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I know her since ages but today I met a different person in her. Just a small conversation made me ask questions about her life and I got to know many things from this. Let me name her as Gowri. So, Gowri was the eldest daughter among her 6 siblings who were born to a carpenter in a small village in India. Since her birth, she grew up with so many responsibilities. She used to help her parents with house hold works and also with carpentry work. She went to school for few years but later she had to drop off as her mother hard time taking care of rest of the kids.  With the interest on studies, she completed reading a book (pedda bala shiksha) which was once considered as the book of knowledge in India. The way she completed reading it shows her interest towards studies. As they were really poor, they did not have electricity at home. She considered street light as her source of light. But an other clause here was, they neither had electricity nor tube lights on streets. It was the o...

It was a pleasant evening and I got my new car and wanted to surprise my bestie, Nikki by giving a surprise visit to her place.  Though I already knew she will be at home, I called and confirmed it without letting her know about my surprise visit.  Nikki is my one and only best friend. She is going to be really surprised when she sees me. I love her so much and I'm really excited to see her reaction.  Thinking all this, I started to her place. I reached her house and with all excitement, I knocked her house door. Nikkis mom opened the door and invited me inside. To my surprise,  Nikki was not at home. Aunty started asking me where Nikki was as she left her home yesterday saying that she is going to stay at my place. I was shocked!!! What do you do when something like this happens ? When someone lies to you or makes a mistake, how do you take it ? Nikki was your friend here. What if it was some stranger, how do you judge that person ? Are you going to judge her ? Are ...

In a place called brahmapuri, there lived a man named Ananda. Ananda was a spiritual, extremely devotional and good hearted person. Since his childhood, he was a devotee of Goddess Laxmi and used to visit Goddess laxmi temple everyday. In India, Laxmi is considered as Goddess of health, wealth and everything in life.   Though the Goddess is one, she is worshipped with different names in different forms. Like, Goddess of health as Aarogya laxmi, Goddess of wealth as Aishwarya Laxmi, Goddess of Food as Annapurna laxmi and so on.   Every day, one or the other laxmi used to come in his Anandas dream and teach him all about life and beyond. One day, extremely happy Ananda invited all the Goddess to his house for lunch followed by bajans. All the Goddess out of extreme affection towards Ananda visited him the next day. Ananda arranged sumptuous lunch for all the Goddess and started performing bhajans and was praising one Goddess after the other, thanking them for all the things that...

One day, I went to a Chapel nearby and was reciting my favourite chapter in the Bible. At that moment, a well dressed lady entered the Chapel with her two children.   All of a sudden, the silence that I was anticipating there is all gone. The children were so loud and they instantly changed the climate. They even started disturbing the people in the chapel. That lady sat in the last row of the chapel and started looking into her phone.   She didn’t do anything to stop the children. It was obvious to see everyone in the Chapel irritated and It was even more difficult for me to not get irritated. I became furious and went to that lady and yelled at her saying, “Ma’am, could you try controlling your children once. They are disturbing a lot of people here." That lady with a jerk came out from her phone and said softly, “Pardon me for the disturbance they are causing Ma'am. Actually, we just came from the hospital where their father died. I don’t know what to think and I think they...

Do you know 61% of the Americans feel lonely ? Do you know A college lad can feel lonely though surrounded by roommates and friends. A soldier can feel lonely while on duty though he is surrounded with his troop. A person who got recently married can feel lonely after moving to a new place. A person working on a project can feel lonely after it is done. If one has plenty of social contacts, this can trigger loneliness as there is no time to maintain quality in the relationship. A lack of authenticity in relationships can result in feelings of loneliness. Not having a quiet presence in the home can also sometimes triggers loneliness. What is Loneliness? It is just a feeling of being alone along with the feeling of isolation. Remember,  It is a common feeling similar to hunger, anger, fear etc. Just like when you are angry, you become irritated, anxious, emotional. Similarly, loneliness has some symptoms. It includes the feeling of being empty, unwanted and most import...

A new Interpretation on one of the most sacred Indian epic- Mahabharath from the point of view of Yajnaseni, a fire born princess named Panchali is definitely a good read. This book describes the each phase in Mahabharath from Draupadis perspective. It beautifully phrases her strange birth, lonely childhood, tricky marriage and all her acts and her decisions at every stage.  With her strange unexpected birth, she was always treated as a doom to her clan yet as a princess. She was never allowed to do the stuff that her brother was allowed to do. She was never given the opportunity to learn vedas which her brother did. To protect the respect of her father and also the life of her brother, she insulted a King named Karna which led to her marriage with a saint who later turned out to be Arjuna. Though she was happy to marry Arjuna, her happiness about the marriage did not last really long.  Her expectation to live in the palace has faded when she was taken to a ...