Being Candid

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Adhrit is just back from a short trip to hometown in interiors of his paternal village. It was Adhrit's first adventure of sleeping on terrace in summers! After a 1.5 hour flight and 4 hour road journey we had reached home to find there's  no electricity and family was sleeping on terrace. We all were excited to join them and our long separated pets..Pluto and Marcei, their affection would suffice to refresh us! "D'Arcy wants to sleep on his bed", my son Adhrit cried and I was afraid he will wake up everyone enjoying their sleep at 1 am, and I was feeling worried how he would take this experience ahead. Just to distract him, I said see there's lot of wind here, it's cool. He was intrigued. He walked up to his dadi and enquired "where is this wind coming from, there's no AC or Fan here. Just to satisfy his innocent desire, she replied it's coming from moon! He found it interesting, asked "but moon is not moving" (like the bla...

A little bit of everyone survives in us, our ancestors, our parents, or friends, relations close to us, our spouse, our kids, our pets.. life is connected. We have different personalities but in this busy world we often do not look at the world from 'what we are', but we look at it from the perspective of 'how we ought to'. For e.g. I am a carefree person, who does not feel bothered about what anyone says, but I am careful, because for being part of a society which gives you so much (from pieces of pie to pieces of mind) we tend to cooperate, adjust and become someone we are not. And it continues, and we evolve like this, some early, some later, some never, it does not matter to anyone but just to yourself. How we perceive the world depends upon what part of everyone is surviving and of all thats happening around you what part of it you attribute to whom? Its difficult? No, you don't have to do that exercise. You just have to be. Be yourself. Most importantl...

For a mail-maniac like me, who preferred to check work mails every 2 minutes and personal mails every 2 hours - following trends in various topics and newsletters and job alerts.. it suddenly surprised me that in midst of this summer, being purely devoted towards watermelons and mangoes and of course my baby boy, its been over a week I haven't checked my mails ! Exactly one year since I quit my formal office work. For 10 years, I led a mail-maniac life, it took one whole year as hangover with way too many withdrawal symptoms. But I would like you all to believe that life has much more, much much more than the busyness of office, the fragrance of money and all things money can buy. And every bit of it is worth it ! Live it, love it !! Make most of it while you can !!! :)

In this sleepy town, our colony where most of the housewives sleep inside comforts of a cooler or AC after a heavy lunch.. evening comes pretty quickly. And then starts the discussion on 'aam'. Which aam tree in colony is bearing maximum aam. Which tree aam were destroyed by untimely hailstorm few weeks back. Then from trees the discussion shifts to the summer delights, the quick sweet sour aam chutney, the aam achaar, the aam panna and so on. Every house and every housewife has a different way to use the aam, and the receipies are shared almost everyday. During early morning or evening kids roam in the interior streets of the colony hunting and gathering aam fallen due to crazy afternoon hot winds. (And my kid is one of them.) Before blossoming of aam trees - I read narrated and cooked up many bed time stories for my son.. stories of monkey, cat, lion, jungle, doggy, crocodile everything.. but now.. even when I am ready to hit the sack myself tired of daily chores.....

Women's day messages,journals, magazine were filled with news on extended benefits organisations are providing or proposing to provide to female employees to curb diversity and inclusion issues These schemes (though good) make me think really hard, we are doing our bit for females but missing the fact on gender equality here ? What if dad wants to spend this 1 year to work from home and manage responsibility while mom wants to go work at office and they prefer these roles. Why not give chance to males to bring kids to office meetings at off-locations kids up to 3 to 5 years with them on business trips.. why you have to make it so obvious with your schemes that this is a female's job. Why no sabbaticals for males to raise their kids, they may be single fathers, or they may simply want to choose to do this. Give chance to dad's. . They will grab it, they will participate, they will respect females at work even more. And they won't have excuse that they don't ...

I am a sum of many you's. I am nothing on my own. I am a part of my home, my workplace, my family, the society I live in, the friends and relations that I have. All of them complete me. The person who thinks he is completely independent is unaware, or not ready to acknowledge the numerous linkages that he has within the universe. The same thought which makes me think that we are a small part of several other things...like people, articles, values, traditions etc. that means even when we are not there, we will continue to exist. So that means when someone else leaves forever, they manage to kill a part of us too - the part where we associated with them.