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The series focuses on Monkey D. Luffy, a young man who, inspired by his childhood idol and powerful pirate "Red Haired" Shanks, sets off on a journey from the East Blue Sea to find the famed treasure One Piece and proclaim himself the King of the Pirates. In an effort to organize his own crew, the Straw Hat Pirates (麦わら海賊団篇 Mugiwara Kaizoku-dan), Luffy rescues and befriends a swordsman named Roronoa Zoro, and they head off in search of the One Piece. They are joined in their journey by Nami, a navigator and thief; Usopp, a sniper and a liar; and Vinsmoke Sanji, a womanizing chef who is also a prince from a family of Royal Assasins. They acquire a ship named the Going Merry and engage in confrontations with notorious pirates of the East Blue. As Luffy and his crew set out on their adventures, others join the crew later in the series, including the doctor and anthropomorphized reindeer Tony Tony Chopper, an archaeologist and former assassin Nico Robin, a cyborg shipwright Franky, and skeletal musician Brook with a new upgrade ship named "Thousand Sunny".

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F.R.I.E.N.D.S.

The most famous show specially preffered among teenagers. Everybody now a days is like if you haven't seen FRIENDS you have not been alive yet. Series of this show has been directed by Gary Halvorson, James Burrows, Gail Mancuso, Peter Bonerz, David Schwimmer. The show has ten seasons and all the seasons are available on youtube. So, you must watch it. The show featured six main cast characters. Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green, Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay, Matt Leblanc as Joey Tribbiani, Matthew perry as Chandler Bing, David schwimmer as Ross Geller and Courteney Cox as Monica Geller.

This show is basically about the love story of Ross and Rachel. Show starts with Rachel. She ran from her own marriage because she wasn't ready yet. She came to Monika's place. She is this sweet innocent and equally disturbed girl finding ways for life and career. However, Ross was married. And, had a divorce with his wife as she was a lesbian. Monica is babysister of Ross. She is Rachel's best friend. This story has sarcasm, emotions, mistakes. Basically what i feel is this show is all about human nature. Mistakes someone could ever make in life. How you flow with the moment. When you grow up you realise its time to be serious in life. What happens when love hits your brain. It is a perfect combination of everything one could ever experience in life. This show is actually funny with a pinch of seriousness. Well, i like joey more than anyone because he's cool. "HOW YOU DOIN'?"- JOEY. If you see him speaking these three words i swear you would fall for him.

Here are some famous dialouges that will surely make you laugh.

"If he doesn't like you this all is a moo point.. yeah it's like a cow opinion. It just does not matter. It's moo."- Joey



"Oh. MY. GOD" - Chandler's girlfriend, Janice.



"But they don't know that we know they know we know!''-Phoebe.



Judge all you want but, (points to ross) married a lesbian, (points to rachel) left a man at the altar, (points to phoebe) fell in love with a gay ice dancer, (points to joey) threw a girl's wooden leg in fire, (points to the box that chandler is in) live in a box! -Monica



You know how you come home at the end of the day and throw your jacket on the chair? - Ross

Yeah. - Joey

Instead of a jacket, it’s a pile of garbage. Infact instead of a chair, it’s a pile of garbage. And instead of the end of the day, it’s the end of time and garbage is all that has survived.- Ross.

He must decide. He must decide. Even though I made him up, he must decide.!- Phoebe

"Hey, you guys have a lot of books about being a lesbian. Said Ross.

Susan said you know, you have to take a course. Otherwise they don’t let you do it.:"



"Joanna- what are you doing?

Chandler -Getting dressed.

Joanna- Why?

Chandler- when I walk outside naked, people throw garbage at me.



Joey- Um, we’ll flip for it, ducks or clowns.

Candler- Oh, we’re gonna flip for the baby?

Joey- You got a better idea?

Chandler- All right, call it in the air.

Joey-Heads.

Chandler- Heads it is.

Joey- Yess! Whoo!

Chandler- We have to assign heads to something!

Joey- Right, okay, okay, ummm, ducks is heads, because ducks…have heads.

Chandler- What kinda’ scary-ass clowns came to your birthday!?"



"Ross- Chandler entered a Vanilla Icecream look-alike contest and WON!


Chandler- Ross came fourth and CRIED badly."


"Joey- Why do you have to break up with her? Be a man. Just stop calling."



"Rachel- Hey look monika i am melting butter.

Monica- That’s great, Rachel. You have the cooking skills of a hot day now."



"Phoebe: you know what I just realized? ‘Joker’ is ‘poker’ with a ‘J’. Coincidence?

Chandler: okay well, that’s ‘joincidence’ with a ‘C’."

There is much more. So take a break and start watching. Open Yotube and enjoy all the ten seasons.

The bhangarh fort.

I went to rajasthan last year. The place is very cool by history and hot by temperature for sure. Rajasthan is famous for its beautifully crafted temples, forts and havelis. Some of these were built by the kings of that period. This all adds beauty to the indian heritage. Architecture speaks the language of heart itself. Poetry is cemented in the walls of forts and temples. Rajasthan meaning; THE LAND OF KINGS. The major tourist attraction is "BHANGARH FORT." You know why? Because, this is the most haunted place in india. Bhangarh fort is in bhangarh town which is situated beween jaipur and alwar. There are many myths related to this fort. Nobody knows whether they are myths or truth itself. According to the Government of india, entry into the fort is restricted after sunset and before sunrise. According to the people of town; there are some mysterious voices in fort that can be heard at night. The entire town got destroyed because of curse. Ratnavati was the princess of bhangarh. In the nearby states she was the most beautiful lady. As she grew up, Emperor's of other states visited bhangarh to marry her. A tantrik namely, singhia had his eyes on the princess. But he knew that he was a tantrik and she was a princess. She would never say a yes to marry him. However he tried to spell bound Rani Rantnavati by his smell of perfume that she used to apply. Rani Ratnavati saw him mixing some oil into her perfume. She threw the bottle on ground and oil shattered on floor which eventually turned to a rock. That rock rolled over and killed singhai. Singhai while going into the mouth of death cursed the town and even said-"There will be no re-births." After sometime Rani Ratnavati was murdered due to surprise attack for political reasons. However, the town still believes that Rani Ratnavati has taken birth and would return to end this saddist curse and to turn this place into happiness once again.
                    Before 6pm you have to leave Bhangarh fort according to the rules. Fort doors are closed after 6 pm. Therefore the visit timings are after sunrise and before 6pm that is before it gets dusky outside. Government has strictly prohobited entry after 6 pm and if anyone does; legal actions would be taken against him. According to what people say, there is something strange about this fort. People hear noise, strange music, voice of crying women, voice of bangles, strange lights. Sometimes, people have seen strange lights coming from the Fort. There is a fact that people who stayed in the fort after daylight never returned. Once a group of friends visited there. They reached by 7 pm.The gatekeeper told them that entry after 6 pm is restricted here. However they gave some money to the gatekeeper and entered the Fort at night. At first they were roaming here and there. Time passed. When they were about to return, one of them laughed and said "BOOOO...HERE LIVES NO GHOSTS BUT RUMOURS" However a slow wind started blowing. Curtains covered the windows by itself. A strange Man with a burnt face appeared in moonlight. Those 5 faces never returned back from the fort. A guy named masoom shared his story at twitter about Bhangarh fort. He said that he was 9 years old when he visited Bhangarh Fort. He was with his father. While they were walking a man behind them started following them. He said he want to tell them the story of Fort desperately. He said this place is cursed and you must return. However his father picked him up and moved forward. When his father looked back, The man disappeared. Nobody knows the truth but, many paranormal activities have been seen and felt overnight.

Believing in ghosts or such tales is ones choice. But never underestimate or intrfere into something that you have no knowledge about. Its better to do good and  believe in good. But, Its best to have knowledge about bad.

BY: ISHITA CHOUDHRY

Trending indian fashion.

