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Personal,Thoughts

Dear 2022 – An Open Letter to The Year

By Sakshi Raina
Self-Improvement

New Year, New Me? The Mindset Behind Resolutions

By Sakshi Raina
Birthday,Personal

Turning 26

By Sakshi Raina
Poetry

Sunset Glow: A Poem

By Sakshi Raina
Quarantine Diaries

Quarantine Diaries | Philippines : Life in Lockdown

By Sakshi Raina on Monday, May 25, 2020

I vividly remember the day my government announced that Luzon was going to be put under lockdown or community quarantine as they put it.

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Quarantine Diaries | Uganda : Chasing The Star

By Sakshi Raina on Saturday, May 23, 2020
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I hail from the Pearl of Africa, our first case was detected on the night of 22nd March and the next morning I had to head straight home back from school.

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Quarantine Diaries | USA : Reconnecting With Myself

By Sakshi Raina on Thursday, May 21, 2020
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Covid-19 didn’t really start hitting the United States until the middle of March. There were a few cities that had started seeing outbreaks, but it certainly wasn’t nationwide yet. Everything escalated very quickly.

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Quarantine Diaries | Australia : Stepping Into Motherhood

By Sakshi Raina on Monday, May 18, 2020
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Isolation has really impacted our lives in a sense of bringing this new human into the world, and she doesn’t understand what world she is living in now. A new mother shares her lockdown story from Australia.

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Quarantine Diaries | United Kingdom : Unhinged Lockdown

By Sakshi Raina on Saturday, May 16, 2020
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Compared to most other countries in Europe, the UK had the softest restrictions. This is the current state of lockdown in the UK.

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Quarantine Diaries | India : Days are Blurry

By Sakshi Raina on Wednesday, May 13, 2020
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It’s been 60 days since I stepped outside my home. Sharing my thoughts on how life is changing while I continue to self-quarantine myself in India.

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Personal Thoughts

Life in the Time of Corona

By Sakshi Raina on Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Life in the time of corona

Coronavirus has completely changed the way we live. Once we go back I hope we don’t go back to normal, we go back to be better.

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Thoughts

The Girl Who Writes

By Sakshi Raina on Saturday, September 21, 2019
The girl who writes

You might find her in a library, coffee shop, or her room penning down her thoughts or typing for convenience. The girl who writes is everything you thought and more.

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Changing the world Nature

Bring Back The Night Sky

By Sakshi Raina on Sunday, August 25, 2019
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Since centuries, the night sky has been a muse for poets and philosophers. Humans have looked up at the stars in awe but now those very stars are vanishing.

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Personal

How I Turned Into A Reader

By Sakshi Raina on Sunday, July 21, 2019

When people ask me – when did I start reading? or how did it all start? My only answer is that it wasn’t an overnight process.

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Personal Self-Love Thoughts

Table For One, Please?

By Sakshi Raina on Sunday, July 14, 2019
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I can’t tell you the number of times people have looked at me pityingly when I say that I enjoy eating out alone. Here is why we should all do it.

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Birthday Personal

Turning 24

By Sakshi Raina on Sunday, July 7, 2019
Turning 24

As I turn 24 today, my heart is filled with gratitude and love. Here is what I learned that has been the greatest gifts this year.

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Poetry

When I Look Up At The Sky

By Sakshi Raina on Monday, July 1, 2019
When I look at the sky: Capture Sunshine

When I look up at the sky, I feel significantly small. Significant enough to make an impact yet small in this vast world that we call our own, yet smaller in this multiverse.

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Book Review Fiction

Book Review: Animal Farm by George Orwell

By Sakshi Raina on Monday, June 24, 2019
Capture Sunshine: Animal Farm Book Review

Animal Farm is a political satire by George Orwell published in 1945, representing events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. It’s so well written that the story still holds true and is relevant today.

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Personal Thoughts

Why Cooking is Therapeutic

By Sakshi Raina on Sunday, June 2, 2019
Capture Sunshine: Why Cooking is Therapeutic

One of my favourite ways to unwind on a weekend is to cook up a delicious plate of food.I do not love cooking, but I do like how it makes me feel when I am done in the kitchen. It’s relaxing, comforting and the reward is well-earned!

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Self-Improvement Self-Love

How To Be At Peace With Yourself

By Sakshi Raina on Sunday, April 7, 2019
How To Be At Peace With Yourself

The day I realised, I can control my thoughts and my life, everything changed. Here is how to change your life by finding your inner peace and happiness.

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Kathmandu Nepal Travel

Walking Tour Of Thamel In Kathmandu

By Sakshi Raina on Saturday, January 19, 2019
CaptureSunshine: Thamel

For most people, Thamel is the first glimpse of Kathmandu and soon it’s love at first sight. For me, I realised that it isn’t just a place but a state of mind.

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Changing the world Inspiration

How Storytelling Inspires Generations

By Sakshi Raina on Monday, November 26, 2018
How storytelling inspires generations

Stories matter. They teach us. They force us to look the society from a different perspective. They bring out empathy. They unite us. They help us to understand the world. They inspire us to change the world. One story at a time. One idea at a time.

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Personal Thoughts

Your thoughts on the nights when you just can’t sleep

By Sakshi Raina on Saturday, September 1, 2018
Capture Sunshine: when you just can't sleep

I read your mind and say aloud your thoughts on the nights when your mind refuses to shut up and you just can’t sleep.

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Book Review Little Black Classics

Book Review: The Steel Flea by Nikola Leskov | Little Black Classics

By Sakshi Raina on Monday, July 23, 2018
Capture Sunshine: The steel Flea

Written in the 19th century, this book is considered as one of the finest works of Nikolay. His political humour with a touch of sarcasm is what gives the story its unique voice.

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