tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20429664012292587662024-03-13T16:49:39.728+05:30Paper Planesshivani singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15969005541166166153noreply@blogger.comBlogger302125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042966401229258766.post-83983321278092368392022-10-25T03:21:00.002+05:302022-10-26T03:50:48.559+05:30So whats your Social Acceptance Number?<p>God, back after years! And I don't even know why. Honestly, I have no concrete reason. Just wanted to pen down something. Guess I am bored of the gram, Twitter, and other jazz platforms of the world. Yeah, you heard it right. </p><p>It started as a love story, which turned sour in the end - A perfect Love story, Right? That what love stories are all about - starts with butterflies in the stomach, a never-ending urge to see each other, blossoming love, getting into a relationship, trying hard, and then bam, you stop enjoying each other's company just like that!</p><p>That's what happened between me and these social media platforms. I just don't enjoy them anymore. </p><p>There is no authenticity left to these platforms now. I used to enjoy sharing stuff there, but now it seems to be a burden - a burden of numbers, insights, analytics, and whatnot. Why are we so desperate to label everything in the world as Success or non-success. When did the world become this black and white? Why has everything turned into this sort of 'a game'? Why? </p><p>I still share stuff there for my friends and family - but at my own terms and pace. The only difference is now I don't get carried away with the pressure of rules to be followed to beat the algorithm of Instagram: one should post daily just to keep up with the numbers, one should post at this particular time to get max engagement, one should comment on these many numbers of posts to get the same reciprocated, one should post these many numbers of reels to get noticed and blah blah.</p><p>I don't adhere to any conviction, I don't follow any rule now. I understood one thing - we are there fighting/luring/chasing a f*&^ing algorithm - not even a real person. </p><p>What have we become? And what is the price that we are paying for all this? Our Sanity! Look at people on these platform, they do, say anything just for some followers, likes, or whatever the metric is. We are being driven by METRICS! And this metric system is getting into our very being now, it's becoming a habit, a part of us. Were schools and colleges not enough that now, even in real life we are being slapped with these numbers! Mark my words, one day there will be a social acceptance number or social reputation number given to us, based on these shitty metrics driven by some f*&ing algorithm - about whom nobody has any idea! Is it justified? Where are we heading as a society? We are becoming digital slaves - slaves of the virtual world!</p><p>Is there no place where you can go, meet strangers-real people, talk about stuff, and share things/parts from your life without inhibition of being judged? Without any burden of being graded by some numbers? </p><p>I don't think so! Everything revolves around numbers these days. And guess, so I am back to my old platform - blogging where I can talk, share and vent out without thinking much about any algorithm, any 'insightful' data to judge my posts, my words, and my stuff. </p><p>Everybody out there seems to be faking it now - the smiles, the trips, the happiness, relationships - everything looks so made-up. Honestly even the genuine content gets cast away into the dust. Because the trust factor is decreasing with each passing day.</p><p>And I feel I can't play this game of pretension anymore. It's enough for me. The thing is you need to amputate people/things from your life when they turn toxic for you. You should choose your mental health and just walk away from stuff that no more brings happiness or joy. It is a piece of cliched advice but still holds good. And the problem with we-bipeds is we don't know where to draw the line, where to say no to something. </p><p>We go into this black hole of thinking why our lives are not as perfect as those on the gram? Why our everyday(s) are so normal and not instragramable? Why? And don't even get me started on filters!!! Are there any real faces on the gram now - everybody is with Flawless glass skin, bright infallible eyes, pouted lips - Instagram has really raised the standards of beauty! Can we ever go back to accepting the real us - fallible, flawed people with pigmented skin, pores, not-so-perfect features, and grey hair?</p><p>Will not lie, even I had fallen into that pit! There were days when I used to get tremendously worked up into some kind of a fit of pique. But not anymore. I want my sanity more than anything. I want to be happy - as simple as that.</p><p>And these social media platforms have some kind of a magnet, the more you try to run away from them, the more they attract you. It's a black hole - you only get sucked in and it's almost impossible to get out of it without any damage. </p><p>And let's not even talk about Twitter. It's full of hate - yes! It's filled with armchair detectives, keyboard warriors, and self-proclaimed intellectuals - who are just there to take out their frustrations. Pick up any random post on Twitter and just directly jump on to the comments section - and you will understand what I am talking about - it's filled with tawdry speculations, no-filter opinions and offensive statements. Everybody is an impossibly bumptious opinioned ass there! They all are experts on economics, politics, sports, and all the subjects. </p><p>These platforms are doing more damage to us than any other thing. Have we lost all sense of sanity? And the influencers - so-called influencers - promulgating anything and everything for some bucks. I don't even want to go down that lane.</p><p>Look, I am not passing judgment here. I am nobody to do that. It is just that where has our collective sense of responsibility gone? </p><p>It's like the world is reveling in some kind of collective stupidity! </p><p>The question is when will this stop? When? When will we jump out of this quicksand and stand on a firm ground? When? When everybody will start hating everything? When we all will become so toxic that we wouldn't want to meet each other in person? or when we will all become zombies?</p><p>Think about it next time before getting driven away by those meaningless numbers, so-called insightful data - it's all baloney, oh, a load of baloney. Get back to your real life filled with real people, real love, and friendships with no judgments. I am telling you this because I have been down that lane, it's only dark out there - it's only dark!</p><p><br /></p>shivani singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15969005541166166153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042966401229258766.post-42306489478517782132018-10-09T22:15:00.000+05:302018-10-09T22:32:32.437+05:30#metoo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Writing after ages...
could not stop myself from
penning down something on #metoo movement!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">This whole #metoo
thing is certainly scary, actually the
incidents are so terrifying! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Growing up I used
to think that it's only me who gets assaulted, I used to blame myself thinking
maybe I do something wrong, maybe my behavior (unusually chirpy) push people to
behave absurdly with me... I remember while walking on the road, my Mom used to
say look down and walk but even then I used to get a spank on my bums (yes! Ask
any girl in UP and they will tell you it's very very common). Why just bums, if
you walk without covering your chest with your books, they would not even shy
away from touching your breasts and sometimes, spanking them so badly that it
would pain for hours! Does it sound weird? Not to us - the small town girls!
And you want to hear more - we have seen people randomly coming and
masturbating in front of our eyes at an age when we didn't even know what
actually was happening... yes! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">And we used to go
through this trauma almost every single day - without discussing it with anyone
till the time we used to get used to all this - till it becomes a part of our
life!</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I am not even
counting the incidents involving absurd and horrendous comments, songs,
gestures, and all the non-touching assaults! They were like nothing to us - so
common, so unusual! And I am not even talking about the abuse that we had to go
through in childhood - that's another topic itself and will need another great
movement for us to start addressing it... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">For a long long
time, I kept mum... why? Because I thought it is only me being molested and
assaulted... I never thought anyone would be able to relate to me, to my
horrifying stories... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">No! Then I realized
its almost every girl in my gang... and that is when we gradually started
sharing our stories - the pain, the torture! And we became each other’s
shoulders to lean on for sharing everything and even that was heaven for
us! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Then... for a long
long time, I thought it was only us - small town girls<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">But again today -
after years I realized that no - it's almost every girl who goes through this -
the pain, the unnecessary trauma, the torture... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">There are so many
scary accounts there, so many stories that are unfolding that are enough to
send chills through your spine! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">But now, let’s face
the reality - the other side. I am reading about so many stories on social
media these days. Almost all platforms are filled with me too stories - some
are really scary but then - there are women posting the screenshots of their
chats with guys - where it’s just some flirting! Or men are giving some
compliment or asking them out! This is for those women - really? Can u compare
these stupid things with the real assault that women are facing? It's for them
- Do NOT dilute this initiative, do not make it another thing that people will
start making fun of... because of these accounts - people will not be able to
understand the intensity of the real instances. Do not make it another failed
attempt of women trying to voice out against society! Please do not dilute this
whole thing! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Also please do not
make it an attempt of taking a revenge for your sour love stories! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Do not label all
men a monster... and do not let them label all women as dramebaaz... do not let
them label feminism as some selfish initiative by women...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Stand with women
who were actually harassed, who really had gone through the real pain! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">If someone is
flirting with you on chat - block them! If you continue chatting - it means you
are also the part of that crime (if that’s what it is!)... You have options of
blocking people over the phone, but when a woman is sexually assaulted
physically- it’s traumatic! It’s painful! You do not have many options to get
escaped there! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Do not dilute it...
do not! I am not denying the fact that flirting can be daunting but can u
compare it with rape? Or with someone touching your body parts without your permission?
