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Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Song: Mujhe Tum Nazar by Mehdi HassanClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "Sa mazar ban bujana sakura to be kis mujetunka baby holana sak."2025-07-3003 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | A Library of People - Inside a Vinyl lover’s home. Mr. A. Murugan, owner and curator of Vinyl Records Hub. Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/murugClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "The surface noise. And when you play this record, you will feel seeing this, how it's rotating and all there Are color records also. Okay. That also you can see there. Yeah. And you will enjoy the music. That is the thing. Who is loving the music? They can. They can. They are very much interested in this. They can. For digital people. They have their own this thing. We can't say that. Yes. There's somebody."2025-07-1731 minSarita pramod@pocketofstories | The Living DeadClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "He felt the weight of the responsibilities drop off his shoulder as soon as he rested his head on the pillow. He smiled as he dreamt of each of his patients being discharged whole and healthy. Him enjoying the view of a beautiful sunset sitting next to his family. The tiny face peeking out of the window smiled, the smile reaching his eyes. The couple paced nervously, waiting for the officer to complete the formalities."2025-07-0605 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | ALibrary of People - A day in the Life of a Tarot Reader, Sabeena BhallaClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "One thing that I would want to say, I never sell fear to people. What do you mean by that? So a lot of. Okay. I have been to astrologers in the past. I have been to tarot readers in the past. And one thing that would always. Would always scare me was that they would just say something which would hit me so bad that it would just not allow me to believe in myself. So this is what I learned."2025-07-0115 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Hate the word "short" for what it does literallyClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "Hey everyone. Good morning. I was listening to a couple of posts and responding and I came across a post about slangs and then this word stuck in my mind. Short. I think I'm beginning to hate this word. Short means shortening everything and if you really look at it this way, everything's getting short, right? Patience, love, money, opportunities, respect, lives, facilities. So many things. And short itself is getting so popular that it's a botheration."2025-06-1702 min
Sarita pramod@J.O.B.I | leave words of encouragement to someone who may be struggling today.Click here to reply to @J.O.B.I "And it's hard, but practice gratitude for the fact that you're experiencing the full realm of human emotions. So when you pull out of this struggle, eventually, by accepting it and being okay with it, you're gonna have so much more gratitude for when you aren't struggling, which is even as important, because when we aren't struggling, we tend to overexert ourselves. We want to hold this feeling. We grasp it. We squeeze the lifeblood out of the moment."2025-06-1615 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Story from a tired storyteller: The curious case of Black & White.Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "And she noted with a good sense of humor that the jacket was black and white and it matched with the passengers sitting just next to her. She smiled and went back to whatever she was doing. Soon enough she would glance up a bit too often to see what was the next station and how far she was before she had to train change her train. Slowly she realized something was very odd because everywhere she looked around people were wearing the same striped clothing. Be it jacket, be it a...2025-06-1505 min
Sarita pramod@Concordia | leave words of encouragement to someone who may be struggling today.Click here to reply to @Concordia "Hi there. Such a beautiful prompt and I'm privileged to be here to be able to contribute with my little and few words to anyone who's listening to this. I hope it reaches you. Dear one, before you do anything today, before you look at anyone and before you think about anyone today, I urge you to look at yourself in the mirror and look at yourself deep in your eyes with an affection that you express and share so calmly and so beautifully with the world around you."2025-06-1402 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | A Library of People: Sabeena Bhalla. Tarot history and a reading.Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "I'm scared for you to do a specific read and that I would like to know what's the date of birth? The whole. No, no, just the month. I was born on 30th of December. 30th December, number three, Capricorn. Okay, keep born. So could you do a general reading for me? What's happening right now? One thing we would like to touch upon is that what kind of questions should be asked?"2025-06-1433 minLeanne P.@pocketofstories | What are some of your fondest Father’s Day memories you’d like to share?Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Hi Leanne, Good evening and good morning from India. What a beautiful post that you have prompt that you have created Father's Day. It's, it's a way of kind of remembering our heroes, you know, not just our fathers, but a lot. Many people who have men who had a lot of positive influences in our life. I miss my father a lot."2025-06-1303 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Songs I like to sing: Holo Lolo. Assamese language song sung by Shankaran Konwar and Shalmali. Cole Bharat Studio- https://open.spotify.com/track/3hJqClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "Sam. Oh."2025-06-1202 min
Sarita pramod@lifecoachPritha | leave words of encouragement to someone who may be struggling today.Click here to reply to @lifecoachPritha "I hope this reaches somebody who needs to hear it. And the only thing I would say is, you're not alone. And this too, shall pass. Whatever it is you're going through, it is a moment in time. Because I am certain that you have had good times that have graced your life, and there have been bad times. Sometimes the bad times seem longer. It's just the way it is."2025-06-1101 min
Sarita pramod@DBPardes | leave words of encouragement to someone who may be struggling today.Click here to reply to @DBPardes "My words for someone to encourage that person. If you are having a rough day, if you're struggling. I feel like the only tried and true idea I can convey in this moment is that of the gift of perspective. Everyone has a different one and and no matter where you are, you are someone in and of yourself. You are someone who will have a new perspective over time but there might be people around you that have a better perspective on what's going on with you than you might."2025-06-1101 min
