tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49202189247302507292024-03-05T15:16:16.969-08:00Welcome to Vishal Aryan's BlogWrite Drunk Edit Sober Vishalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879885300359373976noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920218924730250729.post-7334080190837692812021-01-23T12:16:00.005-08:002021-01-23T12:26:07.871-08:00Hey Meghna! You deserved more! <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYAm-gz_gxeODLpFAyz24NeF5Nfg0im8aAwAG9fEt29IDX1vihB6__oJdJpN53Ql2qcU8GSRO_ODhDsatNeHN5Jrsv72XNT_sKqB9hYz-BZ763OzliJlKTWLTIcSiPbInFf3EEbZRCVUk/s750/437771E6-CB76-43A8-8AF7-146F4951F9C9.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="672" data-original-width="750" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYAm-gz_gxeODLpFAyz24NeF5Nfg0im8aAwAG9fEt29IDX1vihB6__oJdJpN53Ql2qcU8GSRO_ODhDsatNeHN5Jrsv72XNT_sKqB9hYz-BZ763OzliJlKTWLTIcSiPbInFf3EEbZRCVUk/s16000/437771E6-CB76-43A8-8AF7-146F4951F9C9.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px;">I was 16 summers old when Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na hit the theatres. Far away from the cliched rom-com and yet close to new-age romance, this movie came as a breath of fresh air.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">But today, I would love to talk about Meghna from the movie. Brilliantly played by Manjari Phadnis, Meghna was one of the characters that went unnoticed when the movie was released. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">Most of us never felt empathetic to Meghna back then. We just kept rooting for the lead characters, Jai and Aditi hoping they would unite in the end. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">Like most of the people, even I rooted for the lead pair. But, recently, when I stumbled upon the same movie on OTT after years, something strange happened. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">Meghna, a character who was once a crush to me was more than that, a broken woman seeking for empathy and love. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">She hailed from an affluent family where she had everything but empathy and love. When she realised her father was having an extramarital affair, she couldn’t handle it, just like her mother. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">She knew her father was wrong. Yet, she was helpless. She loved her father. She loved her mother. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">With no shoulder to lean on to, no ears to listen, she spent all the horrific nights alone in her room listening to her parents' abuse and quarrel. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">In one scene, Meghna painfully tells Jai, ‘The two people who I loved the most...were miserable. All because of me.’</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">She conveniently takes the blame on herself though she wasn’t the reason in the first place. Since then, she practised to stay away from reality and started imagining that her parents were really happy and in love with each other. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">She gradually found solace in that world of assumptions and she had no choice but to interpret things differently. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">Be it overlooking the eccentric behaviour of her alcoholic father in front of Jai, her mother’s pain hidden behind a straight face or just explaining the most common things on the street in the most magical way possible. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">Meghna called this the ‘What’s this’ game and she only played it with someone close to her. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">Though Jai and his friends consider it as a funny game, for Meghna, it was beyond a game. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">In fact, it was a game of hide and seek. She wanted to hide the painful reality and seek a different meaning by shutting her eyes and opening it up to a world where she never belonged. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">The very first glimpse of Meghna in the movie is brilliantly captured by showing us how helpless she is when teased by two good for nothing pricks. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">The metaphorical introduction quickly goes unnoticed when Jai rescues Meghna from those eve-teasers and thanks to Rahman’s BGM. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">This was going to be one of the most important phases of Meghna’s life. She was desperately in need of an empathetic shoulder that could lead her to solace and her prayers were answered when Jai entered her life. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">Soon after both of them have an instant liking towards each other, they go on a walk and this is where Jai gets introduced to Meghna’s imagination game. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">Though he wishes to spend more time with Meghna, Jai doesn’t muster the courage to ask her out but gets delighted at the very next moment when Meghna opens up by asking if he could join her for a movie tomorrow. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">Just when things seem fine, Aditi gets engaged with Sushant making Jai more jealous. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">Though he tries not to carry that look, things turn worse when he watches Sushant and Aditi sharing a kiss. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">Throughout the movie, Jai is known to be a modern-day independent Gandhian, a feminist and a product of great parenting. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">However, only when it comes to Meghna, he’s not the same Jai. He’s a different one. In fact, self-centred. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">When Meghna tries to cheer him up, the all pious, the Gandhian, the non-violent Jai chides her for ignoring the reality and blames her for neglecting the friction between her parents. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">Jai never loved Meghna. Even when she breaks down due to his harsh behaviour, he gives her an apathetic hug. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">All he wanted was to bring her out from the world she imagined, where she assumed her parents were in love. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">Had Jai been in love with Meghna, he would have tried his best to transform her life. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">While Meghna is not ready to open her eyes to face the reality, Jai on the other hand tries his best to open it, thus causing Meghna more grief. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">But, the most heartbreaking scene in the movie is when Jai breaks up with Meghna, leaving her alone, stealing her hope and happiness. Because Jai never loved her. He loved Aditi and it was Meghna who fell prey to his ego. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">Soon after the breakup, Meghna bids him adieu with a kiss and a smile that’s perhaps more painful than tears. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">Never have I felt so bad for a character and today, wherever Meghna is, I’m sure, she would be blessed with a life that’s full of happiness. Because, as a stronger woman who has gone through ups and downs, she deserved it. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><br /><span class="s2"></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;">- Vishal Komara <span class="s2"></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p>Vishalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879885300359373976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920218924730250729.post-8361917869460454122020-11-14T09:51:00.003-08:002020-11-14T10:02:04.121-08:00This Diwali, Don’t Preach About Burning Patriarchy, But Act On It! <div class="separator"><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2APRwZnA-VW-XH69G06yfguKcuMfxitDJCMwxJ-CK-HW5VkqCYmPNaIwq2xYgZN08oJnbAkxJxDWFplTNdGNoni2OWrqZwJqLr7URHz2fSzWXFzZvQuep3jjQ-Zx6RC_PSiflxHkN28w/s784/IMG_3724.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="391" data-original-width="784" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2APRwZnA-VW-XH69G06yfguKcuMfxitDJCMwxJ-CK-HW5VkqCYmPNaIwq2xYgZN08oJnbAkxJxDWFplTNdGNoni2OWrqZwJqLr7URHz2fSzWXFzZvQuep3jjQ-Zx6RC_PSiflxHkN28w/w640-h320/IMG_3724.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><div class="separator"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></div>I’m tired when people say let us not burn crackers. Instead let us burn <b><i>patriarchy and sexism.</i></b></span><p></p></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Respected Woke Amigo, </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Well. Being a feminist myself, I can say that’s a good idea. But you can’t just burn something that’s been deep-rooted in most of the households. You can’t hold a placard and eradicate issues like patriarchy and sexism. Only if it was that easy. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Instead you make a beginning at your home and put an end once and for all to such messed up issues. For instance, asking the men in the family be part of the household chores. Also telling them on the face how women have the freedom to voice an opinion and bringing their point of views to the table, especially during discussions ranging from one topic to another. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">It’s fine. You can tell them. Sharing a ‘say-no-to patriarchy’ post on social media, tagging or forwarding them will not help. It’s best to talk to them in person. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Now coming to sexism, think about those desi-uncles who go on a worshipping spree on ‘Women’s Day’. From sugar-coated forwarded messages to inspiring women-centric tales, they just spam their social media feed with ‘women-are-the-best’ posts. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">And from the very next day, they continue to don their opinionated hats and start their daily dose of sexist, misogynistic posts. Thanks to social media, it has not only brought us all together, but has also become a medium for some desi-uncles and guys to bring their casual sexist opinions to the table. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">So, you can either quit the group and stop them from learning their mistakes or just tell them bluntly to come in terms with equality. To begin with, most of the female bashing messages they send hover over topics like, dependent women, wife fearing husbands, spying women, etc. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">In reality, it’s actually the opposite. At least, in most of the cases. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">So, you don’t have to use a festival as a scapegoat to vent your anger on issues like patriarchy and sexism. Preaching won’t help. Questioning people who are instilled with such traits shall surely lead you to an unbiased environment. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Because, if you stay quiet today and delay further, you might just end up being a victim tomorrow. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><ul class="ul1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><li class="li1" style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-size: 12px;"></span><span class="s1">Vishal Komara </span></li></ul>Vishalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879885300359373976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920218924730250729.post-49456106235494245692020-02-22T11:49:00.000-08:002020-02-22T12:03:08.674-08:00Empathy is the KEY! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Though this incident might hopefully end on a positive note, the boy would still need to buy some time to forget what had happened. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">However, if at all there is something that has to play change, then it has to be the ‘upbringing’ part. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I still can’t get rid off my teenage days, where I was subjected to bullying. I had stammering issues. The worst part was, the bullying came from the near and dear ones. From relatives to friends, everyone played their part and the irony is, today, they behave like noble souls. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">What’s the point in sharing stuff on social media that talks about saving the planet and other conservation crap, when we as humans aren’t empathetic enough when it comes to emotions and mental ‘issues’? </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The movie had some intense octane action sequences and hands down, it was one of the finest thrillers that made some noise. Critically and commercially too. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Nonetheless, after watching the movie, me and my friend went insane. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Yes. The movie made us insane. We just kept hitting the roads and started to gun down random people who wore costly suits. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Yes. That’s how insane we were. For a while, we forgot about our jobs, parents, friends and became assassins.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">'m a writer and my friend is an engineer. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But now, screw those jobs. We wore suits, flaunted guns, chiseled bods, superbikes and what not. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We just churned out a career from fiction and made it our reality. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Well, take a chill pill. None of the above is true. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I still get paid for writing and my friend codes all day. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You see. This is our reality. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Now coming back to the John Wick thing. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We just watched the movie over a tub of popcorn and went back to our respective homes. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Nothing insane happened. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In fact, such insanity lies in few critics and people who are biased to the fullest. No. Not just biased. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Single-minded. Depressed. Hypocritical. Frustrated and yes, Fake Feminists. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Being a feminist who doesn’t fall prey to the Bollywood definition, let me start the topic. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It all started when the movie, Arjun Reddy was released. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It was not an innovative attempt. Just a refreshing take on romance. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The story is about an alcoholic surgeon who dwells on a self-destructive zone after losing his girlfriend to someone else. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Though the movie and its lead character, Vijay Deverakonda earned cult status, it was his misogynistic attitude that disappointed few critics and feminists. