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A View on Perspective and its significance in the troubled times.

Perspective is a potent force in our lives. It shapes the way we look at things. Through perspective, we interpret our emotions and those of others and give meaning to the actions and events of the people that surround us. It is the perspective through which we make sense of this continuously unfolding mystery called life. Two people can look at the exact same situation in widely differing ways…

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#covid #hope #perspective

A Place Beyond Time.

Nothing goes away, I like to believe, and in this belief, I imagine that somewhere far away a place exists, a place beyond this life, where all the time we spent together stands preserved, stands unaltered despite the passage of time. Every laughter we laughed, each touch we touched, those caresses, our every whisper, these and more, all such moments, they all still stand as is, to be lived…

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#memories

The Paradox of The Weekend Time.

Do you wake up on Mondays with deep regret for having wasted the weekend? I do almost every Monday. Accompanies this feeling is strong bafflement at the briskness with which the weekend seemed to have just vanished away? So quickly, like a flash! What stings me even more, is the memory of that moment on Friday evening when after turning off the office laptop, I had gotten up from the chair with…

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Why Do Parents Love Their Children So Much?

Like any parent, I am in love with my kid. He is six and a half months old boy, really chirpy, extremely playful, and already the most important person in my life. The more I spend time with him, the greater my attachment for him becomes. Only yesterday after I heard him crying in the bedroom and mistakenly assumed that he had fallen, the resulting deluge of pain & shock that washed over me…

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#parents

When Autocracy works in guise of Democracy — The Efforts of Indian Government to Clamp Down Media.

A couple of months back, when China acknowledged the death of six of its soldiers in the Galway-Valley Clash with India, the communist country was accused of using the sacrifice of its soldiers to arouse nationalistic fervour and jingoistic passion in the people of China. Instead of paying a genuine tribute to the dead, China had come out with woven narratives about the dead. This attempt was too…

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The Farce Called Democracy in India — Who is Responsible for the India's Rising Cases in India?

The Farce Called Democracy in India — Who is Responsible for the India’s Rising Cases in India?

A few days back, a post by the Chinese government official account appeared on Twitter. It had two pictures side by side – one of a Chinese rocket flying off into space and the other of a pyre, its fire rising up high in the night sky. The caption read – Lighting a fire in China Vs lighting a fire in India. Looking over the total lack of empathy of this tweet (it shows how low China can get in…

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#coronavirus

The Art Of Making Shopping an Experience — Immersive Shopping at Ikea

Today, my wife and I went shopping at the Bletchley branch of Ikea. Over the last few weeks, the items on our household to-buy list had grown significantly, and we thought of getting them in one visit to Ikea. I must confess that we could have got the items on our list in the nearby shopping centre (albeit in multiple shops.) Still, we chose to go to Ikea as going to Ikea is not merely shopping…

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#ikea #shopping

The Biggest Problem Facing India Today.

The biggest problem facing India today is not widespread poverty or rampant corruption, or even crippling illiteracy. No, the biggest problem impeding India today is the apathy that defines ninety per cent of Indians’ outlook towards the nation’s care and concerns. Ask any Indian about any recent news of corruption, or an ongoing riot in some part of the country, or the fallen standards of…

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#india

Kangana latest Tweet Controversy and Perils of Star's Massive Following on Social Media

Kangana latest Tweet Controversy and Perils of Star’s Massive Following on Social Media

The recent controversial tweets by Kangana Ranaut might still be, for many, one more childish utterance by a celebrity that could be ignored as a one-off thing. But, for me, it is the final confirmation that once the pall-bearer of women in Bollywood, the one who stood out as a lonely star in the dark nepotism sky of Bollywood, has finally lost it. Her latest tweet, which glorifies one of the…

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#bollywood

What Friendship means after you turn thirty?

I have been thinking about this for some time now. Friendship, what does it mean when we are no more around with friends the way we are used to schools and colleges. When we can’t drop everything and be available for our friends with only a phone call; when we don’t meet each other every other day; when we don’t do movie marathons on weekends nights; when we don’t hang out in malls, go on drives…

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#friendship

The Biggest Health Crisis and No Press Conference By the Indian PM

At a time when leaders of every country are appearing on news channels and communicating with their people in this time of crisis, it is not surprising if the North Korean leader doesn’t follow suit. It is an autocratic regime, after all, and king Kim Jong-un is an autocratic ruler. But the same being done by the leader of a ruling party in a democratic country? It doesn’t cut ice with me. But…

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#bjp #Modi

How Becoming A Parent Changes Your Beliefs about Blessings.

It is challenging for me, an atheist and a believer in the randomness of life, to talk about blessings. Blessing, or God’s favour, is a concept for those who believe in a divine power overlooking them. It is an idea for those who believe in the benediction of divinity. It is a belief based on part magic, part blind faith. In short, the concept of blessing is everything that doesn’t go down…

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#blessings

What I Learnt From Two Weeks of Strict Home Quarantine.

You only realize the value of something when it is gone – this is one adage I believe we all grow up experiencing since we were Kids. Still, it is the powerful truth behind these simple words that the lesson behind it never seems to grow older. Every once in a while, the truth behind these words presents itself in a totally new form—a form surprising us with its simplicity and naked truth, with…

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#coronavirus #quarantine

The Ashes of Our Dead — the story behind spread of Covid in India

Last year when many countries in Europe were reeling under the wildfire-like spread of Coronavirus, while India was relatively unimpacted by the Virus, PM Modi stood on the stage in World Economic Forum and said, gloatingly how India’s preparedness is an example that the rest of the world can follow. He criticized the rest of the world, which had forecasted much worse numbers of Coronavirus for…

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Don't Make Noise! My Baby is Asleep

Don’t Make Noise! My Baby is Asleep

I will not claim that I had no idea about the responsibility that lands on one’s shoulders when someone becomes a parent. No, that would be a total and blatant lie. In fact, I will go ahead and admit there were enough signs to warn me of the responsibility becoming a parent entails. The signs were all around me. The depiction of parental woes in popular media; the stories of sleepless nights by…

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Is Donald Trump Block too little too late?

Twitter blocks POTUS — this is one news headline I never thought I would read which doesn’t turn out to be a piece of fake news. But it is as accurate as it can get. Twitter and Facebook have officially blocked the President of the United States (POTUS) The POTUS is one of the most influential titles globally, and to some degree, one of the most respected too. So shit must have hit the…

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Images that caused 12 deaths - Charlie Hebdo controversy

Images that caused 12 deaths – Charlie Hebdo controversy

In 2015, when a French Satirical magazine published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad and Islam, it had resulted in a deadly attack on the magazine. Now, five years later, the magazine has re-published those cartoons. And it is going to ignite the debate of freedom of expression vs unnecessary provocation.

I am not sure how much traction this little piece of news would get in Indian Media. They…

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