Sarita pramod@simplyshelley | leave words of encouragement to someone who may be struggling today.Click here to reply to @simplyshelley "And there's so many things out there to help us with depression and reaching out. Like I said, I'm here for you. You are an amazing person. You are a loving person. You're a beautiful person. You are just amazing at everything. If you're a mom, if you're a dad, if y' all are amazing at being a parent, if you're a brother, a sister, you're amazing at that. You are an amazing person."2025-06-1002 min
Sarita pramod@ValBGood | leave words of encouragement to someone who may be struggling today.Click here to reply to @ValBGood "Hi, Sarita. This was a great post. And you know what came to mind? If someone was struggling, I would tell them the story that I heard. It's a story about a king who was getting married. And weeks before the wedding, he sent one of his loyal servants and he told him to find a ring that when I look at it when I'm happy or when I'm sad, it will resonate."2025-06-1001 min
Sarita pramod@lhnath | leave words of encouragement to someone who may be struggling today.Click here to reply to @lhnath "Hey, Angie, think Lisa from Think about it and look up. Thank you for that excellent reminder. It's always the basics that we just that I feel we often need to be reminded of. So thank you. Thank you and good reminder. Really appreciate it. Take care."2025-06-1000 min
Sarita pramod@AnngieKaye | leave words of encouragement to someone who may be struggling today.Click here to reply to @AnngieKaye "But as you get in the bed and don't have energy, you don't have energy to clean the room. It's like a cycle. So in that example, what you can do, get up and start cleaning up. Get up and start cleaning up. Because what it will do is it will take care of the room, it will help to improve your mood, it will give you energy. So you don't have to figure out all the things at once."2025-06-1002 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Author Kushwant Singh: portrait of a ladyClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "She said that since only a few hours before the close of the last chapters of her life, she had omitted to pray. She was not going to waste any more time talking to us. We protested, but she ignored our protests. She lay peacefully in bed, praying, telling her beads. Even before we could suspect, her lips stopped moving and the rosary fell from her lifeless fingers. A peaceful polyp spread on her face, and we knew that she was dead."2025-06-0812 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Meet Sarita. Ask me a question.Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "I'm a mother, I'm a wife. I love reading. I love observing people more than reading. I love to introspect. I love to think, why do things happen this way, that way? What if certain situations did not happen the way they were supposed to? And, you know, my mind has a constant spinning wheel, evolving, and what, what would I say? Churning out stories and theories. And it's constantly active, always seeking, always searching, always learning."2025-06-0802 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Songs I like to sing - "you me aur hum"Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Kari me you merik sa sam Milk is a paper you me."2025-06-0703 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Up close in conversation with Sabeena Bhalla, Healer, Tarot expert podcastClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "So coming to the soul journey, we come to that later. Okay. What does healing mean to you in practice? Like, what's the importance of soul consciousness? So healing is everything. We are a work in progress. From the time that we are born to the time we die. We are in this earth school. And we are here to just heal ourselves from our past karmas because we don't come here with a clean slate. Yeah."2025-05-2429 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | In conversation with Artist Sujatha MohanClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "Chinese brush painting was something very new and was very liberating because you never knew where the ink went and where the paints went. So like you said, you know, it was always a happy accident if you got it right. If the accident was good, it was. The painting turned out beautiful. So I think in Singapore I, I think I was like really passionate. I wanted to Those are the days when I was contemplating becoming like, a professional artist, maybe."2025-05-1724 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Unknown FacesClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "And find two elderly women seated ahead of me, chatting away without a care in the world, without care of what's happening around them. Their hands busy dipping into the polysene bag that stored bundles of colored woolen threads. Hands working with precision, fast knitting what appears to be a sweater. The conversation pauses as one of them lifts to screen their work, as if measuring the evenness of the knit and the length of the sweater."2025-05-1309 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | "Upstairs with Us" In conversation with Sukanya and Tejas - pt. 2Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "And, and we did touch it based upon the perspectives in terms of artist management and audience management. So I had brought about a viewpoint that I personally have. So I'd just like to briefly touch base about it. Like I had the perspective from the old traditional school is that music should only be on stage, you know, where there's no involvement of food or drinks."2025-05-1209 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | "Upstairs with Us" in conversation with Sukanya and Tejas - pt.1Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "These things happen in every concert, but there is a moment where the gas is off, the lights are off, the music has begun, and there is complete silence. And suddenly everything melts away. And it's like, can this be real? You know, could this just be my very ordinary, everyday living room that has suddenly become this? And it's. I mean, we've done so many concerts, more than 20. Every one of them had some moment like that."2025-05-1114 min