When the discussion is about “FASHION” then there is one city which comes in everyone’s mind and that is “DELHI”. This is because as we know the beginning of metamorphose of city start from youth, as like it the era of fashion starts only if it is accepted by youth and Delhi is the only city wherein maximum population is youth. The main reason is DELHI UNIVERSITY where students come from across for their studies. Whenever new trend of Fashion comes in the market then it becomes the new way of style and is accepted by these students. Not only this we can see the impact of any fashion here. DU is the only place where we can find those students who belongs to different cities and this is the main reason why we always talk about DU’s fashion because we don’t need to go to any other cities when we can get the hangover of fashion at one place.
These students comes from Himachal, Luck now, Nainital and from many other cities and we can say that Delhi university is that ice cream parlor  where we can get any kind of flavor.
Delhi rank second most fashionable city in our list buzzing with designers showrooms, boutiques, international brands house and multistoried malls. Today it is home to some of the biggest fashion shows like-delhi couture week, wills lifestyle fashion week, lakme fashion week and bridal Asia fashion week. Some of the most happening and fashionable streets of the city which delight the designer instincts of its people are HAUZKHAS,DEFENCE COLONY,DLF PLACE,SHAHPURJAT and more.no wonder the city is considered ideal for couples who have the money to splurge and want to enjoy their day to the core.
Where Delhi is spreading the fragrance of fashion everyone in young generation as well as among every age on the other hand MUMBAI comes to first position which has been create a history of fashion. With a large and looming fashion industry of the city, it has spread headed the era of “DESIGNER WEAR” throughout the country. Mumbaikars literally live, eat and breathe fashion as the city has some of the best designers like ROHITBAL, JJ VALAYA, MANISH ARORA, RITU KUMAR working incessantly to bring fashion to the common man. The city boasts boutique and fashion stores in each and every nook and corner to reach fashion to it’s people. There are some streets where you can find some amazing fashionable stuff, they will not be designer but you can buy it at cheap cost.
Fashion does not evaluate the city, standard of people, status and age group. It spreads it wings everywhere. There are some others cities which are developing their standard in the field of fashion, they are big as like MUMBAI AUR DELHI but the colors and smell of their  fashion  are spreading all over the country. These cities are Pune, Kolkata, Himachal Pradesh, Bangalore, Goa and many more. If we talk about Pune then you can find every kind of fashionable clothes at their local street to standard market. If you can’t afford costly stuff then you can choose to buy from their famous streets like-LAXMI ROAD, M.G ROAD, TULSIBAUG and many more streets are there where some catchy and amazing clothes can be found. Goa is one of the city where you can get glamour’s fashion. Goa is famous for their hotness that’s why you can select this city for hot and glamour fashionable city.
Where Mumbai, Pune, Delhi and Goa are spreading their wings in glamour’s and hottest fashion on the other hand there are some cities which are continuing the traditional fashion of our India. We know that if western culture is the sign of development then the traditional culture is the identity of our country India. Now a day’s custom wear are really popular and in trend. These are acceptable by today’s youth. Whether they are college students or office colleague’s traditional fashion is more lovable trend ever. You can say that it is evergreen fashion which always innovate and develop but not become out of fashion even when you wear any traditional and get Indian look then it become the fashion of today.
CHENNAI, KOLKATA, HIMMACHAL PRADESH, and CHANDIGARH these cities are taking traditional further. You can get some amazing sari from Kolkata streets. Right from the traditional silk saris with the designers touch to complete indo-western apparels, the designers have been doing all that it takes to meet the fashion needs of the people. The beautiful and meticulously planned city of Punjab bogs the position of the tenth most fashionable city of India. The smell of Punjab can get in this city’s fashion. Punjabi culture is the most lovable fashion which is really brings a energy into us because the traditional Punjabi stuff are made of different hard colors.
As like Kolkata, Chennai cities you can see the amazing traditional stuff in Delhi also. The most famous place in Delhi for sari is CHANDINI CHOWK. This is only place in Delhi where you can get the every types of sari, lehanga. Not even this if you are looking for traditional cloths at right price then you can prefer this place. Because there are so many shops which bring out the amazing traditional clothes at minimum price, not only this if you want to purchase the color of another cities then this place can provide it.
Here you can get the another city’s design like Kolkata sari, Himmachal’s sari Punjab and many more city, color can see at one place. Thus is the most lovable place by everyone.in the Diwali season and marriage season there are very rush can see here. Not even this at normal days the streets of chandini chowk never decrease. Every street of this place shows the different culture of different cities. We can say this chandini chowk is that wall of fashion which is colored by different colors of cities.

It’s the fashion conscious people that make their cities more fashionable. These cities are running high on their style factor with buzzing designer’s showrooms, supermalls, local streets. There is a hangover of fashion all around the world. From a film star to a normal person and a office colleague to a college student, every cast, religion, everyone is creating a history of fashion. Fashion is like poetry which is written by youth and acceptable by everyone. Every words of this saying a story of city, culture. The era of fashion is really old even you can see the outfit of traditional Indian people is still throughout by every designers. There is a one person who is king of traditional wear MANISH MALHOTRA. He is the king of traditional fashion. You can’t leave to show your fashion even your formal look also say a story of fashion.

WHY ARE HUMANS SUCH FOOD AFICIONADOS?

Settling ourselves inside a gastronomic gem of the city and eating the finest dish with an intricate nouvelle cuisine presentation is probably a fantasy of all our fellow homo sapiens. Literally. All homo sapiens. I mean, while we are on the subject of gastronomy, McDonalds is not far behind either in that regard. In fact, McDonalds is the best. It has its own theories but ‘I hate McDonalds’ cult’s members’ dreams for people to give up our lovely Maharaja Mac in the pretext that it has dogs’ meat mixed in its ingredients lies as far-fetched as Starbucks ever bringing an actual COFFEE drink to this world. While there may be no such cult but then again, we intermittently tend to find such exceptional Neanderthals bestrewn over this planet. Don’t judge me. Food is love, food is life (Speaking from a scientific perspective, actually food is indeed life).

From Joey Tribbiani on F.R.I.E.N.D.S. to Jake the Dog on Adventure Time, even our idiot boxes’ contents do not fail to allude that how big glutton-pigs, us human beings are. And I don’t blame us either, FOOD IS DIVINE. And why should I even consider blaming? It is food we are talking about!

And that is not all. Human beings are always ceaselessly looking for preparing many more delectable and mouth-watering feasts. I mean if there isn’t a conglomerate of delights present on the table, or in life in general, we would divert into banausic rituals and in the end, start disgorging monotony all around us. I mean if there isn’t any flavor, there isn’t anything.

One can always get out of a relationship, but you and your food, are stuck for LIFE. Figuratively and literally. And you know it.

And just like a relationship, there might be times when we actually hate our food (I had to get there too. Happy now, McD cult?). “For many, it’s guilt about overeating or caving in to cravings. For most of us, it is the fact that food is much more than the simple fuel our ancestors considered it to be. A piece of chocolate could be a sin, or a reward, or a comfort (or all three at different times). Is it any wonder that a balanced, unremorseful attitude toward food is practically extinct?” says Martha Brockenbrough. But right now, we are going to be talking about the good parts. Why are we food aficionados?

Cooking a man feast as opposed to eating raw food has led to many evolutionary changes in the human body. Yes, there is actually an explanation to why humans like to fidget with our food in the most creative ways that has allowed us to metamorphose into the dominant species that we are presently. Raw potatoes, as an unpalatable example, “contain poisonous toxins and harmful bacteria, such as solanine and E.coli, which can result in abdominal cramps, diarrhoea, nausea, headaches, or even death if consumed.” But boil ‘em, mash ‘em, and dust ‘em up with some spices and you are so good to go!

In his video “How Did We Get Here?” University of New South Wales’ evolutionary biologist Darren Curnoe expounds that it all started when our primogenitors started cooking their meat as far back as a million years ago. This made our food in the following years safer to eat by annihilating all the harmful toxins and bacteria followed by making our food easier to chew and digest, subsequently evolving smaller teeth and less jaw strength, and making room for us to develop larger brains.

He also explained that this process also made us less dependent on eating. Raw vegetables, usually contain less nutrition, and a lot of root vegetables, like potatoes cannot even be digested at all. By cooking, we have been able to ameliorate on the nutritional levels of our food and get more energy out of a relatively less amount of food.

Also, surprisingly, we are the only species in this world to grow our own food (GO HOMO SAPIENS!), and “this allowed humans to start focusing on new trades and indulging in interesting ways to improve the taste and texture of our meals.” This also had some other radical changes in the human body.

“It is stupendous to think that our relationship with food has not just been crucial to our evolution, it has also become a quintessential part of what it means to be human.”

