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Podcast

Kaapi and Conversations – Podcast Interview Series – Papiya Pal

by MeeraMayaa March 14, 2022
written by MeeraMayaa

#Kaapiandconversations Season 2, Episode – 2

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5vJ1dRBuzjpnp1Jsn7ryaY?si=I0rIksmoT-CDYSwL6HGF9Q&utm_source=copy-link

Kaapi is nothing but a Coffee.
Kaapi and Conversations is a garland of #interviewseries with the people with whom I work or have worked with or someone whom I have e-met and have admired their excellences/ work.

It’s not about the achievements alone, it’s about the way they work and how it has helped them grow.

To sum it up it is “How simplicity has actually helped or helps us.”

Each of us are not only Unique but we are special too, for the excellences we exhibit with our own resources.

Purpose of this connect is not to motivate you, but to make you realize and appreciate about yourself.

Do you wish to share your journey?
You may write to dinoinoasis@gmail.com or message here in the comments box or dm.

I always feel that loads happen over a cup of coffee and here’s one with our lovely Guest, Ms.Papia Pal

Ms.Papia, a Postgraduate in Economics has always been driven by a relentless desire to remain abreast of her times. A high school teacher for about 21 years, she has been an avid reader with a penchant for penning down her thoughts and experiences through poems and short stories. Many of her poems and short stories have been published in prestigious anthologies in India and abroad. Her poem “Collage” had been published by Sampad in their anthology
“Inspired by Gandhi”, “Snapshots around the Lake” was published by “Indian Poetry Review-2021”.

Her poem “Delhi Book Fair Goes Virtual” won the 1 st prize at the Delhi Book Fair of 2020.
Very recently her poem “Tit bits of Hunger” has been included in an international anthology.
Besides, her poems have been published in Sharing Stories the best digital magazine today and several digital platforms.
She believes that writing is a journey and is a reflection of her inner world coupled with the pearls of experiences strewn around us in our daily lives. Writing has helped her to find a voice for those voiceless moments rearing their eager heads for a pertinent expression. At Word Munchers, she is actively involved in nurturing children and adults to pen down their imagination for future readers and thereby living the life of her dreams.
As you a grab a listen, let me know your thoughts.
As always with best regards from Meera, your DinoinOasis.
Also, I am happy to share that the #podcast is also available on 8-10 platforms like #amazonmusic , #stitcher , #Hubhopper , #pocketcasts , #radiopublic , #googlepodcasodcastinterview #podcasthost #podcastguest #podcastshow #podcaster #interview #interviews

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Kaapi and Conversations – Podcast Interview Series – Aditi Lahiry Episode 1

by MeeraMayaa March 9, 2022
written by MeeraMayaa

Launching it today!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5P7Om1kpsuLEYdY6Fw3hxf
It is #KaapiandConversations
 
“We are a culmination of blessings!” (with due credit to Anand Nair) I am stealing these lines, it’s powerful. We may call ourselves independent, to be one, we definitely need guidance and support from many. An ecosystem is incomplete without the flora and fauna so is without the life and values we learn in every walk of our life.
 
I live with the purpose
“Transforming words and emotions into stories of emotional and mental well-being”
 
My Season -1 was with how words not only help in roaring but in healing too.
 
And here’s the Season – 2 with Kaapi and Conversations.
 
The first episode is with Aditi Lahiry (It started with a similar fashion like in our school days, with role number 1 being alphabetical letter A)
 
Thank you, Aditi for your time.
To all of you, we connected at 05.30 a.m to get this Interview.
 
Kaapi and Conversations is a garland of Interview series with the people, with whom I work or have worked with or someone whom I have e-met and have admired their excellences.
 
It’s not about the achievements alone, it’s about the way they work and how it has helped them. To sum it up it is “How simplicity has actually helped”
 
Kaapi is nothing but a Coffee.
 
I always feel that loads happen over a cup of coffee and here’s one with our lovely Guest, Ms.Aditi Lahiry.
 
