Varada Balachandran

blogs from Kochi

Picking up a lost hobby
Casual reading is a hobby that is steadily on the decline for me since the past few years, especially since I graduated and started working. As a meme goes, sometimes I do wonder if I am the same 14-year-old girl who had managed to squeeze all those novels into my daily evening schedule among the he...
Posted on 24 September 2025 | 2:12 pm
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Days spent crying in bed When even hunger cannot get me out of my paralysed state When only breathing is all I doWhen I avoid phone calls from momBecause I don't have anything to say about my dayIf I candidly tell her about my day, she would worry needlessly about me. Days when I feel like a failure...
Posted on 1 April 2025 | 10:30 pm
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The Mad Woman Outside the Attic
The Mad Woman is no longer confined to the attic. She has a room of her own now. A house of her own. A job and rights (albeit on paper) and (some) say in her life. She is the empowered woman of today. Highly educated, highly career oriented. She was told there was nothing she couldn't be, nothing sh...
Posted on 30 March 2025 | 12:30 pm
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