I turned 37 today!
Category: New beginnings
Words
Eighteen years ago, as an eighteen-year-old (gasp! half-my-lifetime ago!), I decided to put my words on the internet. On a “blogspot” blog, with unfiltered thoughts and wise quips, heartaches and complaints. And last week, wrapping up 2022, I wrote this in my diary: Why should I write? Who cares? What’s the point of this expression…
Gaadi Chalaana Seekhein – Indian Road Philosophies
I finally learnt how to drive a car. At 36, this is rather late…but finally I know what to do when you put me behind a steering wheel.
A letter to you about 2021
Whichever route you took, I’m chuffed to bits that you’re here. Because this unbelievable year is ending, and it’s been months since I wrote anything here. Thank you, dear reader, and wish you a much happier 2022. Next year, I hope to give you more reasons to be on this website.
2020 in words
Words that I enjoyed writing and reading in this bizarre, extraordinary year. Wish you a new year that takes forward your learnings from this year and gives you joy, health and memorable experiences! Writing – mine Being a committed fan: In which I try to pack together my disoriented feelings about being a Rahman fan…
Paruppu Usili for Peace
On a sunny but chilly afternoon in Amsterdam in 2018, VK and I took two ‘resolutions’. One was to somehow bring Tamil to centrestage in our lives, for despite being Tamilians born and raised in Madras, both of us could not sustain a conversation in Tamil any longer, didn’t know much of Tamil history and…
On 2020, and on writing for 15 years.
Hello, dear reader. Wish you a fabulous 2020! As we wrap up a year and a decade, I wanted to share with you a little bit about my journey as a writer. I started my blog ‘The Musings of a Chennai Gal‘ in 2005 and filled it with teenage angst, passion and idealism. Through these…
Sustainable Menstruation with the Menstrual Cup
I was in the office loo, panicking. I could feel the seconds ticking by, and I knew that many minutes had passed since I got in. I wondered what my colleagues were thinking about my long absence. But I was most worried about how to pull out the menstrual cup that was stuck inside me….
Hey there!
Oooh! Welcome to my shiny new site! Can you hear the screechy excitement in my words? This – a site of my own, a step up from my lovely but now passe blog – has been a dream of several years. But now, sitting at home recovering from a surgery, is when I found time…
Fleeting, Adulting
Note: This, and a few other pieces you’ll see on this site, are from my blog, http://chennaigalwrites.blogspot.com. Over time, I hope to be able to move my favourite pieces here. Oh hello! A million thanks to you if you still come by this page (of course, that could have been due to social media). Eleven…