Grab a listen to know about Aditi .
Aditi is a Teacher, teaching English and French language along with creative writing. She is passionate about narrative writing and is a story teller, an emerging Poet and Writer.
 
As you a grab a listen, let me know your thoughts.
 
As always with best regards from Meera, your DinoinOasis
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Letters

It’s a Long story! Oops a Nose story

by MeeraMayaa February 27, 2022
written by MeeraMayaa
I have parked the link to my Podcast at the end of this email. As you click and listen here are my little stories
 
And some of you are receiving my email for the first time, this email is not a Newsletter but a letter filled with News Headlines of my Life through the words in an email and in my DinoinOasis podcast.
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Did I mention my height in the previous blog?
I think I would have done that.
Till my 9th standard in school, I didn’t bother about my height. But, peer pressure and people around me always mistook me for being in class 6/7. I tried my level best in convincing but realised that they never grew in their head space. I for some days thought that their head space is empty or rather filled with mud. I also wished that it should be a fertile one so that when they are sleeping I can steal a portion of it for my plants as a manure, little did I realise that it’s a marsh land filled with methane. The same CH4 ! I left them in their space and I was practicing Jumping, even if the things were in my reach, I would place it at greater heights and thought months of jumping would help me in growing tall.
All of sudden I thought, what if only my legs grew and if I looked like a crane, then I would have to fish from the pond, a difficult task, not because it’s a pond but the main reason is you will find me flat and parallel to the ground when I slip from a drop of water.
I thought instead of jumping I would rather spend my time effectively satisfying myself with a Curd rice and a mango pickle. And that would be the favourite throughout my life, if I can get curd I shouldn’t bother to jump like Little Krishna to steal butter and curd.
The Jumping phenomenon for growth stopped.
But there’s one more story here, I used to jump like a Kangaroo from one room to another. I had a dog called Rosy, she used to come to my place to steal a share of my curd rice. This story for another day. But when she saw me jumping and serving her curd rice, she was shocked and stared at me for almost 5 good minutes, I thought she was looking at me in an endearing way but the truth was that she was enduring the madness that I had showcased in front of her eyes. She stopped wagging her tail thinking I am obsessed by a Kangaroo monster and I would obsess her soon.
But,
The jumping story stopped.
Also,
I am Thankful to my parents that they didn’t sell me off! Like I mentioned in my last e-mail, the buyer will return me to the seller within 5 mins. Forget about ROI. The buyer will pay interest to my parents. My parents didn’t think about it though, maybe they could have invested in some shares or mutual fund.
 
I think some assets if sold will be returned but they continue giving ROI without being sold again.
I am such a product.
 
ROI here is Growth. 
Only the neurons in my mind grew due to the madness.
They say that effort gets paid. I think I grew from 4″9 to 5″0. It wasn’t a milestone achievement but a mega achievement since I would proudly say that I am in the 5.AM club, oooooops, no I am also part of the elite 5″ crowd.
That’s my growth story, I am still the same person who would satisfy her need with curd rice and a mango pickle. If that would be an issue, then I will have to start skipping, jumping, might be bungee jumping, some High wire walk (Oh Meera stop it, walking between the chairs you tumble down so many times and you are talking about high wire walk)
Let’s turn to a good story, some say mine is a story from a comedy genre. The backstory to this is that I wanted and I did write a romantic poem, but people laughed and laughed reading the lines. I had to tell them that it’s a Rooooomaaaaaantic poem. I definitely have that story and some other day I will share it and you can also laugh.
My sympathy that you all are reading my garlands of words.
That’s the problem, in spite of people telling me that
Meera!!! You will never grow.
 
Good I stopped growing, else I would have been a Giraffe feeding on leaves in a zoo.
 
