I believe that we have been created to create. Here you will find posts and reviews on things I love that help to make life better and more beautiful. Expect to find posts about music I’ve fallen in love with, books that have changed my life and places I have been that have truly opened up my eyes.
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In Conversation with… Shelina Permalloo: BBC Masterchef Winner 2012
When I first started writing for the newspaper here in Mauritius back in 2015, I sat down with le husband and compiled a list of inspiring Mauritian humans that I would like to interview. Shelina Permalloo, the 2012 BBC Masterchef winner, was on that list and...
In Conversation with… Paul Choy: Incredible Photo-Journalist
Paul Choy is a man of many talents but is most well known for his photojournalism – and someone that I am incredibly inspired by in my own work. Anyone will tell you that his work is enriching, moving and beautiful but more impactful for me is the effortless...
What TEDx Plaines Wilhems 2018 Made Me Realise
So something amazing happened recently. I got the chance to go out in the evening ALONE. No girl child crying because she wanted to suckle at my boob and no boy child tugging me in a million different directions. For the first time in over 16 months, I finally...
In Conversation With… Mademoiselle Nomad
I love coming across inspiring people living conscious, mindful lives which is why upon crossing paths with Béa Chan who runs the slow-travel and slow-living blog Mademoiselle Nomad, I knew I had to meet her for an interview. After quickly establishing a friendship in...
Anita Moorjani’s Dying to be Me – My Thoughts
It was around March or April time last year (2017) when I was home alone with the baby who was sleeping soundly in her baby rocking chair, when while flicking through YouTube a suggested TED Talk popped up titled ‘Dying to be me!’. Immediately it caught my attention...
5 Women Who Changed Our World for the Better
Women really are fascinating creatures aren’t they? I guess I’ve only realised this and the true strength and power of women since growing up and becoming one. We are soft enough to be nurturing mothers, yet strong enough to move mountains; we are empathetic enough to...
10 Incredible Women I’m Celebrating this International Women’s Day
I love women. Maybe not in the same way as a red-blooded twenty-two year old male, but I really do. Growing up I guess I didn’t really fully appreciate being a girl. After all, I was born a Pakistani, Muslim female in twentieth century Britain into a working...
Rosa Parks: Sitting Down to Make a Stand
Moving away from social-media-displays-of-affection and pink and red love hearts every which way you look, February is also Black History Month: 28 days devoted to remembering and celebrating the struggles and achievements of black people throughout history, in...
The Magic of Gris-Gris.
They call you wild – and when I first laid my eyes upon you, I was awestruck. Your energy was something else altogether. I imagined falling free off the edge of your cliff and into the thrashing water below; imagining how I would become entangled in your waves;...
Naomi Oni’s Acid Attack Story – My Thoughts
A beautiful, young Naomi Oni’s whole life was turned upside down when she became the victim of an acid attack, aged just 20, on 29th December 2012 as she was completing her journey home after work. I’ve just finished watching the BBC Three documentary produced by RAW,...
Grace Victory: No Filter – My Thoughts
I’m not gonna lie. Now living in Mauritius, one of the things I miss most about England is Amazon Prime and their next day delivery service. That being said, I guess I have to be grateful that I was still able to get a copy of Grace Victory’s No Filter from the UK out to this tiny speck of an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
Seema Jaya Sharma: Forever Alive
Nobody wants to die. You see it everywhere, primarily in the beauty industry where anti-ageing creams are in abundance and posters aimed at over 50’s show completely unrealistic expectations of what you could look like when you’re that age. Everybody wants to look...
Sarabjit Parmar: Writing Books, Climbing Mountains
In my humble 26-or-so years of life, I have met and known so many different types of people; from attention seekers to wall flowers, and from go-getters to those full of excuses. As someone that has always been independent, forward-thinking and with a burning fire in...
In Conversation with Aisha Allee
As an artist and as a writer, I find inspiration in everything: from the way a leaf may fall from a tree in the midst of the Autumn months; from the way the sun may hit the ocean waves and glint ever-so-spectacularly; to the way a child may hold out his hand to...
Paulo Coelho: Adultery – My Thoughts
Paulo Coelho, Brazilian-born author whose works have been published in over eighty languages worldwide, is known for his captivating writing skills which go so much further than just words; exploring identity, spirituality and the inner being in a way which is,...
21st Century Noah’s Ark
Today I watched the movie Noah. It’s a very rare occurrence that I ever get to watch a movie in peace anymore; what, with a 1 year old that doesn’t sleep very well and hasn’t slept very well since he was born. But these are the joys of motherhood: sacrificing your own...
Oh Daughter! What a Debut…
You know that feeling when you hear a piece of music and it just, hits? Well that’s exactly what happened when sitting in a car in an underground car park, I came across this next band on BBC Introducing with Zane Lowe. Daughter, a once solo now three-piece Indie Folk...
Trippin’ With Tobin: An Out-Of-This-World Experience!
Amon Tobin's ISAM 2.0 While the highs of taking drugs can be extraordinary, they say the coming down is the worst bit. But how about if you could feel that same high, that same buzz, that same sense of electricity tingling through the air and your body without the...
‘In A Time Lapse’ With Ludovico Einaudi
Here is an album that is not only beautiful, but an album that is beautifully real; no words, no lyrics, just pure emotive feeling that transforms you from person into pen as you become the words flowing onto the page as the music flows out from somewhere deep...
