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I am unable to hide and contain the giggles, smiles and laughter that swell up within me as I ponder on my memories, as I remember during my childhood days, visits to Balvatika (A Children’s Garden). The best thing about Balvatika was a room full of mirrors, which shows you distorted images of yourself. Its funny to look at a short you, tall and lean you, a fat you, a crooked you; the room rings constantly with laughter, fun and surprises. No matter how good looking and in-shape you are, the mirror just reflects the way it is designed – a laughable you. Now it is ok as long as it is all for fun and laughter, however it could be really shocking, if it happens in real life.

Recently I had been browsing thru the works of a few popular new-age and self help authors. Prolific authors, who are being treated almost with a demi-god status and people take their words as the ultimate dictum on life. (more…)

The train chugged powerfully thru the drizzle as I kept waiving. This was the beginning of a journey; a journey which just like the train was powerfully pulling the load attached, moving against all odds, piercing thru darkness, thru the cold wind and the rain – unstoppable.

It was not the pull of the train that powered the journey, rather it was something else more powerful, that was moving forward – It was the journey of Truth. My mind couldn’t forget the young child’s smiling face, less than a year old. The journey reflected innocence, trust and childlike faith. This friend of mine was traveling out to a very remote jungle to meet an unknown tribe, a tribe which still is centuries behind the normal world, cutoff from the rest of the world this tribe still lives in prehistoric stone age era. (more…)

Hey Gigibhai your blog on the act of forgiving (Priyanka Gandhi forgiving to forget), is what inspired me to write this sequel. Thanks for that blog it was very touching and very well written …

Evil, can never be fought and won, evil has to meet its equal or more powerful rival, before it can be (eradicated) stopped. Evil was the act of bombing and victims were those who experienced the loss.

The effect of every evil deed continues even after the actual crime is over, as evil would continue to haunt and terrorize the victim by bringing in painful memories, hatred, vengeance etc.. Even though the victim of a crime may come to terms with the pain and loss, evil at every step will continue to victimize the victim ! (more…)

In today’s Deccan Chronicle’s Chennai edition I read a very sad article about an eight year old girl, who killed herself by setting herself on fire for a meagre reason that her teacher checked her school bag in suspicion of theft. The girl was an excellent student and felt humiliated by the very act of checking her bag in front of the whole class.

For a moment i was thinking that their could have been many such instances which never got reported first and their could have been many such girls and boys who could be doing something very frightening to themselves just ‘coz they have been humiliated by something. The reason could be as small as loosing the first rank by one mark, avoidance by their friends, parents pressure to perform etc. The list will be too long. (more…)

This article in one of the leading dailies of the country has touched my heart and before building into the theme I would like to cite some excerpts from the article.

This is about the life of Kenyans after the election trife in December 2007 wherein more than 1000 people where killed and 3,00,000 people where left homeless which basically took an ethnic turn. I would like to highlight some of the real life conditions this people are living in, which we won’t desire to have even in our worst nightmares.

Clinton Masheti, 8 yrs old and all alone, sits on a wooden bunch rolling snakes out of clay. When the men came and started burning down houses in his villages, his parents ran away- without him! (more…)

Now when I said flood is coming, you guys must be wondering why am I speaking as an “unbeliever”! I mean, obviously the Bible does say that God won’t repeat such an act as he did in the days of Noah! Very true. But when i say, “Flood”, it should be interpreted as something which only destroys, something “Negative”.

So therefore the “Flood” can be interpreted as negative things that happen in our life. Sometimes we feel that we are flooded with bad luck or we wonder, “Why this is happening only to me? Why me???” Well the answer to this is, floods are gonna come, and when comes, it will destroy everything, and when I say everything, i mean, “EVERYTHING”. (more…)