Book Promotion | Sample Chapter | Once Upon a Crush | Chapter 1

  Chapter 1 – A Love Letter, A Quarrel, A Suicide     2nd December 2015 Hiba Sayyed rushed to her best friend Naina’s house. “Naina, I have received a letter from a guy that lives in the next lane,” she announced excitedly. “Throw it away,” Naina replied without even bothering to look up. “No!”…

Book Description | Once Upon a Crush | Once Upon a Time Book 1

Bold and beautiful, feisty and fiercely competitive; Hiba Sayyed is all set to join VIT, Pune as first-semester Computer Science MTech student. Tall and dark, handsome and rich; Ubaid Sayyed is all set to join at Informatica, Pune as a Human Resources executive. He has an inherent giving nature, especially when it comes to the…

Weekly Roundup | The Week That Was | 20w16

Is time reallly flying or this is just me? The second stint of national lockdown has begun and this is day #3. Nothing has changed since past week. Working remotely continues to be a challenge and creative time has reduced drastically. The only thing that keeps me going is this blog, where I can rant…

Weekly Roundup | The Week That Was | 20w15

Subh Hoti Hai Sham Hoti Hai Umr Yunhi Tamam Hoti Hai Another lockdown week comes to an end. It is not much different from the previous one. I read nothing. I wrote little.  Working remotely is driving my crazy. And, I have stopped going out even for buying essentials. I am too freaking paranoid these…

Book Review | RAHAT MILI | Sundari Venkatraman

Book Details Author Profile Sundari Venkatraman is an indie author who has 41 titles (37 books & 4 collections) to her name, all Top 100 Bestsellers on Amazon India, Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Amazon Canada and Amazon Australia in both romance as well as Asian Drama categories. Her latest hot romances have all been on…

Weekly Roundup | The Week That Was | 20w14

My Life has finally adjusted to the WFH routine. I have regained my concentration and productivity, almost. The only problem is that I am not sleeping. My sleep is reduced to an hour or two, in the morning; right before I am scheduled to login. For past ten days, I fall asleep around 6 and…

Weekly Roundup | The Week That Was | 20w13

More of COVID-19 More Panic Struggling to WFH And national lockdown These are the keywords that define 20w12, and beyond. WFh had tired me enough, so I have taken  a day off, to clear my head. There is a mess up here as million different thoughts and worried crowd my mind and cloud my judgement….

Weekly Roundup | The Week That Was | 20w12

COVID-19 Panic WFH Curfew These are the keywords that defined 20w12. It isn’t easy working from home, especially in summer. Allah, bless humanity in these tough times and bless us with strength to survive. Two of the most popular dramas – Alif and Ehd-e-Wafa ended over the weekend. I have posted my review and other…

Weekly Roundup | The Week That Was | 20w11

Headache. That one word defines this week. The reasons are varied. Primarily, I attribute the splitting headache to fluctuating temperature and freaquntly annoying colleagues. I want to scream at some people. For instance, yesterday, I pointed out at the blunder in Performace Report. The performance guy rectified the issue and attributed the finding to someone…

World Sleep Day 2020 | I Wish Me Some Sleep

Ah, the irony. I have not slept much and this morning my Calendar surprises me with this. They come up with a different slogan for every year. Are you wondering what is this year’s slogan? Better Sleep, Better Life, Better Planet Yeah, tell me something I don’t know. I should be sleeping, because this day…