Personal Stories

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I Got Catfished Before Catfishing Was Even a Thing: The Landline Love Story That Was Doomed From Hello

I got catfished years before anyone had a word for it. In 2001, the hottest dating app was the family landline. And all it took was a voice, a little charm, and the hope that your mother wouldn’t pick up the extension. There were no filters and no profiles. We fell for personalities.  Turns out, […]

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Workplace Bullying: How an Office Queen Bee Ruined My Dream Job

What a toxic workplace really looks like and the lessons I wish I’d known sooner In my late twenties, I took a content writing job in Kolkata. It was supposed to be a great career move, but it became one of my worst corporate memories. Today, I am in my forties. Yet, when I look

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5 Lessons I Learned From Divorce: What My Failed Marriage Taught Me

A divorce was never on my teenage bucket list. And yet, there I was, married, separated and single again within a matter of months, with a crash course in adulthood I had definitely not signed up for.  None of this was my decision. My parents had decided that their college-going daughter would be much better

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