Tatyana in medias res

Getting drenched to my skin in the rain. The sky right before it’s about to pour, the cool scary breeze that warns you about the storm that about to hit. I love it. I love getting wet in the rain. There is an emptying yet fulfilling feeling about it. Its happiness. I think about the time when we got wet in the rain together, and instead of trying to get inside, we kissed, like there is no tomorrow, in the rain. Knowing deep down that this might never happen again, hopeful nevertheless. That is my most fond memory of you. When nothing else mattered and the skies rejoiced with the glee in my heart. The way the clouds rumble, making my heart beat faster with nervousness and anticipation. Often blamed to be gloomy, rain is my favorite weather, I love the splattering on the windshield, the little puddles that become a lake for all the origami boats, the announcement of the oncoming rainbow, I love rain. I also sometimes think about the time we rode the rush-hour subway and you took a c...

There comes a time in everyone's life, when they get the realization, that there is too many things to do and too many places to see and very little time. This realization can come at many different times in life, or at any stage. It can come when you graduate high school, when you graduate college, when you are nearing the end of a really long relationship, when you get you first real job and hence ur first big paycheck, or when ur 48. I can say with much conviction, that this is a life changing moment in a person's life. It usually affects all the immediate people around them. Partners, roommates, love interests, parents, friends, siblings etc. and if the counterparty is caught off guard, it can be very discerning for them. Here I'd like to repeats Peter Parker's uncle's words. With great power comes great responsibility. So here is the deal; power because when this enlightenment hits you, you are infinite in that moment. You are responsible to break it ...

As a teenager in an Indian house, there was nothing I rebelled against more than the institution of arranged marriages. We are the children of technology, we have seen it go from nokia 5110 with the antennae to the iphone5, and we have seen technology evolve faster than anyone else. We moved quickly from black and white cable TV to the satellite that showed us everything from friends to how I met your mother. So naturally, we saw the same movies as kids in any other country, we saw love in every (H)bollywood movie as it was no bad thing. And yet everyday at home, there was a struggle to accept that you can be made to spend the rest of your life with someone your parents pick. When I was 16, I wouldn’t even wear something my mom picked, leave alone marry it. However the amazing thing that growing up does to you is realizing that nearly a billion people couldn’t be wrong if they have regular everyday happy lives like everyone else, even though they married their parents’ choice. Com...