Koel Purie Rinchet

Who are the heroes and who are the villains? Every story has good guys and bad guys and the best stories are when the bad guys, unexpectedly, do good deeds.

Getting out of the house is a contra-pandemic paraphernalia pandemonium.

How will unpausing play out? Will we be kinder to others, or treat them like culpable carriers of contagion and cross the road?

We all need to do a better job with our boys, or else stop calling them our boys and ensure that they are cast aside to rot alone.

Find your own metaphors but let death be part of life so that you can live to the fullest, fearlessly.

This new normal needs new rules.

For years women have been told to behave like men when they lead. Yet, the countries that are coping well with the Covid crisis, are all led by women. Is it time for a role reversal?

I’m still waiting for my eureka moment of perspective, where not going out makes me go within and I no longer feel the need to bang books on my head.

The Covid-19 crisis has laid bare leadership in each country, sealing the fate of its people as an invisible enemy wreaks havoc.

This is your time. Detox from the forwards, the news and your phone for half a day and make an effort to connect to whoever is in front of you, even if the only person with you is the one in the mirror.

Contrary to popular thought, toilet paper is not the new gold. Regardless of the panic hoarding, the world is unlikely to run out of it anytime soon. Facemasks, on the other hand, have been rendered real gold.

All we have to do to win this war is watch the free TV, eat the delivered food, read to our children, sanitise and stay in. Impossible for us undisciplined Parisians addicted to being outside.

The casual ease of her demeanour is immensely attractive.

These women genuinely believe they have convincingly fooled the world and that in reality they just got lucky.

Don’t be the horrible, obnoxious traveller.

It is an electric assist bicycle that comes with a rechargeable battery and helps you whiz uphill, lugging groceries, multiple children, dogs, plants, strollers and more.

The monotony and friction of shared parenthood build walls of exhausted boredom around the most romantic of us.

'Friend-fluence' is not to be underestimated.

Giving your children the skill to survive is essential to nurture them into becoming a happy well-rounded person.

The problems arise when we start buying other people’s string of fairytale moments as their uninterrupted reality.

The flower does not lose its exquisiteness by being temporary. If anything, its ephemeral nature adds to its appeal.

Listening to the brave women, you drew strength and felt motivated to conquer all the big and small demons in your own life.

I wonder if it’s the same for powerful women — do they scare or attract?

It's the kind of festival that brings a free-for-all anything-goes mad freedom.

The problem is I genuinely believe I have more time than I do.

I wonder why do these women lose their humanity when they gain wealth.

Number 11 - People who get cross if you don’t answer their message within 20 seconds of reading it.

'I have to do double the work just to get to work.'

Going by the name of the tour — 'Not in this lifetime' — I don’t think they themselves believed they would.