MY YEAR IN BOOKS JANUARY 1.The Bridgertons Happily Ever After by Julia Quinn I had to read this after beginning the new Netflix series, Bridgertons. I’ve read the entire Julia Quinn series on the Bridgerton siblings so this is very exciting. The happily ever after is a second epilogue of…

I landed in India in the third week of January and felt I was in another universe. Sure people were masked. There were token gestures made about my covid negative status but other than that it was like the country was pandemic free. Having suffered New York in the early…

MY YEAR IN BOOKS JANUARY 1.Dangerous Alliance: An Austentacious Romance by Jennieke Cohen Who doesn’t like Jane Austen. Cohen calls this an austentacious romance, modelling it on Austen’s works. I love period books and it’s been a while since I read one of those. Was nice to start the year…

100 plus days after I emerged from my 100 days of isolation, I need to pinch myself. Do I need to hunker down again? Is this virus ever going to vanish? Its rhetoric, I know. …

Bolton does not come across as a particularly nice person. Maybe my personal bias but I initially feel he was sucking up to Trump. He really wanted the job. Sure he has examples of times Trump acted like a total idiot but often I sensed covert praise for Trump that…

Three weeks after I abandoned self-imposed isolation, I’m still happy staying home. The virus has nothing and everything to do with it. Nothing because I got too used to my new normal and don’t feel the need to get off my couch. Humans are resilient. That feeling of , ‘how…

When I first sheltered at home, I figured, a couple of weeks and I’d be back to pursuing my hectic New Yorker life. How wrong was I? How wrong were we all? Covid threw us a curve ball. Was it right to lock down the world? Should we have let…

I’m guilty. Of tokenism. I thought I understood but do I really? I’ve made flippant comments saying every rapper looks alike. Or called someone David, Richard, John interchangeably. I struggle with different Asian nationalities. And I have labeled. Africans move so well. Asians are industrious. Germans are efficient. Americans are…

“I can’t breathe.” It’s become an anthem. The chilling video lasted 8 minutes and 46 seconds and impacted every human. There are so many such stories. Memorial Day 2020 was day 75 of self-isolation for me. That day is seared in everyone’s mind as truly memorable. Because day 76 brought…