In the end I would just like to say that I am not some epicure. I just love food. I am privileged to actually be able to eat what I want unlike those poor people who have to think twice before spending even ten rupees for just a plate of unhygienic street food, that too for a small plate. As Sarah Mahoney says in her blog, “Food, I have accepted, is just one way I connect with and orient myself to life. I indulge. It means I am ready for a change, looking to add new flavors, textures and experiences to a life that might be feeling a little state.”

So next time, someone asks you that what makes you happy, just say: FEED ME.

YOU MAKE YOUR OWN FUTURE.

We are living in a society that is firmly a mimesis of that long gone autochthonous dogma that becoming a doctor or an engineer is the optimum path to triumph and ascendancy, and gravitating towards any other career path is basically an act of profanity. And there is no doubting that. Because when our beloved uncles and aunties come to our house, they are obliged to ask, “So, what are your career plans?” and we are naturally obliged to say that one word. That one devout locution. “Engineering, aunty,” “Medical, uncle.” What a pathetically mesmerizing world.

Ever since growing up, most of the children are conditioned to the creed that if you do not want to end up cribbing over your middle-class status, you might as well go with a subject that is more conceptual and is the cornerstone of showing one’s true academic inclination and capability and surprisingly, altruism. And the most renowned supposition is that taking Science in our secondary senior schooling epoch opens the threshold to all career paths ever available on this planet. While that may be true, there is no element of surprise in the fact that if someone is hell-bent on becoming someone which caters to the Humanities or Commerce, or something which is absolutely disparate in terms of its creativity, they might as well start with it whenever they want to. I could write an exhausted dissertation on the proclivity of people for the Sciences, but that is not what the article is about. This article is about why you should take what you WANT to take. Not otherwise.

The first and the foremost step to knowing about what you truly want to become and see yourself as in the future, you should first dispel all the other elements like money, job securities, work atmosphere and the concern for having cornucopia in the future or not, which are subsumed in the career planning practice. Rather than that, focus on what truly fascinates you. What is that one job that could regale you with your interests, hobbies and aptitude. Obviously money is something which needs to be taken into consideration, but had it always been about money, everyone in this world would have ended up wanting to become a world class entrepreneur, or a software engineer at Google. You should know that success can be found in any career, be it in a profession as an entertainer, a journalist or even as a paranormal investigator. It usually is about how passionately, with how much pithy and creatively can one perform in that role of profession. If you ever have a chinwag with a person like me, I would always recommend going for a career that is not as sought-after as others and also is a paragon of your self-interests and inclination. By doing so, one might be able to truly find more success by being more creative and depicting qualities of avant-garde in that field and eventually disseminate the beauty and verve of that métier. And if you exalt in regards to success, money would eventually be a product of it.

And even if there is no prospect of being minted, that is not a reason, in any way, for you to give up on something that you were always desirous of. While that might be onerous to just even accept, you should know that capitulating to a dreaded nine to five job is not an answer either. Take it like this. You are on your deathbed. Would you like to look back upon all the times that you did what you truly had a predilection of and loved doing, or have a paroxysm of regret of not doing something you wanted to do just for the sake of money and going for something that the society has a proclivity for and NOT YOU?

Not everyone can be academically inclined. And anyone can propose this statement with absolute certitude. If your interests lay in performing or visual arts, photography or modelling. Just go for it. Do not be evasive of going for such fields because you think that your parents or your darling relatives might not like those professions or that you will be marked with derision by them.  Just don’t listen or be bothered. Many people have become extremely successful and exultant in this field and are even cited as one of the richest performance artists, photographers or models in the world. So what is holding you back?

While we are on the subject of performing arts, let us veer towards the world of social media. If you love to binge watch YouTube videos (because who doesn’t, right?), becoming a YouTuber, as a full time profession, is something you should totally give a try. There is a legion of YouTubers out there who are earning millions just by making videos. This is a profession which is also widely propagating in India. If you are a person who enjoys doing makeup, has a really sharp scientific-bent of mind, or just love to goof around sharing stories and like light-hearted burlesque of people, YouTube is for you. And what all do you need? Just an internet connection, a camera and a newfangled idea. And if you actually become successful in this field, you might even get further opportunities like starring in movies or music videos, advertisements, hosting award shows and maybe having your own world tour.

In the end I would just like to cite something that I read from Sergio Diazgranados’ blog:

 “When you are trying to figure out how to choose a career path, it is important that whatever you do taps into your natural talents. Each one of us has a set of special talents and it’s important that your job accentuates those talents and gives you an opportunity to improve upon them... Just be your true self and find something that aligns with your existing set of skills.”

Happy career planning!

3 AM.

It was around 3 am. I wasn't sleepy and he was sleeping next to me. I didn't knew it was love, affection or addiction. But, there was something strong between us. I praised his head. Strands of his hair were trapped between my fingers softly. I was just gazing at his innocent face. That night i wanted to lie down on his chest and kiss him all along. YES! I WAS FALLING FOR HIM. I just wanted to kiss him and show him all my love. Deep inside there was something.. something that stopped me each second. Maybe, the fear of heartbreak. I was afraid to fall for him even then I was doing the same. My thumb rolled over his cheek. In that dark silent room before I could kiss him, my mind started shouting. Because I was storm and he was just a cloud. I never wanted to take him deep with me and become a reason for his destruction.

  We were strangers. He asked me "what you do?"
   My reply to him was- "I FEEL."

He looked into my eyes with a mixed feeling of shock and happiness. He smiled. And, somehow i knew he has fallen for me too. I had no idea about what made him fall for me. All i knew about him was that he expressed less! much lesser than me. With time.. maybe that's the thing that helped us to grow.

   I made him feel words.. He made me feel the silence.


WRITTEN BY: ISHITA CHOUDHRY

About

Writer 1.

My name is Pushkar Behal. Nice to meet you! I started this blog as part of an assignment in a technology course I took at The Kurukshetra University. After the course concluded, I wanted to keep adding to it. Share my thoughts and ideas with other readers, educators and Students. In this blog we provide different articles on different aspects of life. Like Love, Culture, Career, Travel, Life, Movies and many more to Come. Currently, I am pursuing my Bachelors at the Kurukshetra University where I manage the Literature Club. In the past we started a program in which we taught children who belonged to a poor family. Then I took IELTS coaching in which I managed to score 7.5 Bands. My professional interests are, of course, educational technology, literacy education, and English as a Second Language education. My personal interests are French Language, animal welfare, and taking care of street dogs. This blog is intended to help in teaching and learning. I hope you will find the information here helpful.

Pushkar Behal.

Writer 2.

Hi, my name is Ishita Choudhry. Pleased to meet you. I started working with this blog because of my keen interest in literature. I wish to please our readers with our articles and we as a team hope to provide you with healthy original content. Well, basically I am a CA student. I have interest in accounting and taxation aspects as well. Personally I Love writing, drawing, sketching and painting. With this passion I love to write about various aspects of life. So here we intend to share our thoughts. Explore love stories with us. Let us travel together. We will share Career experiences with you and lots more.                                                                        HAPPY READING!

Ishita Choudhry

FIRST DATE

The more she shared her thoughts, the more he started falling for
her. Her heart was telling her that yeah he likes you. But, mind was
saying let it be. Accidently, he just said he has crush over a girl.
She somehow knew it was her. Only her! don’t know what came to
her mind. She just pressurised him softly to tell the girl about his
feelings. Although, she knew deep inside. It was her. Although she
didn’t even want this. Still she was excited to know about what he
feels. That day he just said it. “A Coffee?”
she felt happy. She never showed it. But she was happy. That
day he just said her that hes been in love with her thoughts. He's
ready to have a serious thing in life. She asked for time.. and she said
she’ll tell later about the date. The next day she said a yes. A yes
to meet him. It wasn’t a planned date. Over time it changed to
their first date <3
That day , for the first time in lifetime.. she was on time and that
was the last day too. Before and after that date she never arrived on
time. He was in a black shirt and a jacket and she was wearing black
too. His favourite colour. For the first time, they sat infront of each
other and they heard each other voices and what she said? “can we
please exchange the seats?” haha.! when they started talking, for
the first time she noticed his expressions. For the first time, she saw
him smiling. For the first time she saw the way he speaks. The way he
blinks his eyes , the way he use his hands as expression while saying something. For
the first time she found that his nose is cute. Sunlight was falling on
his face and that expression when he expressed anything by nodding
his head was unforgettable. “So close yet so far”
he kept talking about what had happened, she kept sharing the
same.
“Maybe love starts with sharing what you had in order to give
whatever you have now.”
 -FIRST DATE

WRITTEN BY: ISHITA CHOUDHRY

DEEP CONVERSATIONS

Can some texts be this powerful? Over a screen of mobile, can the 

two person decide to share future? Some deep conversations can 

solve a thousand questions. you know what is the best thing in this 

world? TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS unexpectedly. To talk insane 

about things. To talk without fears and present yourself as who you 

truely are. You never know .. some things start because the other has 

to end. And, that's the thing about happiness.. it demands to be seen!