Even now I want to be serious about what I share, but this is my Growth story 
 
Hey, now don’t park it aside.
Here’s my podcast that I wish to share with you all.
Though I wanted a pin drop silence, No the pin didn’t drop but a construction equipment lorry said a Hi inbetween and I thought let it do that pom pommmmmm..
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7DDrJ602VyC0gagzIx8x6g
Please note that while typing these lines, I waved a Bye Bye to a flight.
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Meera here and am happy to share about something!

by MeeraMayaa February 20, 2022
written by MeeraMayaa
Nothing around us changes, neither do we for that matter at times!
Let’s create an ecosystem for each other and to nudge each other’s journey.
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Thank you so much for opening this email and leaving your beautiful eye balls to grab a read.
I have interacted with you all while compiling Anthologies/ Poetry connects. I am just 5 feet tall Homosapien dropped on this earth, Yes, neither the Heaven nor the Hell could bear my weight. And, now am adding those little bit of flesh and life to my words. I don’t follow a syllabus, I was that back bencher in school and colleges. Owing to my height I was dragged to first bench but I found all ways to escape, since I love samosas and doughnuts, I used find my College canteen as a safe place to hide by filling my basement.
Oops, that’s me. My parents used to say, even if I get lost, people will ensure that they will drop me back and run away the very next moment. Not only my house, well I used to bring down my neighbor’s roof too. But Karma will not spare us and I leave it to your imagination now to complete or just laugh about what am going through.
Mohterhood, OMG. It’s such an out of syllabus subject that I started walking, jumping, running and became a portable Toy to my minion. That’s when I felt an urge to record and write what I experience.
One such mistake is this PODCAST too. Not an Adult content, since am not matured enough still
And, I invite you to grab a listen as it would help me in making a note of your observations. Remember that I have a fragile heart, every time it breaks I order a new piece from the online marketplaces.
Here’s my recent podcast
https://spoti.fi/3s4Exud
I am excited to share this with you all.
Also that the podcast has hit 100+ plays.
Well, scoring a century has been the most difficult task in my childhood or in college days,
But this number is so special when my 40 beginning is playing around with me..
Initially I thought of applying some technology and sending an email to you all using mail-merge. I somehow felt it would be email to email conversations and I would miss the essence of sharing how happy I am feeling as I am writing these lines. This isn’t a mass email either. We all live in a cocoon called earth and are constantly striving and fighting to transform our lives. Everything around goes voiceless for sometime but not our own voice, which has a plethora and plethora of stories to share with us. Like a child don’t we all get excited when we receive appreciation, Oh Boy! I feel that we all have that exuberance and excitement even in this platinum stringed gracious old age ( Not as old as an Old Munk though  well I don’t even an empty bottle here)
Did I say Voice?
We call our children hyperactive, but as an Adult we are one is what I feel about ourselves. Like a swipe on our phone, we keep swiping our mind with millions of thoughts and everything dies as it starts . That’s when I thought of recording what I am thinking and felt good hearing my own voice because that voice had emotions and feelings. I was like, before it sublimes, let me burn it like a camphor and feel the aura. Thus my journeying into Storytelling, V-lgging, Audiobooks and Podcast and …..
How long can my mind listen to what I say, before it thinks about slapping me, I thought let me start this series called #CoffeesandRoars with this DinoinOasis. Believe me, Dinosaurs are better than Homosapiens and you can trust them as they keep roaring reality in our mind.
Hitting it straight, I am excited and waiting to Interview people and their journey/ excellences on my Podcast channel. I have 25-30 registrations and am Thankful to all and the ALMIGHTY!
I am crazy and mad about data/ google sheets or ms excel, No am not good, I just like filling the boxes with expenses, investments, shares, mutual funds, monthly/quarterly/ half-yearly/ yearly goals, strategies and my daughter’s homework too. Sometime back I entered how many times my dog and cat may have fought too. (Oh! that’s a bit of craziness and it’s a black and white story)
I will be soon be sharing the details and the Podcast link. This is going to be Season 2. If you feel,MEERA, Stop sending these emails. I will stop and bless you that you are missing madness in your life
Recording and other works in progress.
I Will connect back soon, just bear with me as I am a Bear at times, currently not in Polar land but very much on the Deccan Plateau.
Until then, let your platinum shine
Let the mind go mad
Let your voice share the truth
And bring back the rusting childhood back from the parking lot
 
