Bloggers/Book Lovers from India discussion

But a strange sort of change had come over me, the most telling symptom of which was this television series that I watched every day. A few years ago, a forty-minute episode of a daily re-run would not have been the most-looked-forward-to hour of the day. In fact, I am fairly certain that back in the days, I hadn’t even had a favourite TV serial because I simply had no time for such frivolity. But now I did, and I was so addicted to it that all my current passwords were based on characters from the serial.

The show in question revolved around a pair of brothers who lead an exciting and meaningful life hunting demons. A kind of edgy, modern day Hardy Boys drama in which the brothers hate their demon-filled, friendless, loveless, fatherless, motherless, mortgage-less and rootless lives. I could totally identify with them. I hated my life too, but for entirely different reasons — if my life had had a Facebook page, its status would read: Dizzyingly Boring.

Read more about Kalyani’s life in Bend Your Knees & Do Your Best– a story about a 40 year old IT professional whose neat and boring life suddenly turns upside down because of downsizing at work. And though Kalyani manages to land on her feet, she finds that her life has changed forever…