 “you know i was lost somewhere.. you found me, i found myself.”

One night they talked about relationships, human nature, past!

ummm past? Something that is related with holding your feelings. 

Some sacrifices and broken trust for sure. It involves so much of love 

to hate a person completely. We are all at this stage in our lives. For 

her, past meant broken dreams. For him, past meant reality. “deeds 

on one side, karma on the other. somewhere between all this.. life 

gets balanced”

While talking to someone.. there are certain expectations ..either u 

need something from them or you have to give something. That is why 

we communicate. Thats why we talk. but they both were of different 

kind. He's the one that can make anyone happy and she's the one with 

whom you can speak the language of mind. The best part about these 

texts was that there was nothing but freedom. Feelings without 

boundation, without limits. 

“The universe said, i stand here because i want two people to meet. “yes, this all started through texts. Let me take you to the journey when a ‘hi’ changed to ‘i love you.’

One morning, she came to the place he studied. He saw her 

downstairs holding a folder . She almost set her hair, chin up ! she 

walked upstairs. while he was coming behind. She was sitting there. 

He was stood behind. He saw her for the first time. But, she was a 

quiet girl. Silent and non expressive. She didn’t even notice him. The 

same day he followed her at instagram. Dhe followed back. And as i 

already said, this all started through texts. That day a normal 

conversation changed to a deep one. They felt like they are not 

talking to each other but themselves. 

They felt likewise. 

After a long time she felt something different than a lonely night. She 

felt something .. something shes familiar with. Yes, that was the time 

to welcome new things in life. 

The journey has just started.

They both studied at the same place. They met same people. But, 

never met each other. She was shy even to say a hi.. and a hi was all 

he ever wanted. Everytime she passed by, he tried to talk to her but 

again she didn’t even notice. She was in her own life. Not so much of 

socialise while he was totally opposite. He talked with everyone , 

anyone!

Days passed. They kept talking through texts. She kept on sharing her views. He 

kept presenting his thinking!

Everytime she came to the class. They never even said a ‘hi’ . But,

then at night she almost spoke her heart to him. Mornings were silent.. even when they were together. But nights.. nights were so 

much of interactions. Even they were not together. This 

changed her views. “Happiness is not what demands to be seen, it is 

what demands to be felt.” 

They stayed silent in the class but they talked on phone after coming 

back to home.

 -DEEP CONVERSATIONS

WRITTEN BY: ISHITA CHOUDHRY

BEAUTY OF NORTH INDIA.

INDIA- LAND OF RICH CULTURE


“saree jahan se acha hai Hindustan humara.”
Let us dive deep in true Indian colors.
28 states with 29 beautiful languages and 1.28 billion population consisting of billion of people. Everyone is so different from one another. Still, we are “one.” We stand all together as “one” human being.

India popularly known as- GOD’S OWN COUNTRY (KERALA), LAND OF BIRYANI(HYDERABAD), HOME OF SWEETS(KOLKATA), ORIGIN OF KAMASUTRA(MADHYA PRADESH), LAND OF ROYALS(JODHPUR), HEAVEN ON EARTH(LADAKH).

North India is the most beautiful place on this earth. A valley between the great Himalayas and pir panjal range known as Kashmir is the crown of India. Kashmir is in the lap of majestic mountains filled with waterfront gardens collectively known as mughal gardens. Here nature itself is the creator. Kashmir is blessed with peaceful views of sunrise and sunset. Snow falls like magic is coming from heaven on the earth.
Ladakh is the next beautiful place in India. It’s culture and history is closely related to Tibet. The largest town in Ladakh is followed by kargil, popularly known as leh. Half of the people in Ladakh are Muslims and the other half are Buddhists. This place is well known for its dance culture and costumes.

Next is Punjab. “Waheguru waheguru.” Golden temple (Amritsar) is the beauty of Punjab. For the purity of soul, it is essential to know where you have come from. This beautiful temple covered with water all around. Sunshine compliments the golden color of temple. HEAVEN CAN BE SEEN ON THIS EARTH. Punjab is famous for Bhangra. One of the most energetic dance form. Whenever a Punjabi beat hits your head, you just can’t stop yourself to dance. Beautiful state full of farms popularly known as “sarso ke khet.”
Moving ahead to Chandigarh, beautiful clean city with consist of such huge talented people. wagah border joins our country to our neighborhood country Pakistan. Whether it’s raining or storm or the sun is shining on head. Every single day our soldiers parade for us. The show is beautiful. Huge number of people travel to watch the show.

“Dil walo ki Delhi” we cannot wait to mention “DELHI.” INDIA GATE is our pride. People who sacrificed their lives for our country have their names written. It is carved on the wall. At night, the roads look so calm and it’s all dark in there. Street light falls on the road and while you walk towards the gate there is some sense of satisfaction in you at that particular time. Believe me, the feeling is above everything. The parliament of India known as sansad bhawan is in Delhi. Qutub Minar adds beauty to the city. Jantar mantar is like a crossword puzzle. Delhi has this amazing red fort known as “Laal Kila.” Great place for visitors. This all speaks for the ancient times in our country. haridwar is famous for ganga aarti. People believe that it is a way of “moksh prapti” that is, meeting god in this human body. Taj mahal made by shahjahan is one among seven wonder of the world. It is made of pure white marble. It is popularly known as “symbol of love.”
This is about the beauty of north India.
BY: ISHITA CHOUDHRY

LIFE

LIFE
When we ask to anyone that what’s going on in your life then they just reply “not so good.” You know what we never gets satisfy with our life We always complain to god as well as to other people for all those things which are happening with us. This is the main reason why we do not get happy and the main reason is we always compare our life with others. If we don’t have an expensive mobile then we say we are not living a comfortable life. If we don't shop from mall and showrooms then we say our needs does not fulfill, if we don’t have lunch at restaurants then we say, we don’t have good life.we humans are very greedy.if we get a half chocolate then don’t think that now we have half chocolate to eat even says we have only half chocolate how can we eat. In this matter i think children are very kind nature than us. Infact if you wanna know how to live then you should learn from a child. If a child have only two taffy then he will share it with his another friend. A child think what he doesn’t have evened he always enjoys his small things  because for him that is enough to feel the happiness. A big house,car,money these are only needs which makes our life easy, not happy.

Now go into flashback and ask a question to yourself that were you facing all these problems when you was a child ?again the ans is ‘NO’ because in our childhood we got happy with small things and there were no space in our life for any luxury goods.we gave a space to these things when we grow up. Now we want a big car but in our childhood we loved to played with cars or cycle  Tyre. We wanna buy a play station where we played with paper boat when we were a child. Now we wanna a high salary job where we satisfied with two rupees chocolate. Time and things has been changed, even our preferences and meaning of life also changed.



The meaning of life different for everyone.for some people life means LOVE, some people want a life which is full of money and luxury goods.for some people friends are everything and some wanna spend their life with there love one.

One thing that I know is a perfect life can’t be happy. For example if you love raajma-chaawal then you can’t eat them daily, one day you will get bore.just like this if you think that a perfect life can make you happy then this is not true.for me life should be full of adventurous and should be full of surprise. life should introduce different phases that makes its very interesting.we should complaining to god for that is happening with us. I know it is not exactly that you planned but this is the only moment that come in your life for one time. So, don’t miss it, leave it as much as you can.