Do share your thoughts about my podcast.
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Letters

Roooomantic story

by MeeraMayaa February 6, 2022
written by MeeraMayaa
I gathered all that courage to watch a roooooomantic movie.
At last I got that OTT option enabled on my TV, not for roomantic movies alone but to watch whatever is available. I became a Desert looking for an Oasis everywhere. That was my desperation to watch any movie under our Solar King!
(Backstage story: I thought I was typing but I was in my dreams. No wonder you all didn’t receive it yesterday)
If you want to know how I realized this?
Well t’s because of my hereditary long nose, which many of my cousins didn’t get in spite of fixing their nose in between the doors and stretching it 😉 ouuuchhh, oops, out I meant.
It is not anything great, my nose is is a nose of a Home sapien only. My grand parents had this habit of pulling every child’s leg with their nose and I was not because it was already pulled and elongated and stretched out by Lord Brahamananda (Oops who is this? 🙄), I meant Mr.Brahma who is Mr. of Mrs.Saraswarti. Also Mr.Brahm ensured to give me the eyes of popins (do you remember eating these spherical candy balls in your childhood, if not, Please check my photos on my social media handles. No! You would not find me eating them, but you would see them popping out of my eyes. Might be about my eyes some other day .
So what happened to my nose👃 ?
I had a slight pain and that’s when I realized that it wasn’t my mobile that landed on my nose and forehead but, it was I who was flat on the keyboard, on my laptop.
I wish I could have taken a picture of the same and shared.
Usually 30 mins before the bed Noooooo screen time, and I promised you all about this rooooomantic story or a poem,hence the lappi boy in my bedroom .
By now you would have realized that why I don’t write in that one particular genre.
I am so metraphorical when I get roooomantic.
For example
Your nose is like a Cashew nut,
I don’t feel like eating it but, feel like making a Cashewnut Pakodas.
Your head is like a Walnut,
and, to me it’s a nut that I can break it and fry it on a thava.
Your eyes are like a chocopie
that, I feel like putting in the milk and having it like a chocos
Your ears are so cute that,
I feel like cutting them and pasting it on my craft work!!
 
My dear readers, now the ball is in your court.
I think you would throw it on me
This is the reason I don’t write Roooomantic poems, because my husband says I should try murderous genre.
(Well he knows who is the protagonist and who the prey will be)
 
Will you all spare me?
This time I definitely need a reply on this email, so that I can be sure that you read my roooooomance waala spicy murderous poem.
 
Okay, one more news.
As I got the OTT on my TV, I was searching for romantic movies, but I realized that I had actually dozed-off while changing the movie options. As I my eyes popped out, it was a series, and all the characters were ready out there on the screen to jump into my living area and kick me off. 
 
But I have the remote!
I immediately changed it and bumped into this beautiful Malayalam movie, STAR.
What kept me awake was this movie, it is worth every second. The movie addresses the important aspect in womanhood about Menopause.
It isn’t the end but it is just a pause. And, I feel that every woman should observe the changes in our body than clearing the inboxes or the kitchen shelves. 
 
Breathe in and breathe out.
At my 28’s this observation of my body and thoughts helped me identify the tumour in my breast and it was excised when it just started. Might be it has revisited, but I am promising my mind and body that I would be taking care. And, I am.
 
Dear Men and Boys, Observe if the women in your house are irritated or insecure for no reasons, ask her not the reason, but stand next to her and tell,
“I know that you are going through something, how long would you keep it within you, I am and we are around, not only to eat what you cook, but to listen to and travel with you for the lifetime, enough of carrying them, let’s talk”
 
It would take time but, it’s worth every second like this movie.
Star.PNG
That’s it for this week and here is the link to my recent podcast.
I have something coming for the International Women’s day.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2fsEfCo6jQF2iwv5BEIUeI
 
As you listen to my podcast, do drop in a message or whatsapp me how you felt listening to the same. If I didn’t connect through my words, please feel free to write to me mentioning what I can do?
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