Thought Provoking Drivel

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...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma

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...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma

Rewriting the Past

I mentioned to Rook the other day how I find it interesting that we live in a country where myth, history and belief are so tightly wound...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma

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...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma

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...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma

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...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma

Why #MeTooIndia Matters

Over the past month, I’ve been following the #MeTooIndia tweets on Twitter, as the movement spread from the entertainment industry...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma

Feminism & Peppa Pig

Yes. You read that right. I am in fact, talking about the little pink girl-pig with the annoyingly cute voice. As any mother of a...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma

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...