Actually, life is full of beautiful surprises. You don't have idea what will happen in a sec with you.where you are planning not to fall in love with someone else on the other side may there is special one who is planning to propose you and then suddenly he made a proposal for you to become a part of his life.this is called surprise of love. Don’t take it in negative way that the boy are abusing your protocols infect say yes to that boy and feel the feeling of that lovely moments. Don’t think that one day you will have to face breakup just think about this presently moments which is stand front of you to take you in the world of love. If you are thinking to resign from your job may be this the most boring place where every day some robots work day and night just for some amount of money.now think about this once again, this is the only place where you can learn how to get bore with work maybe it can help you in future to make you busy even when you are not doing anything.

Life is an ice cream parlor which provide us many flavors but this is on our hand that how many flavors we can taste.

Stop complaining with yourself or with your life, it is your life not a math teacher who is not completing her duty properly. Start accepting what you have and say thanks to god every day that he gave you such a beautiful gift because, there are some people who is requesting for this gift frothier child, mom,dad. Maybe, you are facing a bad phase but don’t get hyper don’t so show anger calm down and think for a while that if you were not in this situation then maybe you would not get a chance to learn how to deal with situation. Always take every exam as an experience.

You are the creator of your own life.this is only you who can paint his life with different colors now it’s just depend on you that which color you choose.as different colors you will choose as colorful painting can be create.so just pick the brush of smile and start to make a painting.

Discover life, discover yourself.

Discover life, discover yourself.

Often, people describe about their difficulties in life. They term life as a challenge. We have a plenty of experience about what to do in life, how to make your life better, how to live, ways to a healthy lifestyle and etc. Problem lies here only. Human nature is that we jump to the solutions without even discovering the problem. The problem with us is that we don’t really think. We only believe that we are deep thinkers, but in actuality we are just different from each other on the level of our minds. You know how to live Life and how to make your life good. Is this the question? NO.

This is the solution. The question is what is life? Ever wonder, what your body is made up of? Your mind is restricted to your body? What are problems? Where do they come from? Let me just give you an example!

You think that if there is some issue in your family, so this is a major problem you are facing! Or, suppose the person you loved, left you for no reason. Somebody is harassing you mentally or physically, someone is bitching behind your back, someone is being a torture on you, your career is a stress, you are alone and much more. These are problems?

Suppose if you drink some water as a criminal and the same water someone else is having as a pure being. Does the water change its state? No right. That describes it is water for “everyone.”

Similarly, if being lonely is a difficulty in your life that might be a source of motivation in the life of another. The difficulty is something that is similar for everybody. Rest whatever happens it is just a state of your mind. The whole game is about expectations. A person who can control his expectations can control his mind.  You become more silent; just remember a fact that peace is calling you. The actual problem is that we want everything according to us. Yes, this is the case with everybody. This could fall into the definition of – “PROBLEMS.” Intelligence increases with understanding. Try to walk in the shoes of another person. WE LOVE TO STAY IN TENSIONS. We don’t really care what we are doing and why we are doing this. So, if I ask you who you are as a person? This is you might know your name and the family you belong to. No one would think on the basis of soul.  Some may!

You have to discover the truth. Discover your inner self. What goes inside you is the truth and whatever you see outside it is just an illusion. Talk to yourself, ask yourself questions. Surely, you will get an answer. Soon you will discover that whatever is happening, it’s happening inside you. This is the meaning of life. TO KNOW WHO YOU REALLY ARE. You know you make mistakes, you know, you tell a lie. Everybody knows! But, only some accept. Accepting reality as it is meant to be is known as life. Playing your role wisely is known as life. Pain is temporary. What if this is the last day of your survival? Would you still be sad? Or you would rush to do the things you haven’t done yet? This is life. You don’t know what is going to happen in the next second. WE LIVE ON ASSUMPTIONS.  Life means not to enjoy but to handle pain and sorrows. Accept the fact that if happiness is yours, then this pain also belongs to you. Life doesn’t mean suffering. Growing up to the strongest person ever born is your deed. Clear your misconceptions. “ONE LIFE, ONE CHANCE TO LIVE.”

 BY: Ishitachoudhry

ABOUT THE MODES AND THE VOGUES

Pairing Vans with a pencil skirt, coupling a bohemian shirt with a trench coat or office trousers with a T-shirt or just a casual shirt, we have become really hippie and innovative (I guess…) in the sense that even the most asinine amalgamation of clothes, accessories, footwear and fitfully- even objects, can actually really become that one celebrated style on Tumblr or Pinterest and solemnized with a ubiquitous adoption of that trend until its protracted usage eventually gets exhausted and the ladies and the guys start to get new fashion whims and BOOM! We have got our new trend. It is that simple.

The word fashion has a variable connotation. For some people, fashion stands for freedom, an act of metamorphosis, innovation and individuality which means that the people can initiate their own style based on contemporaneous fashion trends. While for other, it means gaining aplomb in fashion trends and gaining acceptance among their ‘modiphile’ group of peers. And for the selected few, it has a negative connotation because they divine that being a follower of fashion trends equals to being a bimbo and a narcissist, and like the Indian senescence-driven uncles and aunties believe in the ‘maxim,’ fashion and brains never fuse in together.

The aforementioned could never be held true or false. The meaning of fashion for different people would obviously be disparate. The explication of the term ‘fashion’ is really just subjective.

But let us get down the nitty-gritty of what fashion really does to the society:

Fashion promotes accepting of new culture-fused clothes, hence diversity. We see women and girls wearing bohemian dresses with Italian black suede boots, ‘twained’ up with a gorgeous bindi on the forehead, an epitome of Indian pulchritude. Yes, I am describing a typical Coachella outfit. Or even if we talk about men, we see men wearing a long white shirt and Ray-bans, the dwad depicting the Americanas’ classic, paired up with a modern replica of the Egyptian scarab and a classic Indian- Nepali black vesti.  As we know that fashion travels from one region to the next, thanks to globalization, this makes people apprise of the fashion and culture of the other far off lands and connecting themselves with the gweilo people internationally.

It has also been seen that what people wear is a rendition of their inner persona and their style is actually a discernment of their perspectives. The Goth culture could be a great example in this regard.

While this may seem to patent, it has been shown that people who dress attractively, are able to gravitate more people towards themselves. Many people seem to like them because for them ‘looks are so not deceptive’ and want to be associated with such people. And guess what, fashionable people are usually not the targets of bullying. While this point seem extremely dubious, that is the truth. At least, most of the times. Remember this is the twentieth century, folks! (This might not even a positive point, but the succeeding result are.)

Trends beget trends. This is true. When a new fashion trend starts to disseminate, designers start to add their own ingenious fusions to the preceding styles eventually making new styles. The variations might be in the context of adding their own cultural mix or creating more designs apart from the well-stipulated delineations to the same garbs.

Personally, I feel that the new fashion culture is also starting to eradicate the notion of ‘gender-specific’ clothing. We see girls wearing leather jackets and pants, sneakers, adopting new hairstyle like shaved heads and getting pixie cute, which even 10 years from now, could have been really contentious, especially in a country like India. Not only that, men are getting ear piercings, keeping their long hair or tying them up in a ponytail and especially in western countries like the United States of America and England, men are starting to wear make-up, which was earlier considered to be a predominantly female product. Not even that, men can also now be seen vaunting their looks in long dresses, crop tops or even skirts. As an example, Jaden Smith has been seen, on numerous occasions wearing a skirt and a jeans under it and has also been really open about wearing clothes that he wants to wear, not what the society wants him to. Guess the phrases ‘tomboy’ or ‘girly girls’ have lost their meanings. And that surely is a great thing. Kudos to that!

However, as a person who sees this topic in a ‘white and black perspective,’ some light needs to be shed on the downsides of the propagation of fashion trends around the world.

This sudden spate in the fashion culture has led to people bending more towards the western fashion trends and giving up on their traditional and ethnic clothing styles. It is not that Indian clothes have become absolutely defunct, but it is also true that a considerable section of youth today prefer to wear western outfits more and the youth wanting to wear Indian clothes obviously does exist but this has usually been seen as a scenario which is at the periphery. Although Western clothes have gained a worldwide acceptance, it is also true that Indian ethnic wear has also become increasingly modified by fusion of Indian styles with other South Asian and Western fashion cultures. But still, the prevalence of Western fashion is at an apogee.

