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Dravida Seetharam
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3 days ago

Dreams

Do dreams come true? — This has been a big question in my life. I had ‘dreams’, small and big, throughout my life, and there were two types of dreams — daydreams and night dreams. The category could include different dreams in multiple ways. I could take another cut-early morning…

Dreams

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Dreams

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Jan 20

The Frog in the Mug

One sultry afternoon, my manager came to my desk and sat in the empty chair in front of me. He had just come out of a long strategy meeting with the leadership team. He looked very hassled, as the body language indicated he was unhappy. …

Frog

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Frog

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Jan 13

More or Less

When I visited the USA for the first time about forty years ago, I had a cultural shock as I ordered coffee at Starbucks at Chicago Airport. . There were three sizes, small, regular and large. I ordered the smallest size is 12 oz. I come from a country of…

More

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More

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Jan 6

Five Lessons

Two questions have been in mind for the last few days. Did all the exposure and learning over the years help solve my problems? What did I know in the previous several years? As I grew up, I listened to my parents and elders in the family and followed my…

Lessons Learned

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Lessons Learned

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Dec 30, 2022

The New Year Welcome

Ring out, Old Bells by Alfred Tennyson Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring happy bells across the snow: The year is going; let him go; Ring out the false; ring in the true. Though the poem from 1850 is an elegy for his best friend, Arthur Henry…

New Year

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New Year

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Dec 23, 2022

My first library visit

I remember my first library visit. When I was fifteen, my friend Bheemanna and I ventured out to drink ‘bru’ coffee in a makeshift tea stall outside our old town. A municipal building was next to the tea stall with an open courtyard. Many elders sat there in the morning…

Libraries

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Libraries

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Dec 16, 2022

A hot cup of Tea

It is 5 am, and I am walking on Thippasandra Main Road. The shops are yet to open except the Taj Mahal hair saloon and Nandini milk distribution vendor. I can hear a few voices of pedestrians walking on the sidewalks. A lot of garbage is lying along the pavements…

Tea

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Tea

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Dec 9, 2022

White Knights

Suma It is 5 am. Suma walks into the kitchen, rubbing her eyes and adjusting her hair. She would be busy the next two hours with morning tasks of making breakfast and lunch for the family. She is a hard-working woman with two children who keep her alive always. The husband…

White Knight

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White Knight

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Dec 2, 2022

My reading list in 2022

I want to share the 2022 book list with my readers. In December, all the magazines in the literary world and celebrities publish their book lists and reading recommendations. All suggestions this year have come from my friends and readers, and I have highlighted my favourites. I am thankful to…

Books

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Books

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Nov 25, 2022

The Story of Rosie

As I was growing up, we had a cat at our home, and we called the kitten “Rosie”. She has lovely, long smoke-coloured fur with a white patch around the legs. Her coat was like silk. Her eyes were large and round -jewel green — they shone like peridots. She…

Cats

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Cats

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Dravida Seetharam

Dravida Seetharam

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Life long learner with interests in reading and writing

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