meenu mehrotra http://blog.meenumehrotra.com my blog Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:11:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en the other side of the fence my son has turned 15 and it feels it was only yesterday when he was born. a tiny, fragile ribbon of life whom i was even scared to hold . he is now taller than me and talks as if he could give me a lesson or two on how to be ... http://blog.meenumehrotra.com/?p=15 Clearing of the jungle that's what i feel as my life moves ahead. It seems as if i am shedding the old bark of my soul and entering the new phase of my life. It is as if a force more potent than a hurricane is pushing me towards my destiny and nothing can stop it. ... http://blog.meenumehrotra.com/?p=14 waiting to exhale the countdown has begun. relocating is a cathartic experience and it opens up a whole new world of opportunity and makes you have a relook at your life- adding a new dimension to it. as i prepare to shed a part of my dilipidated past and embrace the future, i feel that is ... http://blog.meenumehrotra.com/?p=13 back from heaven no excuses for writing after so long but it was a long trip back to delhi and then california that prompted the delay and i guess i can be pardoned for taking such a long blog break. afterall its important to experience life before we can truly write about it. ... http://blog.meenumehrotra.com/?p=12 rain,rain don’t go away… as it pours outside, i wonder when was the last time i experienced the wonderful rains of delhi? and i realise it's been more than a year now. a long time considering i now live in the dry land of muscat in the middle east where such luxury is absent. i now ... http://blog.meenumehrotra.com/?p=10 my sweet angel-yashita it was a feeling i had never experienced before but one for which i had waited too long. the birth of my brother's child and to watch my parents become dada-dadi(grandparents) after so long. to have a niece and become a bua(aunt) was a never-felt emotion. so now as i watch her ... http://blog.meenumehrotra.com/?p=9 the end of the road?  i can now sense her spirit growing feeble- my mother's.  talking to her is like conversing with a vanquished soldier whose physical body is giving in inspite of a valiant attempt to carry on the battle. as the disease grows so does the pessimism. its a sharp contrast to what she had ... http://blog.meenumehrotra.com/?p=8 the color of pain  what is pain? have you ever wondered? is it a block of stone that fails to lift itself from the heart, crushing its weight on the bearer or is it a black hole through which even a thin flicker of light refuses to pass? may be it is a shriek in an empty ... http://blog.meenumehrotra.com/?p=7 15th May 2008 15 day of may 1992- the day i got engaged to be married . its been 16 years since that day when my life turned a new leaf and like all changes, altered its face forever. a slow metamorphosis of a 23 year old girl to a woman and a mother. time has ... http://blog.meenumehrotra.com/?p=6 homeward bound… i can't wait to get back home- delhi i mean. the city i grew up in and with. so much has changed over the years. the place has grown monstrously both in size and spirit.the city just seems to swell without any proportion but i love it inspite of everything. the noise, ... http://blog.meenumehrotra.com/?p=3
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