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">How can he be so rude and abusive? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">How can he just stake his claim on a random good looking girl? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">How can he keep downing bottles of alcohol every day? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This is so disgusting! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If this weren’t enough, Bollywood came up with its own version with Shahid Kapoor in the lead and Kiara Advani stepping into the shoes of Shalini from the Telugu flick. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Just like the original one, even Kabir Singh opened up to rave reviews and again, some pseudo feminists gave a strict NO. Not even a star. Because they had already given it to movies like Veere Di Wedding. Another pathbreaking flick that talks about empowering women. Coughs. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Well, both Arjun Reddy and Kabir Singh have some scenes that show women in a bad light. Agreed! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Be it the hero staking his claim on a random girl, kissing her on the cheeks when he meets for the first time or slapping her out of anger, yes, there are some flaws to be taken into account. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But, chill, it’s just a movie for god sake. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You just can’t bring your frustration on the table and name it feminism. In fact, that isn’t the true definition. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It’s all about Gender Equality. Today, women are literally breaking the glass ceilings in every industry. They are ahead in everything they do. At least, not like the bad old days. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You can’t go gaga over fiction tales and make it look like you care for the women. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In fact, such pseudo feminists or finger pointers were at times silent. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Think about it. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You were silent during Game of Thrones, where some women were just meant to be on the bed, naked, but couldn’t stop and fall in love with Arya Stark’s powerful performance. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You were silent when Hema Malini was limited to a chatterbox in an epic movie like Sholay. But couldn’t forget her stellar act in Seetha Aur Geetha. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The list is too long. Maybe longer than Ashutosh Gowariker movies. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In fact, even in the case of Arjun Reddy and Kabir Singh, it is the character that comes under prominence. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Prior to both the movies, the heroes have had some pathbreaking performances to their credit. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">While Vijay Deverakonda in ‘Pellichoopulu’ played a lazy guy who dreamt of becoming a chef, it was the heroine role played by Ritu Verma that took away the entire limelight. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Right from giving a solid stand to the hero, to be unapologetic and independent, she clearly was the winner. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Even in Shahid Kapoor’s case, the roles he played in Jab We Met and Udta Punjab had some amazing women-centric roles.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So what matters is, characters! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Every character has its own layers and shades. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Every character has its own pros and cons. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But, in the end, it’s all about the craft, art and how effectively can one pull it off. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So, just calm down amigos. Your outrage has validity for two days and boom, there is some other shit to knock your door. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Maybe, in your free time, you can throw your feminist tales to other issues. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Maybe, you could tell your father to take care of the kitchen for a week. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Maybe, you could also handle the dishes for a week. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Maybe, you could ask your female friends to go out and break a stereotype. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But, that isn’t easy and it isn’t difficult too. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It takes time. More time. More effort. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In fact, to be precise, a thousand times more than the time and effort taken to post an outrageous opinion on social media. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: x-small;">Written by Vishal Aryan Komara </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: x-small;">Writer, love reading books, passionate cook, amateur photographer, occasional traveler and an unbiased feminist. </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Hooking up with a soulmate is now getting easier. I don’t know about the soulmate thing, but the process is EASY PEASY! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Somewhere in the corner, you must have heard the cries, isn’t it? Maybe, it should be the sanskaari matrimonial sites. Coughs! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">On a lighter note, that’s how technological disruption looks like. Tinder entered at the right time and cast its spell on the dating stereotypes. They won. The stereotypes lost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Now that finding the right one has become possible with a ‘swipe’, how does it sound to have an app that would take you a step closer to more like-minded people? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Tada. This time, not a dating app. Not another tinder. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Here comes <a href="http://woovly.com/" target="_blank">Woovly</a>! A Bucket List Platform. An app that helps you to add, talk, share and accomplish your Bucket List ideas with people like you across the globe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">You might love to travel, snorkel, date, skate, photograph, choreograph, lose weight, gain experiences, write, kite, dive, drive, anything and everything, it’s now thinkable, possible and doable with WOOVLY! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Isn’t that amazing? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">If you have a list of crazy, adventurous, ballsy and unique things and don’t know where you’re heading, just go to Woovly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Even if you don’t have one, just go. Because, you might as well end up with a bunch of folks who for sure, love the exact things you like to do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Why Bucket List? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Did you ever ask yourself? Why I need this car? Why I need this smartphone? Why I need this house? Why I need this job that would not bother about my passion? Why I need a bank balance that would perhaps only be helpful for my kids? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Even if you tried asking, only a confused reaction would be the answer. It does, for most of them. But, when it’s about memories, it’s different. You tend to smile. You feel happy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">You might have not travelled more, explored more, lived adventures, but still, you tend to smile with the smallest memories you’ve lived. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">That’s why you need a Bucket List. A list that would make you happy forever once accomplished. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">So, start mounting Your Bucket List, accomplish them, make more memories, start small and live it hard. Bohot Hard! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">If you need more gyaan than this, then head to Woovly. Because even I’ve got a list of things to do. I can’t keep talking amigos. </span><span style="font-family: ".applecoloremojiui"; font-size: 17pt;">😊</span></div>
