Amidst

Motherhood is something you grow into. I hated being a mother at first. I liked the idea of mothering, but I didn’t like the fact that I had to give up my youth–my flat belly, my smooth skin, my free time–for it. But motherhood, once it comes, grows fast on your body. You notice the […]

Here they call first-year students “freshers,” and we just finished our freshers’ week. It’s quite like the orientation we did for undergrad, but I enjoyed it more this time. There are fewer compulsory talks on the basics of how to live and study in a university — well, we are postgraduates now — and more […]