Where the Light Gets In@pocketofstories | Talk to your parents. Stay connected. Bonding#relationship #bonding #family #podcastrss #communication Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Hey, swell family. Good morning. What a beautiful topic. As I get ready to prepare for my work day, I really thought I should take some time out to address this topic. How often do you talk to your parents? Every day. It's a ritual. It's a bond that I feel is so, so, so important. Because end of the day, you know, no matter what happens, your parents will always want the best for you."2025-04-2903 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Mental Health - Help me save/guide manage workplace stressClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "We worked together in a previous organization and I am at my wits end because I don't know what to do. I mean, I could just ignore and live my life, but then that's not what friends do. Please suggest what I can do to help this guy."2025-04-2304 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | The Boy Who Grew a Brain: Noah's Incredible JourneyClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "The links of the story is shared in the bio. Please go ahead and watch this documentary and I encourage you to share similar incredible stories of hope and resilience."2025-04-2102 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Up close, and in conversation with people from various walks of life sharing their experiences and insights.Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Hi, my wonderful, swell community folk. Today I'm going to start a new series of interesting set of interviews and they'll go by the title of library of people where I'll have up close conversation with these incredible people who will share their insights and the experience. And so, without further delay, I begin my first interview with Kavita Khanna, who is a successful business leader who emigrated 23 years ago from India to New Zealand."2025-04-1807 minLeanne P.@pocketofstories | How do you define the word friend and are you fortunate enough to have a tried and true one?Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "And then she reached out to me asking if I could be there with her at the time of the birth. And I honestly felt like that was the biggest honor that one could get. It's equivalent to the pridesmaid, I suppose. And I got to hold her baby for the first time was truly, truly, truly touching and truly emotional for me. And there's not a day that I do not forget. I mean, I don't forget to thank God that you always watched."2025-04-1605 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Healing our trauma and scars.Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "And talking about it also is a therapy that will help me understand my more own emotions and probably work out a logical reason that will hopefully help me, you know, think that it's okay and heal from that. One of the things that I have a scar of is the feeling of having failed my parents. My father was a musician and he trained us ever since we were children, you know, in the traditional form of music. And as we grew up, we all made our own choices."2025-04-1605 min
Sarita pramod@OnAcornBay | My Musings - What’s your take?Click here to reply to @OnAcornBay "And it's a Toyota Tacoma and it's a pretty big truck. It's got a five foot bed on the back of it. And I had to back it in. And I just, I'm not very comfortable even using the camera to back in. And it's not because it's difficult, it's because I'm telling myself that. So."2025-04-1504 min
Sarita pramod@AnngieKaye | What’s my best quality?Click here to reply to @AnngieKaye "I remember when my eldest brother passed away, he died in the hospital having surgery, and it was a serious surgery. He was having a. He was having a heart transplant. So you can't get more serious than that, right? And so the whole family's gathered in the waiting room waiting for him to come out of surgery, and he didn't make it."2025-04-1304 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | My Musings - What’s your take?Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Hi swell family. Happy Sunday. It's such a lazy day. I'm just lying, doing nothing, listening to the swell posts and responding to my family. And I really wanted to share a wonderful event I attended yesterday. It was my friend's baby's first birthday and it was so fun because I mean how long has it been since I attended a birthday party? The last I remember are my childhood memories of birthday parties and it being the most important event in my life."2025-04-1303 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | What’s Cooking??Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Hey, swell family. I hope you're doing well. It's a Saturday and it's almost lunchtime, and here I am sitting, thinking of sharing my experience of my struggles with cooking. You see, I love food. I'd like to call myself a foodie because I do not have any restrictions about the food or the palate or the style of cooking. My only problem is I can't replicate what I eat."2025-04-1201 min
Leanne P.@pocketofstories | What is your favorite inspirational quote and why?Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Hi swear listeners. I hope you're doing well. I came across this interesting prompt which said what is your favorite inspirational quote and why? Now, I am not a big fan of autobiographies or self management or management self help books because I feel that somewhere down the line, life is the greatest teacher of all."2025-04-0802 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | What is the most beautiful thing anyone has told youClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "Hi Swear listeners. I hope you're doing well. It's been a long time since I actually did an impromptu post and I really thought I'd love to talk about one of the topics and I want you to share your experience as well. And that would be what was the most beautiful thing that anyone has told you?"2025-04-0601 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | What is your fondest memory?Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "For me, personally, my fondest memory stems from my childhood when my grandfather, who used to stay in south of India, wearing his traditional white shirt, white sarong, which we would call lungi, would enter the house carrying this packet of very nice savories for all the kids. And we used to go home down south of India for a summer vacation. And these savories would be made from fresh oil and fresh ingredients."2025-04-0202 minSarita pramod@pocketofstories | Parents experience as they deal with growing up children.Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "And as parents we had shared concerns because there was so much of socializing and she needed to literally settle down a bit and focus on her career ahead, whether it's, you know, education, whether she wishes to study further or what exactly does she want to do. And this observation was met with a very strong reaction. And that kind of made me wonder that two children never grow up. So the struggles are real."2025-04-0203 min
