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The Art of Being Alone
"Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us." – Paulo Coelho There was a time when I...

Shikha Katare
Jun 10, 20243 min read


Money is emotion!
Money may make the world go round, but it also has a way of putting our emotions through the spin cycle. Our relationship with our...

Shikha Katare
May 3, 20244 min read


How Therapy Transformed My Life
In the depths of my soul, there was always an unspoken yearning—a silent plea for reciprocation, for acknowledgment, for love, for care....

Shikha Katare
Apr 3, 20244 min read


10 Days of Silence, 1 Lifetime of Clarity: My Vipassana Meditation Experience
Exactly one year ago today on my birthday I started my Vipassana journey, but before I start talking about my experience and why/how,...

Shikha Katare
Apr 6, 20239 min read


Why Generational Labels Are So Yesterday (And What We Should Be Focusing On Instead)
Labels, labels, labels. Our society is full of them - from caste, race, gender, religion, to wealth, profession, and many more. These...

Shikha Katare
Mar 27, 20232 min read


Monthly Personal Goals Review/Reflect
(Why should you set mini monthly resolutions instead of ONLY the annual resolutions? ) Imagine, what if you could achieve anything in the...

Shikha Katare
Feb 1, 20235 min read


He Said/She Said by Erin Kelly
Rating: 4.5/5 Favorite Quote: "Waiting for something horrible to happen is almost more draining than it actually happening" He Said/She...

Shikha Katare
Feb 1, 20233 min read


Adventures Girl About The Globe
“Baandho mat mujhe yun is Kadar, Udna hai mujhe. Dekhna hai Jahan saraa. Saath nahi toh akele jaana hai mujhe.” She began to do & feel as...

Shikha Katare
Aug 26, 20222 min read


The Vijay Mallya Story by K. Giriprakash
Rating: 3.5/5 Favorite Quote: "Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of...

Shikha Katare
Jun 14, 20213 min read


Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
Rating: 3.5/5 Favorite Quote: "Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages,...

Shikha Katare
Mar 1, 20212 min read


Attitude is Everything change your attitude change your life! by Jeff Keller
Rating: 5/5 Favorite Quote: "A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of...

Shikha Katare
Feb 9, 20213 min read


When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi - The winner of the Annual Goodreads Choice Awards 2016
Rating: 5/5 Favorite Quote: "You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly...

Shikha Katare
Jan 16, 20214 min read


Amnesty - by Aravind Adiga
Rating: 4.5/5 Favorite Quote: "Easiest thing in the world, becoming invisible to white people, who don’t see you anyway; but the hardest...

Shikha Katare
Jan 12, 20213 min read


Big Shot (Nothing Like I Imagined) by Mindy Kaling
Rating: 3/5 Favorite Quote: "Women always take bad behavior by men and twist it to make it so it’s somehow our fault, not theirs. It...

Shikha Katare
Jan 9, 20212 min read


Kind of Hindu (Nothing Like I Imagined) by Mindy Kaling
Rating: 4/5 Sweet story of inter-generational connection!!!! "Kind of Hindu" is First one of the six-part Nothing Like I Imagined...

Shikha Katare
Jan 9, 20211 min read


Once Upon a Time in Silver Lake (Nothing Like I Imagined) by Mindy Kaling
Rating: 2/5 Pointless!!!! “Once Upon a Time in Silver Lake" is one of the six-part Nothing Like I Imagined collection of autobiographical...

Shikha Katare
Jan 9, 20211 min read


Searching for Coach Taylor (Nothing Like I Imagined) by Mindy Kaling
Rating: 2/5 Favorite Quote: "I’m at the point in life where if I had to choose between having boring sex with someone, I love for fifteen...

Shikha Katare
Jan 8, 20212 min read


Help Is On the Way (Nothing Like I Imagined) by Mindy Kaling
Rating: 3.5/5 Quirky Quick Read! "Help Is On the Way" is one of the six-part Nothing Like I Imagined collection of autobiographical short...

Shikha Katare
Jan 8, 20211 min read
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Please Like Me [But Keep Away] (Nothing Like I Imagined) by Mindy Kaling
Rating: 3.5/5 Favorite Quote: "The problem was I didn’t want just anyone’s company. I wanted the company of funny, smart, like-minded...

Shikha Katare
Jan 7, 20212 min read


The Archer by Paulo Coelho
Rating: 4/5 Favorite Quote: "People always judge others by taking as a model their own limitations, and other people’s opinions are often...

Shikha Katare
Jan 7, 20213 min read


Myth = Mithya Decoding Hindu Mythology by Devdutt Pattanaik
Rating: 2/5 Favorite Quote: "It is ironical that for all the value we give to the rational, life is primarily governed by the irrational....

