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British Book Depot: an unforgettable odyssey

British Book Depot has been an inseparable part of my life. A memoir tracing the oldest bookshop that held its daily durbar in Hazratganj, Lucknow, for 93 years

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Up in smoke

Up for a smoke? Remember, life always comes full circle. We sow seeds based on the habits we nourish during our early years and pay for them handsomely as we reach mid-life.

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A mint new year with mint new mantras

The new year dawns in hours, making me wisely sieve friends from acquaintances

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Being enough

Each day isn’t productivity challenge, being enough is enough

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The unbearable sense of loss

My mom passed on over a month ago, and for all my wordsmithery, I was staring at a blank page for hours blinking back tears, when it came to writing her obituary. It is an unbearable sense of loss

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Getting past my manic mane worry

This laziness in labouring over the mane — as grandmother’s love took great care of it — cost me a sizable bit of volume loss when I relocated from Lucknow to Mumbai.