Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Swapna Kishore ... some misc personal stuff... ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://swapnawrites.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Blog... Observations, concerns, personal updates](https://swapnawrites.com/blog/) - Blog entries on a variety of topics. - [The plastic magnet tree](https://swapnawrites.com/the-plastic-magnet-tree/) - On the littering habits again, with pictures... - [Revisiting favorite books: On the Beach, Nevil Shute](https://swapnawrites.com/revisiting-favorite-books-on-the-beach-nevil-shute/) - I love reading books. My detailed comments on a favorite: On the Beach, by Nevil Shute - [Let's hear (read) it for mindless, multi-tasked exercise](https://swapnawrites.com/lets-hear-read-it-for-mindless-multi-tasked-exercise/) - One of those funny things about exercise (at least for me), is how, no matter how much time I might have whiled away in stuff I can't remember, I'm usually pretty sure that my falling back on my to-do list is correlated to the few minutes I spared for meaningful exercise. Now don't get me - [About this blog](https://swapnawrites.com/about-this-blog/) - This blog is for general personal entries for miscellaneous topics. Dementia and caregiving specific entries may be seen at my other blog at https://swapnawrites.wordpress.com - [Using my procrastination mood to create a book trailer video](https://swapnawrites.com/using-my-procrastination-mood-to-create-a-book-trailer-video/) - Creating a book trailer for my business novel, Aligning Ferret, and finding more interesting ways to procrastinate and feel good about it - [Quick announcement for new ebooks I have published](https://swapnawrites.com/quick-announcements-for-new-ebooks-i-have-published/) - Information on 2 Kindle ebooks authored: Aligning Ferret: How an Organization Meets Extraordinary Challenges, AND Quiz Book on CMMI® - SVC (v1.3) - [Year 2013 so far: movies I enjoyed - Kai Po Che, Special 26](https://swapnawrites.com/year-2013-so-far-movies-i-enjoyed-kai-po-che-special-26/) - Comments on two Hindi movies, I have seen recently and enjoyed: Kai Po Che, and Special 26 - [On the convention that women should be (called) beautiful...](https://swapnawrites.com/on-the-convention-that-women-should-be-called-beautiful/) - I am dismayed at how "beauty" is so often a criteria for women. Some thoughts... - [An excellent trip to Mysore Zoo](https://swapnawrites.com/an-excellent-trip-to-mysore-zoo/) - About a trip to Mysore zoo, and some pictures...I've seen zoos when I was a kid, and also when I was taking my son around. Usually I find them somewhat interesting for the first hour or so, after which my focus shifts to finding the way out. Animals don't always pose well enough, the enclosures smell, the write-ups are faded and unreadable, and often describing a different animal from the one in the enclosure. - [Unexpected flashes of brilliant blue](https://swapnawrites.com/unexpected-flashes-of-brilliant-blue/) - At a lakeside in Mysore - [A hot day, buttermilk, and the satisfied discards of the litter-ati](https://swapnawrites.com/a-hot-day-buttermilk-and-the-satisfied-discards-of-the-litter-ati/) - A pictorial story describing a day when I saw people start littering...So, right in front of our car is a bus. And somewhere, way ahead, is a closed railway gate. It's a hot day. The bus is a long-distance bus, but not of the luxury sort. - [Litter, litter everywhere](https://swapnawrites.com/litter-litter-everywhere/) - Littering is a concern area of mine. Some observations and pictures of littering around religious places and tourist spots...There are many awareness campaigns around us on waste management and waste segregation, because our cities seem to be bursting with all sorts of jumbled and unnecessary waste. - [Learning vector graphics using Inkscape](https://swapnawrites.com/learning-vector-graphics-using-inkscape/) - My experiments with learning vector graphics by using the free software, Inkscape - [Mangalore museum, Gandhi letters](https://swapnawrites.com/mangalore-museum-gandhi-letters/) - An unexpected slice of history in a dusty display in a Mangalore museum - [Tree nests](https://swapnawrites.com/tree-nests-of-weaver-ants/) - On walks, tree nests, ants, and getting puzzled...A few days ago, I spotted some tree nests during my morning walk. They looked unusual, so I stood around for a while, hoping to see some birds descend and start feeding their young ones. - [From gobbling paper books to byting ebooks](https://swapnawrites.com/from-gobbling-paper-books-to-byting-ebooks/) - My reading habits, paper books, ebooks, overloaded shelves...I've always loved books. Always read a lot through libraries, and bought a lot of books. As my father was often transferred, this sometimes ended up in a race where I would buy books and my mother would persuade me to give them away, and many of my favorite purchases (huge piles of comics, lots of other stuff including Agatha Christies, Perry Mason and Chase) would vanish between the times I would go to hostel and return for vacations at a new location where my father had next got transferred. - [Monkeys and writing speculative fiction for persons outside India](https://swapnawrites.com/monkeys-and-writing-speculative-fiction-for-persons-outside-india/) - I've always taken monkeys for granted, but it's when I got comments on stories I had written that I realized how strange this sounds to persons in other countries . - [Morning greetings from spotted owlets](https://swapnawrites.com/morning-greetings-from-spotted-owlets/) - Morning walk and a tree with spotted owlets, including