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My Favorite Travel Songs

  I hate to admit it, but my thoughts about pandemic situation enriching our creative lives have changed now after being in isolation mode for almost a year 🙊. Y’all know that Google Photos has this notification feature for showing your photos “same day x year/s ago”, right? So it’s been throwing these travel pics on my face which has me feeling seriously sad about not having hopped on a flight for what seems like ages. So to assuage the desire, I have started revisiting the songs that had been my favourites on my travels.   I have a few songs that are deeply connected to some of my travels. They are mostly on my business trips understandably so because if you are on personal trips, your evil twin wants to constantly talk and hence no earphones time! Well anyways. Without further ado , here they are –  1. Stereo Hearts – Gym Class Heroes ft Adam Levine – I remember wearing my 500 rupees fake Dr.Dre’s during one of my walks from the hotel to my workplace in London. Waiting to cross t

RUMInating in Lockdown

(Pre-scriptum - Not publishing any pictures lest it should look like one of those spammy sites - Imagine a girl with stretched arms in a sunflower field or a woman musing in the backdrop of a forest, I feel like that now).  When we were hit with the news of Covid, we all figured it was something short- lived. We continued life as usual, we thought we knew a global pharma company would come up with a cure. We figured there was something happening in the background to combat and cure this so none of us ever prepared ourselves to what was about to happen! I am surprised like the rest of you that we acclimated ourselves to the Lockdown and its consequences. We stopped shopping, we stopped meeting friends, the customary TGIFs, the coffee dates, we adopted to social distancing, things we thought were necessary or important are no longer our priorities. Who would have thought there would be a drastic change in the way we lived and interacted? And more so who would have thought we would be oka