Paper Planes

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.  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! That's what happened between me and these social media platforms. I just don't enjoy them anymore.  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 eve...

Writing after ages... could not stop myself from penning down something on #metoo movement! This whole #metoo thing is certainly scary, actually the incidents are so terrifying!  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 kno...

“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." ―  Matt Chandler Probably this is true and I actually believe in it very strongly. 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.  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 t...

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: 1. The number of views has increased by leaps and bounds 2. Getting more comments on my posts like never before 3. I am still getting good average views per day, despite the fact that I have not written from last one year. 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. 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. Today I read...

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. 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... 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. And to everybody's dismay, such incidents are on a rise now. No amount of differences in opinion justifies this ho...

Hey Shivi, What are you doing? Playing with fire.. FIRE? WATTT?  Yes, fire! Burning my hands, and feet and heart and soul... And why are you doing that? 'coz its the fire of love... It hurts, but it makes you fly... It pains, but then, the sufferings are worth it!

Hey Shiv <No reply> What are you doing? Swimming... Swimming? But I don't see that? Where are you swimming Shiv? In the stars... I told you, you are mad! I told you, I know...

What's up Shiv, <No answer> What are you doing Shiv? Building castles... Where? I can't see any... In the air You are insane Finally, you know!!!

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. I can’t do that with people, guess it can be torturous and I do not believe in torturing souls…<at all> 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. 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). 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 ...

We, humans are so weirdly wired. No? 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.  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. 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...

“This is amazing,” Volodya said. “He’s the President, yet he has to make excuses all the time for what he does!” “Something like that,” Woody said. “We call it democracy.”  ― Ken Follett, Winter of the World 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! 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. 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. Follett tells you the complete history...