given my hand issue (like calling it that) and me being told to stay away from the computer, i set up a target (unrealistic, i realise now, but it’s been set and i want try to chase it. no i won’t cheat and read books with just 10 pages!) 100 BOOKS IN 365 DAYS. from august 2013 to august 2014. 5 months into the challenge and … Continue reading 100 books in 365 days by august 2014: where am i today?
some more links for you to chew over the weekend! quotes that travel: there are many posts you might have come across with best this and best that… i really like this one as it has some of my personal favourites. check out the best travel quotes of all time: www.aluxurytravelblog.com/2013/04/17/10-of-the-best-travel-quotes-of-all-time/ one of my favourites is below. it’s by tolkien. i feel like i wander a lot and … Continue reading link day links
three videos, three wild cats, one festival, one poem and a quote. things that moved me this week. this moved me. we walk by so many people who are disabled physically in different ways. some more stark that you take note, and some one can hardly notice. i take the train to work. and local trains in mumbai are not disable-friendly. one day, i … Continue reading link day!
i have to tell you, i cannot lie i have RSI, and so have i fyi: that was the right hand talking to the left hand. fyi2: that is a modified (stolen) version of the line on the psychology department’s t-shirt in graduation. the original one was dedicated to MPD. i can hear you say, ‘RSI? what is that?’. yes, i didn’t even know … Continue reading i have RSI
5 links that i read, watched and liked these last few days… a must read for all bloggers, writers and dreamers – it’ll make your dreams read better too! six easy tips for self-editing your fiction submit submit submit then fingers-crossed fingers-crossed fingers-crossed wiki loves monuments 2013 is here! you register, they update you, you watch. it’s that simple. and happens often, don’t think you’ve missed out … Continue reading tumbling tuesdays: 5 links that i really liked this week
100 posts done… that is a huge milestone for me, one i didn’t see at the starting line of this long marathon i am choosing to run. i started this blog more than 2 years ago. by started, i mean i got an account on wordpress, decided i would call it sodaglass and then never wrote… after a year i figured what i wanted to … Continue reading it’s my 100th post!
THE END OF BOOKS? so much is changing around us; the way we consume art definitely is! this article made me think about books, reading and me… so a tangential stream of wandering… there was a time when ‘new ideas’, ‘broadening horizons’, ‘learning different cultures’ and all those other brilliant things were attributed to books, definitely for me! but is that true even today? i … Continue reading interesting articles i’ve been reading this week
This is a new series where travellers who’ve taken the unpaved road talk about their experiences, trysts and their life. Welcome to merrytoTALK. Hope to bring together a bunch of people who inspire me with their wandering lives 🙂 The first person to meet is SUPRIYA SEHGAL! I was first introduced to her as a friend’s friend in Bangalore, and then found myself hoping she would give … Continue reading Supriya Sehgal is merrytoTALK
just read a brilliant article by nelson roberto… you can read it at “why you should support (share) your friend’s work”. there is a lot of sense in what he says, “I noticed something recently. People, for the most part, don’t share their friends’ “work.” By work I don’t mean 9-to-5 day job type stuff, I mean their passion projects. I feel like most people … Continue reading yes, we should support our friend’s work, why don’t we?
the indian railways has been a recurring theme of my life. i grew up in mumbai & then pune, both of which are around 1300 kms away from my parents’ native city of chennai. when summer creeped up on us we would all head down to chennai, then madras. 20 years ago, this was a long, exhausting 24 – 30 hour train journey and my … Continue reading weekly photo challenge: nostalgic
merry to go around 