Shikha Katare
Jan 6, 20212 min read


Check-In Checkout - Novel by Keran Pantth Joshi
Rating: 4.5/5 Favorite Quote: "Maybe, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. But what if darkness is now your forever companion and...

Shikha Katare
Dec 22, 20202 min read


A Journey with 2 Angels by Anil Kallagunta
Rating: 4.5/5 Favorite Quote: "The only way you can conquer a person is love, and there, the entire world is conquered" In this beautiful...

Shikha Katare
Dec 8, 20202 min read


Faith and the Beloved by Kochery C Shibu
Rating: 4/5 Favorite Quote: "We must see other human beings in our own self, then only there will be no sufferings since you are seeing...

Shikha Katare
Nov 1, 20203 min read


Be Humane.....!!!!
Cataract is the third-most cause for blindness in the world. The other two are "Politics and Religion", and not necessarily in the same...

Shikha Katare
Oct 31, 20202 min read


Healthy Habits for a Healthier You!!! by Diya Nath, Greg Reid (Foreword)
Rating: 4/5 Favorite Quote: "Daily routine for a healthier you" Kudos, to Diya Nath for advocating for healthier eating at the age of 14...

Shikha Katare
Sep 21, 20202 min read


Etchings of the First Quarter of 2020 By Sabarna Roy
Rating - 2/5 Favorite Quote: "When I bid him farewell, he grips me in his embrace and croons in my ears – This winter will pass"...

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Aug 22, 20202 min read



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An open letter to all the Insensitive People Out There!!!
To, You, (all Insensitive People) You know, there's a lot of respect for you I have. You’re the kind of people who get shit done, keep...

Shikha Katare
May 1, 20206 min read


Pyjamas are Forgiving - Novel by Twinkle Khanna
Rating: 4/5 Favorite Quote: "I had given him too many pieces of me, I had been left with too many hollow parts, I did not know if I could...

Shikha Katare
Apr 3, 20202 min read


Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know, by Malcolm Gladwell
Favorite Quote: "You believe someone not because you have no doubts about them. Belief is not the absence of doubt. You believe someone...

Shikha Katare
Mar 28, 20206 min read


Mind Master: Winning Lessons from a Champion's Life Book by Susan Ninan and Viswanathan Anand
Rating: 5/5* *(I might be a little biased as Chess is my First Love in Sports) Favorite Quote: (I had experienced/am experiencing this...

Shikha Katare
Mar 10, 20207 min read


IKIGAI - Something that's a reason enough to get up in the morning!!!!
My Favorite Quote from the book: "Embarrassment and errors are part of doing meaningful things. It's not such a big deal, really. Keep in...

Shikha Katare
Mar 7, 20203 min read


"Jonathan Livingston Seagull" - An Experience
My favorite quote from the book: "Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your...

Shikha Katare
Mar 4, 20202 min read


The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning by by Scott Galloway
Rating – 3/5 My favorite quote from the book: "Love and relationships are the ends - everything else is just the means." - A beautiful...

Shikha Katare
Feb 11, 20204 min read


The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic by by Dan Ariely
Rating - 4.5/5 A fantastic psychology book backed by legitimate experiments!!! The most useful thing I got from this book, which I can...

Shikha Katare
Feb 8, 20204 min read


Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope by Mark Manson
Rating: 5/5 Take away: "Don't hope for better. Just be better" "The pursuit of happiness is a toxic value that has long defined our...

Shikha Katare
Nov 20, 20193 min read


"The ONE Thing" by Gary W. Keller and Jay Papasan
Think - “what is that ONE thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?” 🤔 For now- reading this...

Shikha Katare
Oct 31, 20193 min read


I Do What I Do by Raghuram Rajan
Yes!!!! “I DO WHAT I DO” 🙏🏼 Being Raghuram Rajan’s big fan!!! Also biographies fan!! How can I miss this read 🤷♀️ moreover the title...

Shikha Katare
Oct 24, 20191 min read


Predictably Irrational Book by Dan Ariely
Rating: 5/5 While just reading the book .. came across this concept and couldn't stop myself from sharing ... being a shopaholic 😬.....

Shikha Katare
Oct 10, 20192 min read


Book Review - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Book by Mark Manson
Take Away: “The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative...

Shikha Katare
Sep 24, 20192 min read


"We do not need 'A' Man"
Listen Folks!!!! First of all We (Women) do not NEED a Man.... We can pay our own bills, We can buy diamonds for ourselves, can carry our...

Shikha Katare
Sep 2, 20171 min read


Azaadi
Independence day - ha ha. Whose independence? As I have understood it's only the Politicians’ independence; actually to be precise it's...

Shikha Katare
Aug 15, 20172 min read
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