In the last quarter of 2014, I left a job which was my home for over a decade. When I left, I didn’t have a practical plan in mind. I wanted to travel. I wanted to wake up with no cares or worries. Though she did not much speak much about it, my mother was […]
The Age of Umbrage
When Jessica Zafra’s first novel came out last year, I had to google ‘umbrage.’ I seldom encounter this word and its closest association to me was the phony, mad in pink Hogwarts professor, Dolores Umbridge. Merriam-Webster defines umbrage as ‘a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult.’ Typical Jessica. I […]
Ikigai: Working Towards Happiness
There are certain locations in the world that are called Blue Zones. The people in these zones, women in particular, live longer and have fewer diseases. Foremost in these zones is the island of Okinawa in Japan, a place where happiness thrive despite having been greatly devastated during the second world war. Central to the […]
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