WHERE ARE OUR ROOTS?

bringing up children, jobs and careers, Kids and teenagers, Life, social trends, society
WHERE ARE WE HEADING TO? In the race to modernize, the present generation is drifting away from our rich culture and Mythology, a fact very well observed by Mallika Sarabhai( Cat with a Nose Ring, THE WEEK, Aug 12,2012) Westernization started about five decades back and in fact in the seventies, one of the very common topics for essays in examinations used to “Westernization-A Curse or a Boon” and since then we have been running nonstop to unidentified destinations and for a new identity .We have been running nonstop and without seeing back and in fact have gone very far, to a stage where the present generation is hardly Indian and in fact have an identity crisis as they definitely don’t have an exclusive new identity. What they have ,is…
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ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA

emotions, friendship, GENDERS, interpersonal relationship, itrapersonal relationship, Life, love, Marriage, movies, relationships, social trends, society
Males Bond !! After a row of nonsensical movies, it was a real respites and a great delight watching ZNMD ! Hindi cinema has come a long way from the time when a simple love story or a love triangle was presented in four hours ending with marriage or death of the second hero, to a time where the stress is not on the story, but on life, emotion and above all inter and intrapersonal relationships. The stories today in good movies are real, which raise questions in one’s mind and give answers to many queries of one’s life. ZNMD is another such movie revolving around the lives of three friends .Based on similar lines of that of Dil chahta hai & Three idiots, somewhere this, seemed to touch the…
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I Am-Grey in life

GENDERS, Life, love, Marriage, movies, relationships, Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Trends, social trends, society, TERRORISM
THE GREY IN LIFE ! While we were all too busy, enjoying the four letter words of Delhi Belly and admiring the return of the angry old ( oops........young)man in Budha Hoga Tera Baap,a lovely art movie from parallel cinema, I Am came and went, unsung, unheard and may be unseen ,like so many other good art films. Like Seven Feathers, I Am too is a collection of four independent stories where the director has touched four burning socio-legal issues which really don’t have a right or wrong answer and are far beyond the Black and White shades of life, but their cause, effects, implications and solutions ,all are grey. The movie has beautifully touched the various aspects of four very pertinent contemporary issues ,Single mother, Jammu and Kashmir issue,…
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HOPE

Life
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest, if you must, but don't you quit. Life is queer with its twists and turns, As every one of us sometimes learns, And many a failure turns about, When he might have won had he stuck it out; Don't give up though the pace seems slow-- You may succeed with another blow. Often the goal is nearer than, It seems to a faint and faltering man, Often the struggler has given up, When he might have captured the victor's cup, And he learned too late…
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MORNING

Life
When I woke up today and looked out of the window... I felt I didn't want to hold myself and go with the flow... A little bird chirped from the window ledge sounding melodious... Oblivious of the feeling inside my heart that made me curious Beyond my window I saw the sky painted by a rainbow Inside the window there were dew drops with a pearly glow My finger touched the dew drops and they followed a trail And my sobriety woke up beaming as if not to let me fail A blooming flower caught my eye for it bounced golden sunshine That brought a smile on my lips as dew drops were no lesser fine Chirpy bird jumped on the ledge whistling the autumn song Telling my conscience blossom…
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MORNING

Life
When I woke up today and looked out of the window... I felt I didn't want to hold myself and go with the flow... A little bird chirped from the window ledge sounding melodious... Oblivious of the feeling inside my heart that made me curious Beyond my window I saw the sky painted by a rainbow Inside the window there were dew drops with a pearly glow My finger touched the dew drops and they followed a trail And my sobriety woke up beaming as if not to let me fail A blooming flower caught my eye for it bounced golden sunshine That brought a smile on my lips as dew drops were no lesser fine Chirpy bird jumped on the ledge whistling the autumn song Telling my conscience blossom…
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NEVER GIVE UP

Life
< When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest, if you must, but don't you quit. Life is queer with its twists and turns, As every one of us sometimes learns, And many a failure turns about, When he might have won had he stuck it out; Don't give up though the pace seems slow-- You may succeed with another blow. Often the goal is nearer than, It seems to a faint and faltering man, Often the struggler has given up, When he might have captured the victor's cup, And he learned too…
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