Being What I Always Wanted To Be.....

I was never a traveler initially. But then as you grow up... probably the world starts getting smaller for you. Your veranda isn't enough to play; you need a park. Your bicycle isn't enough to ride; you need a motor-bike. Your fountain-pen doesn't make you big enough; you need those fancy gel pens. Then you grow up more and then geographically you feel clogged up ..sometimes bored. You take a random trip maybe within a 500-1000 km of your place and suddenly you find it refreshing. And then you wonder...why didn't I do it before ever? Well...I don't know if it happened with other "lately-declared-travellers" but thats my story. So, then I traveled a little in India... going a little further than 3000 km too and I found it interestingly interesting enough to continue the adventure! One day...out of my utter reluctance also, I got a chance to visit outside country as well. It just gave me wings you can say. I had missed out on a lot of things for hal...

I am a "tomboy" and I have a few confessions to make. First of all we don't like being called "tomboy" because it sounds ridiculous and god knows who the hell invented this great word. Secondly, the person should have been gender-unbiased and should have created the same male title for it too..maybe a "timgirl"..!! They call men who have some "feminine" activities or likings as "gays". Now if the guy is gay, he doesn't care, no matter what the reason is for them to call him that but he is okay being a gay. On the other hand, if he isn't a gay, he would just prove it to them someday, by having a girlfriend, or getting married... having kids and leading a happy life without a male partner. For a "tomboy" girl, she might die with the same tag. But, we ..whom you entitle as tomboy and smile over it...I want to give you a moment of truth here. You chose to call us "tomboy" because we might not have a nai...

It is the age of technology. The age of lack of time and overdose of curiosity. What we lack otherwise and don't think of it is how to make all this constructive. It is like a superpower that we have but we are waiting for a super-hero to come and show it off. But why not us? Everyone of us has this authority and right to choose our representative. The one who will decide or be responsible for my community (infrastructure, maintenance), my child's future (education, background, facilities), my future (employment, industrial growth) and my country's development in the international progress chart. On the other hand, in this generation, everyone of us has this other super-power called technology. I use it for facebook-ing, for spying on other people's lives, for showing off my own life, and the list goes on. And it all happens just on a single tap on my cell-phone anytime, anywhere (24x7). But does these actions of mine help my community in anyway? Naah..!! What does ...

No matter how independent or strong you are. No matter how gender-unbiased you are. No matter how you think/talk about women-power or women-strength…being a part of this society since your birth makes you weak in mind. You talk about taking stands and talking for yourself. You talk about being your own protector…your own spokesperson. You talk about being a fighter as strength lies in your heart and not in your body…but still you are only just a theory. This society breeds it inside you and makes you dependent on the male part of the society. You look upto them to take a stand for you. You want them to smash someone’s face who eve-teased you last night. You want them to be your spokesperson somewhere in your heart so that the audience might get a more effective impact. Is it fair to yourself? Women are not weak. They need no strong shoulders to cry on. They can cope up all hurdles and survive through the worst. And they don’t even have to fight for it. Because it is the patie...

When it comes to memory, it becomes difficult to tag just one as the "most precious". And when the snippets are related from your friends, it makes you a little nostalgic too realising that "those were the days" and now the days have changed and grown. Sigh...! Well...remembering the funny moments, I remember the tickling days when I would say I and my friend were half grown when it came to maturity. You know the college kids? ..who have just passed out from a student life and have entered into a formal corporate world and you are suddenly expected to grow 10 years to your age? Well...it never happens as it is expected. Infact, you try and suppress others to 10 years younger to fit in to your group. They say you never make friends in office. All you have can be tagged under only colleagues, teammates, competitors etc. But I have been lucky enough to have been blessed with a friend-for-life from an unexpected venue! :-) When it comes to stories..we have innume...

When we talk about nation and its future, youth or kids is the first category which gains our attention. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter whether your kid has a strong financial background or high scores in mathematics, what matters is how he copes up and survives in this world. And when it comes to a competitive country like ours, our responsibility should be to teach our future generations to think ahead of winning a cut-throat competition. People raise so many concerns and crib for their own nation calling it corrupt, unhygienic, polluted, non-systematic and what not. Do they ever feel or think about the fact that they are an active contributor for these loop-holes? How many of them haven't been a part of corruption? Giving a Rs. 100/- note to that traffic policeman for not wearing helmet or entering into a one-way. Giving that background check officer some under-the-table sweets for a smooth process of their passport generation. Giving a policeman a little b...

There are times when things are just clogging up your mind too much. You project yourself as a different personality though. Because if you don't do that, you might not be able to cope up a day with such burden. However, as soon as there is a chance of you getting some idle time, you go back to the tensions, burdens and the strategies to solve them. While all this is happening, you have the least idea that in order to hold yourself, you are losing others around you. Mostly, it is unintentionally or subconsciously and other times it is happening because you are just avoiding it as a part of your deal. At such time, if the other person is also a part of these hectic chores, he might want or expect something else from you. And you both might be avoiding to bring these things up to avoid another pinch of salt. Eventually, it comes out and erupts like a volcano. You never knew that the other person started having grudges meanwhile and there is so much inside him against you. You...