Fortitude

Meek surrender first endured

Disappointment, fortitude

Vengeance and lady luck

 

 

 



 

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Cacophony of Emotions

Heart skips a beat

Long hair, luscious lips 

Cacophony of emotions run 

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Wordless Wednesday - Colours of India

Cheers. Keep smiling. Embrace Life. 

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Book Review : One Life One Love

 

 

Written by: Rochak Bhatnagar

Published by: General Press

Genre: Fiction/Romance

ISBN: 9789380914350

No. of Pages: 183

Price: 125 INR

 

Synopsis: On one side is a friend in need, while on the other the 'love of his love'. On one side is his past, while on the other his present, his 'future'. On one side is a dying girl, while on the other his happiness, his life, his girlfriend, his soul-mate'. On one side is humanity, while on the other that feeling, 'Love'. A tough decision, tough indeed to choose between the two of them. Time is running out.. whom will he choose?

 

Review: This book consists of various chapters divided into three parts. There are three main protagonist in the story namely Rishi, Ananya and Pragya. The first two parts are about Love and how does it feel being in Love, with the 'Love of your life'. The story revolves around Rishi and Ananya who are deeply and madly in love with each other. They are an ordinary couple just like others with an equal share of love, fights and then patching up again to be there and love each other for eternity. 

 

Unable to devote ample time to her love due to some project activity, Ananya decides to give a surprise visit to his place only to find him with Pragya. Thus leading to the break up of the most lovely couple. The third part is about how Rishi is torn between Ananya, his love and Pragya who is fighting AIDS and how he eventually loses both of them.

 

Writing: The writing is crisp and clean without any grammatical errors. It brings out almost all the desired emotions perfectly. The amount of love Rishi has for Ananya and vice versa has been brought out very well. The pain and sufferings Pragya has to go through her in life is just heart wrenching. But most importantly when Rishi lets his heart out to a prostitute about what lead to the separation is simply superb. Crisp, straight and up to the point. Also, this book seems to be a continuation of the author's previous book 'Love Happens only Once' but it never comes to light, such is the author's story telling and story line.

 

Overall: Am glad that I picked up this book to read. It's a definitely must read for all those who are in love and likes romance as a genre. The story is not at all bold and thus can be read by all and one. It has the powers to move a human being, understand what love truly is and will leave you with your eyes filled. Yes, that is the power of the author's story and writing. It has all the making of a Yash Raj movie. So do read and indulge yourself in some fun, smiles, romance, pain, sufferings and overall Love.

 

Ratings: 4/5*

 

 

Cheers. Be happy. Spread smiles. Embrace Life.

 







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On Various Anniversaries

Bloodshed, killings, loss of lives
The pain and the sufferings
Only remembered

 

 

Note: This is my first attempt in writing Haiku. So please shower some love with your views and suggestions. :) Thanks!

 

 



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Book Review - F?@K Knows

Written by: Shailendra Singh

Published by: RUPA Publications

Genre: Non Fiction, Self Help

ISBN: 978-81-291-2388-6

No. of Pages: 234

Price: 195 INR

 

Synopsis: Don't know where are you headed? Don't know what you want in life? Are you completely lost? Don't know when was the last time you smiled and/or had a good time? Are you completely screwed up in life? If yes, then say the following words loudly at least ten times and if no, still say it (bolne mein kya jata hain?)

F?@K Knows! F?@K Knows! F?@K Knows! F?@K Knows! F?@K Knows! F?@K Knows! F?@K Knows! F?@K Knows! F?@K Knows! F?@K Knows!

Yes, all the answers to the above questions and their siblings can be found out in this amazing book called 'F?@K Knows'.  Just by saying those words loudly can help you to get relieved from all the troubles, tensions, pressures life throws at you and thus can read the book with a calm, composed mind to get the answers to the questions.

 

Review: This book spreads across 73 small chapters with apt title and corresponding insight into the answers of the questions life asks us. Through this book, the author tries to tell or convey to us that it is only US who know the answers to our various questions. No one else can help you in finding the right answers. And you sort of get the right answers most of the time by following your heart and not what your dad says or did. And for a much better understanding the author has advised to read the book on the basis of chapters and not on the whole.

 

The author starts with narrating his life and gives his own example or experience or situations he faced and thus the quest for finding the answers. Thus having an instant connect with the readers. There is also a phrase/ idiom just below the title of the chapter making it much simpler to understand. Below are the few of those which strikes the right cord and makes an instant connect: 

1. You don't have as long as you think
2. Learn to trust yourself, you will sleep better at night
3. Use your mind, don't let it use you
4. Everytime you say 'yes' to something useless, you say 'no' to something that is bloody important
5. Problems are nothing but solutions in a mask of fear and anxiety

 

Then there are few chapters which will really make you think twice, infact thrice to assess your life, where are you heading and make the necesary changes to lead the life desired by you.

 

Chapters like 'Math of life' where the author has taken the help of 'death' to make readers understand the topic and 'Conservation with God' are the highly recommended chapters to be read.

 

The writing is simple and clean without any gramatical errors. Ofcourse the usage of F- Word. But that is how the modern, 21st century people connect with others. (F?@K Knows why anyone would have a problem with it.)

 

Overall: The book is for the urban, young India, direct to the face, witty and no nonsense. It gets straight to the point, explained with proper examples for better undersatnding from goal setting, to-do lists, love, health, wealth, listening to the heart and body, sex, knowing & undersatnding yourself, speaking, shutting up, understand the mind-brain-heart functions, career, aspirations, thinking, doing, values, morals, happiness, sadness, smiles and so on.

 

I recommend this book for all, for all the knowledge to be gathered on how to live life. And yes, as the author puts, it's time for us to do some 'khud khushi'.

 

Rating: 3.5/5*

 

Cheers. Be Happy. Spread Smiles. Embrace Life.



 

 

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Putrarthe Kriyathe Varja

This post has been first published for Parentous.

 

Putrarthe Kriyathe Varja is an ancient Sanskrit phrase which means, “we marry with the sole aim to have a son to keep the clan progressing”. This was the blessings that one of the relatives of my friend gave her some few days back.

 

 

And blessings in its more refined version kept coming at her till she finally conceived. What shocked me was none of the relatives (read aged 60+) actually blessed her with a baby girl or just a healthy baby! She was lucky to have a broad-minded family in the environment full of ancient thoughts and beliefs.

 

What is even more shocking is that such ancient thought process is still finding place in the hearts and minds of 21^st century India. India, where most grandparents know to operate a cell phone, where women from various strata of society nowadays are employed and earning and are making a mark in their respective fields, where things around them have drastically changed, standard of living has increased but the thinking and the thought process have not changed. In spite of they themselves being a viewer of the change in society, it is surprising that they stick to this old age idiom so rigidly.

 

Extremely lucky are those who have very supportive in-laws, who do not differentiate between a boy and a girl and who are not obsessed with this nonsense. Even there are cases of high society people going for sex determination tests, having drugs like Misoprostol and so on only to find out whether the child is a boy or a girl. The amount of education doesn’t matter here (report). It seems that even if you have all the degrees in the world, the learning will only fall on deaf ears. This is one of the instances where our education system has failed drastically. And then to make it worse you have daily soaps like ‘Balika Vadhu’ airing prime time on national television!! It simply cannot get worst than this.

 

Despite of many living women role models in front of us, the majority still prefers a boy child because they feel he will carry forward the name of the family and look after parents in their old age while the girl will get married and go to another family. There are in fact so many examples before us that girls remain emotionally attached to their parents even after they get married while it is the boys who tend to go away or just be there out of a sense of duty, but people don’t seem to understand this.

 

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