Insights, updates, and stories from the Marzi community.
18 August 2026
How painful this emptiness, this hollowness not to be recognised by your mother, a loving, caring mother. To see her staring, with big brown, soulful eyes,…
23 July 2026
For years, life felt like a beautifully paved highway. It was wide, predictable, and comfortably familiar. Every milestone appeared exactly where it was…
23 July 2026
There comes a stage in life when success begins to look different. For some, it is a bigger title. For others, it is a larger home or another milestone to…
23 July 2026
For much of her life, Aparna Sampath rarely paused to ask herself what she truly enjoyed. There was always something more urgent waiting. Education came first,…
23 July 2026
Some people spend their lives collecting answers. Anubha Gupta has spent hers holding on to a question. Why is it so difficult for people to truly connect with…
23 July 2026
Most people do not join a community because of what it says about itself. They join because someone they can relate to already tried it and it worked. These…
10 July 2026
"Angrez chale gaye…Angrezi chhod gaye"… Is English just another language or is it the standard-bearer of social prestige in today’s India? And should it be so?…
7 July 2026
Some dreams are born in the heart long before they find their place in the world. Such was the dream of Mrs. Madhumita Mitra, a woman whose vision transformed…
26 June 2026
Some lives teach us that success is not always achieved through relentless control, planning, or struggle. Instead, they reveal that when we trust life,…
23 June 2026
Love has no age. Throughout my life, I have always believed that relationships are precious and must be nurtured with love, trust, honesty, understanding, and…
23 June 2026
What does ageing on your own terms really look like? In this candid first-person piece, 71-year-old Mohan Krishnan pushes back against the labels, the…
15 June 2026
There are some lives that seem quiet on the surface yet carry within them the power to inspire generations. Sanghamitra Pandey's journey is one such story—a…
11 June 2026
Imagine a world where you don't have to drag yourself out of bed for work, where you can snuggle a little longer, sip your morning tea in bed, or lace up your…
11 June 2026
Some love stories begin with a glance. Some begin with a chance meeting. And then there are those rare romances that begin long before memory itself—quietly,…
9 June 2026
There are some souls who do not become healers because life has been kind to them. They become healers because they have walked through the fire of suffering…
5 June 2026
Life can change in a single moment. The last twelve years have been a journey of heartbreak, healing, resilience, and rediscovering joy after loss. Twelve…
21 May 2026
While praying before a photo of Lord Hanuman one morning, Bharat heard a song on the radio “ Naanu yaaru..? Yaava Ooru?” A famous kannada song meaning, “Who am…
12 May 2026
Many families came to see the house. Some arrived with careful eyes and practical questions. Some spoke softly in corners while mentally arranging furniture…
28 April 2026
This life is enough, isn’t it? To wake, to breathe, to feel the quiet rise of another day. To taste the food you love, to rest beneath a steady roof, to wrap…
9 April 2026
Three months of 2026 have quietly slipped by, almost like pages turning in a book you didn’t realize you were finishing. As I paused to reflect, it felt like…
18 March 2026
At twenty-two, she was young, excited, and quietly nervous, carrying dreams she was only beginning to understand. Yet the greatest miracle of her life was…
13 March 2026
For more than fifty years, I saw the world through glass. From childhood, spectacles rested on my nose, slipping, smudging, fogging in the rain, catching stray…
12 March 2026
Everything important in this story fits into a kitchen drawer. We met during the height of the COVID pandemic. Bela and Shiva were a young couple in their late…
25 February 2026
My colleague and I, engineers at a leading Indian Public Sector Engineering Consultancy firm, after attending an international IT conference in Houston, were…
25 February 2026
Diwali in Salalah felt like bright lights finding us far away from home. In that gentle land of Oman, friends became family. Festivals were not just dates on a…
20 February 2026
On one side stands a woman, called “weak” in hushed whispers, diminished in actions, yet glorified in grand speeches about respect. For centuries, she has been…
17 February 2026
Did You Hear the Bell? Some time ago, I visited a farm with two horses in it. From a distance, each horse looked like any other horse. There was nothing…