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#Thursday Doors 091123, #Tanka Tuesday, #Floweroftheday

These are pictures of doors I took during my recent visit to the Taj Mahal. Once you cross the above door, you need to walk around 300 metres to reach the West Gate entrace. There are 3 gates in all to the Taj. The West Gate is supposedly the most beautiful. If you’re wondering what’s […]

Wordless Wednesdays: Look who I met on the grounds of the Taj Mahal

P.S. Not ‘wordless’ after all. _________________________________________________________________________ Here’s a link to my debut novel, Coming Home, in case you want to check it out. And if you’re in India, this is the link. If you enjoy a story on love, life, loss, relationships and family, set in India, then this is for you. ‘Coming Home’ is available on Kindle as […]

Coming Home promoted on Smorgasbord Blog Magazine

A shout-out to Sally Cronin for providing authors a wonderful opportunity to showcase their book and spread the word about it. Thank you, Sally! I’m delighted for this opportunity to promote my book on Sally’s blog. If you haven’t read the book as yet and want to know what it’s about, click the link below […]

Unaccounted

The sad part about war among many other things is that there will be some who will leave the earth without a trace of ever having been here. Who, what, where, why, how? How is this, war?Who is the enemy here?New born babies, pregnant mothers?School going children? Patients? Doctors?Teachers? Mall shoppers? Isn’t this genocide?What do […]

Thankful Thursday 02.11.23 – a lot to be grateful for

I have loads of reasons to be thankful for this week and the week before this. I was meant to share a post last week but I got busy writing about my travels. So, here I am, counting my blessings in one post. I’m thankful for the amazing trip I had with friends, in October. […]

Delhi Diaries 3: Agra Part 2: Agra Fort, #Thursday Doors 02.11.23

We reached the Agra Fort at around 8.00 a.m. after our visit to the Taj Mahal . You need to pay a small fee as tax even if you’ve bought the online ticket. To do this, you have to connect to the wifi at the fort (somehow, even if you have wifi, it does not […]

Featured poem,Tanka Tuesday 31/10/23

I’m excited to share the news that the syllabic poem I wrote last week for Tanka Tuesday is the featured poem for the week. Here’s a link to Colleen’s post where you will find all the syllabic poetry written last week and her analysis of my poem. This is the poem I wrote which Colleen […]

Delhi Diaries 4 : Agra- Part 1- A visit to the Taj Mahal

P.C. Seema Latha I can’t believe it took me this long and so many destinations before I could make the trip to one of the eight wonders of the world – the Taj Mahal. It’s most probably the first destination on a non-Indian tourist’s itinerary to India. Despite my love for travel, the Taj Mahal […]

Delhi Diaries: Day 3- India Gate, Raj Ghat and Red Fort, #Tanka Tuesday 24.10.23, #Thursday Doors 26.10.23

After a disappointing evening at the Red Fort (you can read about it here), we woke up early the next day to visit India Gate, then go to Raj Ghat (Gandhi ji’s memorial) to pay our respect to the Father of the Nation and revisit the Red Fort which opens only 9.30 a.m. We began […]

Published: ‘The Olive Branch is burning’ in Masticadores USA

I’m very grateful to Barbara for publishing my poem, ‘The Olive Branch is Burning’ in Masticadores USA. I had posted it on Facebook and she spotted it and asked me to send it across to her. So, here it is. The poem is on the Israel- Palestine War. Here is an excerpt of the poem. […]