Apparel companies and brands usually advertise their products and merchandise using really skinny and tall female models whose degree of the weight of the makeup daubed on their face is abjectly more than the weight of the models themselves, or using really bulky and rigged male models. This might affect the mentality of the viewer who could be triggered by the unattainable body and fabricated beauty and wanting to look like them. They crave products to validate their existence.  It is perspicuous that these companies are fostering body-shaming by indicating that overt beauty is the ultimate beauty. Such practices do not promote body positivity as they only use models with the ‘ideal’ body types. This is parlous in the sense that the viewers who are provoked could affect their mental health and body. This is one of the rudimentary causes of what elicits eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia, depression, anxiety and even suicidal thoughts among the young people in the first place.

Following up to the aforementioned, it has also been seen that companies usually make clothes which cater to only the skinny-body types and not clothes of all shapes and sizes. This leads to people, especially girls, to feel insecure about themselves and their bodies. And this is exactly one of the reasons what initiates such mental illnesses (like the aforementioned) in the first place.

People who are sheer modiphiles, usually become extremely spendthrift when it comes to buying clothes, accessories, bags and footwear. They undermine the importance of saving and if they are dependent on their families, this obsession of following up to the vogue, levy a huge financial burden on their parents. Even if not about being a fashion-freak, people find acceptance when they are in ‘vogue’ or are parading themselves in the finest regalia ever. This also leads up to an obsession with an immoderate amount of shopping for clothes at the most expensive stores.

In the end I would just like to say that fashion is not only about materialism. It is about creativity. It is about you. It is about what makes you feel good rather than what should make you feel good. A high waisted jeans bought from the street could always be a perfect alternative to a flawless embroidered skirt bought from Armani. An outfit can never make you look good. It is you who can make the outfit look good. And you can only do that when you find happiness in what you wear, be it a pair of pajamas or leather pants. I really don’t know what is in trend right now, or what is the most desirable way to look good. But I certainly can tell you that what would be in the trend forever. It is being YOU.

Must Watch Bollywood Movies 2017.

Don’t miss out: 5 extremely Under-rated Bollywood Movies of 2017!

Another year, and another hopeless Indian Masala Movie enters the 100 Crore Club or embarks upon to the

so-called Silver Jubilee (as called by the artists). Apart from the banality of the Hindi movie, the same are the

scripts, the same are the feigned item numbers, and the same are the actors who’ve proved themselves

well (not to say) by all the movies like Dabangg, Happy New Year, Ready & Dilwale (& the list is endless).

Meanwhile, amongst them also exists the movies that impart knowledge, screens sensibility and as well

a few show us the mirror of the society that do we live in!

Here's a list of top 5 such Under-rated movies of 2017 which you definitely haven’t even heard about:

5. The Ghazi Attack –

India’s first underwater War film that is commendable as ‘purely a work of fiction’; said by The Times of

India rating it an enormous 3.5 stars, tries to decode the mystery behind the sinking of Pakistani

submarine PNS Ghazi during the India-Pakistan war of 1971.

Led by the rebellious Capt. Ranvijay Singh (Played by Kay Kay Menon), his second-in-command Devaraj

(Atul Kulkarni) and righteous officer Arjun (Rana Daggubati), S-21 is assigned a classified search mission

after sources tip-off the Indian Navy of a Pakistani vessel infiltrating the Indian waters. Ghazi intends to

exactly target INS Vikrant (India’s aircraft carrier) in order to reach East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) by

sea. What transpires between these two submarines once they get a whiff of each other, is what forms

the story.

Given the scale, of his ambitious project and limited resources at hand, the debutante director Sankalp

Reddy deserves some respect for making an engaging film. The second half keeps you on the edge of

your seat as the submarines go head-to-head, firing torpedoes while dodging and defending themselves.

Despite the hitches, this underwater thriller is a must watch film. It leaves you in awe of the soldiers, who

gave their lives for their country.

4. Poorna –

Poorna is an incredible story, beautifully told: as reviewed by Sarit Ray, Hindustan Times along with an

unbelievable ratings of 4/5 to the incredible movie.

Poorna isn’t just a story of human ambition. It is also a story of the friendship of Poorna and Priya

(cousin of Poorna) – with its joys, grief and inspiration. It is their dreams that fuel her & the inspiration

to be the girl who can achieve anything and everything. As she runs endlessly in Darjeeling, trains nonstop,

goes from tiny village to might mountain.

This subplot lends the story its heart, and makes it relatable.

Also, Bose’s strength as a director lies in keeping it real. Returning to a directorial capacity after 16

years, Rahul Bose recognizes the beauty in simplicity and uses it to the film's advantage. Grounded

performances combined with stirring music raised this relatively uncomplicated tale, making it

essential viewing not only for the young Indian woman, but for anyone looking to scale great heights

against all the odds in her way.

It would have been easy to turn this into a hyper-celebratory saga, or a cynical takedown of rural

governance. But Bose handles poverty, neglect, and high emotion with swiftness, and a total and

delightful absence of melodrama.

Instead, he angles the story itself so that it shines a light on issues like rural neglect, poor schooling, and

corruption, with moving effect.

Poorna shows you that incredible stories can be told simply. Bollywood should adopt & begin to learn

from that.

3. Haramkhor:

Appears to be called as a “Reflection of the daily life” at the cinematic screens has attained an

unbelievable rating of 4.5 stars out of 5.

Shyam has a volatile temper, and beats up adolescent girls in anger. He tries his best to fool his wife

(yes, he is married) but is also conscious of his ‘sins’. It’s a complex narrative: Semi-urban Indians dealing

with the loneliness of their lives, looking for the shortest way out. Societal fear is probably the most

potent tool for keeping things from falling apart. As is the case in most of mofussil India, policemen are

regarded with dread. But even that doesn’t stop Shyam from taking advantage of Sandhya.

Siddiqui is at his deceptive best. He plays a sexual offender to perfection, but you can’t judge him

instantly. Your opinion of Shyam may change if the government decides to lower the age of consensual

sex to 15.

Sharma smartly weaves the story from the perspective of two kids who study in Sandhya’s class. They

are fast losing their innocence, but then, they were never supposed to remain immature – at least not in

circumstances such as these.

Brave and original, Haramkhor walks along the edge of a cliff. One tiny mistake and it could have been

pronounced morally twisted. Some may call it immoral even now.

2. A Death in the Gunj:

A Death in the Gung, the Directorial Debut of Konkana Sen Sharma.

A film that on the surfaces is a thriller set in Bihar. Making the eight-hour drive from “Cal” — short for

Calcutta — to the gracious home of Auntie (Tanuja Mukherjee) and Uncle (Om Puri) in the Gunj in Bihar

province are their controlling son Nandu (Gulshan Devaiah), his attractive wife Bonnie (Tillotama

Shome), and their whiny eight-year-old daughter Tani (Arya Sharmav). Also along for the ride are

Nandu’s quiet nephew Shutu (Vikrant Massey), a introvert 19-year-old student with some secrets, and

sexy minx Mimi (Kalki Koechlin, “Margarita With A Straw”), a friend of Bonnie’s with a concealed  agenda.

.He’s the one that domineering Auntie commands to run various  chores, while Nandu and Bonnie

apparently expect him to look after Tani at all times.

Shutu himself appears more cosy with the small girl than with the noisy, teasing adults, despite

his wistful glances toward Mimi, who is rekindling an affair with Nandu’s arrogant, hot-tempered friend

Vikram (Ranvir Shorey), even though he is a newly married.

While Shutu’s main secret is not disclosed until later in the film, we soon get to know that his father is recently

deceased and he still grieves for him. His mourning gives him a peculiar outlook on death, afterlife and

ghosts, which renders him vulnerable to a mean séance joke played by Nandu and Vikram that proves

eerily prescient.

One particularly significant revealing scene involves a New Year’s dinner to which Vikram brings his new bride

Purnima (Promila Pradhan), a traditionally dressed girl with a glorious singing voice, who is wearing

the ancestral anklets gifted by Vikram’s mother, the daughter of a local Nawab. As Mimi drinks in the

distinction that unrelate her from her rival, she overdoes it with booze, smoothing the way for a

seduction she will come to repent.

Although Sensharma seems confident behind the camera, she directs her cast of name actors at too high

a pitch.

