Somewhere amidst all this festivity, something seems to be missing. What exactly is what I can’t quite put my finger on. The participation or anticipation or the sense of belonging? Or just the warmth of human connections.
How hard is it to talk? Isn’t it what we’re doing for a large part of our waking hours? But how much of our talking time is used for having an actual conversation? A conversation is when you talk to someone, engage in a meaningful dialogue. It is an essential tool for building relationships, expressing ideas and opinions, and learning from others.
If there’s something that’s difficult to do, it’s to be happy – just plain, simple happy. Yes, as simple as it may sound, being happy is one of the most difficult things to do. And ironical it may be that it is an easily achievable target. It doesn’t need pots of gold or fame or fancy clothes or fancy houses. All it needs is a few changes in the way we do things, minor tweaks in our attitude and more importantly, the will to try them out before we get all cynical or brush it off as new-age pish-posh. No harm trying it out, what say?
The definition of Mother has undergone a change now. No more the all sacrificing, virtuosic figure glorified by the Bollywood mothers like Nirupama Roy. The new age mother is all that and more. She has come to realise that she too is an individual and one of the primary roles that she’s essaying is that…
It’s after a long time I’ve read a book which covered what’s close to my heart – a love for books. It’s the kind of book which needs to be savoured, for some of the sentences were so easily relatable by the bibliophiles. And this is the first book which I’ve read after I had…
“Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .” ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” ― Elbert Hubbard