pictures...When I'm in Mysore, there's a tree I usually pass on my morning walks, and it is a tired-looking gnarled tree with a rather dark and big tree hollow. I often find a pair of spotted owlets on the dried branches. They stare down at me with their wise eyes. It's a great way to start a day. - [Hunting for post boxes in this send-by-courier era](https://swapnawrites.com/hunting-for-post-boxes-in-this-send-by-courier-era/) - With the use of courier services growing, the old-fashioned way of using post is reducing. As the daughter of someone who worked for the postal department, I am sometimes disoriented by the change, even as I move with the times - [Childhood memories, cities that change](https://swapnawrites.com/childhood-memories-cities-that-change/) - The best memories of my childhood are of a Patna that is very different from what it probably is now... - [The flower that predicts](https://swapnawrites.com/the-flower-that-predicts/) - On childhood memories of days when plucking petals was supposed to predict what was going to happen... ## Pages - [Welcome to my site](https://swapnawrites.com/) - Swapna writes is Swapna Kishore's site: Sharing thoughts, updates, and resources on writing speculative fiction, on caregiving and dementia, and whatever else… - [Being a dementia caregiver and volunteer](https://swapnawrites.com/being-a-dementia-caregiver/) - Section with pages related to being a dementia caregiver in India < Swapna Kishore - [For caregivers: Accepting the diagnosis, understanding dementia](https://swapnawrites.com/being-a-dementia-caregiver/introduction-to-dementia/) - When someone in our family is diagnosed with dementia, it is a difficult diagnosis to understand and adjust to, partly because we do not know what dementia is, and partly because a lot of what we hear when the diagnosis is given is so clinical and remote that we do not understand how it will affect the persons with dementia or people around them. - [Short stories, essays, humor pieces](https://swapnawrites.com/my-creative-writing/short-stories-essays-humor-pieces/) - List of Swapna Kishore's published short stories, essays and humor pieces, including SF/F stories - [Privacy Policy](https://swapnawrites.com/privacy-policy/) - This page contains the privacy and cookie-related policy for this website, https://swapnawrites.com. Briefly: We do not ask you for any personal data to use this site (name, address, etc.) The only data we gather is related to the way you use the site. We keep personal data collection to a minimum and only collect data - [Published Books](https://swapnawrites.com/my-creative-writing/published-books/) - Swapna Kishore's published books, including business novel Aligning Ferret, various quiz books on quality process frameworks, and also books on quality models, software estimation, SQL, etc. - [Sharing Experiences: Dementia Caregivers in India](https://swapnawrites.com/being-a-dementia-caregiver/india-dementia-caregivers-share-experiences/) - Some links and information for experiences that some dementia caregivers in India have shared online; Sharing Experiences: Dementia Caregivers in India < Swapna Kishore - [Contact me](https://swapnawrites.com/contact-me/) - Contact information of Swapna Kishore. Do write in to share thoughts on dementia/care concerns, tips, problems, or about joys and travails of life as fellow fiction writers,or any other stuff. - [Published Writing](https://swapnawrites.com/my-creative-writing/) - My professional work has always involved writing. After completing my studies (IIT Delhi, 1978, and IIM Ahmedabad, 1981), I opted for software engineering, so my first pieces of creation (one could almost say fiction) were in COBOL and other such languages. Over the years, as I continued to work in the area of software engineering/ - [For caregivers: What dementia caregiving involves in real life](https://swapnawrites.com/being-a-dementia-caregiver/caregiving-and-dementia/) - Dementia caregiving is different from living with normal elders, and family members have to understand and plan for it rather than assume it will happen automatically. Links for relevant dementia caregiver resources. - [Site Map](https://swapnawrites.com/site-map/) - The site map for Swapna Kishore's site - [My availability for supporting dementia caregivers in India](https://swapnawrites.com/being-a-dementia-caregiver/my-availability-for-supporting-fellow-caregivers/) - I create and maintain online resources for family caregivers of persons with dementia in India. I have created websites and videos in English and Hindi, and I also blog about my personal caregiving experiences and my observations and suggestions as a volunteer. - [For volunteers: Resources and Ideas for volunteers helping dementia caregivers](https://swapnawrites.com/being-a-dementia-caregiver/resources-for-volunteers-for-dementia-care/) - Pointers to a section that discusses what volunteers can consider if they wish to contribute to dementia care, and also provide resources for volunteers. ## Categories - [Uncategorized](https://swapnawrites.com/category/uncategorized/) - [Nature/ Walks/ Travel/ Tourism](https://swapnawrites.com/category/nature-walks-travel/) - [Concern areas](https://swapnawrites.com/category/concern-areas/) - [Memories](https://swapnawrites.com/category/memories/) - [Random observations and musings](https://swapnawrites.com/category/observations-on-life/) - [Books and Movies](https://swapnawrites.com/category/books-and-movies/) - [Stuff I Do (Supporting Dementia Care, Writing fiction and non-fiction, etc.)](https://swapnawrites.com/category/stuff-i-do/) - 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