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My Teenage Dreams

I’ve been so worked up in writing this next entry for the blog that I just restarted. I can’t figure out how to start introducing the topic that I want to highlight. Having watched so many teenage school movies which covers bullying as a topic, I had so much hope that this next topic of mine which is also very common these days would be a cakewalk for me to talk about. But, no! I’ve been struggling at how I want it written. So here goes my best shot. Whenever I look back at how I have grown and the people around me; the issue of obesity was never present. We were way healthier and stronger as compared to now. But sometimes, we dream of being someone else. Someone more good looking, someone successful at a young age, someone who dared to dream. I pictured myself as Winnie from The Wonder Years. (If you don’t know who that is, Google The Wonder Years) Yes! That’s literally my teenage dream. Hilarious, no? I tried convincing myself that I can make someone out of myself but my teenage ...

Down Memory Lane

A lot has happened since I started this blog. I don’t need to keep harping about what’s happening around each one of us right now. But you know what, all these made me think of how we let this world become like this. I looked back and found a few things that I should have recognised but I hope what I am going to tell you, will change how we perceive things for our children. From my childhood till now, there were a lot of happy things that I loved but I am uncertain about a few others. I think there would be many like me who went through the same situations but haven’t been vocal about the experiences. Many would like to not believe that such incidents can happen in the place we are from. The calm, serene, hospitable nature of the people are always the characteristics we’re being defined by. What I went through, I believe are incidents that would have made a much bigger deal right now but not in the world I grew up in. I come from a place that I will forever be in love with; Shi...

Eight Years Later

It took a pandemic for me to realise what I had given up all this while. I should have been writing but I was too caught up with everything that somehow seemed too important at the time. So for this coming back post, I am sharing one image of what is one of my interests that I had to learn once I had to leave home :)

The Thanksgiving Dance of the Khasis: SHAD SUK MYNSIEM, 2012. Shillong, Meghalaya