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Amsterdam was the last stop on our best Euro trip ever and we were exhausted! Traveling had been incredible and exciting but we knew Amsterdam would give us the much needed down time that one often feels one needs AFTER a holiday…like the holiday from the holiday! We were right! Both Aditya and I had visited Amsterdam before… but when we were kids. This … Read More A day in Amsterdam…!
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Courtesy Divya Palat Celebrity Blog for the Times of India Today I take a break from the news and the politics and even the decline of the rupee to focus on something much more personal. Today I take the time to talk about relationships. Today, is a world where you have over 1000 Facebook friends and even more Twitter followers / friends. But even … Read More 1000 Facebook Friends doesn’t mean you have friends
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Why is life not the way we want it to be? There is too much to do…too little time… Too much time…too little joy, Too many people, too few friends, Small beginnings, dramatic ends! To wait, to see, to wander, to be, To live, to breathe, to touch, to feel, To cry, to hurt, to pain,to grieve, To dream, to want, to … Read More Why?
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CREDIT -: Travel With Divya It was my first trip to Australia and yet another anniversary. The trip had been planned (like several trips of ours) over a weekend…I realised , one very boring Friday that I’d like to jump off a plane! Australia seemed the safest option and with an anniversary coming up…it seemed poetic! Take a leap (off a plane!) to … Read More Gold Coasting!
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This Blog is courtesy my new Times of India Celebrity Blog! So do check it out! There is usually one major reason to die but there are several reasons to live. This week’s news was filled with suicides and self inflicted deaths. “ I watched for ten hours as he died via Skype!” screamed a headline! Harassment caused another individual to kill … Read More One life to live (from my new Times of India Celebrity Blog!)
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It was an anniversary and yet another excuse to take off! The husband loves the sea and the surf and I love him so it was off to Maldives (my second trip) …his first! The most amazing thing about Maldives is the landing. Surrounded by water on both sides , the runway is this narrow strip of land surrounded by an ocean of the … Read More Breathing Underwater – the Malidives
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It was an anniversary and yet another excuse to take off! The husband loves the sea and the surf and I love him so it was off to Maldives (my second trip) …his first! The most amazing thing about Maldives is the landing. Surrounded by water on both sides , the runway is this narrow strip of land surrounded by an ocean of the … Read More Breathing Underwater – the Maldives
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So it’s already the fourth month of the year and well nothing’s different from last year…same crap, different day and you feel like life’s just being sucked away- GET UP! GET OUT! MAKE A CHANGE! Life is not what happens to you….it’s what YOU do to make it HAPPEN! Discover a new restaurant…like I did this weekend! Cafe Zoe at Mathuradas Mills Compound…! Sure … Read More GET UP! Get yourself out of that rut!
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Ok so I HATE MONDAY MORNINGS! I mean I start stressing on Sunday night about the week that’s about to happen…not that the week isn’t totally exciting, glorious and fun…I’m the eternal stressed and so I stress! This morning was particularly hard! There was too much to do and too little time- scripts to finalise, meetings to attend, chores to complete at home and … Read More Making Monday not MournDay!
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You can take a day off from work. Your company will not collapse. The world will not end. If it did, you would be God. You are not God. You don’t need to wait till you have an incurable disease to make a bucket list.Makeone today. A bucket list is not a pre- celebration of death…it should be a celebration of life. You are … Read More Some of Life’s irrefutable truths
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In this busy,busy world of deadlines and time sensitive jobs , where work is more important than family in most occasions ; these short trips give you a time to reconnect to what’s really important. Why are you working so hard …if its not for those you live and care about? What’s the point of a promotion if no one can celebrate with you … Read More Living, loving, breathing!
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What happened on the 13th of July 2011 was unforgivable and I wrote about it! the responses and calls I got were overwhelming…it seemed like alot of us felt this way. Someone from the BBC called last night and asked me a very pertinent question- what do I want? Well I though I could list a few things that would make me feel safer … Read More What I WANT from THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT & what I think INDIA DESERVES!
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