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Sundarban – A Breather in the Mysterious Mangroves

I get asked this question a lot – what do you want to remember a year by? For the last two years, my answer thankfully, continues to be the same.…

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March 25, 2020
Travel

Honeymoon Travel – A Short Video to Keep Things Interesting

It’s been quite a few months since our honeymoon trip and I had been itching to tell you about our adventures. But then I thought why not show you what…

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November 8, 2018
Family, Travel

Familiarizing with New Roots – A Visit to a Quaint Countryside

I am a god-fearing woman. I’ve been a believer for 28 years now. I believe faith is that littlest ounce of hope that pushes us to rise from the ashes…

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July 10, 2019
Wedding Diary

A Day to Remember for the Rest of My Life – Part 4

In case you missed, read Part 3 here. The day was moving ahead too quickly. Event 3. Briddhi – a ritual to offer our homage to our past seven generations…

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July 26, 2018
Lockdown Sanity
Lockdown Sanity
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Terrific Twos
Terrific Twos
  • Lessons learned in the time of pandemic - Collaboration Post
    Collaboration,  Well Being

    Lessons Learned in the Time of Pandemic | Collaboration Post

    August 8, 2020

    The pandemic has turned the world upside down. It has been more than four months since the day I bade goodbye to my colleagues at work and haven’t left the house since except for emergencies. While I am thankful to have a home where I can live and work out of without disrupting my health, financial status, the food that is put on my table and luckily, some regulated luxuries as well, many cannot say the same. So many people are out of work, uncertain of what the next day will bring. So many people have contracted the virus and have died on the streets without medical care for lack…

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    Family,  Well Being

    Online Family Cultural Event – The Exclusive BTS | Lockdown Sanity Booster

    July 19, 2020

    I married into a really large family where it feels like a party every time we get together. In all the gatherings I have attended since my wedding, there has always been at least one evening reserved for performances. Song, Dance, Recitation. Impromptu jigs. Everyone eagerly waits for this performance night. Probably a tad more than the occasion. Sometimes the occasion is extended to accommodate this night. Sometimes there is no occasion at all. Only the night. See how important it is? There is an eager scuttle on the morning of the performance night. A soft energy wave. People quietly try to select the songs that will be played, arrange…

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    Sailing Beyond the “Honeymoon Phase” – 5 Intentional Practices We Follow in Our Marriage

    June 27, 2020
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    July 10, 2019
    A trip to the Botanical Garden

    Our Trip to the Botanical Garden – A Day With Nature

    September 10, 2018
  • 2 years of Red Velvet
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    Two Years of Red Velvet | Highlights & Memories

    July 5, 2020

    Time flies. It still feels like yesterday that Red Velvet made its debut. Has it been two years already? So much has happened in this time. It’s hard to believe I’m actually typing this post down. Honestly, when I started Red Velvet, I had very little interest in it. I knew I wanted to write somewhere out of my 9-to-5, but I wasn’t too serious. Truth is, I do not have a techie bone in my body. And I can get notoriously picky with the slightest of things. Plus I’m lazy. Naturally, the idea of putting up a blog and being consistent with it was pretty daunting. Tathagata being the…

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    May 7, 2020
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  • Beyond Honeymoon phase
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    Sailing Beyond the “Honeymoon Phase” – 5 Intentional Practices We Follow in Our Marriage

    June 27, 2020

    When I wrote about the 7 lessons on our first anniversary, I was starting out with marriage. I was learning a lot. Picking up traits. Exploring. Another year into it and I found myself awed at its realness. With each passing day, the fundamentals of marriage were being laid bare in front of me. In the largest of events. In the tiniest of moments. With love. And I couldn’t help but feel amazed. I’ll give it to you upfront. Marriage isn’t a fairy tale. Because that would make it fictitious. Marriage is hard work. Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not trying to scare you away from it. Truth is,…

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  • Why fitness is important to me
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    Why Fitness is Important to Me | My Exercise Regime + Benefits

    June 12, 2020

    When I was in the seventh standard, I remember my parents had picked a nice white dress with pretty embroidery for me to wear in Durga Puja. I was really excited about the dress and could hardly wait to wear it. There was a lot of beadwork on the dress which was coming loose in places. So Maa decided to sit with it one afternoon and mend them. I was in school and Baba in office. A quiet autumn afternoon. Just as Maa had begun to work on it, the doorbell rang. Untimely. Outside the door stood Baba, leaning on his colleagues, looking like a train wreck. He had bruises on…

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    INTERVIEW: Collaboration with a Lifestyle Blogger | Women Empowerment

    May 30, 2020

    Erratic Rantings started off with a question, “What will I write about?“. Pat came the answer from TG – “Anything you want“. And the rest is history! Slowly Erratic Rantings grew into a full-fledged lifestyle blog. It became an outlet for my emotions where I could write about anything I wanted. It became my comfort zone. And in the process, it started to gather a handful of readers like you who began to follow it. So what started as a memory bank has now become a responsibility towards you. While I continue to blog for myself today, I also do it for my readers and maybe help those out who are…

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  • Lockdown life Part 4
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    What Lockdown is Looking Like for Me – Keeping Sane in Quarantine: Part 4

    May 15, 2020

    Read Part 3 here. Introduction to Anime At the initial stage of the quarantine, Tathagata and I had been debating over whether to subscribe to Netflix. We are already subscribed to a DTH service where we have rented a set of channels – sports channels for football, the popular movie channels, some of the channels that air TV shows and a couple of travel and adventure channels. This has been working well for us since we didn’t want to be committed to any of the stuff on TV. But with the lockdown in place, the equation changed. We were discussing about watching movies of our choice and maybe, follow some…

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    What Lockdown is Looking Like for Me – Keeping Sane in Quarantine: Part 3

    May 11, 2020

    Read Part 2 here. Working Out Since I get this asked often, I have been meaning to do an entire post about my work-out routine and why exercise is a vital part of my life. But I haven’t been able to come around to it with so many other things going on that I have been sharing with you here. I will write that post down soon. So, I won’t give out the details here. Anyway, quarantine or no quarantine, exercise is a regular part of my everyday routine. An hour a day, five days a week. I distribute this hour throughout the day. I don’t go to the gym…

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    What Lockdown is Looking Like for Me – Keeping Sane in Quarantine: Part 2

    May 7, 2020

    Read Part 1 here. Now that I have acknowledged and put my thoughts into perspective, I can have a clear mind for my other activities. Daily Household Chores You see, routine and regularity are the two R’s that maintain balance and stability in the mind and the household. With the lockdown in place, there has been a massive tipping of that scale. Routine disappeared and regularity lay in shambles. One of the key reasons behind this is the absence of domestic help. In a family of six people, this sudden change becomes overwhelming. So we suddenly ended up in a space where household labour was threatening to pile up faster…

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    May 1, 2020

    After an unusually exciting beginning to the year and our 2-year anniversary celebration, the world suddenly came to a standstill. While we had only begun to ease into the new year by March, so had the coronavirus, without most of us knowing. When the lockdown was put into effect in India on 26th March, the virus had already started to rip the world apart. And before we knew it, the engines screeched to a halt. Earth was closed for maintenance. We went into the quarantine hoping that it would help contain the virus and things would gradually return to normal. Little did we realize then that there is only hoping…

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