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

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...

A few days ago, my would-be-life-partner told me that I might not know but "I hate men"! I was shocked to hear that. I didn't believe at first and also thought of snapping out at him. But somewhere I had a doubt...do I actually hate men? :-P I then started analyzing myself next day onwards- I was coming out very strong on feminine issues.  I was sharing all "MARD (Men against Rape and Discrimination)" photos on facebook. I even bought one of those t-shirts too!  I murmured "pervert" to every itchy guy I see on the bus. I was raising my voice and coming out strong for all wrong-doings done by the men in my office too!! I pity on every pregnant woman I see while commuting and imagine that why her useless husband is not picking and dropping her in this condition? So maybe without realising, or without intending, I had actually started hating men!! But this is not good ..! To support a side, you don't have to oppose the other and we can...

Sometimes .. all you want is to be an anonymous. Because if people know you, they know you too much. And that gives them a lot of freedom of being deceptive and then defending themselves for not being a liar. Deception is just another form of lying is what I feel. Either you say the full truth or lie. There is nothing like "half truth" or "I didn't lie, I just didn't say the truth", etc. I am reading the Shiva trilogy these days, and it is quoted in the 3rd volume- "There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist." Simply said but magnificently revealed. The problem lies when in "your truth"  you try to mix it with other's version of truth and create a cocktail. In a way, you will prove that you didn't lie and thus you are not at fault. But I am too idealistic to fall into that. Life tests you everyday. And there is no correct answer to any of its questions. It is only the honesty o...

These customer care executives have irritated me so much that I am giving them a space on my blog also..!! First there is a long set of buttons that you have to press to reach that executive's extension. And after each button-press, there is an offer announcement which you can't skip or mute. After losing your mind halfway, you get to know that all the customer care executives are busy attending other customers. WTF??! Do other customers not have to go through this Chakravyuh ?? Anyway...waiting is the only option. Meanwhile they keep playing their product song again and again and again. Can't you play some variety?? Anyway..it shouldn't take too long so I shouldn't bother much. The last time that recorded voice told me that approximate time of attending my call by their executive is 3 minutes. So this is how it goes.. 3 (I am rubbing my forehead) 2 (I am cursing) 1 ( come on..come on..come on...) .... The approximate time of attending your call by our exe...