No... right? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Let us all - women
take this initiative forward and help the women who have ‘really’ been harassed
... let us fight the society against all odds - only we together can do it! Let
us not miss out on it this time... yet again!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shivani singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15969005541166166153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042966401229258766.post-70737790169572969732018-01-18T22:05:00.001+05:302018-01-18T22:06:50.423+05:30Can you? Will you?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">“People don’t like love, they like that flittery flirty feeling. They don’t love love - love is sacrificial, love is ferocious, it’s not emotive. Our culture doesn’t love love, it loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without paying anything for it." ― <a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3051121.Matt_Chandler" style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;">Matt Chandler</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Probably this is true and I actually believe in it very strongly.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's not love what people look out for - its jus that infatuation, those butterflies in the stomach, that excitement, that thrill, that desperation, that anticipation. Actually more than half of the love stories meet an unpleasant and terrible end, the moment all this enthusiasm and drama is gone from a relationship. Sad! but true. We no more (not generalizing), have those 'forever' happy afters. We no more have those relationships with the promise of being together for 7 births. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We don't even understand this word we use so frequently, called ‘Love’... its just not an emotion, its just not a feeling. It's beyond that. I believe its the strongest emotion of all, stronger than hate and jealousy as well. All the other emotions make a person go through just one kind of feeling. When you hate a person, you just abhor them - negative feeling. It can never be positive. Same is with anger, sadness, and all the other emotions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But love - One emotion that carries the burden of both the sides. That will give you happiness and will fill your life with sorrows. Its something that can be your biggest strength, but will fail you miserably by being your the biggest weakness too! It will prove to be the biggest blessing for you but will also come as the biggest curse in your life... It will be the biggest truth and yet the biggest lie. Love is the biggest myth and yet, the biggest reality...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It will take you to the peaks of ecstasy and will also throw u in the dungeons of sorrow and pain, it will make you, create you, mould you, yet it has the capacity to damage u forever, that too damage you in a way which would be irreparable...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It might help u in stitching back all ur broken pieces yet it might unsew every inch of your soul and leave ur wounds open and unsewable!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Love is an experience of both the sides... Half of the people just run away the moment good side is over... but real love, it begins after that... after all that excitement... After all that happiness. And that's the challenge- to stay there - loyal even after all that is gone... Can you? Will you?</span></div>
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shivani singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15969005541166166153noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042966401229258766.post-13545376608842242542018-01-15T02:00:00.000+05:302018-01-15T02:05:19.657+05:30Padmavati, oops Padmavat Row<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I just happened to stroll by my blog today after an year and guess what, I got so many surprises. Few of them are listed below:<br />
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1. The number of views has increased by leaps and bounds<br />
2. Getting more comments on my posts like never before<br />
3. I am still getting good average views per day, despite the fact that I have not written from last one year.<br />
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But... but the biggest surprise was - I wrote about Padmavati row just one year before, on 28th Jan' 17... and here I am, on this blog (accidentally) exactly after one year, and the topic remains the same - Padmavati.<br />
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I mean, seriously for us a movie is a such a huge issue that we stretched it for one year? ONE FULL YEAR... I mean, even Nirbhaya (i believe the worst thing that happened to our nation in recent times), was also forgotten in about 3-4 months. People stopped protesting and went back to their regular lives in just a few days and here we are, shamelessly dragging an irrelevant issue for over a year now.<br />
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Today I read that "<a href="http://www.news18.com/news/movies/kshatriya-women-threaten-jauhar-if-padmaavat-release-not-stopped-1631497.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">Kshatriya Women Threatening a 'Jauhar' If '</span>Padmaavat<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif;">' Release Not Stopped</span></a>". Where were these women when girls are being rapped in our country? Why don't they come forward and threaten a Jauhar or a protest and demand a reasonable punishment for the culprits?<br />
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I am not denying, absolutely not denying the cause or sentiments or feelings behind the Padmavati protests. But all I fail to understand is why don't we show the same sincerity, the same zeal for other important issues? Why? We are fighting tooth and nail for a woman who is gone centuries before, why and why can't we fight for the women who are still alive, who are raped and left to suffer. Why don't we fight for the laws to be made more strict and harsher for the rapists? Why?<br />
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I wish we had shown the same honesty in dealing and fighting for issues that are far more grave, far more threatening than fighting for saving a part of our history. If that had been the case, we would have become a better society long back.<br />
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You know why we are where we are? Because we still live in the past and just do not want to look at our future. Because we are ready to die for people who are gone long back, but ignore who still breathe. Because we care for those who are irrelevant now and do not care about the ones who matter. Because... we are hypocrites. Yes, we are!<br />
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shivani singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15969005541166166153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042966401229258766.post-29367523865965572462017-01-28T23:51:00.003+05:302017-01-31T11:38:44.921+05:30The unforgivable act of violence!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Humanity has touched another low with the incident that happened in Jaipur, where Sanjay Leela Bhansali was assaulted while shooting for Padmavati. This horrifying incident did not just left everybody shocked, but also devastated, because it is a proof that things are going to get worse in our country. The day this incident happened will go down as a sad day in the history of India, when such illiterate goons with no inkling of facts or history attack anything that doesn't agree to their beliefs or doesn't go parallel to what they think is right.<br />
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The incident forced us to think if we really are living in a democratic sovereign country. Well, atleast that was the last thing we heard of...</div>
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Animals do that!! Attacking, killing. We are humans, why are we forgetting this day by day. Guess, its time to remove the tag of 'civilised' from our species.<br />
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And to everybody's dismay, such incidents are on a rise now. No amount of differences in opinion justifies this horrible violent act. If you have disagreements, there are other means to sort out the issues, go to court, speak up (there are so many platforms available these days) or protest, but violence? No, its not justified. Its cowardliness, its shameful, its disgusting!<br />
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This is definitely not what our forefathers, our ancestors taught. And what are we giving to the next generation? Hatred...<br />
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What are we turning into? An intolerant society whose levels have gone down to the extent of becoming over obsessed with certain ideologies, and bringing anyone down who have different views other than those! Its dangerous. If this continues, and at this pace, we will soon become like one of those countries in Middle east, who just do not bear anything against their ideologies. Do we really want to become one? No! A big no!</div>
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With time, we thought all the barriers, including caste and religion will eventually weaken. But unfortunately, they seem to have started becoming darker and deeper. </div>
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But now its time, we: all of us: have to stand and fight against these jokers and hooligans, and refrain them from making a mockery of our democracy. Lets not commit a mistake of staying silent and bearing all this crap and let these rowdies write our future, let them drive us as a society. Today its them, tomorrow it will be us. But the attacks will continue...</div>
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P.P.S Some historians say that Queen Padmavati was only a mythical character imagined by the Sufi poet Malik Muhammad Jayasi in his allegorical poem written in Awadhi, in 1540 AD. He wrote it around two centuries after Alauddin Khilji conquered a kingdom called Chittoor, in 1308 AD. Apart from this poem, there is zero evidence of Rani Padmavati. </div>
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shivani singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15969005541166166153noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042966401229258766.post-73684872613528317032017-01-04T21:45:00.000+05:302017-01-04T21:45:20.304+05:30Playing with the fire...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hey Shivi, What are you doing?<br />Playing with fire..</div>
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FIRE? WATTT? </div>
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Yes, fire! Burning my hands, and feet and heart and soul...</div>
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'coz its the fire of love... It hurts, but it makes you fly... It pains, but then, the sufferings are worth it!</div>
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Hey Shiv<br />
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What are you doing?<br />
Swimming...<br />
Swimming? But I don't see that? Where are you swimming Shiv?<br />
In the stars...<br />
I told you, you are mad!<br />
I told you, I know...</div>
shivani singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15969005541166166153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042966401229258766.post-91544645407234633012016-10-03T19:32:00.003+05:302016-10-03T19:32:58.804+05:30A small chat with myself...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Building castles...<br />
Where? I can't see any...<br />
In the air<br />
You are insane<br />
Finally, you know!!!<br />
