This category has posts related to blogging prompts, campaign or challenges as and when I participate in them to enhance my writing and practice a consistent writing habit on my blog.
Campaigns
^ MyFriendAlexa with #blogchatter in september 2016
^ Ultimate Blogging challenge in october 2016
^ #nablopomo with @blogher in November 2016
^ Ultimate Blogging Challenge in Jan 2017
Disobedience is by and large a very negative trait but it can be used positively to better one’s life and happiness; provided its handled maturely. Read about my take on today’s prompt for the #writetribe #problogger challenge.… Read More Disobedience [ #WriteBravely]
Read about my love for the winter season as I talk about a much cherished trip I made to Kashmir this January when the snowfall season had just started.… Read More Winter is my queen! [ #writebravely ]
Todays prompt is Terminal in the Write Tribe Problogger challenge 2017. Read on my take on connections to be formed to foster healthy relationships… Read More A point of connection [ #WriteBravely ]
Read about my flashback down the memory lane of my days of youth and whether or not I am nostalgic about it at all! This post is part of the Problogger WriteTribe challenge for the month of October 2017 and the prompt for the day is Nostalgic! #writingbrave… Read More The Halcyon days of youth [ #WriteBravely ]
Have you ever looked closely at the hidden charges engineered so deviously in your private sector bank account transactions? Read on to know my experience on this insidious pattern of the private sector banks to make maoney and do share yours too !!!… Read More “Monetarily up yours ” is the common anthem of Private sector banks [ #writebravely ]
Forgiveness is not about just saying/accepting apologies; its to do with how the heart heals after the hurtful deed has been done. Its between two people and needs to be resolved by them only!… Read More What if I am not in the mood to be divine? [ #MondayMusings ]
Read about my gratitude in August – Writing a gratitude journal is akin to collecting loose change in a piggy bank, something we all indulged in as kids.… Read More My piggy bank of gratitude [#MondayMusings ]
I was hugging myself happily in anticipation of getting ready. For you see, today I would wear that dress which I had ordered online and worked very hard to fit into. Yay!!!! Slipping into the dress, I twirled a little in from to the mirror, loving how it flared up and then fell softly around… Read More Why must you judge my choices? [ #MondayMusings ]
They say that what you are looking for is, is searching for you too and comes to you when you least expect it to. This is a secret that I have learnt the hard way up but now believe with all my heart. I hate getting into a tizzy first thing in the morning and… Read More The Secret Road [ #MondayMusings ]
“Your writing sucks and people laugh behind your back at what you write!!!!!!” Crushing? You bet your bottom dollar, it was. I was so heartbroken as it was said by a blogging friend fiend who retaliated over a perceived misdeed/misspoken word by me for her. Without waiting to clarify anything, she declared me Brutus and… Read More Your writing sucks!!! [ #MondayMusings ]
Hola folks! It’s that time of the month again when we catch up over a cup of our favourite brews; mine isnt coffee but tea! It’s already August, the 8th month of the year and time seems to be flying with jet spurred wings. I have had quite a busy and eventful year so far;… Read More | Day-7 | If we were having coffee #writebravely | WriteTribe – Festival of Words 2017 |
Hola Peeps. Today is Day#6 for the #WriteTribe #Festivalofwords and I am introducing Arpit Chhikara as my Guest Blogger for today’s prompt. I hope you will appreciate his writing and interact with him to know more about him. Self acceptance A five-year old kid is standing in front of you. Besides the kid lies a… Read More | Day-6 | Guest Post – Self Acceptance #writebravely | WriteTribe – Festival of Words 2017 |
Day-5 prompt is to write a letter; I decided to make it a fan letter ♥ My dearest SRK, I first learnt of you when we congregated before the routine morning assembly. A gaggle of girls were chattering in earnest about this cute “guy” from the TV serial last night. The year was 1989 and it was… Read More | Day-5 | Letter – Sigh, Swoon & Drool #writebravely | WriteTribe – Festival of Words 2017 |
“Wow! You are an interior designer!”I have lost count of the number of times I have had this reaction when I reveal what I do for a living. People generally assume that mine is a glamorous vocation and I am really living it up, making endless moolah. Time for a reality check peeps, so lets… Read More | Day-4 | A day in the life of an Interior Designer #writebravely | WriteTribe – Festival of Words 2017 |
Day-3 prompt in the #festivalofwords is to take a map and detail out a place (virtual or real) and I couldn’t think of a better place than the famous “Moonland” of Ladakh which has stunningly gorgeous landscape, thanks to the nature induced lunar-scape formations. This is also the location of one of the most ancient… Read More | Day-3 | Map to a moonland in Ladakh | WriteTribe – Festival of Words 2017 |
Writing for today’s prompt meant to let you all into a little secret part of me as my strongest and best resource is my independence. While growing up, I was a shy child and would wait to be included in a group – be it cousins or friends. The wait would bear fruit sometimes, but… Read More | Day-2 | My biggest resource | WriteTribe – Festival of Words 2017 |
Mulling over the first prompt – A treasure that I cherish; it wasnt too difficult to decide what it is for me. As a child, I was always fascinated by the camera – yes I know all kids love to pose but for me it was the camera in my hands and not being clicked… Read More | Day-1 | A treasure that I cherish | WriteTribe – Festival of Words 2017 |
” We were just sitting around the bonfire and enjoying the guys playing the guitar while some of us sang along. I don’t know when it happened, but suddenly I was aware of my hand touching hers and she didn’t pull hers away. When I looked at her, she too held my gaze and then… Read More The Call of the Wind that tugs at the heart strings! | #barathon |
As a single girl who just started living on her own in a metropolis like Delhi, it wont be at all wrong to assume that I was one of those totally consumed with the single woman life version of the popular sitcom Sex and the City. There! I said it. It’s another matter that the… Read More Suns and Lovers – Of Husbands who love to stray, On single women they love to prey! | #Barathon |
When I wanted to flex my career wings and step out of the homely cocoon to find work in a metropolis like New Delhi, I faced vociferous objections from the parental authorities. “It’s unsafe for women!” “Men prey on a women’s vulnerabilities and coerce them to do things.” “Marriage and kids is a safer/better thing.… Read More Lord of the Files snips my work wings | #barathon |