Sarita pramod@astangi | #motivation #positivity #lifeClick here to reply to @astangi "motivation motivation, आजकल साला social media पर trend bna हुआ कोई deprेशnheehelाf फिर को कोसना की साला सल्फvिक्टमइजेशn खुद ही खुद में कोस रहेंगे। अरे साला जिंदगी नरक बन चुकी है ये है प्लान है बोला नवाजी तो 1 तो साला वो बड़ी गलत चीज है बट अगर लेटर से एक्च्वल में सच में कोई दिक्कत है या कुछ है और कभी कबार पता क्या होता है हम खुद ही अपनी खबर खोद लेते हैं और फिर बोलते हैं अरे यार का जामन मेरे साथ गलत हो रहा है नॉल बट लेटस आपकी जिंदगी में ऐसा कुछ अगर नहीं है कभी तो आप कर ही सकते हैं कि ट्रैवल पर जाओ, दोस्त उठाओ दोस्तों के साथ जाओ और वो भी जैसे कहीं भी मत जाओ गोवा सर पहाडो में जाओ और पहाड़ों में जितना रिमोट अगर आपको शूट करता है उतना रिमोट आप जाइए और 3 से 4 दिन आप रुक के आओ और पहाड़ी जो लोग होते है उनकी तरह लाइफ 1 बार उनके नजरिये जिंदगी जी कर आओ वहाँ पर जीवन जी कर आओ दिनचर्या जो आपको दिखेगी न कि साला शहर जाना पड़ता है 10, 20, 20, 30, 30 किलोमीटर की किसी को तो वहाँ से सामान ऊपर लेकर आना होता है और कई कई लोग तो पैदल जाते है अपने घोड़े पर ले के और क्या ही सीरियसली मैं गया था अभी क्पीरिंसमेतोवहीहै जब अपने घर पर अपने बेड पर आया तो साला वो 1 एनर्जी सी फील होती है की हां साला सब कुछ है अपने पास ईवन मोटिवेशन के लिए भी अपने पास सारी चीजें हैं लाइफ में बस कॉन्टैक्ट्स हैं जैसे फ़ोन में हम साला बस कॉल ही नहीं करते किसी को बात ही नहीं करते किसी से तो यह 1 चीज है इसके अलावा अगर ट्रैवल का सीन नहीं है तो यार मेरे हिसाब से तो से बताओ अल्टीमेट रेमेडी है ट्रेवल लाख दुखों की 1 दवा है और हर चीज का रामबाण इलाज जाइए मोटीवaशoनइसके अलावा मेरा पर्सनल मोटीवेशन सीन क्या है ट्रेन बहुत पसंद है मुझे तो कभी कभी मन करता है तो साला में रेल म्यूजियम चला जाता हूँ मजा और आपको अपना पता होना चाहिए कि साला क्या चीज से आपको मोटीवेशन मिलेगा बाकी तो।"2025-03-1102 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Story: Hukum Chand Part 2Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Hukum Chand Part 2 the rickshaw struggled to survive the competition of e rickshaws. Chand tried other means to supplement his income. His life felt like the struggles would never end. The young woman looked about the area, her eyes searching. So far the houses she had been to had failed to help her locate the one man she had been searching for last three days. Finally someone guided her to a shanty with asbestos roof which was cracked and broken in many places."2025-03-0801 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Story: Hukum Chand Part 1Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Much to her annoyance, wisps of white hair covered his moustache, head and beard. The rickshaws struggled to survive the competition of e rickshaws. Chand tried other means to supplement his income. His life felt like the struggles would never end."2025-03-0804 min
Sarita pramod@Sheena11 | #motivation #positivity #lifeClick here to reply to @Sheena11 "Some experiences they lift us up, while others, they test us. Now in those moments, it's up to us to decide what do we take away from that. Something positive or let negativity take over. What we carry forward from those experiences is what fuels us. Actually. If we choose to focus on the lessons like the growth, the small wins, then that becomes our motivation. See, it's all linked. Now here's the thing."2025-03-0103 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Things we do in the name of loveClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "It was his goodbye and soon the doctors would harvest the organs and the eyes, giving hope and life to so many of the patients desperately in need. He never imagined this day would come soon. They were a team, fighting her battle with depression, determined to defeat this demon. But they lost the battle and she found her peace."2025-02-0804 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | You are your best version when…Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "And the smile that you get in return, helping someone pick extra packages that they're carrying, even if it's for a second, the smile that you get in return. So all I'm trying to say is when it comes to me, apart from all of the things that I talked about being able to own something that you really worked hard for, a house or a car or to be able to travel, there are these additional things that bring out a best version of you."2025-02-0103 minSarita pramod@pocketofstories | Parents experience as they deal with growing up children.Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Hi swell listeners. Good morning, good evening, good afternoon wherever you are in the world. I thought of creating this prompt prompt so that all of us parents can share the experience of us growing up as parents, our experiences in taking care of our children, and share your thoughts and experiences on how you dealt with each scenario in the life that happened right from tummy aches, sleepless nights, kids coming late, teenage problems, growing up, kids problems, stubbornness."2025-01-2501 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | The Flowerwallah (flower seller)Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "The flower vala. Sanjay looked eagerly at the bundles of flowers being lowered from the truck. Soon the bidding would begin for the assembled flowers. You see, the Ghazipur market was one of the oldest market for flowers. Vendors from far and near would flock the market and in the wee hours of the morning try to buy bundles of various variety of flowers for their shops. He knew he had limited resources but if he had to make it big in the market, he would have to take risk."2025-01-2504 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | The power above blessing us in so many small waysClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "I happened to come across this cap at an apothecary shop and I brought it on impulse because during these cold days, this gap is definitely very warming. And it's a beautiful print and a pattern, you know, pleasing to the eye. Blessings. Well, today I drove my kid to the subway to drop her, and on the way back, someone kindly pointed out that I had a puncher."2024-12-2804 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Manifeatation/Vision Board 2025Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Hey, swell listeners. Merry Christmas. It's 6:30 in the morning here in India and Christmas went by peacefully. I came across a lot of these topics which were related to manifestation techniques. And you know how your algorithm works when you start looking at things and then you hear keep on receiving posts about manifestation and manifestation techniques. And then I came across the manifestation or the vision board. I've heard about it so much, but I never bothered about it."2024-12-2602 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | The curious plant Bhulan (Bhoo + lan) Bel (Bae + l). Every traveller’s nightmare.Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "So when you're walking around the forest, look at this picture and identify it and avoid any contact with this plant, because the plant is said to be so potent that even touching it can cause a person to forget their way and become disoriented. Some believe that this Boholin bale is a magical plant, while others believe that it's simply a powerful hallucinogen. Regardless, it's a plant that's shrouded in mystery and intrigue. It's commonly found in the Indian continent, subcontinent and Southeast Asia."2024-12-2103 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Where are we from? Theories about our existence.Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Hi swear listeners. Happy Sunday. I've been long intending to talk about this post and I've always been curious about how we have evolved. Who are we? Where have we come from? And then I saw this post on Facebook which further intrigued me about if the theory of how humans evolved was actually the truth, or there was something else."2024-12-1503 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | If I could get an answer to any question, I would ask...Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "And that's talking to my favorite bunch of people, talking about an interesting topic, and that is if I could get an answer to any question, I would ask, and I would definitely ask God, because I don't know who else can answer my questions, because I have lots and lots and lots of questions to ask. God, why don't you grant all of our wishes to come true? Now, from my perspective, if I was God, I would answer in the following way."2024-12-0702 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | The Lady of the house……..you take the story forwardClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "She pondered what had happened to that loving couple Rhea and Sunil. They were the couple that all parents and in laws refer to their own sons and daughters in laws of what an ideal couple should be. As years rolled by Sunil was very attentive. He was really successful in his job getting one promotion after another. Rhea was also successful in her own right. She helped women set up business small scale industry. Dushi knew nothing about the craft."2024-11-2404 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | I dusted off the cobwebs in my mind, how sweet to find I have always been mine. - unknownClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "I don't know who wrote this, but it's so impressive because come to think of it, from my perspective, cobwebs would be like the doubts, the confusion, the struggle with making a decision, the fear of facing the consequences of that decision. But what happens if you just let go of the doubt and see yourself for who you are? So the part where it says that I have always been mine just reflects that."2024-11-1401 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Some imprints are for life, they just need a little touchup now and then. Sarita PramodClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "We all have relationships with people and they all have this term. Friends, lovers, boyfriends, girlfriends, parents, siblings. So many of them. How many of them actually leave a deep impact on you? And how many of these people have just faded away because life took over and you just did not get time? And from both the sides, people just stopped connecting?"2024-11-0702 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | What is the most painful thing that someone ever told you?Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "So today I'm thinking that maybe I should share this with you and invite you to share something that was so painful to you so that you can share that burden of your mind and let us help you heal from that. For me, personally, the most painful thing that I have been told is that I am not valued by my family, that I am not at an equal standing with them, and that they looked down upon me. The person who said this was someone really close to me."2024-11-0402 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | This is what I like about photographs - they're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.- Jodi PicoultClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "The way I see it, we usually click photographs to capture happy moments, something very precious, something that's really captured our curiosity, something we want to treasure in time so that we have that opportunity to go back and look at that photograph and relive our happy moments. But these days, people also go about capturing their various emotions as well. Photographs as proof for scenes of crimes. Photographs to capture nature's violent reaction. Photographs to capture a rare event. Anything for me."2024-10-2603 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | CuriosityClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "Good morning, swell listeners. It's a beautiful Monday morning. Monday, yes. I have to get ready and leave for work, but I woke up and chose to sit down for a moment to appreciate how beautiful nature is and how subtly the weather changes. Just a few days back it was so hot and you notice the change with days getting shorter and the nights getting longer, but no change in the temperature. And now it's so early in the morning."2024-10-1404 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Ashish Bagrecha - Open Letter. World Mental Health Day Part 1Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Most days blur into nights and both are here. It's a cycle of emptiness so deep it scares me. But sometimes, just sometimes, there are tiny moments of warmth, moments of love, moments of laughter. They are fleeting and they feel far away, but they are the only things that keep me here. Still, loneliness eats away at me. I feel unloved, like there is this bottomless pit inside me that nothing can fill."2024-10-1104 min