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So, after almost a year I am back to writing… Why... the real reason even I don’t know. But yes, there is one that has certainly played a role in it and that is my last month’s backpack trip to US. I mean I have so much stuff, so many experiences, so many things to share that I need someone and something where I can just pour it all.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I can’t do that with people, guess it can be torturous and I do not believe in torturing souls…<at all><o:p></o:p></div>
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Anyways, so the first thing that I chose to write about from my bucket full of experiences is about the language. Yes, the language: different kind of languages that different kind of people use in different kind of regions. <o:p></o:p></div>
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While travelling from one state to the other, I just couldn’t resist myself from observing the languages that people from various parts of the world speak (and write, off course).<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was in a plane, which was still to take off. The passenger next to me was a Japanese and he was continuously on his phone. I happened and managed to sneak a bit in his phone (yeah, I know that’s bad habit!) and I saw that his complete phone, I mean all the features were in Japanese, and obviously his whole chat was also in the same language… I couldn't understand anything and that is why I carry absolutely no guilt of that peekaboo :)<o:p></o:p></div>
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And this is where my obsession about observing languages started. <o:p></o:p></div>
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While I was in Grand Canyon (let me mention it here its one of the most beautiful places I have seen!!), where people from all over the world flock by, I met quite a few belonging to different backgrounds, different countries etc<o:p></o:p></div>
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One of such rendezvous of mine was with 2 girls, from Bulgaria. I spoke to them for a long time. Well, the communication started when poor girls were struggling to take a selfie with the gorgeous Grand Canyon. And I offered to click a picture of them and with that, our chemistry clicked! Pictures and girls, girls and pictures, needless to mention, they have some sort of connection since ages. Anyways, I ended up clicking some 10-12 pictures and they ended up with 20 pictures of mine… Equilibrium I call it! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Anyways, so talking about my obsession, I noticed them speaking in some other language, so I asked them what language were they using, to which they replied Bulgarian… <o:p></o:p></div>
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To cut it short, I met or saw or just observed many people and the languages they use, in my whole trip. For instance, Chinese and needless to say they were talking in their native language. There were Latin’s, talking in Spanish…. There were French people and the language… Japanese and their language… amongst few<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then on the way back I met another person from Germany and I just discussed the language thing with him. He told me that in Germany, it is almost impossible to survive without knowing German. Infact, if you get employed there without knowing the language (chances of which are very minimal), you are being given a crash course by the company…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Did you notice I did not tell you about Indians. Off course, I cannot be the only Indian roaming around in US! Not for any other reason, but as they say save the best for the end. And that's what the intention was. </div>
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I saw/ met many Indians…And observed that more than 80% of them were talking or trying to talk in English, without even caring if they are able to speak the proper language or not. As if it’s a rule to talk in English ‘coz you are in ‘Amreeka’…!!! I noticed so many people just struggling with the language! Even Uncles and aunties… You could see that they are using the language forcefully and unwillingly. Especially aunties, who were rebuking their grand-children and guiding their husbands in the canyon in English, rather broken but English with an accent… <o:p></o:p><br />
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The ones with the fake accent are the ones that annoys people around… but then, deep down when you try to think about this behaviour and phenomenon, you will realize, it's not them who are at fault. It's all of us: Indians, it's our society largely.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let's be honest here guys, we do judge the brilliance and intelligence of our fellow Indians on the basis of their fluency of English language. If we see anybody talking in a local language, we call them names like ‘Ganwaar’<o:p></o:p></div>
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But why don’t we do that with foreigners, who do not talk in English, who rather talk in their own native language?<o:p></o:p></div>
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And I am bound to ask my fav question, where are we heading to? We are on the verge of becoming a confused society, who is trying to copy west without putting in our brains… Let's face it…<o:p></o:p></div>
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I remember a friend telling me to stop reading and wasting my time on Hindi novels. Instead, I could use that time in reading English ones, as it will also help me build my English Vocabulary…<o:p></o:p></div>
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We remember everything and are also corrected from time to time, about English grammar… Do we remember anything about Hindi Grammar, which is just so vast and logical?<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the seminars and conferences in India, you are bound to deliver the lectures or talks in English language, why shouldn’t you have this option of speaking in the language you are comfortable with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagine, the talent, ideas that will be produced then. Half of the people just do not communicate their ideas because they are not fluent with English language, which is a second and a foreign language for us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am not saying stop talking in English. All I am saying is let's not demean our own language, which is just so beautiful. Let's respect it. Let's not judge each other on the basis of a foreign language! Let's not alone learn from the west, let's also take and imbibe good things from other countries… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See the way they love their culture, their language, and their things. Observe the way they cherish them and keep them so safe. We should also do that…<o:p></o:p></div>
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They give a damn about the second language. They never care about the accent or about the grammar, for them, it is a second language. They speak in their own accent, own way… They leave it on others to understand… When we don’t judge them, why do we judge our people who talk in Hindi? Is Hindi or any other Indian language so bad? <o:p></o:p></div>
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We love to be free. Yes, we do and every single person does! Come on, don't you? Everybody does. We all feel like just being by ourselves, doing what we love and what we actually want to do... Right? But then still we are so desperate to bind ourselves in relations, which to a certain extent takes away that freedom. </div>
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We bind ourselves by creating so many expectations from our loved ones and in return, working hard to fulfil theirs. And in all this, we simply forget ourselves. We forget our individuality. We become so busy giving love to others that we simply forget to love ourselves. We become so busy fulfilling other's expectations that we just start taking 'us' for granted. Is that right? We don't even care if we are happy or not.</div>
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And the worst part is, till the day you think about others and make your life and decisions revolve around the people you love, they will be happy. They will be with you, they will adore you but the moment you try to take that away, the moment you try to add 'You' in your life, you will mess it up all. The same people who use to love you will start criticizing you. Trust me! Actually, they will start finding faults in everything you do then, even with the things that you used to do before, things that used to make them happy! </div>
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You will be left alone, thinking and pondering what wrong did I do? Thinking if this life is actually yours? Thinking which way to go? Yours or theirs? To make yourself happy or them? Tough decisions!</div>
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And be ready to be labelled with different adjectives: Selfish, egocentric, Self-centered etc.</div>
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It's not easy to love yourself in this cruel world, 'coz the price you for that is loneliness.<br />
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P.P.S. Have you heard about unconditional love? Well, there is no such love... Till the time you fulfil the conditions, everything will be heaven and you won't even come to know that you had been fulfilling them. The day you stop entertaining those conditions or pay any heed to them, you would understand that there is no existence of such words as 'unconditional' when it comes to giving adjectives to Love!</div>
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shivani singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15969005541166166153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042966401229258766.post-52693518688438032782016-01-27T11:14:00.000+05:302016-01-27T11:14:15.359+05:30The Century Trilogy: Ken Follett (Book Review)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>“This is amazing,” Volodya said. “He’s the President, yet he has to make excuses all the time for what he does!”</i></div>
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<i>“Something like that,” Woody said. “We call it democracy.” </i></div>
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Once in a while a book comes along that grips you entirely, making it impossible to concentrate on other mundane things. After long this book has done exactly that. Absolutely unputdownable!</div>
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The characters are so well etched, their stories intermingling to perfection. Follett gives such a brilliant insight into the psyche of so many people in different geographies of the world and at different levels. Indeed, a wonderful read this trilogy by Follett had been.</div>
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This series deals with the economic, political and social incidents that marked the last century. The wars, the cold wars, the conflict between communism and democracy, fights for the civil rights, Revolutions in different parts of the world etc.</div>
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Follett tells you the complete history with such an ease, without making it boring, via knitting the characters so beautifully and perfectly. The series shows how enormous and wide-ranging were the effects of the incidents that took place in the last century.</div>
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The historical background is brilliantly researched. The details and the language will mesmerize you completely! With this series, he brings a world to us, that we always thought we knew but then, it will never be the same again.</div>
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The 3 books, as I mentioned above are:</div>
