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Doodle by Shubha, Malden, MA (2026)

11/27/2024

Ladies and Gentlemen Untalees!! Happiest 39th Maa Papa! ❤️ Wow what a team you have built, from one tiny place in a small town in MP to today, how far we have come! You both have always taught us the magic of willpower, honest intentions and warmth. We are blessed to have a beautiful home full of laughter and love. You have always chosen love and kindness above everything else, be it for your daughter, son, and now daughter in law! We are so blessed, that you are our roots, we have learned from the best, thank you for everything Maa Papa thank you for building this wonderful Home Team!
We have seen so many ups and downs as a family, far too much for a lifetime, but because of you both, we count nothing but our blessings. Papa aapki baat hamesha yaad rehti hai-"Ghoom liya humne jag sara, apna ghar hai sabse pyara". Aur ise itna pyara banane ke piche ki mehnat ke liye shukriya. Happy 39th captains. We love you. It's a usual day at Shrivastavas🌻neerja .skreft .khandelwal12

09/13/2024

Hi, table for one, or ticket for one! I say this and see people's reactions, surprised, sad, disappointed and what not. Be it at a cafe or while travelling, I remember a sleepy head ticket guard at a monastery in Sikkim, he asked me again, "Madam akele aaya?" and gave me the sweetest smile. This tells a lot, although I do enjoy meals with family and friends but absolutely enjoy my own company most of the time, maybe with my favourite author or sketchbook. At times, talking and sharing with friends or my brother feels like an obligation, I am slowly learning to hold my thoughts and let it sync in, take space under the skin and find ways to reach me. A corporate job, daily roles and responsibilities and your own expectations can take a toll on yourself. Sometimes it takes a while to trace back the feeling and label it or just identify it. This is when I ask 'table for one' , here I bring my slow brewing thoughts, raw anxious being, and hoping it can marinate a bit in peace and solace. I love watching people around, Sketch them, guess what they would be thinking or juxtapose visuals with dialogues in my head. And at times, amidst all this, I find my own voice, what I wanted to express. The new, unfamiliar space, faces allow me to be anything I want to, 'I don't have to' anything. All this bring me one step closer to understanding self, being more accepting and creating more space for all the thoughts to exist. While I do all this, the perks are discovering new places, smiling strangers and experimenting with new food! Hilariously in all this, cafes don't know how to serve 'Table for one', a story for some other time. For now, table for one please, because, long story short, I don't share food!

06/29/2024

Life has been feeling like drama lately, filled with intense emotions, ups and downs, with crazy plot twists. But taking a step back, to my last month's or last year's worries, everything appears like a hilarious comedy of errors, where every day absurdity is a comic material for the future.
I am sure the current melodrama and what looks like unbearable heaviness of being will soon break open into sidesplitting comedy. Juggling with a job, taking care of people at home, managing health, and 'oh god save me, I have to eat healthy' plus some philosophy classes and million other enrollments- at times all these things demand my time and attention, all at once! Going by this, I can't wait to laugh at this situation, and not take all the heaviness seriously. I am learning to enjoy the absurdity of things, and how nothing is permanent. What goes out of the window, hence is obsession with perfection, which keeps me tensed and gives Meena Kumari syndrome!

I have realised, to be able to find humor in our struggles is such an underrated survival hack! Needless to say, to be able to laugh at oneself is the biggest form of liberation. While I learn to foresee comedy, it's business as usual.

02/21/2024

Chit-chit...Mornings these days! I get up with the sadistic Chit-chat chit sound, but omg looking at mom in this mode is scary, after dengue there's no stopping mom, with the mosquito HIT racket she enters the hallway and my room as nothing less than a seasoned tennis player, almost winning, looking to settle the final score. She is serious and she means business. This racket sport is deadly and mom plays only to win. What do I do? dare I say anything to the Mom, I help her in spotting little monsters, and clap for each win. And her look after finishing a swarm of black, buzzing, invisible to the eye creatures is even deadly!
Ok bye, Mom is up now with a HIT, I am taking in charge of being the spot girl!

11/30/2023

Kahani tumhari hai, ho sakte to Kamal likhna... It's your story, if possible, write a wonderful one!
To my little brother and his loveliest partner, here's a heartfelt doodley wishes for life ahead. There are so many things I couldn't say during 'Kisse Kahani' but we have a lifetime to share stories...my only wish now for both of you is to celebrate your journey together. Cheers to the unwritten chapters, full of hope, joy, symphony of shared dreams and endless growth. There will be seasons that will teach you, encourage you and nurture you, nonetheless, don't forget you are the creator of this beautiful story, afterall, kahani tumhari hai, ho sakte to Kamal likhna.
I can't wait to witness the love, to support you both and celebrate with you. You two always have a special place in my heart. .khandelwal12 Welcome to the family, we have waited a long time. This time, my dialogue changes to "For you both, a thousand times over" 😘😘reft .khandelwal12

