Tag: #life
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The Other Side of the High Life

I don’t cook – I can but I don’t, it’s just one of the many things that I just don’t feel like doing. However, I love watching anything & everything about food on TV. I am obsessed with watching these master chefs create their mouth-wateringly wonderful dishes with stars in my eyes – especially when…
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The Other Side of Relativity

There was a young lady named Bright,Whose speed was faster than light;She went out one day in a relative way,And returned on the previous night. ― Arthur Henry Reginald Buller My astrophysicist father was a big fan of Albert Einstein. So, the college where he was the Head of the Physics Department couldn’t find a better…
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Looking back… at the Other Side

In September 2023, I had posted my first article on LinkedIn that marked the beginning of the series “The Other Side by Aparna”. 11 months later, I am posting my 50th article – a fitting milestone for taking a look back at how it all started and an opportunity to share some analytics. On a…
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And Just Like That… I was on the Other Side

When I was pursuing my M.Sc. in Pune University, I had once nicked my left forearm. The cut was so small that I disregarded it, not realizing that over the days that followed, it had festered into a pus-filled mess that made my entire arm swell like a loaf. I kept ignoring it in spite…
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Speaking up! … has Another Side

Whenever there is a mishap or accident on the road, have you noticed that no matter whose fault it is, the driver of the bigger vehicle always gets beaten up? If a pedestrian is crossing the road even when there is heavy influx of traffic, without paying any heed to passing vehicles, if a person…
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Attraversiamo… to the Other Side

When I visited Agra in the December of 2022, my anticipation of seeing the Taj Mahal for the very first time in my life knew no bounds. Moreover, we got a “Taj” facing room in our hotel and not being able to hold in our excitement, the first thing that my sister and I did…
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The Other Side of Relationships

At the tender age of 4, my younger brother went through an emergency surgery for perforation of the Meckel’s diverticulum – a rare condition which back then was even more difficult to diagnose and treat. He spent a good 3 months in the hospital recovering not just from the life-threatening condition but also from multiple…
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The Other Side of Aging

When my hair started greying prematurely at the age of 15, my father told me that it’s because I was wise beyond my years. And while that may have been true back then, I did not leave a stone unturned to disguise the tell-tale signs of my wisdom. After continuously dying & colouring my hair…
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The Other Side of Perspective

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust. A few years ago, I visited my school in Mumbai where I spent a major part of my formative years as a child. In my mind, my school was always this imposing gargantuan structure with massive…