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1. Fall of the Giants: The first book in the trilogy! I must say, it laid the base so brilliantly and made me hooked not just to it but also to it's successors. This book is an epic of love, hatred, war and revolution. The novel follows five families (with interlinked characters) through the world-shaking incidents of the First World War and the Russian Revolution in vast. The novel leaves you with nothing less than imagining the whole drama and leaving you with a momentous effect!</div>
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2. Winter of the worlds: This one begins exactly where the first book ends, with the same five interrelated families which are American, German, Russian and English. It deals with enormous social, political, and economic turmoil. All this begins with the rise of the Third Reich, via the Spanish Civil War. This book completely deals with the incidents of second world war. It tells about the struggles of the people in those times and also, the unfolding of the incidents at a higher levels.</div>
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It covers the catastrophe and cataclysms that marked the mid of the century.</div>
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3. Edge of Eternity: The third book in the trilogy... And I must say it is such an extensive and passionate closure to The Century Trilogy.</div>
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Throughout the series, Follett has tried to display the life of its characters and has followed the destiny of the five families. This book is about the enormous social, political, and economic turmoil in the later decades of the century, which covered civil rights moments, mass political movements, cold war between US and Russia, a war over the small countries, a war between communism and democracy. The book also gives a sweeping description about the Vietnam war, the Berlin Wall, the turmoil in countries like Hungary and Czech and the Cuban Missile Crisis</div>
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The best part what I liked about the book is the way Follett has described the fall of the berlin wall! He kind of forces a surge of emotions to erupt within the readers. For me, these emotions erupted in the form of tears. And I also like the way, Follett started the book with the Civil Right fights for blacks in US and he so beautifully ends it at Obama becoming the president of the state. It's a turbulent rollercoaster yet a beautiful journey that Follett takes you through this book. And he ends with such an amazing words by Shakespeare:</div>
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Time's glory is to calm contending kings,</div>
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To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light,</div>
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To stamp the seal of time in aged things,</div>
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To wake the morn of sentinel the night,</div>
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To wrong the wronger till he render right,</div>
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To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour</div>
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And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.</div>
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-William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece</div>
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Go ahead, read it, You definitely will not be disappointed.</div>
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shivani singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15969005541166166153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042966401229258766.post-78581223934525188382016-01-26T00:42:00.000+05:302016-01-26T01:16:39.217+05:30Ajaya and Rise of Kali: Anand Neelakantan (Book Review)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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“<i>No self-respecting God would allow a good man to be happy for long. God has relevance only in the unhappiness of good people.</i>”<br />
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These 2 books: Roll of the Dice and Rise of Kali: Strong enough to alter and shake all my prejudices and beliefs completely. The beliefs that were instilled and imbibed in me, deep and profoundly, since childhood!</div>
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Initially, I thought to write about them separately because both the books are so vast and they carry huge amount of information, emotions, story, drama and all. But then the problem is one book is incomplete without another, the second one is a continuation of the first, so thought to write about them as ‘one story’<br />
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There is nothing new in the story or the incidents, Its Mahabharata, which we have grown up reading and watching again and again… The same story, same incidents, same characters, same drama, same plot, same conspiracies, same events, there is nothing different, absolutely nothing, apart from one thing, and this one thing has the capability to change your perspective about the ‘same’ old story and ‘same’ monotonous incidents entirely! And the thing I am talking about is that this Mahabharata is written from DSuryodhana’s point of views, the view of the fallen, the view of the defeated. This book, somehow makes you believe in a very old saying, “The history is written by the people who are left and not by who are right”<br />
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And BTW, if you are a fan or lover or believer or follower of Lord Krishna, do not even think of reading this book, because it's going to rip your beliefs apart brutally, it will tear your trust and love for him mercilessly and will force you to question the Lord and his ways.<br />
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The book is beautifully written, with so much detailed and extensive research, so much to the extent that not much of the events have been twisted or molded or added, by the author to prove his points right. Infact, the author manages to convenience the reader about the course of events from the other side (the evil side) and also manages, to make a space for DSuryodhana in the reader’s heart.<br />
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Go ahead, if you are a lover of unconventional writings if you are a believer in looking at both the sides of a story, if you are audacious enough to read and believe that God can also make mistakes, go ahead and grab this one.<br />
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And trust me, this book will leave you with several questions about everyone!<br />
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I cannot find enough words to write about Anand’s fabulous way of writing. I had been a fan of his Asuara and these 2 books had just been an addition to that list. And these 2 books have completely lived upto the expectations, even after an amazingly depicted and written Asura<br />
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Beware: For the first time, you will shed tears and you will feel an excruciating pain for all the evil men in Mahabharata, especially Karna and DSuryodhana. They will make you cry!<br />
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“<i>How naive you still are, Arjuna my friend,” Krishna said with a smile. “Once you win, everything will be considered fair.”</i><br />
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shivani singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15969005541166166153noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042966401229258766.post-71032985224846971542016-01-17T00:39:00.000+05:302016-01-17T13:20:32.551+05:30The game of Equality...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yesterday I was having a discussion with one of my friends on a very common topic which is in fashion these days and which has also kind of become an obsession for everyone these days. Rather I should say I don't know why but everyone seems to be going gaga over it, whether they understand it or not (Really!!!). Anyways, the topic was 'equality' discrepancies between males and females in our society.<br />
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Now during the discussion, my friend asked me with full emotions in her voice that why are we not treated equal to men, even when we can do all the tasks equally good. Now, I have absolutely no problem with fighting for gender equality, we should and we need to... but I have serious issues with the weird and absurd reasons that we give to prove ourselves right, like "we (women) can do all the things that men can do", "we are equally good to men in every task" and all that<br />
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No doubt, we are...<br />
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But then let's think about all the hows and whats and buts and ifs and most importantly, why's. I mean Why, we women are so desperate to be called and declared equal to the other sex? What's the need? Why do we have to scream and shout and tell everyone that we are 'equally' good as men in doing every task that they do? Why?<br />
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I, somehow believe that we are much better than them in many other tasks, that they can't even think of doing. Why are we running behind proving ourselves equal to men in other stuff and works, leaving the amazing plethora of tasks that we are experts in, and men can't even come close to us in performing those!<br />
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And moreover, we are built differently by Nature itself. Aren't we? Both physically and mentally! Women weren't created to do everything that men can do. They were, in fact created to do everything a man can't do.<br />
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We both have our own set of strengths and weaknesses, and why the hell then, we are so much desperate to be equal to them?<br />
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And BTW, if research is to be believed then, there are some notable differences between the way our brains works as well, like:<br />
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The brain areas that control aggression and anger are larger in women than in men, which may account for some degree in larger male rates of violence.<br />
Women handle stress better than men.<br />
When it comes to intelligence, there are more male than female outliers. Girls, don't boil your blood. It just means that Male IQ has greater variance than female IQ; in other words, while females cluster toward the middle, more males occupy the extreme high and low ends on the intelligence scale.<br />
Women are more likely to suffer from mood disorders.<br />
Women feel more pain, but we all knew that already, too.<br />
The female brain is geared slightly more toward language.<br />
The male brain is geared slightly more toward math.<br />
Women are purported to have better communication skills and emotional intelligence than men. Women tend to be group-oriented, and apt to seek solutions by talking through issues.<br />
Women are more emotional, but we all knew that already.<br />
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These are just very few examples from a large list of differences that both sexes have. And these differences show very clearly that we, both the sexes work according to our brains. Women are good in certain things and men are good in other departments. Big deal! We score high at some places and they score in other places. Win-Win situation. Why do we have to hijack their list and prove a pro in that as well? Why? And you know something, we are losing our individuality, our uniqueness in this thrust.<br />
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Not just mentally, even physically, we women are so different. Its us, on whom lays the responsibility of giving birth to the new lives. Which means somewhere physically, our bodies are more endurable, much more stronger. Isn't that so incredible and beautiful? Isn't that something so special. And instead of being proud of that, we waste our time and energies in pondering about why and how and what needs to be done to prove ourselves equal to men. Again, why?<br />
