PEACOCK BLUE TEARS My mommy, my idol for life often says, “Life is an exam where the syllabus is unknown and question papers are not set.” At 11 years of age, I only understood that the meaning must be profound and only the word ‘exam’ resonates with unwanted echoes in my ears. In a CBSE course, I am in the sixth grade and unit tests, half-yearlies and final exams are the bane of my life. Through the lockdown, dates of approaching exams was the only thing that made me feel li

I turned 13 today (an unlucky number by all accounts)……. my life for the last 3 years has been a series of doctors, medicines and FEAR………I have not celebrated my birthday in the last 3 years because I was too scared to meet people. No one could explain it. I had been such a friendly and happy go lucky child just 3 years back…….. I was about 10 years old, and my father forced me to go with him to the funeral of a cousin in another city that I had never met. I had a football ma