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It was an another Sunday for Maya Menon, a lawyer and an human rights activist from Kerala. She was ready to visit the remand home, her weekly ritual, which she had been following for the past two decades.<br />
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Just before starting her car, she receives a call from an unknown number. Maya normally disliked the habit of using a mobile phone. But she had to develop the habit for the sake of her only daughter, Joby.<br />
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Since she was already getting late to the remand home, Maya cuts the call and leaves to work. Soon after a while, she receives a message from the same number.<br />
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Maya had till date had solved around thousands of cases. She was well educated. She was the only woman from her family to have a masters from Harvard. Despite all the difficulties she had been through in her life, Maya never lost her grit.<br />
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But, that morning she was in for a test. A message from an unknown number was perhaps the worst thing that could happen to her life. Just like she fought for her clients, the message was precise to the point. It read, ‘Your Joby has been kidnapped and she is safe. Can we have a conversation over a cup of coffee? Also, I don’t think you should be taking the help of police at this point of time. I guess only a stupid would afford to take such risks. I repeat again, your daughter is in safe hands. Kindly follow the shared location. I guess, it shall take an hour’.<br />
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Maya was always a courageous woman. Most of her subordinates considered her as a ballsy activist. But, now she was literally down. She wanted a shoulder to rest. She desired some moral support. She wanted someone to console her. She just wanted someone to tell her that her daughter would soon come back home.<br />
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Without killing any time, she races to the location given by the abductor. Unlike the caller had mentioned, she took more than an hour to reach the place.<br />
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It was on the outskirts of the city. The place was isolated and there were no people around, but for a rusted tuk tuk which was perhaps owned by a debt-ridden guy.<br />
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‘Hello Miss Maya. You must’ve been looking for me. Aren’t you?’<br />
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So, you’re the guy who abducted my daughter, said a grieved Maya’.<br />
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She just wanted to see Joby. She wanted to see if her only girl was doing fine.<br />
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‘Yes mam, it was me who called you. It is me who kidnapped your beloved daughter. Just consider I don’t have a name. Now, can we take a walk to my place’, said the abductor with a devilish smile’.<br />
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‘I don’t know who you are. I haven’t seen you at all. As per my knowledge, I don’t think I’ve caused harm to anybody. Is my daughter safe? What’s your motive? What’s your demands? If it’s money, just quote your price, it shall reach your place in an hour. I’m an hard working woman and a single parent’.<br />
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Maya had never been this submissive in her life. Had it not been for her daughter, she would’ve taken the guy to a task by now. Thanks to her self-defence classes.<br />
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‘It’s too sultry mam. I guess we must go to my place. Let’s talk over a cup of coffee. I shall surely answer all your questions’.<br />
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The helpless Maya had no choice but to accept his request. Soon after a silent walk, she reached the place.<br />
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‘Kindly do me a favour of switching off your phone mam. I don’t like anyone coming in between the three of us’.<br />
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Though she felt a bit hesitant initially, Maya turned her mobile off fearing he would cause harm to Joby.<br />
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The place was just fine. Apart from an apartment and a railway track, there was nothing that could help Maya and her daughter.’<br />
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‘Stop wasting your time. This place is isolated. It’s far from the city. The apartment you see is under construction and unfortunately, it's tagged as a haunted place. I guess I’m good at planning things, isn’t it mam?’<br />
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‘Look! I need my daughter. She is innocent. She is just 16 and she doesn’t deserve to die. Stop doing this to us. At least, tell me what’s in your mind? Why the hell are you doing this to us?’<br />
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‘Take a chill pill mam. Have this coffee. It’s fresh. I just made it a while back and I kept in a flask. I cook well too. We shall start talking after this. I promise’.<br />
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Maya could do nothing but to nod her head to every goddamn thing he said. She had the coffee as fast as she could and waited eagerly to see him speak.<br />
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‘I’ve finished it. Now tell me. Where is Joby?’, said a crying Maya.<br />
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Before she could complete the next sentence, Maya felt a bit giddy and soon after a couple of seconds, she was unconscious.<br />
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The floor was damp. The mild speed of the fan gave some relief to Maya as she regained consciousness. Before she could react further, Maya was tied up to a chair.<br />
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‘Are you a fucking psychopath? Ok! You can kill me. Do whatever you want. Just leave my daughter. She’s an innocent kid. Please...’, said Maya crying out loud and screaming for help.<br />
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‘Ssshhhh! Don’t be noisy. It shall not help. No one can hear you. We are too far. Anyway, I’ve brought you here for a reason. Before I start speaking, you should perhaps have a look at this mam’. Here it is.<br />
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Maya had never in her wildest dreams had imagined that she would face a day like this. The abductor had already killed her only daughter. She just realised that he brought her here to share the heart-wrenching news.<br />