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When nature itself has given us so many special characteristics and qualities to cherish for, then why are we so eager to bring ourselves down? Why don't we take pleasure in those and admire them and feel proud and happy about us: The Women.<br />
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Guess, we need to start celebrating Feminism, which is much deeper and meaningful than these mere petty things. Its beautiful, Its amazing. Enjoy it rather than ignoring it for other useless things. Let's love ourselves. Let's be proud of ourselves. Lets celebrate us...<br />
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PS. Trust me. Its great to be a Woman. And feel proud about it...<br />
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Our generation is becoming so busy trying to prove that women can do what men can do that women are losing their uniqueness...<br />
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shivani singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15969005541166166153noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042966401229258766.post-52689461064437119502016-01-14T21:46:00.001+05:302016-01-19T20:51:34.945+05:30Jealousy: A Hungry Emotion or a Signpost?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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“Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistible urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.”<br />
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Jealousy, an emotion that has troubled innumerable brains, broke countless hearts and caused unrest to numerous souls, in various ways.</div>
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Let me go back to my childhood and narrate a small incident which will make it easy for me to explain the whole thing further. </div>
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Ok, so I have this cousin of mine with whom I am very close, very close since the days I remember. I am certainly not here to tell the happy and glorious cousin tales, but then to narrate a weird obnoxious thing behind those happy moments. </div>
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You know she used to live in a metro city and I belonged to a small town. And so, there were differences between us, quite a few notable ones. She used to wear beautiful dresses, had such beautiful wavy shiny hair, she had many barbies, trust me many! And on top of that, she had different dresses and accessories as well, for them. And to my dismay, she scored higher than me even in studies. So, in gist, I used to feel terrible and horrible and inferior and whatever negative adjectives you can think about, can be made to fit in this puzzle. But I would like to mention here that despite whatever, I never stopped loving her. Then, now and will always do!</div>
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Anyways yeah, so there was this one emotion, that used to erupt frequently, whenever I used to see her dresses, her barbies, her hair, her stuff, her amazing books and off course, the way my parents and other relatives used to treat her. But Barbies was one thing I tell you, I used to feel extremely jealous about. May be because of my age... </div>
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But you know when did this thing crossed the limit? Well, a day which was gloomy and depressing for me. I was in pain because of all this, so much so that it made me hatch a plan - a devious one. I was up a little late in the night and waited for everyone else to sleep. And once sure of that, I just went off to my cousin's bag, picked up her fav barbie (and off course, the most beautiful one) and broke it into parts and threw it off at the back of our house (with all her accessories) which was nothing but a field of wild plants. And trust me, I felt so contented at that time and regret it today! </div>
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I don't understand that particular emotion, that thing, that strong thing that made a little girl do such a heinous thing? Jealousy! And this is one emotion I was and is so much scared of. Jealousy can make you do things that you cannot even think about doing normally. </div>
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It takes you into some other zone, where you are not yourself, you are just unable to think, as if somebody has switched off the button of your sanity. </div>
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That's what jealousy does to you, it gives you pain and you pay the price of your sanity for it... And why do we do that? Because we become helpless. It just happens without you knowing or even realizing.</div>
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In fact I very strongly believe that when you are jealous, you make up stories, all kind of unreal stories in your mind and torture yourself. You strive and crave to know more about that person, about that thing that you feel jealous about. You start craving for the content. I don't know why? It hurts you, it gives you pain, but you like a fool still go back and search for more such stuff. You are just unable to leave it and live in peace!!! Isn't it? You know why? Because jealousy is a hungry emotion. An emotion that needs to be fed, fed with imaginative and unreal stories, if there are no real ones. </div>
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Take example of social networks, whenever your friends put up check-ins in some exotic places, you almost stop breathing, that surge of pain is much more than anything. And don't lie girls, whenever you see those pictures of other girls with flawless skin, beautiful hair and eyes, on insta, you start pondering about why you dont have it all. A small tip here: invest in some expensive makeup kit and you will have it. Anyways, yes so guess that's the reason why social networks are so successful (of course, apart from other amazing reasons). They feed people with content! And we like fools, go back and feed on the same content and go through the torture! </div>
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Why don't we just stop feeding this monster? And if we do so, it will eventually die and you will never have to pay the price of your sanity for it after that. And trust me, you will live happily!</div>
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Or think it from the other angle, I sometimes even believe that you generally feel jealous of stuff that you think you can achieve or get, but do not have. We tend to envy things that are actually within our grasp like in above eg a barbie doll or good marks or that attention of my parents or relatives.</div>
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Now let's give this poor emotion a bit of positivity. Jealousy could be a signal for anybody to put in more effort into things that you envy about others: like a relationship, or appearance, or a job or whatever. </div>
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Jealousy is a signpost. Period! </div>
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We are jealous of attributes that are attainable to us. So, next time you feel jealous, stop feeding the emotion and start working on the things that makes you feel jealous because trust me, they are the ones that are obtainable and that's why they bother you. </div>
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PS. Have you ever felt jealous of somebody for being an astronaut? or for being something that you know you can't? No, right. Even if yes, then it is for a small duration</div>
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shivani singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15969005541166166153noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042966401229258766.post-37240258420607417862015-11-17T17:31:00.001+05:302015-11-19T16:39:15.851+05:30Crows and a mere word associated with them!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I recently got to know what a group of crows is called. I know it might be considered as a lack of knowledge and can be quite embarrassing, because this all, we are already done with studying in the initial years of our education! But then you learn new things every day, few of them are absurd, few of them makes you feel such an idiot and few of them can actually make you raise questions on your complete education! Phewww…</div>
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Anyways, so let's get back to ‘the group of crows’. People who already know the answer: You can skip the complete drama that I am going to create in this paragraph and save yourselves by jumping to the next one. People who don’t know: Guess. Guess what it might be called? Group of crows… Nahhhh…. Crowd… Nahhh…. Flock… Nahhh…Gathering, cluster, bunch… No, No, No! Ok, enough of drama. So, it is called ‘Murder of crows’ Surprised? Yes, it is! And guess who associated the poor creatures with this word. This, obviously even animals can guess! We, the humans, who think too great of themselves…</div>
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Now, why have we, the great-est species amongst all the species that ever existed on the face of this planet chose this name for a mere bird. There are several different explanations for the origin of this term, mostly based on old folk tales and superstitions. But first, let's look at the literal meaning of the word, Murder, which is killing, homicide, assassination, liquidation, extermination, execution, slaughter, butchery, massacre. Have you ever seen a crow doing anything that even comes closer to any of the words mentioned above? I read somewhere that this term has been given to the 'crow' for its traditional association with violence, death, or to its harsh and raucous cry. Really? As if, we humans never cry or howl or scream or wail! </div>
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Another reason: There is another theory that suggests that this is based on the (fallacious) folk tale that crows form tribunals to judge and punish the bad behavior of a member of the flock. If the verdict goes against the defendant, that bird is killed (murdered) by the flock. Yeah, and we have never ever done that! Go to any village of UP, Bihar and Haryana, you will witness the brutality which will reveal that we are worst than any animal on earth! And still, the word murder shouldn’t be associated with us. We do not even spare our own children on the name of honor for God sake! I am sure crows would at least not do that! But still they are ‘murder of crows’<br />
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The most absurd reason that I found is that many people fear them simply because of their black feathers, which associate them with death (and what about our black souls and hearts?)</div>
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Now, I am not here to defend crows. Not at all… But then, I am so much amazed at our hypocrisy. We, humans who are murderers: the brutal ones, we who kill and wage wars on other countries, just for our own selfish motives, dare to name other animals with such horrible terms.<br />
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See what is happening in the world now? People are killing each other, just because they want their belief to win. But we shouldn’t be called Murderers! No, we shouldn't, though ‘Murder of Humans’ suits us the most, I guess. Ahhh, but then that will probably reveal our reality, the horrifying face of us...<br />
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Tell me one animal, which is as brutal as humans. Animals usually kill to feed themselves and their family. And the list of our reasons for killing others is endless, guess the feeding (because of choice and not compulsion) being the last.</div>
