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Saturday 13 July 2013

Rain and Coffee

Lonely I sit staring in the rain, with each droplet going in vain. Makes me wonder what is it with the monsoons that makes it still so special. Why does every love story have something or the other related to rains? Why does every single soul wanna dance in rains? What is it that makes it so different from every season? Is it the freshness that imbibes into us? Or is it pure ecstasy it enlightens into us? Staring and wandering in thoughts to answer my own questions, I suddenly spill my coffee on the sofa to end up drowning the whole ship of thoughts hovering in my mind.

So do everyone of you feel the same? Does monsoons have its own magic? or is it just my own imagination.... I guess not. Each one of us has cherished this little bubbles of happiness in our lives one or the other time. Monsoons bring the joy of together, hikes our adrenaline and makes us feel special. It tends to wash away all our ill feelings and fill us with joy. I saw little kids playing outside making paper boats, grandma's clearing off their glasses and couples holding hands and smiling at each other.

It takes me away to a different world. A world of happiness, a world of generosity, a world which shower lover and prosperity for each one of us. Finally, taking my last sip of coffee I stood up to walk back to the daily routine of live.





Let Daughters be your pride!!!

I was going through Evan Grae Davis's talk on the eve of TEDX Gateway last night. And it totally got me off beliefs. With all the recent "Save the girl child" initiative by the Gujarat government and the measures taken by the other state governments of India have finally started showing remarkable improvement in the comparative girl child ratio. It made me immensely happy reading all the articles published by the Times of India regularly regarding the improvement in the ratio across the most prone areas like Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana and many more state.I has started to believe that we are finally respecting the female population. But the talk delivered by Evan Grae Davis, a famous filmaker working for the NGO's unveiled the reality in all these articles. A women with no guilt and regrets after strangling 8 of her new born girl child just in hope of a male child made me go numb.

There have been old traditions of killing girl child by drowning them in pot full of milk, striving them to death by filling their mouth with salt or by just simply throwing them away in the nearby lakes and ponds. Murdering brutally the little lives in the name of traditions and yet being proud of what they did. Family and people with such mentally should be given severe punishments ie hanged till death. Had our government taken strict live threatening punishments against such acts, our official improvement in the girl child ratio would have been on rapid increase line. Not only in India, even highly developing countries like China, it is one the major issues. Not only the One Child law has proved to be one the major strengths of China by controlling its population at a huge scale  but it has also proved to be one of the most devastating official rule challenging all the efforts taken to reduce genocide.

Today, in a world where we have inspirations such as Sunita Williams, Sunidhi Chauhan, Lata venkateshwar, Chanda Kochhar and lot more of the women who are excelling beyond the limits and making our nation proud, we also have traditions which are forcing people to take away valuable lives. Today where oil company like ONGC has first time permitted three female engineers for on-shore jobs, we still lack behind hiding our shame in having a daughter in the family. Being in the 21st century, yet when our daughters complain of being chased by we try to lock them inside their homes in the name saving our dignity. If this is known as dignity then we should be ashamed to have hidden our daughters and killing them.

It is believed that population of India has been its major weapon right no. So please spread a message to every corner of your locality "Save the future by saving girls". Start from your locality, from the basic little joint families near you. Because if the roots are clean and strong, so will the tree of happiness by prospered forever. Let us not consider girl child as a trash, instead make her your pride and she will never fail you.

Youtube link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=42i1sIZ-9kQ#at=62
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Friday 5 July 2013

The Perfect Road Trip

Sometimes I dream of driving on traffic free roads which are extremely clean. Breathing in the fresh air with crystal clear water floor river flowing sideways I am driving in peace. And suddenly the traffic noises outside my window wakes me up shattering the beauty of my dream. Roadways of Bombay has always been a mess  since ages. High traffic, noise of the engine gearing and the most irritating part of it is the horns. I personally think use of horns should be prohibited in India specifically in "Bombay" as it is in other countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Dubai etc. Singapore government has enforced laws against misuse of horns. I swear I have never seen any place which such silent and busy roads simultaneously anywhere in India as it is in Singapore.

I guess this is why my mind makes me dream this way. When I saw 3 Idiots, I was astonished. The road on which Farhan and Raju (Characters) were driving was exactly what I always dreamt of, though with little changes in details. Later on I googled it and found it out. It was Barlacha La Pass along the Manali Leh Highway, the only way to Ladakh. Now that I know that this kinda of a road really exists I would love to travel through it atleast once. Knowing the road and the final destination gave my anxiety level a break after watching this movie.

It would be a wonderful feeling if somebody would drive me through the Barlacha La Pass. And I would love it if my special someone would drive me through the road on Maruti Swift Dzire Regal. The moment I saw this car with my friend's brother, fell in love with it. Seems like a perfect travel car. Last but not the least, no one should ever forget to stack on food stock before leaving for journey. This wasn't in my dream, still it will be great to take few juice packs, cream biscuits and obviously our very own gujarati thepla (Yes, I love it to core). 


To start from, me and my spcial one should be starting from Manali anywhere in the month of March since its the autumn time on Maruti Swift Dzire Regal. Following all the required water and food materials should be stacked  on the back seat with another bag containing our clothing and other necessities. Either of us would drive chance by chance and click pictures stopping where ever we would find the beauty is beyond our eyes to capture alone. We would in the car itself, eat and change in it only. Also shopping on the local markets in Manali would be so exciting. Ohh!!! Even writing this and imagining it hikes my adrenaline level. But at last I would like to hold his hand and breath in the fresh air with my eyes closed sinking deep in the beauty of Ladakh while my husband drives till our destiny.

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