My top posts of 2025

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My top Raw and Real posts of 2025

Hello hello my friend,

As this is the last edition of Raw and Real for the year 2025, I wanted to take a minute to share my top posts of 2025. These are the posts that were loved and read the most by you all. Here you go:

Protect your Sundays at all costs: Treating your Sundays like your working days has led to so many joys being shattered, most of which arise in boredom. I truly truly wish more people read and applied this in their lives. I have now started taking Sunday as a day that does not exist, when it comes to any commitment. Someone wanted to meet on a Saturday but cannot, sure, let’s do Tuesday? Someone else wanted me for a meeting because “Sundays are free”, for them, I have a meeting so I’m busy :) TL;DR: Protect your Sundays at all costs, from almost everyone.

35 unique lessons from 10 years of my career: One of the biggest lesson that I am reflecting on now, is that the days are long and the years are short. Which is why it is important to protect your Sundays too. So that you can reflect and change the course of your life, one week at a time.

10 years in Delhi: With 10 years in career, also come 10 years in Delhi. I promise most of these lessons would be unexpected, which is my job here at Raw and Real :)

One of the most read posts was also “Why I never got married” but because it is only a month old, I think most of you would have already read it. Btw, you know something, a weird thing I noticed with this post was most people hating it were men, and most people agreeing with it, especially in DMs were women. Of course I am blessed with exceptions to it too, but a certain rigging of the data tells us the fact that life after marriage gets better only for men and only worse for women. (I know so many millionaire women who have all the money they need yet it is their responsibility to make sure the home gets decorated on Diwali or the kids get picked up from their classes on time. Even if something else is doing it, the onus is on the woman, which is why I wrote this post. Sad.)

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My favourite blog posts of 2025

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Now that we are done with Raw and Real top 3 editions, if you are someone who likes bite-sized yet valuable wisdom, here are my favourite blog posts from my daily blog (most are less than 100 words) from the year 2025.

I legit scrolled through all the blogs from 2025 (and some from previous years that popped up) and am sharing my personal favourite ones. Hope you get lost reading them that you forget scrolling :)

Here you go. Just tap on the title and you’ll be taken there. (I picked no more than 2 from each month, to keep it short for you. But if you want to read all the blogs of a month together, go over to nishtha dot blog and on the right side you can pick a month. Thank you so very much :)

1. Virat, Taylor, Martin, Messi, and Mom

2. What’s your greatest fear?

3. Ah, the irony

4. If you continue doing genuine work, right people will seek you

5. We eventually move on

6. Stay away from practical people

7. After your first Crore, you are unstoppable

8. Why books matter

9. If you can’t send an email about it

10. Shivers down my spine

11. The colour White

12. The corporate suffering

13. 23 unusual lessons on life, books and people

14. If you are a freelancer. Side note: You can just do things

15. The older I get, the more I realise this

16. Don’t listen to a NO

17. 6 quick truths about epiphany

18. Nowhere (one of my early sonnets of 2025)

19. 11 unspoken, unusual, unreal reasons why we read books

20. 4 short pieces of advice for every girl and every boy

21. Beauty that camera cannot capture

22. The answer to the productivity question

23. How do you part your hair?

24. The trifecta reasons of “bad luck”

25. How I celebrated my Christmas (also this happens to be #25 :))

Hope you enjoy reading them, as much as I enjoyed scrolling through them (and remembering the reasons why I wrote them).

PS: For the next 4 weeks, you will be getting a shorter version of Raw and Real, instead of a longer version. Think of this as my break, but instead of taking a full-fledged break, I am sending shorter versions. The quality will still be the same, that is something I cannot compromise. And let us see how I feel after this tiny break while I continue writing and thinking deeper :)

Alright then my friend, thank you so much for giving me your time. It means the world to me.

Happy New Year to you and yours. I’ll see you as usual, the next Saturday.

Nishtha Gehija

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