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We even hunt and kill animals for pleasure, but we shouldn’t be associated with the word ‘murder’. </div>
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Why are we, such hypocrites! </div>
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I wonder what word crows would be using for “a group of humans”!<br />
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I wish someday these animals learn to speak and write. That day will be the last day of us, glorifying ourselves and vilifying other animals!</div>
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P.S I wish I was a warg* at times. So, that I could enter in other animals’ mind and see what they think of us. I know it would be dirty, actually worst than that. </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">*In Game of thrones, Wargs are people with the ability to enter the minds of animals and perceive the world through their senses and even control their actions. The act of doing this is called "warging".</span></div>
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P.P.S You haven’t seen GOT? Seriously! Go and watch it… Its one of the best series I have ever seen and BTW, crows play quite an important role in this series! They are portrayed in a very nice image! And handsome too (Jon snow!). You would be drooling on this crow!!! Download now and watch! </div>
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Being married has many advantages, and the amazing and beautiful ones (uncountable, I tell you!), but one thing that I detest about this institution would be I guess that just after a year or so, everybody around you start asking about your plans for kids, and this lot include your friends as well. After a while, you start feeling as if you were married just for having kids!<br />
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And this is something not just me, but many of my friends are also going through. And now, out of compulsion I have started playing with these people who ask me this question by throwing another question at them, why... why 'should' I have kids?</div>
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The worst or the most creative, the epic and the most different answer that I ever got to hear is: To give a reason to your husband to come back home! If there is a kid at home, he will have to come back home. He can't go anywhere. </div>
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And trust me, when I heard this one, I don't know exactly what I wanted to do at that time: kill myself, kill the person who told me this, kill both of us or just run away far from these idiots! I mean, sorry I would never want to have a kid for this reason! And yes, thank God for not giving me this excuse to have kids!</div>
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Another answer: To take care of you when you are old! Oh really, do you think people after some 30-40 years will even have the courtesy to look back at their parents, leave taking care of them alone. If you take an example of this generation, most of them I see, leave the house after 12th and they never look back! At least they are nice enough to visit their parents once or twice a year, call them once or twice a week, send them gifts once or twice occasionally, but then is it enough to be called as 'taking care of your parents'? No... And moreover, its hard for the parents to leave everything and settle somewhere else with their children, at that age! And the next generation will obviously be some steps ahead of us. Then, how and why should I expect, that my kid who would belong to that generation, will take care of me and my husband.</div>
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And moreover, one has no idea how the world will be, like after few decades. It might get better because of technological advancements. But then, it will have its own bunch of larger issues to worry about as well. If you compare today with say 50 years back, there are already so many distressing changes like diseases (rather variety of diseases) are more common, Non-renewable sources are already on the verge of extinction, Natural calamities have increased by folds in just last few decades, Global warming is on a rise, most of the countries are either under war or going through cold war! I am definitely not being pessimistic or something, but then that's the truth we all have to face. The kind of damage we humans have caused to our planet in just last few decades, is beyond repair. In fact there is a theory which says that it is bound to happen, even if humans doesn't do any harm or damage because that's how it works, one species rule, gets extinct and then comes another one... </div>
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You would be thinking what's the correlation between having a kid and the world's increasing issues. There is a bit of connotation, though. I usually jog my brain on why would I want to bring my child in a world, about which I know all this. Why should I? Will it be a better place for my kid to survive? Why would I want to bring a kid when I know s/he might have to struggle throughout, may be even for basic necessities like water? </div>
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1. The world population will be over 9 billion. Disease will be more common, as everybody will be physically closer to everyone else, and chronic food shortages may be the norm. (So, why shouldn't we at least try to control the population???)</div>
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Its not easy to explain this to people, its not easy to tell people not to have their own children. Actually they might take it as an offense, their ego might get hurt. But if we all know, we will have to perish one day then why this arrogance, why this ego? Why burden earth with more and more people! Why killing it further...</div>
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shivani singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15969005541166166153noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042966401229258766.post-78010700277709591072015-09-23T10:51:00.000+05:302015-09-23T12:57:46.401+05:30Krishna-The God who lived as Man: Bhawana Somaaya, Kaajal Oza-Vaidya (Book Review)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I never post book reviews on this page of mine. But then, recently I read an extraordinary book, the review of which I am compelled to write at whatever places i can, its that beautiful and gripping!</div>
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This book is, I guess the best portrayal of Krishna's life till date. It deals with his relationships with the four women whom he loved, loved intensely: Radha, Draupadi, Satyabhama, Rukmini. Unlike other epics where all his roles are confined in relation with Gokul, Kans, Kurukshetra, Gita, Arjuna etc...</div>
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The conversations in this book between Krishna and the four ladies is incredible! It's breathtaking! Something beyond comprehension, I guess... Beautiful would be a word too small for describing those conversations. I read them again and again and while reading I shed tears again and again! If you are an emotional person, it will make you cry! You actually wait for the dialogues to come... You feel like skipping all the explanation and directly get on to the conversations... That's powerful they are... </div>
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He calls in for Draupadi, who was his friend, with whom he shared a very special relationship that was beyond everybody's understanding. The way author has described Draupadi's anxiousness, after learning that something ominous is going to happen to his friend is remarkable. I have not read something so beautiful, so real... And their last conversation is just something to be read again and again because the meaning of it is deep enough, to be not able to be understood in one go... The way Krishna describes their relationship, their love, their bond! </div>
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"<i>Beloved you know you are not ordinary and can never be! How can Krishna's better half be ordinary? When I narrated in Gita to Parth and said, 'Among all the elephants, I am Airavat, among trees, I am peepal, among the cows, I am Kamdhenu, among the rivers, I am Ganga and among the women, I am Rukmini' I meant it. My beloved, you are supreme!</i>"</div>
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shivani singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15969005541166166153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042966401229258766.post-6073358233646924222015-09-21T16:32:00.000+05:302015-09-22T20:53:35.213+05:30Few questions...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Thoughts erupting like a volcano, questions arising like the waves...<br />
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Creating a havoc in my brain<br />
Questions ranging from Why, what and how of my existence to where and what afterwards?<br />
Feeling like 'am going through a hurricane... Feeling like being stuck in a turbulent whirlpool<br />
What is it? Is something calling me? Or is it just another hallucination?<br />
I feel contented though, but still I am craving, craving for the unknown<br />
I feel happy though, but still am not in ecstasy<br />
I feel like a beggar, with nothing... Just few questions! Questions for which I am seeking answers<br />
Questions ranging from who I am, What am I doing and What is the meaning of my existence...<br />
They don't let me sleep, they don't let me rest...<br />
Who will answer my curiosities. Who will quench my thirst for that missing thing...<br />
At times, I feel it's all vain... It's all futile... Or is it just a delusion of my anxious mind?<br />
What is it? I seek enlightenment to all...<br />
Else, my life will become a river with stagnant water, a sky without stars and the moon without scars...<br />
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shivani singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15969005541166166153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042966401229258766.post-67560442270936332982015-09-18T00:32:00.001+05:302015-09-18T00:32:18.158+05:30I will show you...<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Give me your heart</span><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Like an open field</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">And i will show you what love is...</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I will show u the raw wilderness that i carry inside my heart</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">And i will fill your life with happiness, spread across for miles and miles</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Without a trace of resentment... Without an ounce of sadness</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Give me your soul</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Like an open sky</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">And i will show you how to fly</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I will show you how to spread ur wings and take a swing in the open air</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I will show u how it feels to take a leap</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I will show you what love really is</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">And i will take you away, in the sky full of colors, happiness and joy</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Leaving all the sorrows behind for the mortals...</div>shivani singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15969005541166166153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042966401229258766.post-953194451348594942015-09-16T21:48:00.000+05:302015-09-16T23:13:38.657+05:30I wanna see you happy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Can I ask something? Something...<br>
Do I make you happy?<br>
I know its not easy to answer<br>
But still I want to know!<br>
