No brief description this time, let’s jump straight inside our heads. What if you get a chance to visit your head, your mind? What itinerary will you prepare for travelling in your mind? Which areas will you touch upon to feel the emotions of joy or pain? Which dominant thought will become your accommodation for…
This World Mental Health Day, let us make the health of our minds a global priority. The world is witnessing growing social and economic inequalities, conflicts and civil wars, violence, and public health emergencies affecting whole populations. All this threatens any progress towards improved well-being. World Mental Health Day is celebrated on October 10 every…
Do you love the rainbow? Let us bow to the rain of love. I still remember — a white saree, dark maroon lipstick, and a beautifully-tied hair bun. I remember something more than this — a deep voice, a clean-shaven face, and a strong muscular physique. Around twenty years ago, when I was in primary…
In this blog, I write about my encounter with the indigenous tribes of the Araku Valley in South India and their popular folk dance, Dhimsa. I further go on to share 4 valuable lessons on visiting different people from diverse cultural backgrounds. Diverse experiences in life teach us the diverse meanings that it offers us….
Read this blog below on how travelling can help diminish and even end cultural biases and poor assumptions that we may hold about others. I have always wished if I could travel to Africa. One reason is that I want to see through my own eyes what Africa really is. Africa, I believe, will be…
Your words are stories, your silence is a story too. It has been one year since I started YouInVerse, and I’m glad I did. YouInVerse has not only been a way to reach out to more people but it has also been a personal journey to provide a haven to my words. Though I also…
The voiceless trees have the greatest number of stories to share. Are we ready to hear? Trees are an involuntary witness of our historic past – some have witnessed both the World Wars, some have seen people die in tragic civil wars across the globe, while some have seen nations grow and fall. Some trees…
Your words are stories, your silence is a story too. At whichever point/phase of your life you’re living right now, you always have countless stories to tell. Stop and pause for a while, and simply reflect on the journey of life you have covered so far. I’m sure, if you give it a thought, you’re…
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” ― Albert Camus While walking down the street yesterday, a dry-brown leaf fell on my shoulder and gently slipped through it. I quickly took hold of the leaf and kept it inside the pages of a notebook kept in…
If you have ever made a paper boat, you should read this and if you have never made one, then you should definitely read this. Have you ever made a beautifully crafted paper boat, preferably on a rainy day? Remembering those small puddles in the streets, I go deep into the dark cave of nostalgia…
Why will you not take a chance on something that makes you extremely joyful and fills you with passion? We all hope and dream that we keep flying in an endless sky with no fear of being let down. In these unending dreams, we anticipate that no bullets ever touch us in the sky and…
Sometimes the unforeseen arrival of strangers in our lives leaves a lasting impact for the days to come. It was my first day of work at a nation-wide food charity in England that fights food waste and hunger. It collects excess food from supermarkets and other grocery stores and redistributes it to the local frontline charities, homeless…
