For me, the biggest positive of solo living is the freedom. The freedom to just be yourself. The freedom to do what you want, when you want.

"I used to think that at the rate they worked, men and women both, every single day, they should really be able to advance themselves. But of course, they never received a payment that was appropriate to their labour.”

In Your Blood I Run by Sonia Bhatnagar is a fast-paced, contemplative crime thriller that deals with myriad subjects like mystery, betrayal, love, hope, freedom and desire.

This book reminded me that before being a ‘mother’, my mother is a woman who is subjected to subtle patriarchal oppression of family, which no one talks about because it’s ‘invisible’ to us, or maybe because we have ‘chosen’ to unsee it.

We have been conditioned to feel that wanting money is bad. Money is evil etc. It is not. We need to have a loving respectful relationship with money.