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I just want to make you happy<br>
Though it feels opposite at times<br>
I wonder if I give you all that you want<br>
And I ponder if I am the woman you desire<br>
Will you ever leave?<br>
Say No please...<br>
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Your happiness is all that I care about<br>
Your smile is all that I wanna see<br>
Your giggles are all that I wanna hear<br>
Nothing I want, if I cant have that<br>
Your sadness makes me wretched,<br>
Your gloominess drenches me with dejection<br>
I feel like taking you in my arms and holding you tight<br>
When I see you cry, I feel like wiping away your tears forever<br>And I feel like giving you all that I have<br>
To stop you from bleeding, I can take away all your pains<br>
Just to make you smile<br>
Just to make you happy<br>
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Even if it means to let you go...<br>
I will, yes baby I will<br>
I just wanna see you happy<br>I just wanna see you smiling<br>
Even if I have to let you go...<br>
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I know I am not perfect<br>
My love is not great, its selfish... Its imperfect...<br>
I don't love you unconditionally<br>
But I love you enough to try for all that...<br>
And I will, one day make that happen<br>
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In this life and the next one too<br>
No one I want after you<br>
No one I desire now<br>
Nothing I crave for...<br>
Its just your touch that can take me to the peaks of pleasure<br>
Its just your love that can fill me with ecstasy<br>
Nothing can give me that joy<br>
You are a dream come true<br>
You are the love that I always yearned for<br>
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And so, I will wait for you<br>
'coz eventually you will come back to me<br>
Nobody can love you the way I do<br>
So baby, you will come back to the imperfect me...<br>
You will come back to me and I will wait... forever<br>
I promise<br>
'Coz you are my soulmate, the one my soul longs for...<br>
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“Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.”</div>
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Read a news last week... Not exactly News - News... But yeah, it was featured on NDTV website, so I referred it to News. BTW, this is one of the most misused words these days: News!</div>
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Anyways, yeah so the <strike>news</strike> was that someone tweeted to Sonakshi Sinha asking "What makes you so damn ugly?"</div>
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Keeping Sonakshi's brilliant reply apart, I was actually upset by this one question. It dragged me into thinking what's wrong with people these days? They are kind of losing all their common sense of mannerisms and the decent way of behaving in public. I mean they don't bother about crossing that thin line of not respecting someone and insulting someone. There is a subtle difference between the two, which people are just forgetting or rather not caring to remember.</div>
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We, as a society are becoming so intolerant to each other. We are filled with so much resentment and vexation, that we look out for an outlet to let it go, by spreading that negativity into other's life. And when we can't get someone nearby, we take shed of social networks to spit this negativity, this hatred on someone we don't know, we have no relation with.</div>
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And these scarcely concealed negative feelings of - Jealousy, hatred or whatsoever, are just so much reflecting in people's actions on social networks these days. They insult anyone they like, in any which way, using any derogatory words or terms.</div>
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Some people also do it for gaining a little share of popularity, like the one particular case that I mentioned above had been making a buzz everywhere on news websites, making the person who trolled quite famous!!! And you know, these people are worse than the ones, who do it in the compulsion of taking out their frustration.</div>
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You know what's the worst part? It is that these kind of things are contagious! Many others also start tweeting, posting such negative stuff! Not just that, look at the overwhelming response on these posts: they are greeted with so many other retweets and comments! Imagine if we don't share or reply to them (both anti and for), they will eventually succumb because of the lack of virality. But then as much as it sounds simple, it's hard to be inserted in different brains. There are like-minded people everywhere to support and encourage each other! They forget that today it's someone else, tomorrow it can be them!</div>
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I am definitely not commenting on the merit of whats right and whats not. It definitely depends on and differs from individual to individual, but then there are certain tacit norms on how to behave and enunciate your feelings in public. I know we are a democratic country with freedom of speech and all, but then there is a thing called respect! Respect others... It's something that is taught and given so much stress on since our childhood. Where are we dumping all that education and why? </div>
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Rather than spreading so much negativity, so much hatred, rather than always trolling on someone, why don't we try to see good things in people, and compliment them. If we can't do that, then why don't we just restrict ourselves from minding our own business, why don't we force ourselves to keep this loathing and detestation within us.</div>
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And even if that is out of our control, if at all one can't stop the urge of screwing up someone's day, then why not do it in a decent way, a little healthier way. There are many funny trolls being circulated on Social networks. Why don't we just restrict ourselves to that kind of a form, rather than crossing the lines and insulting someone beyond a limit?</div>
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Remember the trolls on Alia Bhatt, after answering that one question wrong on Koffee with Karan! We declared her dumb, we labeled her with so many insulting terms. There were so many trolls on Sonam Kapoor for using the word misogynistic in her tweet against the meat ban recently! What's wrong in that? BTW, she cleared it off in her later tweets. But even if she made a mistake, its ok! These guys, who poke dirty fun at others/ celebrities don't commit any mistakes? Oh, then they must be from the kinds of Hulk, Superman, Batman (or Shaktiman!) Simply put, they might be super human beings because only then it is possible to not commit any mistake.</div>
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It's insane to be so insensitive and inconsiderate. We are driving our society also on the same path. Today social networks are filled with negative things, things filled with hatred, hostility, bitterness than positivity and happy stuff!</div>
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Lets spread happiness, smiles, lets share good and beautiful things, lets spread positivity or let's make fun of others in a healthy and acceptable way, lets make our social world a better place to exist! Is it that difficult?</div>
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P.S There is an exception to the above said things: Rahul Gandhi!</div>
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shivani singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15969005541166166153noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042966401229258766.post-59403448655197732722015-08-27T13:23:00.002+05:302021-04-04T15:03:22.317+05:30Do you know...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Have you ever noticed my smile when you compliment me: how so ever dwarfish, how so ever silly it is?</div>
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Though I do not show it outside, I try hard to create an aura of calmness and tranquility</div>
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'coz that's what women are supposed to do they say...</div>
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But then do you feel those rumbling vibrations? The ones that set my whole body quaking...</div>
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Though I try to look so composed...</div>
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Do you know your compliments rip through my body causing havoc?</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Are you even aware of the hurricanes that originate like giant engines that use my feelings as fuel!</div>
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You don't... I guess... you don't!</div>
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Well, let me tell you then...</div>
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The moment you look at me, the moment your eyes meet every inch of my body, the moment those words complimenting me slip your tongue... I go crazy! </div>
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Every drop of my blood starts rushing through my veins: dancing and singing - causing a madness of such intensity that I can't find adjectives to describe...</div>
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Each and every cell of my body gets electrified and excited</div>
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As if they are dancing on some Michael Jackson's number </div>
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It's like a volcano erupting within me causing everything, I mean literally, every damn thing to shiver inside</div>
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Do you realize how difficult it is to look calm from outside when such a tremendous wobbling and trembling is happening inside...</div>
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Do you know: nothing, absolutely nothing can bring so much excitement, so much happiness to me!</div>
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So, keep playing the tune to make my cells dance, keep causing these quakes and volcanos for my blood to rush through my veins.</div>
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Damn, you make my lethargic, lazy cells do some work-out! See, its good for me after all :)</div>
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shivani singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15969005541166166153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042966401229258766.post-36885890454916376102015-08-24T11:31:00.007+05:302021-04-04T19:52:53.075+05:30The day I fell in love...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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And that was the day... That was the day I remember...<br />
The day I discarded all that I had inside me,<br />
The day I abandoned it all...<br />That was the day when I fell in love…</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">A feeling so intense and an emotion so vigorous...<br />
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‘Coz I never remember
being in love ever, </div><div class="MsoNormal">with so much madness, with so much fervor...<o:p></o:p></div>
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I fell in love with the man who did everything possible to make
me fall for him<o:p></o:p></div>
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The man who took all my pains away and gave me smiles instead...<o:p></o:p></div>
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The man who kissed me passionately every morning I woke
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The man who made me laugh and whom I called my soul mate...<o:p></o:p></div>