1. Trapped:

‘Shaurya’ (Rajkummar Rao) force himself to be brave enough to do something (pun intended) to stay alive after he

accidentally locks himself up in his new rented flat in a desolate Mumbai high-rise, for around a

week. To make things worse, his phone battery dies and since the building is devoid of residents,

electricity and water or food supply, Shaurya must take extreme measures to survive this unexpected

nightmare.

‘Trapped’ centers on one man’s fight for survival. He is not on a deserted island (‘Cast Away’) or an

isolated canyon (‘127 Hours’) or an ocean (‘Life of Pi’) but in a Mumbai flat, right in the heart of

a easily crowded street. Driving this one-man show is a terrific Rajkummar Rao, who allows the film to

solely feed on his character’s despair. His ability as an actor to portray this ordeal is astounding.

Geetanjali Thapa is pleasant.

However, given the nature of the storyline, ‘Trapped’ does test your patience after some time. You also doubt

the protagonist’s intellect and sanity. Why would you rent a flat from a unsure agent, in an empty

building? A few occurrences seem implausible. How come even fire doesn’t draw any attention?

Nonetheless, the mounting tension makes you overlook these flaws and a bloated run time. ‘SH**

happens’!

But, well said. A psycho-thriller movie it is.

Not to forget some more inspiring & commendable movies for all movie-bluffs out there.

Do Watch: Anarkali of Aarah, Irada, Mukti Bhavan & the Hindi Medium for sure!

(You can leave more suggestions, they are always welcomed :D )

Who knows, it might enlighten your way of thinking too!

Wanderlust: Why You Should Step Outside and Discover

Wanderlust: Why You Should Step Outside and Discover…

Sifting through your office documents, and the only thing that you would absolutely want to wish for right now- A BREAK. Whether the nature of your break may lie in a gamut of “the many different facets of a break,” the fact still remains that you need to be on a not-so formal sabbatical. This desire is pro rata to the desire which is also clearly manifested by students as they surround themselves with mounds of thick tomes of Mathematics, Sciences and Social Sciences. Even if you are a home-maker, chances are that you too are all knackered by the humdrum routine work of yours. You might be anything from a mogul to a frugal, but you would still need that one break. Evenif that one break is required every month. You still need a break.

One such breaks could be to leave your lovely compatriots and just go visit the distant lands of another country or just discover another fragment of your homeland. Obviously, you do not need to be Sascha Grabow and literally go on a quest of travelling the whole world (I mean you could do that too. In today’s world, the workaholics are basically brimming with wanderlust.), but then again travelling is something that I personally believe is one of those things in life that should never be a forlorn fantasy of any individual on this planet earth. Travelling makes you discover an alternative part of the world that you actually belong to.  In a way, travelling can be considered as a latitude to escape from reality, from our busy mundane routine lives. Embrace it. Even if you are a person who likes his or her own space, go for a road trip by yourself discovering the other places in your country. Or hit the road with your family or friends.  If you want to uncover the far off distant lands and natural worlds, go visit a new country and unveil its mesmerizing tokens of pulchritude. 

There is an array of things that visiting new places offers. “Going to new places, meeting new people and exploring new soils could be a habit forming!” 

Travelling could be an act of catharsis. You leave all your worries and problems behind in your homeland, moving forth on a journey of self-discovery. You leave behind the prodigiously huge amount of workload and forget everything about the reality. You just relax, reflect and contemplate. “All the challenges and opportunities travel lays at one’s feet help him or her discover who they are that is only possible on the road.” After a satisfying travel, you are surely going to be filled with a new zeal, gusto and ardour, fuming with happiness and exuberance. And probably a determination for wanting to see the world.

People you meet when you visit a new place become the most treasured names on your contact list. They might have a different outlook towards life, have different answers to the same questions and display a beautiful subjectivity-conduct that helps you frame new perspectives and ideas and ultimately realize that everyone is the same just with different point of views.In fact, your point of view might have some major blinders. “These folks give you a glimpse outside your hometown circle of friends.”

Travelling begets new skills and talents that you might never have known that you had. It is travel that actually makes you realise that and leave you beaming with utter joy,” when you reach the mountain top or cross a couloir or help a villager clean up after a storm , or even when you successful order a meal at a rural Chinese restaurant.”

Being multilingual is one those talents that people literally yearn to learn. Learning new languages makes you realise that the world is full of beautiful dialects that emanate such beauty when spoken in their indigenous intonation. But learning a new language is not an easy-breezy task either. But when you visit new places, you are required to learn to speak at least the basics of that place’s language giving you a covetous approach in grasping in whatever vernacular is uttered in that region.

“Zip-lining over the jungle canopy in Peru, successfully navigating the maze-like streets of Venice, bartering for the best price in the traditional markets of ​Marrakech, taking a speedboat ride in New Zealand, or hopping in a Land Rover and heading out to watch animals grazing in Tanzania: these are adventures worth having. People are hardwired for the excitement of adventure and travel may just be the best way to nap into it.” 

Travelling also makes you informative about the places in the world from a social, cultural, historical and political context. Travelling can make you permissive and see and understand the world through someone else’s eyes by understanding their culture and values. You are not enshrouded by and trapped in that bubble; you get outside of your comfort zone. Such visits apprise the visitors and make them more appreciative of other cultures. Travelling teaches you things that classroom teaching would never be able to offer. 

Let’s face it. Your trips could be a great way to transfer your daily chinwags with your friends or relatives into nostalgic recounts of your last trip and immediately gives your conversations a direction. Thus your trips could make great and captivating stories that could encourage another person to plan a trip as well!

If you are an epicure, travelling is totally for you! Even if you are a person who loves to know the food culture of other places, you should definitely plan a trip. The way people in other lands prepare and cook their food, or just how they eat their preparations will surely surprise you. 

Travel as much as you can throughout your life, to broaden your horizons. Look for what the world has in store for you, and enjoy it, learn from it and pass it on. To those who don’t yet know what it really means to just step outside, to places far, far away and are missing out on one of the most cherished tokens of nature. 

Like they always say, “ We never know what we have until we lose it.” 

So get out there, folks!!

Happy traveling!

Gender Inequality

Gender inequality is when people of all gender do not get equal privileges. It refers to the unequal treatment of people belonging to various genders. The issue of gender equality has been widely discussed in philosophical literature and the mass media sources. Gender can be considered as a biological and physiological concept which defines men and women. Gender equality is a state in which men and women are provided with equal resources and opportunities regardless of their sex. It means that women and men, girls and boys have the same rights and protection. Gender equality has been universally accepted as a serious shift towards sustainable human development. In India, although some progress in women’s development has been made, yet women continue to lag behind which is an outcome of a web of complex forces. The adverse sex ratio, poor educational and nutritional status, inequality in wages and violence against women are prevalent in the Indian society, like many other patriarchal societies of the world, even today, and the gender discrimination certainly continues to be an enormous problem within the Indian society.

Gender equality is a right, not a privilege, a right that must be respected by a community that believes and supports every person and that recognizes that when a person's rights are violated then everyone feels their own rights are violated.

In this patriarchal society, it is considered that women don't belong in leadership. If people have different expectations of the world around them, expectations of equality, society will change.

On a daily basis there are shocking stories in the media about violent crimes committed against women. Yet, we can only imagine how many more crimes there are against women in India that go unreported. This is not an India specific issue though. Not just in India, but since time unknown women have been looked down upon as inanimate objects all over the world. To fight for the equal rights for women, there have been feminist movements around the globe. It had started in France and UK, and gradually spread across the entire world. Modern Western Feminist history is split into three periods or waves. The first-wave feminism of the nineteenth and early twentieth century focuses on overturning legal inequalities. The second wave feminism includes cultural inequalities, gender norms and the role of women in society. The third wave feminism refers to both continuations of the second wave and a response to the perceived failures and it also refers to post-colonialism. While women in the western countries had to fight for the voting rights, women in India had been granted the voting rights by the Constitution of India.

The world has largely been led by patriarchal societies and women have through the years largely remained quite in the face of atrocities rather than speak out against them. Most women remain silent because they are afraid to confront societal norms and have fingers pointed in their own direction, especially when the majority of our society fails to recognize that women are not a weaker sex by any stretch of imagination.