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‘You rotten piece of shit’. Why did you kill my daughter? How could that little innocent girl could bring harm to you? You asshole! Do I deserve this?<br />
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‘Oh Oh Oh. Enough mam. If you dare to utter another word, I swear to god, I’m going to chop you down into pieces. I’ve brought you here to listen and answer a couple of questions. You are here just to pay attention and give me what I want. Period’.<br />
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‘So, I heard you help criminals mam. Isn’t that true?<br />
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I’m a human activist and a criminal lawyer by profession. I solve cases and help people’.<br />
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‘No mam’. That’s wrong. You might justify it differently. But you’ve got a massive reputation of fighting for Maoists, rapists and criminals. I sometimes wonder how can someone have a job description that’s all about showing pity to the accused’.<br />
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‘I’m here with my research mam. In the past two decades, you’ve solved many cases. Thanks to you, we have many criminals, juvenile rapists and Maoists roaming free today in broad daylight’. Thanks to your so-called humanitarian grounds’.<br />
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‘While you let these morons free, there are hundreds of people who want them dead. Though none of my family members has gone through such trauma, I decided to seek justice and teach people like you a lesson’.<br />
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‘But now, I’m feeling a bit different mam. After brutally killing your daughter, I fear the outcome of my actions. Maybe, I should’ve tried a simple way to convey my perspective’.<br />
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‘Anyway, I think I’ll be fine. You are there to save me, mam. I know you’ll definitely fight for me. I think you have an army of people who love showing pity towards the cynical and psychopathic murderers like me’.<br />
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‘I’d love to live mam. I have a dream. I always wanted to become a lawyer and bring a fresh narrative to the table. I fear I won’t be able to become one if I go to jail. Just look at the positive side of me, mam. I might have killed your daughter. I know that’s painful. But, what about me mam? Don’t I deserve a second chance like all those criminals who gained freedom through your hands? Come on, it’s your duty to save me’.<br />
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Maya finally realised what was his motive. She realised the blunders she committed all these years. But it was too late. Her daughter was dead and her clients are still free.<br />
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‘Look, whatever your name is, I’m sorry. Yes, I never saw things from a different perspective. I now realise after losing my daughter. I know this would haunt me forever. But, I’ll try my best to put those criminals behind the bars. It’s my promise’.<br />
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‘That’s an interesting transformation mam. It’s good to see that you’ve changed. Thanks to your daughter. She would be proud of you. I guess I shall release you now. You are now a new person. But, I shall be watching you mam and I hope you fight for the needy’.<br />
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‘AND yes, before you go, you can take your daughter along’.<br />
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All of a sudden, Maya got a shocker. Was that the best moment in her life? No one could deny that. Little did she know that the abductor had a positive side.<br />
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‘What are you saying? Is Joby alive? Tell me you didn’t kill her. Were you lying all the time?’<br />
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‘I’m not like those cold-blooded criminals who easily get acquitted from the hands of the law. I just wanted to make you understand about the atrocities you’ve done. Yes, you are a strong woman. You are highly educated. But, your version of the law was stupid. It never justified a good cause. You fought for the bad and left the good to suffer. Your daughter is doing good in the other room. I don’t think you would change your views after leaving this place. Joby is watching us. The photo I showed you was a staged one. I hope this sums up everything mam’.<br />
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Though Maya was finally relieved to see Joby, she was exposed completely in the eyes of her daughter. She never committed a crime. But if she continued her actions like before, she would definitely feel guilty. A feeling that would haunt her for long.<br />
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‘You can leave now mam. I’m sorry again to trouble you both. I just wanted to explain how wrong you were all these years. By the way, don’t you dare go near the apartment? I must have lied before about Joby, but that’s indeed a haunted place’.<br />
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‘How are you so sure about it? asked Joby in a curious tone.<br />
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‘That’s because I reside there!’<br />
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Written by Vishal Aryan Komara.</div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Anyway, I got the tickets, bought popcorn and took my seat. A couple of minutes later, a young foreigner took the next seat of mine. I had this surreal-like feel for a while. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">While the stereotypical Indian in me pondered ‘why’; the ‘thought-provoking me’ quoted ‘why not? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I knew there were around 10 full minutes before the film could start rolling; so I mustered some courage to strike a conversation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Hi. I’m Vishal, where are you from? I asked with a lump in my throat. I could already sense some discomfort in his body language. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">But, he shut my doubts with a broad smile and said - Hello! I’m Miguel. I’m from Spain but settled in Bangalore. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Since there was no room for more time, I pushed the conversation and came to know that - he was residing in the Silicon Valley of India for the past one decade. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I asked him why? I know it was none of my business, but still, I gave it a shot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">‘In a gifted city like Bangalore, you’ve got the chance to experiment multiple things. So, I freelance for an advertising agency, I do photography and I travel places’, he said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Maybe, I should decode this guy rather than watching a commercial potboiler. Before pushing myself to throw the next question, we were alerted to stand up for the ‘National Anthem’ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I put up the popcorn aside to stand and to my astonishment, so did Miguel. But, I wasn’t game for that reaction from him. I knew he was a foreigner and I also knew it wasn’t a compulsive requirement for a guy from a distant country. Maybe, I was forced to think like that after seeing our own Indians debating over the issue. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">But, Miguel broke the stereotype in me for the second time and joined the patriotic chorus and guess what? He knew our anthem by heart. For a second, I thought, the anthem was latched onto his head. The moment we finished reciting the anthem, some guy from behind with an enthusiastic tone chanted - ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This time, Miguel surprised everyone by chanting back a ‘Jai’ in a high pitch. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Since there were few more ads to go, I quickly thanked him for showering respect on our country. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I knew it might have sounded a bit cliche for few. But, Miguel sipping his coke quickly said - ‘You don’t have to thank me, buddy. As I mentioned before, I’ve travelled a lot, explored multiple places, met thousands of people and binged on crazy adventures. So, what’s wrong in giving your 2 minutes for a country that’s given so much to you in return?’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">By now, I was not just shocked. I was inspired too. So, before the credits could start rolling, I just applauded him for having a broad mindset on things. So I just ended the conversation by saying - ‘I wish even a few people in India could follow your approach, Miguel’ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">‘You can’t force people to do things. Because they are too busy in following an ideology which ironically doesn’t give a shit about them and they’re also too ignorant in differentiating between politics and patriotism. While the former plays poison, the latter at times becomes an antidote. However, ironically speaking, why are these issues popping out only in the last 5 years? </span></div>
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Vishalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879885300359373976noreply@blogger.com1Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12.9715987 77.59456269999998312.4764182 76.949115699999979 13.4667792 78.240009699999987tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920218924730250729.post-53259204259422038782018-11-17T08:17:00.000-08:002018-11-17T11:35:12.398-08:00POSTMAN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“Yes. I’m Shankar Narayan. Tell me. Is that a post or a courier?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“I guess a post, sir. But you need to sign it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“Oh. Where’s Sundaram? He was the regular postman.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“Sorry, sir. Sundaram was one of the oldest postman in the Indiranagar suburb. He passed away yesterday.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“Oh. That’s tragic. I met him three days back at the post office. He spoke about his daughter’s wedding which is just a month away. I’ll visit his place today and pass the condolences to his family. By the way, thanks for letting me know.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“It’s fine. But Sundaram sir’s family are not in the town. They left to Chennai this morning.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“That’s ridiculous. How can they leave without finishing the rituals? I’ve known Sundaram from the past 30 years. He used to visit my bank once a week to deposit his weekly savings. I’ve known their family too. They were highly orthodox. How can they leave all of a sudden?” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“By the way, how did he die? He was fit and perfect. I fondly used to call him ‘Joe Pesci’.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“I’m sorry to say, sir. It was a murder in broad daylight. The killer used a cloth hanging rope and strangled him to death. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">It was a gruesome murder. Don’t know what was the killer motive. Even the cops couldn’t find it.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“Well, that’s intriguing and sad. AND, how do you know all this? Did someone tell you? By the way, is the murderer on the loose? Did the cops catch him yet?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“The killer is on the loose sir. The cops haven’t found a clue yet.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“But, how do you know all this young man?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“Sorry again to break it down sir. I’m Hari and I was the one who strangled Sundaram sir, your step-brother to death.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Shankar Narayan was shocked. His heart began to pound faster for two reasons. Firstly, the killer was in front of him and secondly, apart from him, nobody knew Sundaram was his stepbrother. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“Hey. Stay out. How do you know all this? said Shankar with sweat pouring all over his face.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“Relax. Sir. I’m not here to cause harm to you. Don’t worry. I just dropped here to share the story behind the killing. I’m here to justify the crime I’ve committed.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“Sundaram was your step-brother. Isn’t it Mr Shankar?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“Yes. But, why the hell you killed him and what’s your bloody motive?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“Patience sir. Patience. An old man like you need to be calm and even Sundaram was in a hurry to explain me things. But, you know what sir? My reason to kill him was stronger than his cries.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“As far as I’m concerned, Sundaram is a kind-hearted person. He wouldn’t hurt anyone. Even after my father threw him out of the house, he never took it to his heart. Right from bringing up his kids to managing his household songs, he did it all by himself. Only after he lost his job as an accountant, he was forced to work as a postman. It was only during that time, he sought my help.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“AND, based on the way you speak, I guess you’re a cold-blooded psycho who loves killing people for no reason!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“Relax, Mr Shankar. I haven’t spoken about my reason yet and you’re already jumping into conclusions.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“Whatever the reason might be, Sundaram wouldn’t have caused you any loss. I know about him very well.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“Ok Mr., Shankar. Let me not drag further and tell you the reason behind me killing your step-brother. After all, you should be knowing how unrighteous Sundaram can be?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“I guess it was 3 years ago. It was on June 9th 1991, I was employed at HAL as a chief engineer. I was the only breadwinner in my family. Father left us early and I was left out to take care of my mother and sister. You know how difficult it is to handle a family, Mr Shankar? In simple words, you carry all the burden.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“But still, I studied hard, took tuitions, paid my bills and finally got a job at HAL. 6 months after I got placed, my mother sent me a letter and it was about a marriage proposal to my sister. I was on cloud nine. It was one of the moments where you feel proud of yourself, isn’t it Mr Shankar?