by Ranjani Rao | Feb 7, 2021 | In words
A year and half or so ago, I came to Medium as a reader. Although not trained to be a writer, I had resumed writing with a passion that had been missing for almost two decades. My first foray into writing had been as a young mother. I tried to make sense of my life as...
by Ranjani Rao | Jan 31, 2021 | In words
When the young women of Women Unbounded, a volunteer-led Singapore-based non-profit organization with global membership approached me to lead a segment on journaling for their first event of 2021 titled “New Year, New-tral me”, I was pleasantly surprised. Their...
by Ranjani Rao | Jan 19, 2021 | In words
An unusual frame, 4 feet X 2 feet, hangs on one of the walls of my bedroom. It is not a painting, nor a photograph. It is unusual for two reasons, Firstly, because it is made of an embossed sheet of aluminum that depicts a man in a chariot drawn by five horses. And...
by Ranjani Rao | Nov 8, 2020 | In the moment
When asked ‘what superpower would you like to have’ – many say they would like to know the future. Perhaps these are the people who read their horoscopes in the newspaper everyday or sometimes visit fortune-tellers for a peek behind the opaque curtain of an...
by Ranjani Rao | Oct 4, 2020 | In books
Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage By Dani Shapiro At the time of writing this memoir, Dani Shapiro had already written three prior memoirs. At the time of reading this memoir by Shapiro, I had read her latest one, Inheritance – A memoir of genealogy, paternity...
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