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I fell in love with that lady sitting quietly in a corner<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">But today her beautiful face looked so pale and lifeless... </div><div class="MsoNormal">Her eyes grim and filled with sorrow... <o:p></o:p></div>
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She: who brought me into this world, and gave me all that she had...<o:p></o:p></div>
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She: who made me walk, and taught me all the intricacies of
life... </div><div class="MsoNormal">She who made me realize life is beautiful if lived... if lived...<o:p></o:p></div>
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I fell in love with that strong man, who never shed a tear
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But today, he was standing there drenched in his own waters<o:p></o:p></div>
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He who always protected me from the demons outside and inside, </div><div class="MsoNormal">He: the
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I fell in love with those 2 young girls, who walked with me
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Who fought with me, who laughed with me, who cried with me,</div><div class="MsoNormal">Who gave me their unconditional love</div><div class="MsoNormal">They who shared my passions, obsessions, my fancies, and my dark secrets</div>
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I fell in love with that handsome young boy, whose eyes always sparkled with a million
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But today instead of those gigantic dreams, all I see is
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Wait! Are they even moist?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I fell in love with strangers, whom I started calling friends…<o:p></o:p></div>
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They: who stood next to me dealing with all my tantrums...<o:p></o:p></div>
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They: who always gave me my doze of happiness in the time of sorrows</div><div class="MsoNormal">They: who seemed to have dropped from heavens straight</div>
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I fell in love with those books that had the imprints of my moist fingers on them<o:p></o:p></div>
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They still carried the marks of my tears on their pages, a token of my emotions<o:p></o:p></div>
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They had so many words underlined that were supposed to be
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They still have dates on the 1st page and notes on the last and a bookmark tucked somewhere in between...</div>
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I fell in love with that sketchpad and those brilliantly colorful pencils and crayons, </div><div class="MsoNormal">That
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I fell in love with the guitar, which I never played...</div>
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But still kept it, because I heard it gently weeping one day...</div><div class="MsoNormal">I still kept it in the hope that it will cry with me someday!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I fell in love with that birthday dress, that made me look
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I fell in love with those high heeled shoes, that took me to heights whenever I felt low<o:p></o:p></div>
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I fell in love with every brick of my home, that imbibed my fragrance</div><div class="MsoNormal">I fell in love with those memories that defined my existence...</div>
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I fell in love with the girl lying down there, on the floor<o:p></o:p></div>
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I fell in love with her dark brown eyes, her nose, her ears, and her
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I fell in love with her skin tone, with every inch of her frame</div>
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I fell in love with her beauty that I never had time for...<o:p></o:p></div>
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I fell in love with her heart, her zeal, her passion, her wilderness, her abnormalities, and her insanity<o:p></o:p></div>
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And all I was thinking was, how could I not fall in love
with her before? <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Why was I running away from her... </div><div class="MsoNormal">And she stood there patiently, waiting for me to just look at her once, with love and affinity...</div>
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And there I was, today, sitting alone: all lonely falling in love with everything precious that I ever possessed… <br />
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And then, I heard a voice calling me upon, </div><div class="MsoNormal">And I asked desperately, “Can
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There was a reply, “You will…”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">“No… Can I get a chance to live my same old life again?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The silence fell upon everything...<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">"Hello..."</div><div class="MsoNormal">"Hello..." </div><div class="MsoNormal">I kept screaming...</div><div class="MsoNormal">As the darkness took over...</div><div class="MsoNormal">It was night... It was night again...</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">And I started waiting for the dawn to break... again...</div>
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shivani singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15969005541166166153noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042966401229258766.post-23579797061639926012015-06-12T21:40:00.001+05:302015-06-14T17:48:23.934+05:30Just a note on happinessJust got a thought on happiness... <div><br></div><div>Nothing is worth of depriving you from happiness, rather euphoria!! Be happy, be elated... life is short, too short to worry about any damn thing:)<div><br></div><div>So keep smiling... Fill the world around you with happiness!! </div></div>shivani singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15969005541166166153noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042966401229258766.post-25287679367670818512015-06-07T22:17:00.000+05:302015-09-11T11:50:27.329+05:30The transformation of an arranged marriage to a love one!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>“If I get married, I want to be very married.” </i></div>
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Arranged marriages: Lets look at what wikipedia says about it:</div>
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<i>Arranged marriage is a type of marital union where the bride and groom are selected by a third party rather than by each other. It was common worldwide until the 18th century.</i></div>
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Wait a second, does that say '18th century'. Yes, it indeed does. The world has moved on, and we, Indians are stuck, stuck in between a combat. A fight of deciding where to go, which side to choose and whom to follow: our old traditional culture or the west. </div>
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Anyways, arranged marriages still accounts for an overwhelming majority of marriages that happens on our land. Though we do celebrate love, but only in movies and we are doing that since last 4 decades, but when it comes to applying it literally, it suddenly becomes a stigma!</div>
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Love marriages are still considered a taboo in major parts of our society. Anyways, I am definitely not here to make a hue and cry on this institution, but on the contrary, to list down few exceptionally beautiful, few annoying and few hilarious things about an arranged marriage, that helps the two involved <strike>fools</strike> people creating a love story from an arranged set-up</div>
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Let me kind of try to put them in points:</div>
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1. Starts from the meeting of the families, with the girl and boy getting minimum time and expected to talk and know each other to the maximum. It is filled with tea, cakes, snacks, food and <i>gap-shap</i> and yes, the girl's family falling for the dude... ehmmm, I mean the boy: his demeanour, his pleasant and nice mannerisms and not to forget, his <strike>killer </strike>radiant and beautiful smile, that has the power to give a familial Orgy... </div>
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2. Generally, in Indian arranged marriages, the final answer comes from the boy's side. Girl's side wait eagerly and gravely for a phone call from them, as if he is the last man alive on the planet. Boy's family, how-so-ever they liked the girl and how-so-much they would be eager to say yes, takes their own time, for the fear of not revealing their desperation. </div>
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3. Finally, when the yes happens, the whole ambience change. Everybody behaves as if this is the first ever moment of happiness in their lives. The whole neighbourhood is lightened and brightened with hugs, sweets and celebrations, and shouts and screams and what-not!</div>
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4. Now comes the time for the girl to get pampered (my fav part!). She is treated like a princess and I am telling you, if you are in that position, exploit... Exploit this situation as much as possible because it will never come back. </div>
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5. And the wedding is done, ending with moms, bride, relatives, everybody howling and crying and yowling on top of their voices, making the poor groom feel like a kidnapper!</div>
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6.The girl enters the new house, taking a leap from a girl to a woman, a fiance to a wife, a careless daughter to a responsible daughter in law. </div>
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7. Time to take out and put on those lacy sexy lingeries every girl buys in order to seduce her husband. This shopping can also turn to be horrendous, if not taken care of properly! </div>
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8. Time to know each other. The girl plays safe, by pushing a bit every day. First day, to try and make a space for herself in his closet. Second day, to change few things here and there in his room and after few days, establishing the fact that the room belongs to both! Its the time they test each other's boundaries</div>
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9. They start knowing each other, with love blossoming on the parallel track, with the winds of heaven dancing in between. Its like dating, just that it happens after marriage. And in most of the cases, Sex is already done O_o</div>
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10. In between those small arguments, disputes and fights, the life goes on, with a hope of having a 'happily ever-after' Bollywood style kind of 'The End'. The only thing is no one knows, where exactly lies this end! But right they say, '<i>Marriage is not the end of love, as some might say. Instead, it is the very beginning of an incredible journey</i>…” - Annette Thurmon, A lifetime of Happiness</div>
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Guess thats true! Do let me know what do you think: Can arranged marriages be transformed into loved ones.</div>
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P.S. How can marriages be arranged? They are made in heaven... Right?</div>
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P.P.S. 9th Point: Why to date when sex is already done??? Because it keeps on getting better and wilder with every date! :<></div>
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