Letter to a Parent

By Vandana Sehgal

Hello, my dear parent There’s something we all need to remember Happiness in life isn’t a given. No matter how much we protect our child and do best to keep happy, sadness is an emotion to experience to value happiness. No matter how much we love our child, finding love of life is the sweetest…

Parenting Practices and Cultural Amalgamation

By Vandana Sehgal

Sweden was my first international move with a nine-year-old daughter. It was in many ways courageous on my part to leave the comfort of familiarity and enter disruption. This was also my first exposure to an international culture that was drastically different in many ways. In my stay in India for 37 years, I always…

My Grandmother…

By Deepthi Krishnan

Deepthi Krishnan Guest Blog I always remember her dressed in the typical traditional Kerala “set mundu” that was pristine and starched worn with a plain white blouse. The rudraksha on her neck, her soft eyes, and that benign smile – made her carry the impression of a living goddess to everyone who met her. Her…

Fall in Love with the Writer Within

By Arti Pushpendra

Vandana Sehgal and Arti Pushpendra Co-Author Valentine’s day or the month of February is a great reminder to fall in love with yourself. And when it is done through the process of writing it attracts multiple positive results. Writing is a form of self-love practice that everyone can do. Not everybody can write, yet anyone…

Learning to Navigate Emotional Hurdles: An Essential Life Skill.

By Soumya Bharathi

Soumya Bharthi Guest Blogger “Go within, every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.” ―Katherine Dunham At some point in time, this light had vanished for me. I was a new mother battling post-partum depression, a wife and a daughter-in-law trying desperately to fit into those…

Can anyone become a writer?

By Vandana Sehgal

Recently I was invited for an interview where the host asked,”Can anyone be a writer?” Was this asked ten years back, I would have said, “No, you need to have an aptitude for it.” At that time, I was living under the notion that writers are born. After publishing two books and writing blogs for…