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“Anyway, I couldn’t travel to my hometown immediately. There was an ongoing project going on and I was designated as a project lead. So, I wrote a letter to my mother stating I would be dropping by two weeks later and I also sent her a cheque of 50,000/-“</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“After two weeks, I packed my bags with enough sweets, bought some jewellery to my mother and sister and visited my hometown with full of excitement.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“But, I’d never expected the sweets would go for waste. I’d never imagined the jewellery would be of no use. I’d never thought in my wildest dreams that there would be a day where I would get to see my mother and sister dead. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">You know what’s more painful Mr Shankar?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“It’s losing your dear ones even after being a responsible son. But, it was your bloody stepbrother who was responsible for my loss.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“I’m sorry for your loss. I know a sorry can’t justify your sorrow. But, I would like to know how Sundaram was responsible?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“Mr Shankar. I guess you’re not getting it. I guess you’re still thinking your stepbrother was an innocent person. Had he been innocent, he wouldn’t have invented a murderer in me. Had he been innocent, I wouldn’t have strangled him to death.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“Listen, young man. I would like to know the truth. As far as I know, our upbringing has never led to any atrocities in the past and yes, it would never, even in the future.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“Mr Shankar. I’m not here to play philosophy. I’m here to convey the brutal truth.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“It was your stepbrother who forgot to deliver that cheque on time. In fact, I got to know about it only after reaching the post office. It was still lying on the office amid many undelivered letters.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“My mother and sister were humiliated by the local villagers. Poor people. They couldn’t handle it. So, they took a decision which would haunt me for a lifetime.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“I thought of killing Sundaram the very next day. But no. What’s the point, Mr Shankar? What’s the point in killing him when his family is stable?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“So, I patiently waited like a hungry lion who’s hunting a prey. It took me 3 years and only a month ago, I came to know Sundaram had arranged a marriage proposal for his beloved daughter.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“I felt the time was apt and right. I visited him in the morning yesterday and as you can rightly guess, you know what happened.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Shankar was left with tears. He was unsure about the cries. Whom he would cry for? His stepbrother or his unethical values? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“Sorry, Mr Shankar. You might be a righteous man. But, Sundaram had to bear the brunt of his mistakes. After all, some mistakes have to be corrected.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“Anyway, it was nice meeting you, Mr Shankar. I feel better now. It was nice meeting you in person.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“Wait! Why did you come here? You could’ve just escaped or vanished. What was the reason to meet me and tell me all this and make me more unhappy?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“Mr Shankar. I guess you forgot the foremost essence of my story. Even I hail from a lower middle-class family. In fact, I don’t mind taking the privilege of being a more righteous soul than you are.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“But, unfortunately, a murder is a murder. Sundaram committed a blunder and I had to repay. However, after killing him, I felt a bit guilty. I don’t know why. It suffocated me to the fullest. I just couldn’t handle it. For me, it was like a negative energy, Mr Shankar. I couldn’t destroy it. The only option I had was to pass it to someone.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“AND, I don’t think there could be anyone as best as you to take that honours.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">But, what if I tell it to the police? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“Ha ha ha ha ha. Mr Shankar. That was a good joke. Remember, just a couple of minutes back, you spoke highly of your upbringing.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">“Just go ahead, Mr Shankar. Go ahead and prove your upbringing was wrong. I would be more than happy to get jailed.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Written By Vishal Aryan Komara</span></div>
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Vishalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879885300359373976noreply@blogger.com0Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12.9715987 77.59456269999998312.4764182 76.949115699999979 13.4667792 78.240009699999987tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920218924730250729.post-28260014626969150382018-09-30T10:16:00.000-07:002018-09-30T11:34:26.229-07:00How Living Your Bucket List Can Transport You To The Present?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">We live in a world where philosophers, motivational speakers, authors and positivity-driven babas constantly look upto one objective and that’s - ‘Do What You Love’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">You know what? Most of the people love sticking to the above objective, but as ironic as it sounds, they end up ‘Liking What They Do’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Which is precisely the opposite or what you call it in layman terms - living someone else’s dreams. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Damn! Can it get more awful than this? Think about it. What if you just had one week to live? What would you do then? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">You definitely wouldn’t want to continue with your life paying bills and outraging on issues, right? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Perhaps, any self-respected person in the world would just up their game for that week by marking off the things they always wanted to do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">But wait, this ‘week-in-the-basket’ or the ‘last days concept’ is also the most negative story ever told. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Yes. The worst part is we’ve been thinking even a Bucket List is something same. Where one has to dart their list before they actually ‘kick the bucket’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Again, that’s one cooked up theory we humans have created. Well, in reality, a Bucket List is something that has to be counted as an activity to accomplish in the PRESENT. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Are you confused? Well, let’s make it simple with a story. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Once upon a time, there was a man called John who started his career in the 80’s as a copywriter and had slogged all his life living dreams of multiple people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Though writing copies were something that he liked, there were other things he could never indulge in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">But, he never complained. He just lead his life like any common man would do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Be it buying groceries in the long queues and dreaming about that heavy compound interest or let’s say dreaming about a future which seems too far to consider. