My first column for iDiva.com…
Kiran Manral
Kiran was a journalist before she quit to be a full time mommy. Her blog is considered amongst India’s top blogs. She is the author of The Reluctant Detective (2012), Once Upon A Crush (2014) and All Aboard (2015). An advisor on the Board of Literature Studio, Delhi she is also an Author Mentor at Sheroes.in. She now blogs at http://www.kiranmanral.wordpress.com and you can follow her on twitter @kiranmanral.
They’re in little groups on my Whatsapp. The 4 AM friends. The gang of mad caps always up for a hoot, cluttering my inbox with jokes that would have the more puritanical amongst us blanche to white. The ones who knew me from back when I was awkwardness personified in school uniform and soda-bottle spectacles. The professional women who are ever-willing to reach out with a helping hand. The school moms, who keep me posted on project deadlines and assignments. The wonderful, secure, witty ones I met online and who morphed into a sisterhood of the soul. They’re the women who hold me up and keep me going, through bad hair days, through fat days when I don’t fit into my fat jeans, through days where I question life and my purpose in it, excluding all you can eat buffets and 70 per cent sales. They’re my lifesavers. They are my girlfriends.
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