Credits for the caption "kahani tumhari hai ho sakte to Kamal likhna" to

11/12/2023

Happy Diwali 🎇🪔
May you enjoy and cherish this Diwali doing what you love, like my dad here. Nothing, absolutely nothing interests him more than fused bulbs, challenging complex lights, extension, connectors and what not! At Shrivastava household Papa is an electrician for the season! Nonetheless, this is his happiness, so be it, while we enjoy clicking pictures and giggling in the lil balcony. Diwali in apartments is reduced to overloading the balcony with all the love we can! This little place had to compensate for our childhood varanda, garden and what not! Here's wishing you all, loveliest and warmest greetings for Diwali and the prosperous new year! Shubh Deepawali🪔

09/24/2023

'Girl with Hyderabadi pearl earring', inspired by Vermeer's masterpiece and life's fatigue...

Thought behind this doodle..."Nothing makes sense why should I?" I heard this statement in one of 's workshop. (Thanks Dhwani). This prevailing thought dominates my days lately, as I struggle with fatigue and exhaustion. Everything is a checklist and ah it's unending!

I happened to pick up a book on art history and Vermeer's painting 'Girl with a pearl earring' caught my attention. The girl's gaze looked like she had experienced the burdens of existence or adulting. Her eyes hold a hint of something profound, I wonder if she too even felt the weight of unending demands. Her pearl earring still is a symbol of elegance and allure. At that moment I found myself appreciating this masterpiece. Cut to the next moment, I had to get groceries, lol. Here's doodling 'A girl with Hyderabadi pearl earrings'. What better I could have done to get rid of this tiredness than doodling. Long time, but I am glad I did. Although, I was getting into the same pressure again while doodling, but had to remind myself that I am doing this to get my mind off the checklist and this is not supposed to be another task! Enjoy the lil doodle, and try to take the coming week 'light'!

03/07/2023

"Relax it's not a competition" this is nothing but the lightness of being, in the moment, free from the chatters of mind, constant comparisons, criticisms and what not! Through yoga I am learning to focus on my breathing and balance, well it's pretty much everything that's needed. I try to challenge my limits and unlock newer levels of understanding about my own self. This would not have been possible if I would have continued to give in to the worldly self, there's a sense of belief in oneself that's needed to allow us to just be, be the real version. This lightness doesn't make life less meaningful it takes away the unnecessary burdens and learned patterns that we carry. Dare I mention 's eternal return, nah, I want to keep this one 'light'... Let's affirm and enjoy the lightness of just being, here in this moment! ( insert ude khule aasma main khwabo ke parinde...😅)

02/24/2023

Oh Hello! It's been looong!
Still had no clue about what to doodle, so here's a quick one showing what I am upto.... the only good thing that keeps me sane these days is Yoga! I am hoping to keep doodling more now, the hiatus is over yayy!

Yoga inspiration credit to my lovely and super amazing mentor .yoga.
And illustration inspiration by my fav Lekha Sukprasert, one of her series really pushed me to just start!

Thank you for your patience and asking me about illustrations, I promise to keep at it!✨

07/17/2022

Because how can I miss adding this here and mom reminded me of this!
An illustration made from the heart for my fav Yati didi...

All this while I was thinking of you Yati didi. Thank you, you show me how to love by just being you. I would have never believed that one day I can talk about my worst fears so easily. When I thought I know what my limitations are you appeared just to give me that one line, that one smile or one paragraph to read only to make me unlearn the very meaning of limitation. Thank you for your patience, I thought I have seen worst, I have had faced enough violence for a lifetime, thank you for helping me know once again that this strength is only to make me more stronger, life goes on. Just like it always goes on. I am amazed for how can you expand your sense of self of much that you can feel others. Everyday I am humbled to know you. The knowledge you share. Life maybe hard, but I feel blessed. I am so much in awe of the divine mother, mentors, mothers and sisters I meet. You and Lakshmi bhabhi are so precious. Here's a token of love for you, it's not perfect, I never wanted it to be, I just wanted to capture that moment during one of our zoom calls when you looked absolutely divine, it's my favourite ♥️ thank you Yati didi. I love you so much. Can't say this enough, I don't know what's holding back in expressing love is. You will hear this so many million times more!!!

Guru purnima ki bohot shubhkamnaye.

07/08/2022

Been so long !!

Here's something on Maa's request...
I haven't seen a Chai-lover like her 🌟
This was actually her comment when I was talking something about property she mentioned her priorities clearly- proper tea! Point duly noted Maa! Some light moment in otherwise gloomy rainy day!
Cheers!

04/19/2022

Doodle based on Books
Wow I made it sound like Movies based on Books!!, I can be really animated...(anxious self laughing!)

"Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? "...(From Goodreads)

Magical realism, not really my regular reads, maybe that's why I am finding this idea quite exciting. But this book is so far pretty interesting specially when I am questioning a lot of my choices and decisions!! Didn't get a chance to read much this month but I am on it, for now this fuels in the creative cravings.

Do share your favourite fiction list- I am really a beginner when it comes to fiction!

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