Vedashree Khambete Sharma
Reclaiming Pink
When I was four, my father had to travel to Germany for work. This was the first time he was travelling abroad and as was the tradition...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Feb 10, 2021
- 2 min
To The Hands That Build... Buildings
Oh my love, it’s a long way we’ve come; From the freckled hills to the steel and glass canyons; From the stony fields, to hanging steel...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Feb 4, 2021
- 2 min
A Fifteen-Year-Old Remembers
On February 5th, 2007, I took my first awkward steps into this new-fangled thing called 'blogging'. So much has happened since and so...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- May 12, 2020
- 2 min
Carpe That Diem Already
What will our children remember of us? Ever think of that? I do, all the time. Because when I look back to the memories I have of my...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Nov 5, 2019
- 3 min
Good Shoes, My Foot.
I was in the vile wasteland of Twitter the other day and came across a tweet, where a woman had asked why little-boy-shoes are so much...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Oct 14, 2019
- 3 min
The Man in the Brown Suit
On Saturday, Rook and I had ventured into Dharavi. Our quest? To find a nice leather purse for Rook’s mom who recently turned 75. Because...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Oct 7, 2019
- 3 min
Be Still, My Spleen
Yesterday, in a furious burst of pre-Diwali madness, we ventured to the old furniture market at Oshiwara. The errand was simple: get a...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Sep 24, 2019
- 2 min
The Passive Aggressive Period and Other Tales of Punctuation
The internet has changed the way we do… well, everything. Think, speak, write, love, hate, sing, dance, read. Everything. It has also...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Apr 20, 2019
- 2 min
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Mommy
On Tuesday morning, halfway through my physiotherapy, I got a call from Rook. Pookie had apparently shoved a screw up her nose. It was...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Mar 19, 2019
- 2 min
Oh. You Again.
The funny thing about people is we get used to things pretty quickly. What’s once surprising, if repeated often enough, becomes the new...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Feb 18, 2019
- 2 min
A Pain In The Neck and Other Considerations
In Greek mythology, there was a monster who Theseus had to fight. This guy had a bed he tied his prisoners to. If they were longer than...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Nov 12, 2018
- 3 min
WHAT 2018 TAUGHT ME
This smells like a year-end post. It has all the ingredients – the googlies life threw at me, the good stuff that happened, the lessons I...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Oct 23, 2018
- 3 min
Why #MeTooIndia Matters
Over the past month, I’ve been following the #MeTooIndia tweets on Twitter, as the movement spread from the entertainment industry...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Aug 21, 2018
- 2 min
MOTHERING IN THE TIME OF HOMOPHOBIA
The other day, I was out shoe-shopping. Don’t ask why. You may as well ask why I’d taken Pookie along. Fine. I’ll tell you. It’s because...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Jul 12, 2018
- 2 min
The Philosophy of Pain
Hardship, I remember reading somewhere, is what steers man towards god. We turn to spirituality, not while being buoyed on the frothy...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Jul 8, 2018
- 2 min
Weather Update: Shit Storm Continues
Two months and not a peep out of me. A near impossibility in real life, but it’s what’s happened online. In case you’re wondering why,...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Apr 27, 2018
- 2 min
Tired In The City
Every generation has a moniker that defines them. The Lost Generation. Generation X. Millennials. And squished between the last two are...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Mar 19, 2018
- 2 min
It’s Alive.
And so, like someone teetering under a gigantic, heavy box who has somehow managed to keep it where it was supposed to be kept without...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Mar 8, 2018
- 3 min
AN OPEN LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER
Dear Pookie, You’re four years old now and learning things that seem formidable and challenging. How to eat with your own hand. How to...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Jan 24, 2018
- 2 min
Abandon All Shame, Ye Who Enter Here
There’s just over one month left for the book to come out and as you can imagine, I’m bursting with joy going out of my mind. This is...
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