We, Around Us!

Imagine you are in a meeting in a jam pack conference with high profile people and you to pee and your bladder is so full you have crossed the level of control. All the thing you do is take an excuse for the natures call. Think you forget to express this feel with yourself, you would have got yourself insulted. As you don’t lie to your feelings with you even with the nature, then why you feel reluctant to express your feeling to the things you really want to get in life? Let us start from basic things that we come across in our day to day life. Getting toffees in place of change when we pay the bill at supermarket. Many a times we would have thought of asking our exact change but would have hesitated to do so because of a single thought what will other people think about us? This is a simple example of failure of expression. We know what we want but most of the times it won't come out of our tongue even though it t would have come till our throat. I aimed for diamond and I got...

Each time the notification of the newspaper app pops up, we are much tensed and worried about the news it is going to give this moment. The headlines itself would be so annoying and creating panic situation, and each time we would be waiting to see the next move of the government and the preparations to be cautious every single moment. What are we waiting for? Who are we worried about? This is the question in every Indian’s mind. Are we prepared of war? Are we going to fight with the so called friendly neighbors who are trying to corner us with regional and religious dispute from both the borders? Yes we are divided by states, born in different colors, speak different mother tongues, raised by different communities and  are controlled by numerous religions and are followers of  hundreds of Gods. But when it comes to patriotism, we are United by one nation called India.  There may be dispute between states on different issues, there would be strikes by different castes...

From a teenage Boy to a Man, this period of transformation of a person in life is crucial and critical. It all really depends on the place and people with you at this age. For me Chennai is always like a second home. A small poem for Chennai, I tried and wish to dedicate on its 377 th Birthday.   J You gave me shelter, you gave me food. You gave me education, that made me Dude. You made me cry, then cheered me well, You were the place where I wanted to dwell. You gave me friends, you gave me love. No one else, was there to show. You were always hot, and flooded sometimes. That is why I miss you all times. You are life and you are the destination, Chennai is a name, MADRAS is an emotion. Happy Madras Day...

Side by Side or Miles Apart,    dear friends are always close to the Heart...   Happy Friendship day.   This was the first friendship message which I received this morning when I opened my whatsapp.    It  could be a regular forward message on friendship day for some, but for some like me, it was really an emotional message.   I  r emember ,  during school  and college ,  we used to buy  a lot of friendship bands to tie on our friends' wrists. And it too was  categorized  with some special bands only for best friends and for  some one  new, who we want as a close  friend  : P  The special bands for n ew people would sometimes work and sometimes it would have remained with us in their memory, expecting, some or the other day, they might accept it.   Those were very wonderful days, and every friend was a special for me,  at least  specia...

Ennakku Inioru Peru Irukku , 'I have Another Name!!!' is dedicated to all the people who have a kilometer of letters as their real name but are confortable to be known with their nick names as their real names are been kept in the memory of their grandfather and grand mothers because their father and mother's name were dedicated to their great grandfather and great grandmother.  Yes, Like many other Tambrahms, I was initially known as Ramakrishnan, just because my father named my brother with his grandfather name and so my mother wanted to name me so with her father, my Thatha's name. Now you would be wondering what would be wrong with the name. Being born and brought up in Maharashtra, everyone would be aware of how important does a person's surname stands for.  Now I was named Ramakrishnan, my father's name is Krishnamoorthy and my Thatha's name again Rama Iyer, there is a repetition of Ramas a...

Godhadi - Traditional Quilts is normally made of waste clothes stuffed together inside old sarees. This tradition is mainly practiced in the states of Goa & Maharashtra. I’m writing this as I read in Gulfnews last week, that many of the organizations are conducting workshops in Mumbai to teach women how to patchwork a Godhadi . It came to me as a surprise and sounded funny to me as it’s a  common practice in Maharashtra and everyone can make it easily. But when I googled it I got to know many women are practicing it for lively hood as partime jobs. Women Empowerment J Even though my parents are from south, being settled in Maharashtra, my Mum is too aware of the patchworks because of our good neighbors. When I was child even I had helped my mum in making it. It was not a rocket science to make it. An advantage of making it at our home was my mum used to use even my father’s old Dhotis and Lungies. Even the owners of the Cotton factories in Tiruppur would never had imagin...

Haan yehi rasta hai tera, Tune ab jaana hai Haan yehi sapna hai tera, Tune pehchaana hai Remember the lines of Lakshya Movie what Javed Aktar wrote… In life there is no desired time and dedicated moment to set a goal for your dreams. For that you will neither require special qualification nor the certain level of maturity. When you start thinking, yes this is the way where I should travel, then yes set it as your goal. The victory is yours. We might have seen many people who speak and think very positively and when there is a time of implementation of their thoughts, they will just hesitate to move further with the dreams. They would think, what will people say about them, they will think what they are doing will lead to the destination or not. Once when you have already thought a thousand times in setting your dream why do you fear to implement it. When you lose your positive approach towards your goal, there is no use of setting it. Forget it. You are the only o...