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रावण
कहते हैं के अगर शरीर का कोई अंग सो जाए तोह वहाँ अपनी ऊँगली से ‘रावण’ लिखने पर, वह अंग जग जाता है| मुझे मेरी अम्मी ने बताया और उनको मेरी नानी ने| मैं अक्सर ऐसा करती हूँ – जब बैठे बैठे कभी पैर सो जाते हैं तोह ऊँगली से बड़ा-बड़ा रावण लिख लेती हूँ| बिलकुल जादू की तरह, कुछ ही क्षणों में पैर उठ जाते हैं| एक बार सोचा के रावण की जगह अपना नाम लिख कर देखती हूँ – क्या पता कोई भी नाम काम कर जाए! पैर उठ तोह गए परन्तु समय ज़्यादा लगा. कुछ और नामो से भी प्रयत्न किआ| पैर तो उठ ही जाएंगे पर…
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Make a Wish List
Look at the world around you. The more I try to understand it, the more things go down to the list of the things that I do not know. For this reason only, it is very important to go and experience as many things as possible. And from there we come to the topic of maintaining a Wish List. A Wish List (or you may call it with whatever name you like), is just a list of activities you want to do. It can be a list of things you want to own or places you want to visit. It can be as simple as a list of all the…
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House to Home and Back
I never liked my current place of residence. It is a ground floor kind-of-independent house. To give it that kind-of-independent feel, there are a lot of doors. And my mother likes a lock on all of them. This is one of the major reasons I never like this place. It made me feel very cut off from the world. Don’t get me wrong here. I am not an outgoing person but I do love the noise. The constant reminder of not being alone. The constant acknowledgement that the change is just one step away. But here, inside my house, its very quiet. I seldom hear cars or any other traffic.…
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#YouAreNotAlone
I was talking to some college friends when I randomly checked the news alert on my phone that Sushant Singh Rajput had committed suicide. I am just an audience who has seen quite a few of his works, not all though. In essence, I have been an audience but not a fan. Yet reading that post, broke something inside me. During the current pandemic situation, it is very difficult for all of us. We are all loosing people – mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, friends, children and so many more. We also lost some known people to this disease or some other disease which had been a great loss.…
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Dogs and Us
With the Corona Pandemic taking over the world, we have all just one topic to discuss. For the first time in a long time, families are together – even if they are forced to be. The show they are watching on television doesnt matter, what matters is that there is at least one show that they all are seeing together. This is definitely one of the beautiful blessings we all have received amidst this Pandemic; other being that now that people have time, they are thinking about themselves – taking care, fixing their problems or thinking of what life they want after all this is over. For me, I am…
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The Secret Effect
The Secret is a book I have owned for more than four years. It is a special one for it was the first book that I bought from my salary. Now just to emphasize how big a deal this is – I humbly accept I am a miser. There are just three places I don’t mind spending – Book Fairs/ Bok Shops, movie tickets and anything for my family members. Again movies are something my mother enjoys. Hence, officially books are the only thing I deeply, truly and inexplicably love and that I spend abundantly for. I clearly remember – I was attending training for my first job in Gandhinagar.…
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Why diets are totally unsuccessful in Delhi
Let me begin by not offending anyone – Delhi is definitely filled with dieticians and other nutritionists who would definitely be lovely and effective. I am just here to tell you my story – how I lead a very average (and dull) life and yet the biggest challenge of my life is following my diet. Let me start with my day – I wake up every morning at 6:00am (unfortunately). I stay lazily in bed for five-seven minutes and once I have sufficient conscience, I go to freshen up. By around 6:50am, I am all fresh and ready. At that moment, my mother would bring me breakfast. This would normally…