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J.S.D
Apr 83 min read
Comfortable in an Uncomfortable Relationship
While growing up, I have been closer to my mother, more than I have been to my father. One of the reasons may be because Maa was mostly...
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J.S.D
Apr 37 min read
What goes In, will come Out.
Much like the cliched saying, "what goes around, comes around", the topic for today's (writing+gossip) writssip, holds some truth to our...
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J.S.D
Apr 32 min read
Immigrant Montana
Author: Amitava Kumar Words: Approximately 95000 I picked up the book expecting it to be some sort of a memoir. My expectations were not...
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J.S.D
Jan 111 min read
An above average new Year!
It has been eleven days into 2024, and I must say, that I am impressed by its generosity! I say it with the risk of ‘saying it too...
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J.S.D
Dec 26, 20232 min read
Everything is Mucked
It is all meaningless, isn’t it! Our home has completed yet one more circle around the big ball of fire, and it’s time to celebrate that...
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J.S.D
Apr 20, 20232 min read
Making Peace with the Present
We can’t change the past. No matter how sad, bad, terrible, heartbreaking, unfair, unfortunate it has been, there is just no way to go...
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J.S.D
Apr 10, 20233 min read
The Guilt of Pleasures
I come from a lower middle class family from an extremely small town in the state of West Bengal. My family is Bengali, and by taking the...
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J.S.D
Mar 25, 20233 min read
MOTHER WITHOUT A MASK
2023 so far has been kind of slow in terms of reading! Majorly because, I am trying to be a bit more organized with my limited days off....
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J.S.D
Dec 25, 20222 min read
Feliz navidad!!
It’s Christmas Eve tonight! One more cycle completes, almost. One would think that after ten years of staying away from family during...
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J.S.D
Dec 23, 20223 min read
Monologuing 2022!
Never in the past decades have I felt time running away so fast! The older I am getting, I more I realize that time is slipping faster...
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J.S.D
Nov 18, 20222 min read
THE ALCHEMIST
Author: Paulo Coelho Total pages: 170 Total approximate words: 43000 The first time I read this book, I was younger. Perhaps in my mid...
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J.S.D
Dec 10, 20212 min read
MISCONCEPTIONS OF FORGIVENESS
Author: Celice Maree Total approximate words: 77000 “Misconceptions of Forgiveness” is a memoir. Celice has written about a part of her...
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