This is my series on the  Incredible Blogger Marathon Challenge. To know the answers to how, what and why, read my post : The beginning {IBMC 00/10}

IBMC #07: The News and Paper Challenge

So here’s my take on it. 

We live in a world where Trump is declaring Twitter wars on a daily basis, where mother nature is punishing us with frequent hurricanes for not seeing the warning signs of climate change, where news on terrorism has somehow attained creepy normalcy, and where we are so caught up in a web (quite literally !) of nothingness that we hardly ever look beyond the world we know.

Most people aren’t bothered about something happening thousands of kilometers away on…

Before taking up the Incredible Blogger Marathon Challenge (IBMC), I thought it would be fair to express how I came across it and why I want to do it.

I had been writing my travel stories on Tripoto for a few years and was getting good response from fellow travelers. My husband and I share a passion of travelling and he has always encouraged me to write about our trips. It was he who pushed me to start my own blog and that is how the journey of “the drifting satellite” began in the second half of last year. Loaded with new-found enthusiasm, I hoped not only to pen my travel tales, but also my random thoughts once-in-a-while. However, after the first post, I took a long hiatus and somehow did not post a single thing for almost a year. Just last month, I woke up to the realization that…

Greetings Earthlings ! 😊

​This in response to the Daily Post’s One-Word Prompt. Today’s word is : Rhyme

Here’s my impromptu mini rhyme on the title subject:

The mountain and the beach talked heart to heart,

Both extremely proud of their frequent recognition in art,

The beach happily exclaimed, “I am the king of contrast !”

The mountain smirked in response and said “Do you see that massive shadow I cast ?”

A mountain person or a beach person, which one are you they ask ?

You may love both, but picking a favorite is a grueling task. 

The Bay of Bengal

Alamparai Beach Fort, East Coast Road, Tamil Nadu,India

The Himalayas

Manali-Leh Highway, Jammu and Kashmir, India

P.S. My heart tells me I’m a mountain person !

I’d be happy to know which one you are … ? 🙂

This is in response to theDaily Post’s One-Word Prompt. Today’s word is : Inhabit.

I was planning to write something on this subject for a very long time so I was naturally quite ecstatic to come across today’s daily prompt. I guess this post would serve as a golden opportunity to assert my undying and ever-expanding fondness towards this city I have called home for the last 7 odd years.

I was born and brought up in Delhi, the capital of India. Education and employment drove me out of my happy childhood abode more than a decade ago, but it will inevitably and eternally remain home for me. I moved to Dehradun in the hilly state of Uttarakhand in 2006 to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering. The 4 years I spent there in college were truly amazing. Not only did I have a wonderful time…