Where The Light Gets In | A Swell Community Podcast@pocketofstories | What is something that has helped you in your trauma recovery journey and what advice would you give to other trauma survivors?Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Having said that, for me, the most traumatic phase was the passing of my father. You see, he had a blessed release in the sense that he was not ill or hospitalized or ailing for a long time. But the fact that the passing was so suddenly, it shocked the whole family. All of us were at work or tending to our business far away when we heard the news."2024-10-0604 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | A collection of emotionsClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "A collection of emotions. He opened the door to his bedroom, dropping his bag on the floor, and walked to the full length mirror, his eyes sparkling, the little fairy lights reflecting. He was happy. The time spent playing with his little niece uplifted his soul. The innocent smile and the cute laughter warmed his heart. He placed his hand on his heart and closed it only to open and reveal a pink bow. Today's emotion was happiness."2024-10-0502 minSarita pramod@pocketofstories | Never forget an Insult. Never forget a favor.Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Never forget an insult and never forget a favour the reason why I say never forget an insult it's because we cannot control how someone reacts to us under whatever circumstances and we cannot control or figure out how to control a person from insulting you."2024-10-0204 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | A mix of poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lord ByronClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "And on that cheek, and o'er that brow so soft, so calm, yet a lockhoint the smiles that when the tints that glow but tell of days in goodness spent, a mind at peace with all below at heart whose love is innocent at last."2024-09-0802 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Where is my happiness?Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Hi, swell listeners. I hope you're enjoying a lovely Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon, and in my case, Sunday evening, because Monday is going to begin soon. But I actually wanted to talk about something that I thought of when I attended a session conducted by a transformational philosopher. The question is, where is my happiness?"2024-09-0804 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | My first experience of driving a car was...Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Hi, swell listeners. It's a sleepy, tiring Thursday evening. Yeah, it's Thursday. I can't even remember the day of the week. But I would like to share my first experience of driving a car. You see, I was working with a call center many, many years back, and I always wanted to learn how to drive a car because while working in call center, we used to have the company provided cabs, and the drivers were really good with the driving."2024-09-0504 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | This smell coming from the kitchen gets me in the BEST mood!Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "I've talked about my love for garlic, the spices, everything that you add, the way you add, you know, the portions, the proportions that you add. It changes the flavor, it changes the game of the way you taste and eat food. Which is why the food is the soul. Food tells you story. I have added two pictures. One is a very well known food from south of India that's called idli."2024-08-3003 minSarita pramod@pocketofstories | My favorite true crime documentary or series available to stream right now...Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "And the show's plot, justifies the name of the show as he doesn't call his target by his name, but they are you until how he thought they were. So now, if you talk about acting, I must say it is one of the few shows where almost everyone did a spectacular job on their characters. However, to me, Penn Batley and Victoria pederity stood out the most, as they thought, as they brought Joe cold work and Lau Cohen's character to life."2024-08-3002 min
Global Nightmares@pocketofstories | #GlobalNightmares | My favorite horror film of the year so far...Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "The movie takes place in the small town of tombad where an old demin named Hastar curses a family. The story is about a family's desire to find a hidden treasure that is said to be guarded by a demon. The family members are driven by the desire to find the treasure secret. The cinematography is stunning and the sets and the locations are beautifully made to create a haunting and surreal atmosphere. The actors do a great job of bringing the characters to life with their powerful and nuanced acting."2024-08-2902 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | What is the most beautiful thing someone told you?Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Hi, swear listeners. What a wonderful day it is. And I hope it is a wonderful day going on for you. I came across these social experiment reels on Instagram where the influencer is asking absolute random strangers some questions, asking them to write down and then putting it in a bowl and then reading them out. So I have come up with one taking inspiration from that what is the most beautiful thing someone told you?"2024-08-1902 minSarita pramod@pocketofstories | #AudioCaption | Cartoon 11, A clown in therapyClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "And as you know, clowns have always been mocked upon, looked down, something to laugh at, something that makes someone happy. I feel that that's a symbol of how we have been presenting ourselves to the world, showing that everything is okay, despite the turmoil within us, despite the little worries that, for others may seem insignificant, but means a lot to us. Something that we struggle day to day in our lives, something maybe we are not so free to talk about."2024-08-1904 minSarita pramod@pocketofstories | #AudioCaption | Cartoon 12, Playing chess with DeathClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "And when we go, all that we're carrying with us is this little box of good, precious memories that if God allows us to keep, we get to treasure them forever. And I think one should be grateful to the grim reaper because he or she is doing the toughest job that no one else will take. So it's a wonderful, wonderful audio tune. Share your thoughts. What do you think about it?"2024-08-1301 minSarita pramod@pocketofstories | #ComfortFood | If you were forced to live on a desert island with only 3 ingredients to cook with - what would they be?Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "It's a sacred pact that best friends cannot break. And I think she's a better cook than me, so I definitely want to carry another ingredient apart from the three that's my best friend. What about."2024-08-1002 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | #MemoryLane | A phobia from my childhood years that I managed to overcome...Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Because sometimes doing things alone also has a charm of its own. So the fear of getting lost while traveling, oh, my God, I don't know. It's a new city I'm traveling to for sightseeing. I don't know where to go. Little efforts like research into what all places you want to see beforehand and places where you can stay and what are the resources that you can depend upon can certainly help you, you know, calm your anxiety and that fear."2024-08-0403 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Story of Life. Musing.Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Story of life. I am the darkness and the light is within me. I feel the victory, and yet I am losing the battle within. We all have to pass on one day. And yet we have to fight to live. This is life and this is the story it tells me. Roshani. Who? Meri Ander Jeet hai or Harvey Merahi parjina bizaruri hay hey jivan hair is jivan ka yehi hay, yehi hay yehi hairanguru."2024-08-0301 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | #ComfortFood | A food I ate from another country that helped me fall in love with their culinary culture...Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "I'm totally in love with the korean food. There's tteokbokki, there's bulgogi. I don't even know if I'm pronouncing these right. But the food has one prime factor, which is the sesame seeds. It's sprinkled generously everywhere. And, you know, the food is cooked with such love and such care and such delicacy."2024-07-2704 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | How do you know you are happy???Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Hi, swear listeners. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. I'm just doing this impromptu post, and that post is about a question. How do you know that you are happy? We often claim that you know, we are happy because we don't have any problems. We are happy because everything is good. You're in great health, you have great set of friends, you had a nice warm meal, and you have a bed to sleep."2024-07-1403 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | #MemoryLane | My first bicycle…Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "My eldest sister. And how was it done? She asked me to just hop on the cycle, push the pedal up, put my right foot on the pedal, and push off and try cycling. So that's what I did. And she held onto the back seat for as long as she felt that she could keep up with the pace, and she let go. And what happened to, I was riding the cycle? And she said, look, you're riding the cycle?"2024-07-1103 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | #PhotoStory | A photo of someone that I love or admire who is no longer with us...Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "The other thing, him being empathetic. He believed in us, no matter what. I remember having done so badly in my school exams that I was afraid that I would not pass the school here. And yet he told me, you can do better next time. And that's the only thing he told. He didn't give out advice on how I could do better. He did not tell me that believe in yourself. He just said the same simple you can do better next time."2024-06-2904 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Dont worry so much about love - ebbandflowpoetryClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "Love is the way your heart beats every day and how your body wakes up every morning and how your soul continues to exist so freely. You don't need to worry about love. It's all around you, every day, in every moment. It can reach you at your best. And it will meet you at your worst. There is no force in this world stronger than love."2024-06-2402 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | I Can and I WILLClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "My other alternate personality, which is cynical questioning, doesn't believe in the power of manifestation, questions everything. This is one mantra that actually tells you that if you believe and you convince your mind, because the brain is the supreme power and it can perform miracles. So if you convince yourself I can and I will, and show that determination, you can achieve anything in your life."2024-06-1303 minSarita pramod@pocketofstories | Anne Frank | In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heartClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "But then a 99% of our behavior is primarily governed by the experiences that we have faced. So not everyone is bad. And here's what I do. I'm human too. I get irritated too. I get angry too. But at the end of the day I try to make it a habit to see if there is something nice about this person. And there's rarely a situation where you will not find something good about anyone."2024-06-1202 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | #MemoryLane | A summer vacation ritual with my grandparents I loved as a child...Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "And as you proceeded towards south, it would again turn something like an ochre red. And then there would be the memories of each station, each railway station, you know, stopping at every city having its own speciality of food and sweets. And my father would get off to buy these. And he would also get us bonus of these comic books, which we would exchange with kids staying in the other bogies."2024-06-0804 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | What is your Happiness QuotientClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "When you were a kid, did you use any of these methods to measure how happy, how sad, how frustrated, or how demotivated you were feeling? You didn't, right? You just simply lived the moment and you sensed what you sensed being in the present, and then you moved on. So that brings me to ask you, how do you measure your happiness? What's the priority in your life that determines the level of happiness you have?"2024-06-0602 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Poetry/Musing - The FireClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "You shared all of your blessings with me and with all those around me. And yet we curse you when you treat us with your abundance. We want to call you a dark night, and we hate you when it's raining and you're nowhere to be found. In the end, when I'm old and my time has come, I will warmly embrace you, consigning my body to your warmth. Back to earth, back to the dust."2024-05-2902 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | #PhotoStory | A selfie in an unusual location...Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "But I had such a blast and I thought I would share this. So tell me and share with me your experiences, the graffitis that you saw and you took and your selfies at an unusual location. Take care."2024-05-2602 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | #PhotoStory | A picture from a recent trip...Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Hi swear listeners. I'm going to talk about my favorite trip that I undertake each year and that's towards a city in India called Jaipur, in a state called Rajasthan. It's a beautiful place with a lot of historical significance, lots of monuments, lots of palaces, lots of artifacts, culturally rich and vibrant in color."2024-05-2503 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Relevance. How RELEVANT are YOU?Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Hi dear swear listeners, today I wanted to talk about relevance. I returned to my workplace after a good gap of two weeks, having taken the opportunity of working from elsewhere holidays. But I felt a sense of anxiety as I approached my office, my work table, and felt greatly relieved to see the smiling faces of my colleagues. They welcomed me with a bright high, happy high and big smiles, asking questions where I was. And then it stuck me. There was this coat."2024-05-2302 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | #PhotoStory | A photo I am proud of...Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Because we share so much of things in common, our sense of loyalty, our sense of responsibility towards our parents and our families, our desire to be our individual self and love ourselves again. And with God's grace, I pray that this friendship stays forever. Like, as they say in wedding till death do us apart."2024-05-2101 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Importance of packing tor travelClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "I'd forget my floss, I'd forget a lot of things which I eventually end up going and buying and when I come back home I have surplus of these. So what's your hack to packing? Aptly for a travel? How good are you? Share more."2024-05-2001 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | #MothersDay | Thanking my mom for what makes her special...Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Hi, swell listeners. I'd like to dedicate this song for all our loving mothers. And the mothers to be. Now we want to thank you for the love you give to us. For the secret brother. For the secret of love. Even if tomorrow we're no longer at your side, your love will remain like a light deep within our hearts. Thank you. Because you have given us love, taking only our sorrow and pain. So now I want to thank you, mother."2024-05-1201 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | How vivid is your imagination. The importance of visualisation.Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "I remember visiting All India Radio where one of the rooms was so fascinating. It was a soundproof room and it had props like steps and a door with a door frame to capture the sound of door being shut and things like that. I enjoy listening to the radio while driving and one of my favorite shows is Nilesh Mishra's Yadunka Idiot box. It's so calming to listen to the story narration while my mind played out scene after scene of the actors enacting their roles."2024-05-1002 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | TenacityClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "Life would be boring if you had done it all already, if you had no more room to grow or things to learn. Be patient. Youll eventually figure it all out and everything will make perfect sense. Every experience will get you where youre supposed to be, every loss, every heartbreak, and every mistake. Dont be afraid to mess up and dont expect success overnight and find yourself over and over again. Believe in yourself. Forget about what others think, and trust your journey."2024-05-0301 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Does Manifeststion work or is it a systematic apporach and okan that make things come true?Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Hi swell family listeners. Today I'm just doing an impromptu chat about the fact whether manifestation actually works or is it a proper planning and hard work that makes you achieve or realize your dreams? The reason that I'm talking about this topic today is because I had someone come over to meet me and they saw the house and they really admired the apartment complex where I stayed in, appreciating the tidiness and the organized way that the apartment complex was maintained."2024-05-0102 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | World through the eyes of a little boyClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "He would call all of his friends home. Today everyone would listen to the birthday boy. He would be the most popular as all of the kids wanted to be invited to his birthday party. He was a generous fellow and loved sharing. Happily. He wriggled his little body and went to the bathroom to relieve himself and brush his teeth. He was a big boy and could do all of this by himself. He quickly peeped in the bedroom impatiently. He was relieved to see his parents up and about."2024-04-2804 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | What would you do or say…Click here to reply to @pocketofstories "Her life is in stress, with her traveling back to the country to tend to her terminally ill father and being torn between the sense of duty as a dutiful, loving daughter and being a strong parent to her kids. The kids cannot adapt to her country as they were born to the culture of the country where she resides and she does sense that they will not be comfortable to move. Her husband will never agree to the custody of the kids."2024-04-2403 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Childhood audio memoryClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "The sound of the rope being pulled along the pulley drawing in the water from the well. The sound of water pouring from the bucket onto the drum. The sound of children playing in the yard with their delightful shouts, their laughter, their giggles. The sound of the metal gate opening with a squeaky sound as my grandfather would enter the home, carrying in hand some delicacies that you could smell from far away. The creaking sound of the seesaw as children play."2024-04-2102 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | The family that kills mosquitoes together, stays togetherClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "His wife was frustrated with this lazy no good man and she used to crib and complain asking him to find some work and help. About one day swapping, swatting these pesky flies who behaved just like him. Hovering around and doing nothing. An idea came to his mind. What if he killed a thousand of these flies? It didn't seem like mission impossible. And he went about the task sincerely. And soon enough, the day he killed the thousandth fly he ran about rejoicing in the village."2024-04-1704 min
Sarita pramod@pocketofstories | Trapped MindClick here to reply to @pocketofstories "Can't they hear my cry for help? My throat. My throat is constricted. My mouth is dry. I can't see. I hear my ravaged breathing, my racing heart, blood pounding against my temple. Everything is giving in. I'm sinking. I'm sinking. I am raising my head, head thrown back, eyes wide open. I open my mouth to scream, but no sound escapes me. Body shaking, I draw in deep breaths."2024-04-1302 min