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"What kind of a mother are you," screamed a lady, "who can't even take care of a baby...sleeping all the time...kaamchor (lazy asshole)...keeping a babysitter, cook and maid...you can't even handle...

Submitted on Jul 25, 2014

My struggle with my medication

"Looking after my health TODAY gives me a better hope for TOMORROW" - Anne Wilson Schaef DISCLAIMER: What failed on me does NOT mean that it may not work on you. PLEASE listen to your body and go by...

Submitted on Jun 10, 2014

Have the COURAGE to “live”. Anyone can die

“Jyoti, I want to marry you, and this time I am sure of it.” I looked at him, not believing a word. Marry me? An HIV-positive woman? When he couldn’t commit to me for the whole two and half years we...

Submitted on Oct 25, 2013

Be a SURVIVOR/not a VICTIM

I have kind of “mixed-feelings” with the virus. At one hand, it had ebbed away my life, at other it gave me a new lease of life, with new meaning, and more importantly, the new “ME”. The scars on my...

Submitted on Jul 8, 2013

Yes I am. So what????!!!!

Indian Law, like all other laws, strongly protect and safeguard our rights as an individual. To disclose or not to disclose solely lies on us. But given the Indian conservative and orthodox values,...

Submitted on Dec 7, 2012

Love your Body...Talk to your Cells

Everyone asks me what’s my secret behind my proactivity in life. How do I manage to work 9 hours a day in office, yet find time for friends? How do I balance my official work to that of Activism? How...

Submitted on Nov 5, 2012

Depression

Let’s admit it…I have had my bad days MORE than my good days. Days when I feel down, I feel blue, I feel weepy and burst into tears. I love life so much and live each and every moment, every second...

Submitted on Oct 15, 2012

What are the MOST IMPORTANT things in a relationship to you?

My only requirement would be UNCONDITIONAL love , that is so hard to find nowadays. I see lot of marriage and relationship breaking due to the lack of such love. When one loves a person "...

Submitted on Sep 7, 2012

Wake up and smell the coffee…

“Am divorcing u, I can't live with u anymore” said my husband, whom I married in 2004 (when I was negative and got the virus thru medical negligence – Plz refer to my first blog “ Living with HIV ”)...

Submitted on Jun 20, 2012

Life isnt FAIR but it's still GOOD

There were many a times when I often use to sigh and say “Why Me of all people”. What did I do to deserve it? Why should I have to undergo suffering at the cost of others? Worse, why do I have to “...

Submitted on Jun 4, 2012

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