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  • I’ve Got Your Back: On Mentoring and Who Actually Shows Up

    Every trip to India means everyone wants a piece of you. On guidance, generosity, and who gives back.

    Neha Thapar
    September 12, 2019

  • Growing Up: On Family, Marriage and Becoming the Adult

    A 6 am wake-up on a family holiday, and the quiet realisation that you are now the grown-up in the room.

    Neha Thapar
    July 12, 2019

  • The Peace and Quiet: Finding Stillness in Central Park

    Sitting in Central Park surrounded by noise, and feeling genuinely still for the first time in months.

    Neha Thapar
    July 8, 2019

  • The Art of Doing Nothing: My First Three-Week Holiday

    Three weeks of sleeping, eating and reading — and what it revealed about how hard I had been running.

    Neha Thapar
    July 7, 2019

  • A Mother’s Love: Two Weeks Together After Ten Years Apart

    Living with my mother again after a decade of marriage, and the particular comfort nobody else provides.

    Neha Thapar
    May 26, 2019

  • The Actual End Game: Career Advice Nobody Puts on a Panel

    After a panel full of clichéd five-year-plan questions, what people actually queued up to ask me.

    Neha Thapar
    May 1, 2019

  • Chocolate Cake and the Art of Wanting Things

    Imagining exactly what you want down to the last detail, and what happens when reality delivers something else.

    Neha Thapar
    April 7, 2019

  • Long Time No See: What Happens to Every Resolution I Make

    Resolutions fizzle, guilt does the rest. On writing again because the shame finally outweighed the laziness.

    Neha Thapar
    April 3, 2019

  • It’s Time to Go: The Loneliness of Leaving India Again

    Three weeks of family, friends and work ending — and the particular dread of going back to being on your own.

    Neha Thapar
    March 8, 2019

  • Making Friends as an Adult in a New City

    A year alone in San Francisco taught me I am fine on my own — and how much harder adult friendship is to build.

    Neha Thapar
    February 8, 2019

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Glitter in my greys

Because midlife deserves more sparkle and less subtlety.

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