Author - Jui Purohit.

 "Everybody comes up with fantastic takes on various prompts", I think to myself. "Why can't I think of something out of the box?" is my soliloquy.  "Ah! This one is similar to her last post. She has just changed a few lines here and there. I could do that too and complete all the challenges," the brooding continues. Hmmm....What's all this chatter about? Well, I am just spilling the beans. 'The Secret Life of Writers'. "He has already published his book. Where am I heading?" are questions we keep asking ourselves. When we say don't be judgmental about others, somewhere we keep judging ourselves. We encourage fellow bloggers, we write good things about them in comments, we praise and drop hearts and hugs and kisses. But don't we feel jealous sometimes when we read some amazing stories out there? Having said this, don't assume that when we applaud, it's always fake. We genuinely like writeups that are beautifully pe...

 There has never been a secret between mom and me. I was vocal enough, since childhood, regarding my problems, my hesitations, silliest of doubts in my mind. And she was approachable enough to babble anything and everything. She never judged, even if my stories were frivolous. She always gave a patient ear to all my chatters. Mom is this one person in front of whom I shed all my inhibitions, comfortably. As I matured, she also started sharing her worries, her uncertainties and insecurities with me. When we discussed something it was 100% sure of being reticent of disclosure. But after my marriage, I wonder, since when Mr.Hubby breached this firewall. He actually bypassed it and all the data packets started entering and exiting the network without much effort. Well, he must've put in some efforts for sure, hacking a fool-proof security isn't easy that way! The phone calls slowly became trunk calls...how? Remember those old times, when the long-distance calls traversed from one o...