval. I give it 3.5 stars….

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LONGEVITY AT A PRICE

…ole day, whereas he cooks, cleans, fetches and caters to my every wish and command. Come evening and I am ravenous, my last meal was at 4 A.M, and now it is 4 p.m. The larger the body volume, the more food it craves and I have a humongous appetite, as my BMI is way above 30. All the wives dress up for the evening puja and some lucky ones have tea or juice afterwards, I have a gallon of tea. By 7.30 p.m. I am starving and stark raving mad with hung…

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Book Review and Author Interview – Collection of Chaos by Tikuli

…sky, Cynthia Atkins, James Goddard, Matthew Bailer, Praneta Jha, Tim Buck, Uma Gowrishankar have been instrumental in my poetry evolution. These are the people who are still part of my journey as a writer. Here we are just talking about the poets. There are some more very fine writers who have been a driving force in my evolution as poet/ writer. 7) Do you agree with the statement that those who have suffered a loss write better? Is a broken heart…

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Emilio’s Retort

free online image http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images “I am misunderstood.” Roxy tried to get me kicked out of the hood. She should have tried to see my point of view, Why I did what I did and why I’ll do it again, If I had to, I really really SO would. Roxy followed me everywhere, I mean, PLEASE, give a man some SPACE!!! She just didn’t get it, was always in my FACE!!! If I stepped into my balcony, there she was, perched high, on her chair,…

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Festival of Words- Blog Love

…nrecognizable stage from what they used to be.” – Kriti Kriti is an independent marketing consultant, writer and a fabulous person. I met her through her blog and connected with her online while she was living in Manhattan, and I was in saddi Dilli, sorry Newda (Noida), India. We became friends and business partners after about a year of following each other’s blogs. Her writing is so her, intriguing, expressive, complex and warm. She is one of my…

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Roxy’s Triumph

…ulekharawat.com/2011/10/11/roxy-and-emilio-part-three/ http://sulekharawat.com/2011/07/25/emilios-retort/ http://sulekharawat.com/2011/07/20/roxy-and-emilio/ Visit These Sites and Cheer Them On! NaPoWriMo 2012 Participants Sweepy Jean Explores the (Webby) World Lyric Fire AscendingTheHills 142 Books Sulekha Rawat: Memoirs To create… memoirs of a homemaker For Jen’s Sake One Time Pad Thoughts Of Beauty In The Stillness Of Dawn… EllieBloo Chris Galv…