Feminine ethics is an ethical theory that is focused on the feminist approach to ethics. The core principles of this ethical theory are aimed at correcting men’s biases that can be found in other ethical theories. These biases discriminate women, promoting women’s subordination, and disregarding women’s moral experience (Jaggar, 2010). The major principle of this theory is to criticize the actions, behaviors and practices of men who discriminate women, perpetuate women’s subordination. This theory is based on developing “philosophical accounts of the nature of morality and of the central moral concepts that treat women’s moral experience respectfully”

Gender equality should not be something to be strived for. It is a balance that is needed. If we want the world to have a sustainable growth model, then it is very important that women and men are not boxed into different roles.

There are both strengths and weaknesses, which can be identified for each of the ethical theories as applied to the issue of gender equality. In order to identify the ethical theory that provides the most satisfactory moral answer to the issue, it is necessary to refer to the strengths of ethical theories discussed in the previous section of the paper.

To start with, the strengths of utilitarianism include two important characteristics of the theory. First, utilitarianism is “a single principle, an absolute system with a potential answer for every situation” (Pojman, 2004, p. 120). Second, this theory “seems to get to the substance of morality” (Pojman, 2004, p. 120). These strengths are focused on the usefulness of actions.

In addition, virtue ethics has its strengths. The strengths of virtue ethics include the significance of personal integrity. The major strength of virtue ethics is that it provides an opportunity to individuals to make decisions. Moreover, virtue ethics is closely connected with practical ethics, reinforcing the autonomy of individuals (Louden, 2013).

Besides, feminine ethics has its strengths in relation to different issues. The primary principles of feminist ethics include the promotion of the traits and values that are tied to women. The strength of feminine approach to ethics includes the reflection of women’s experiences. This ethical theory is aimed at putting the agenda of independence, liberation and equality in the forefront (Jaggar, 2010).

Thus, it is possible to identify the theory that is better than others in the case of gender equality is feminine theory. This ethical theory helps to explain the necessity of struggle for equal rights in the workplace, at home, and in other public places. This theory promotes the increased role of diversity in human society. Feminist approach is the most satisfactory moral answer to the issue of gender equality because advocates changes in human society based on the interests of women. Women’s rights in different sectors should be equal with men’s rights.

Over the years, it is noticed that region and culture have steadily become more and more unfair towards women. We as a society need to become gender sensitive. Several NGOs have been instrumental in providing opportunities for women. They help to create financial self-help groups and introduce ideas about microfinance allowing women to participate in various activities. They try to generate awareness of the gender discrimination that exists within the Indian society. Although there are women who have already proved that they are at par with men, the others are still struggling for equal rights. Basically, gender equality can come only when there is a transformation of the patriarchal structures and systems that lie at the root of women’s subordination and gender inequality. The prosperity of India depends completely on the condition of women. If there is gender equality, only then can India advance towards progress and prosperity.

GLOBALIZATION: TAKING TOLLS ON RELATIONSHIPS?

GLOBALIZATION: TAKING TOLLS ON RELATIONSHIPS?

While globalization has turned this present world into a ‘la la land’ where the ‘la las’ lie in the sweep of our bourgeoist ideals, it would also be quite safe to say that globalization also has its deterrences. Globalization has pushed the indigenous and the aboriginal businesses into a quagmire of varied problems and have made the ‘happy’ countries even more happier. And the ‘happy ’people living in those ’happy’ countries almost beatific. But at large, it also resonates its so called unhealthy vibrations in our family and community life.

Globalization does not beget global citizenship instinctually. While education is the driving tool for promoting global citizenship for all, one should not ignore the weak and the poor whose lives have basically been tarnished by a series of impediments in their work culture, brought about by this newly found enchantment of the privileged to now feed themselves what they want, rather than what they actually and should need. The economy should not only lie within the purview of being catered by global citizens, but also should be a facet which is within the embrace of every future child.

According to a report, the following are one of the most contentious changes that are affecting family and community life, typically in the Asian countries:

1.   There has been an augmentation in the size of migrant workers and are now estimated to occupy now more that 3% of the world’s population. Many of these have been forced to migrate because of an economic compulsion. They often have fewer rights, lower standards of medical care and less legal protection and sometimes are objected to such social prejudices that are outright breaches of the International Human Rights Law. Family members who are separated for seeking work in the outside cities and towns, often have inevitable strained relationships.

2.   There has been a shoot up in the figures of International and cross-border marriages. And globalization has expedited the rise in the ‘bride trade’ followed by its associated abuses.

3.   In many countries, there is a capacious gap between the rich and the poor.

Global powers such as the United States of America have exacerbated the plunder, underemployment and poverty of poorer countries in Asia and Africa, by vitiating the importance of goods produced by local businessmen and initiating this quotidian shtick of people cribbing over not being able to buy an attire which has an ‘Armani’ label stitched to it. Sad, really.

People who are forced to migrate so as to look for new jobs and opportunities, are also forced to separate from their loved ones, friends and families. They are never able to seek succour in those times and this further leads to broken families and homes. The new atmosphere which they are confronted to often leads to them conforming to those ethics, manners, cultures and lifestyle. For people, especially who belong from the antediluvian lands of their countries, when exposed to such avaricious and brand conscious culture,” take their compatriots as of ‘lower standing.’”

Children who are left by their parents, in their home countries are the most susceptible to an adverse social impact as since they do not really live and grow up their parents, their family values and sense of belonging are usually evanesced. They start believing as there is nobody who is truly theirs, and separation from their parents often breeds low grades in school and social vices such as alcohol consumption, drug abuse, etc. at a very young age.

Japan is the concourse of foreign trainees. Although the Japanese government realizes that  they need foreign trainees for economic development, they fail to implement laws for their security and protection. In fact, many male and female migrants in Japan are working in places associate with debauchery, which are shunned by the Japanese people, typically the younger generation. Nevertheless, “as more and more migrants are residing in Japan and forming relationships (with people from their own country), it has been seen that undocumented workers’ children, and those who are not legitimized by their fathers, have to face problems in being registered with the local government because of their parents’ fear of deportation. Thus, these children are regarded as illegal residents and live under constant stress and many have nowhere to stay or go to school.”

In Singapore, many people, especially men are moving overseas without their families. The sole responsibility of parenting is stressed upon the spouse- in most cases, the wife. Even though now many women have been employed in high paying jobs in Singapore, the immutable ideology that men should be the one to work abroad and their wives to be working full-time at their respective jobs, taking care after the their children and the aged parents. The frequent absence of the father results in children not being able to bond well with their father and an inevitable feeling of not even having a father figure in their lives in the first place. The same principle could be implied to cross-border marriages proliferating in the Hong-Kong and China region, where the children live with one parent in Hong-Kong and one parent has to work in mainland China. In a worst case scenario, both the parents stay in Mainland, and the child would be taken care of by the grandparents.” The absence of parent in the family presents an insecure environment for the children, who consequently suffer because of inadequate care. In 2007, there had been a number of incidents where children of Mainland/Hong Kong cross-border marriages were lost or injured through accidents when they were left alone.”

Even families who maintain communication, due to absence of quality time and family transition, lose important contacts over time.

Adding to the aforementioned, many youngsters are getting married at a later age or deciding to remain bachelors or spinsters for a protracted time period. And the stress from the high cost of living, coupled with stress at work are factors which reason out why many married couples do not want to have children at an earlier stage of their marriage.

Globalisation has also emanated a trend of spendthrift youth, in contrast to their parsimonious ancestors.

To cite one of the most prevalent family issues relating to globalization is that many children today are denigrating their families’ cultural values at the cost of new trends that have been propagating in the society today through the internet and social media websites. Youngsters find subsuming themselves in video gaming for hours and hours, posting their snapchat stories sporadically, ‘celebrating’ “Mothers’/Fathers’ Day” with their mother or father just for the sake of taking one good picture and writing that one huge post Facebook boasting their broadened lexicon of English indicating the synonyms they know of love, watching YouTube videos for a long time, going out to party just to take a hit of that hukkah, being dogmatic in their approach when it comes to prevailing social issues but denouncing every aspect of their own religion, is at pareil of spending quality time with the ones who brought them into this world, for them. All love, internet. Seriously. All love.

Thus it is of cardinal importance to promote a global consciousness about families that involves public and personal concern about the effects of globalization on relationships.

Till then,

Happy family time!