Spending time with nature and birds taught me to appreciate the wait — I am an impatient birder. The kind who starts with a mission. I wanted to capture Orioles with the onset of spring on day 1, perfect shot of wood duck the first time I saw it, a trip to a provincial park would only get successful in my books if…

Yearning for a childhood home, a lost place of my past — Home! For someone who has changed countries, traveled across the breadth of their birth country, and changed cities multiple times, home is just a concept. …

How childhood memories have led to the perfect bougainvillea photo hunt — I am obsessed with bougainvilleas. My Google photos are flooded with bougainvillea pictures, my pinterest boards have embroidery hoops inspirations of bougainvilleas and my watercolor paintings always have a shade of blushing fuchsia bougainvilleas in the background. Why, you ask! Let me take you back 30 years, I was a…

How a new house has always led to new houseplants — My Pothos had taken over the entire TV unit in 18 months. It was the statement piece of my home and made it to multiple Instagram posts of mine and those of my friends. I would look at it longingly every day, excited about its vines and new growth. I…

How the old school letter writing kept me sane — Our relationship has not been a smooth ride. Me and my Mother-in-law. We both love her offspring, my husband. We both take pride in keeping things neat. We are organized or at least think we are. We love to dress up in Indian Sarees and celebrate all festivals. But is…

One month on Medium, a Post of gratitude — It has been a month since I joined Medium. As sixteen stories old, and a Turkish pot of tea worth medium-earnings in my pocket, it is time for me to pause and cherish the journey I have covered. I took to medium when an article of mine got published in…

Fall migration musings and a pink sky finale — I looked up at the sky and saw orange-red all around! The wings fluttered, the pace slow enough to gaze and admire but fast enough to capture. The black veins and dots were barely visible. And like a child, I stood still, with my neck in pain yet heart oozing…

How observing consumers and their shopping behaviors made me a better brand manager — As marketers, we make a lot of presentations, we take pride in creating excel sheets with fancy macros, using graphs with all kinds of colors and numbers, but we tend to forget that marketing is both an art and science. The science of perfecting data and numbers, and the art…

The art and cycle of composting — ‘What comes from the earth, goes back to earth’. Nowhere is this more apt than the art and process of composting. …