Author Archives: Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar

At the approach of every new year, I am not thinking of my new year resolutions or celebrations.I am busy with the calculation:My age =new year – year of my… Read more »

We all carry our personal dogs in our most valued relations.By dogs, I don’t mean fluffy, yapping four-legged creatures, but our bad habits, addictions, obsessions…things we can’t give up. And… Read more »

We all get zillions of looks by different eyes, every day. The language that the eyes speak and the heart hears is unmistakable. No matter how the movement of lips… Read more »

“Say goodbye to these clothes,you will never fit in them again”, a friend suggested to a pregnant me, explaining how she could no more wear her pre-pregnancy clothes, even after… Read more »

How does it feel to be in a place filled with faces-prejudiced,untrusting,unbelieving, treating you like an alien.Since the day I passed out of the girls school and till date, I… Read more »

Much has been said and documented about the differences between the occupants of Venus and Mars, the glorious women and men,but more than that remains to be discovered and thought… Read more »

One of these days,I happened to browse through a matrimonial site,the one that pops up when I open my e-mail,and I am flabbergasted at the listing of expectations of these… Read more »

As anxious as I was to hold my baby in my arms as the time of his birth was approaching, there was another thought in some corner of my mind… Read more »

What do you find in your mailbox(not the email inbox) each day – bank statements, credit card statements, some discount coupons, some too-good-to-be-true promotinal stuff.Thats it.No handwritten letters ever. I… Read more »

A few days ago,I met a person in his nineties,very old.He was my husband’s grandfather.And that experience was life changing.It was indelible.It has opened for me a new perspective of… Read more »