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"Baavra man dekhne chala ek sapna, Baavre se man ki dekho baavri hain baaten..." Well, as my Hubby says, I live in my past and future but never in the present. My mind keeps wandering either in the good old cherished memory lanes or gets lost in the twisted mazes of uncertain future. I prefer my dreamland where there is no monotony or mundane ways of life. Though I strive to achieve stability, it bores me after sometime and I again start searching for something that can unsettle me once again. It is a vicious never-ending circle of life. Don't know if this is true only in my case. Sometimes I know that getting into a particular thing will make me regret later. Despite that I get into it to experience it, to be true to my feelings at that point in time. The feelings may stay the same even later, but what if the circumstances change. And they change so much that my feelings have no meaning anymore. I end up feeling like a fool who wasted her emotions on something wh...

What would a human be without seeking pleasures and falling for temptations in life. They say the secret of happiness is to stay away from these two aforementioned phenomenon, but would there be a life without these? Don't we live to fulfill our desires? Aren't these the driving forces for us to keep running and motivated? I wonder at times as to what is the true purpose of my life and would I ever be able to find out about it. But is it about the journey or the destination? I think and realize it is the journey that I can enjoy and enrich with various experiences rather than worry about the uncertain destination. So while enjoying this journey of life, is it wrong to give in to temptations? To pleasure self is to cater to one's emotional needs which is important for emotional and psychological well being. Isn't it just a statement of self expression of an emotion like love or attraction or an emotional connect? What is so wrong about it? Well, at this juncture...

Back to writing after a really long time. Wrote this article for Amma's school magazine. Every morning the newspaper stares at me, showing a scary picture of the world we live in today. Be it dirty politics, corruption or violence against a human being in some form or the other. And the act of violence that hurts me the most is the crime of sexual assault of a person. When the act of expressing love becomes that of hatred, domination or revenge, it takes the most horrendous form of this crime against a human. And such incidents happen to women the most. I am sure all of us have been forced to sit back and think seriously about this crime these days due to the ‘Nirbhaya’ case. All of us have some opinion or the other about this. However, what matters is how many of us have decided to act as a responsible citizen who would raise an alarm or help the victim as soon as he comes across such an incident. It is matter of great shame that all of us lead a hypocrite’s life. We do...