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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


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


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


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
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