Hooks, Books & Me

Hello and welcome to my little blog..! Monsoon lingered more than usual this year, October heat (local phenomenon here – the scorching heat caused by monsoon withdrawal due to which temperature rises and humidity falls) has become like a myth. This year we are hearing words “cyclone”, “red alert”, “orange alert” more than ever! Cyclones are more common in the eastern and south-eastern parts of India but here in western coasts, its unusual...!! But this year is anyways full of unusual things I guess, so no wonder. Enough of my weather reporting...!😀 I have one good news for y’all, today I am publishing my doily pattern “Aryaa”. Today marks the first day of Navratri, a festival celebrated in India with much enthusiasm (its particularly famous with young generation because of the Garba parties.!). I always try to narrate the festivals in India in details because that’s my heritage and as most of my readers are based out of India, I take every opportunity to describe Indian culture.! ...

There was a time in my life when I wanted to get rid of the local trains (just google western railway Mumbai ..!!). What a pain it is to travel, in fact getting inside the train is the biggest challenge..! But now that the local train services are suspended since March and expected to remain suspended till 30 th of September, I must take roadways to reach office (I resumed office almost after 4 months of WFH). It is now, I understood the importance of local trains – how badly I miss my travelling, standing on the platform waiting for train to arrive ( by the way, they are hardly on time), standing ahead of everyone on the platform and jumping inside even before the train halts at the platform, chatting with my friends ( my morning train is fixed so I have a group of friends - of different ages, different ethnicities, different cultures but when we are in the train, we are one! ). I miss them all, that morning time was my energy booster for the whole day.    ‌We tend to ta...