Word of the Week is a weekly meme created by Heena Rathore P. It’s a fun way to learn new words every week. To…
Author: Priya Bhowal
Ultimate Book Reading Challenge 2015 Results
2015 is over, here’s my Ultimate 2015 Reading Challenge outcome: 30/52 1) A book with more than 500 pages – 2) A classic romance –…
2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This…
Conspiracies of Language
Though it’s language or, more appropriately, speech that makes humans different from other mammals or animals in general. But it is language itself that brings…
Bangalore or Bengaluru
Thanks to my english professor that you find me writing this prompt. It’s been only one and a half years since I came to Bangalore.…
The Bangalore literature festival
In these one and a half years in Bangalore I experienced one of the most exotic experiences of my entire life, when I attended the…
Word of the Week (WOW) 6th December, 2015
Word of the Week is a weekly meme created by Heena Rathore P. It’s a fun way to learn new words every week. To participate…
A Tale of two cities
At the end of every six months, after my semester exams are done, I fly homewards for a 20-day (end of odd semester) or 45-day…
Word of the Week (WOW) 22nd November, 2015
Word of the Week is a weekly meme created by Heena Rathore P. It’s a fun way to learn new words every week. To participate…
Writing 101 #6 writing space
I don’t have a specific writing space. All I need are my laptop, One Note or MS Word or WordPress installed in it, or my…
Writing 101#5 Hook ’em with a quote
This is what I found two days back on my brand new T-shirt: Though She be but little, she is fierce – Shakespeare I…
Writing 101 #4 picture story
You know what I see? I see my life, isolated, unknown, mysterious, doubtful. I dunno what’s there on the other end. Now I see a…
Writing 101 #3 One – Word Inspiration
Home Home is where I can be myself; where I can talk loudly and no one to complain; where I can be sad, happy, angry,…
Writing 101 #2 – make a list
Things I like — I like collecting. I can’t stop collecting the freebies with my favorite biscuits or cereal or even the McDonald’s Happy meal…
Writing 101 #1 – Why do I write?
As the first assignment of Writing 101 course, The Daily Post asked a million dollar question – “Why do I write?” I write because…… There…
Mute
I sometimes wish I was born mute. Because whenever I speak I land up hurting or offending people. Many a times, I didn’t intend to…
Comeback
It’s been around 15 days I’ve been away from WordPress but it seems like ages… I’ve been away for my semester finals. Feels lovely to…