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She was 50. She had staunchly kept away from computers and smartphones. She did not need them in personal life. People at work understood her limitations and helped her around. She did not need the computer even for her work. And then COVID struck the world and she realized that as a primary school Teacher, she had to connect to the Internet via a computer to connect to 'her kids'. She scaled the steep learning curve and got over her technology inhibitions. She is now beaming at her kids on the laptop. You are never too old to learn.          --------------   Teachers across the world had to re-skill themselves to meet the challenge of online schooling. A large population amongst the teacher were the not-so-young and they were not tech-savvy either. For them, the challenge was massive. Not only did they meet the challenge and got up to speech with tech, most of them have gone above and beyond to bring in the same level of warm...

  ~ Book Blitz ~ Itsy Bitsy Spyder (The Spyders #0.5) by Apeksha Rao Young Adult / Espionage 15th to 17th August About the Book: What do you do when your mother feels that you don’t trust her? If you’re Samira Joshi, and your mother is an elite spy who works for RAW, the first thing you do is … hide the knives. After that, you go straight to the therapist that she has chosen. For, when your mother knows seventeen different ways to kill a man, you don’t argue with her. Much. Unless she’s trying to destroy your dreams. Then, you fight dirty. Like a spy. Samira is sweet, sassy, and almost seventeen. She dreams of becoming a badass spy like her parents. And, why not? That’s exactly what her parents have trained her to be. So, why is her mother suddenly acting like a typical Indian mom and pushing her to be a doctor? Samira can swear on her stack of covert operative manuals that it has something to with her mother’s last mission. Her therapist disagrees. She ...

  VSS 031 - Everything is planned. Not quite.   He had it all planned out. Everything was set. Life was a breeze. With a job paying millions in salary and a hefty bonus, he had already bought a house, fancy cars and travelled to a couple of countries on vacation – pretty much all of it on bank loans with installments spanning several years. Married to a gorgeous homemaker and with an adorable set of twins, life was a dream. Everything was planned. Everything was in control. Everything was happy. And then COVID-19 hit the world and he lost his job. That was one thing he hadn’t planned for.     --------------   I started writing VSS (Very Short Story – less than 100 words stories) in 2017 and had a good run of writing 30 of them. Restarting it now in 2020. Lets see how long can I sustain these. The story above is a direct reflection on what COVID-19 has meant for millions out there. All their plans got tossed out of the window by a micros...

~ Book Blitz ~ Truly Madly Crazily in Love  by Esha Pandey  About the Book:  What happens when you can't let your first love go? What happens when you keep hoping that the one that got away, will be yours again...forever? Sue is short, vivacious and dreamy. Viv is tall, spirited and focussed. Dressed to the nines on School Social, she bewitches him. He kisses her. She kisses him back. They fall in love. But the kiss that should have sealed their love, becomes their undoing. Sue is truly, madly and crazily in love with him. There is no one like Viv. She pines for him, but he can't be hers. Days go by and she is still head over heals in love with him. When she finally lets him go and is ready to start over, he walks into her life again. Hearts are broken. Promises are shattered. Lives are wrecked. Love is tested. In a tale transcending time, Sue and Viv weave a story of love like none other. Will hope, trust and love win the te...