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">He did fairly well in his career. He could dart three promotions at ease and soon, he retired as a manager. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">All his life, he just wrote copies for clients and made some moolah, so that his family could sleep peacefully at the end of the day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Apart from being a passionate writer, he also loved sports, hiking, and travelling. But, he had never time for the latter as most of his life was occupied with penning copies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">By the time John realised what he had lost, it was too late. All these thoughts struck him in his last day at work - the day he retired. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">He packed his bags, took his things and bid a farewell to his colleagues who took away his precious time all these years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">However, John never gave up. While heading back home, a thought struck him again. This time, it was an idea where he could start his life from the scratch. For him in the head, it still wasn’t too late to make a new beginning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">As his new idea could take him to a world, where he can be himself. Soon, after reaching home, his family welcomed him with a surprise party. They were eagerly looking forward to celebrating John’s retirement. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">His wife and kids gave him a YES, and the rest, as you can guess, was a story that can be never forgotten. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">He, in fact, marked many things off his Bucket List and found his true self. Or what you can also term it as ‘Being Finally Settled’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">But you see, not everyone can be as lucky as John. Don’t you think? Well, when I say lucky, I meant TIME. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Because, no matter how big your dreams are, you need sufficient time to get there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">AND, for the record, at any point, you need a life that can get BETTER, not BITTER. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">So, take the plunge, dare to be the person you wanted to and live your present life to the fullest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Ever heard of this question? Or does it sound like you’ve had enough of it already?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Right from a random schmuck on the street to your retired relative, everyone seems to be interested in your career decisions; right? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Every tom, dick and, harry seems to feel responsible for your actions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">If you’re sailing in the same boat, worry not. I’ve been there too. But yeah, I also found a solution to stay away from such bits of advice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">However, before heading to the solution. I would like to ask you the difference between a career advice and an happiness advice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Both might look similar. What if you give a deep scrutiny? Just try it out. It’s gonna blow up your minds as both are quite different. They don’t attract each other. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Career advice might perhaps be the best bets for the well-paid counsellors. But in reality, most of the times, they are crap. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Yes. You read that right. In fact, the counsellors have a greater job satisfaction than the folks who are shooting them questions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Think about it. What’s the basic description of Career Advice? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Or, to explain in the millennial tone, how does an objective of a ‘career advice’ look? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Maybe, something like this - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">‘Hey. I’m career advice and my only objective is to make people slog so hard that they screw up their health. I also make sure that no one gets time to lead a comfortable personal life’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Did I say personal? So, this was the solution thing I was talking about. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Ever stumbled upon a counsellor in a magazine who would preach about living your passion or what you precisely term it as a Happiness Advice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">No. They don’t bank on such topics. Why may you ask? Because they never had a passion. Period. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">So, people went mad and curious to find out folks who could fetch them some happiness advice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Boom! Entered the entrepreneurs-turned authors. The numbers rose and things began to change. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">While counsellors in the magazine spoke about the next software update, the passion-driven ninjas spoke about ideas that could turn toilet papers into gold. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">AND, it began to work. What looked boring in the past became an interesting task in the present. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">So, that’s the difference between an happiness advice and, a career advice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Unlike the latter, happiness lectures are exciting and, most importantly, if implemented well, you’ll end up happy forever. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Just look at some famous people. Right from technology, sports, entertainment and to arts. Most of them are happy and successful only because they could dedicate everything to their passion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">After all, many are privileged to enjoy the riches; but only a few end up having a Wikipedia page. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">So, it’s all about living and hustling for that one goal you’re looking forward to accomplish. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Have you thought about it?</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Being an Engineer turned writer, at times I don’t have the answer myself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Maybe, it was because I took a risk of not following the herd. A herd that would often boast a group of engineers, doctors, government clerks and other monotonous 9-5 gigs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">However, before getting further, I’ll start with a small true story. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">During a graduation day, an Indian Harvard professor asked his students about their future plans. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">He asked them whether they desire to become another ‘Jobs’ or become a person who would just dream a secure job. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">While most of the foreigners preferred the former option, the Indian students pondered to the latter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Do you want to know who was the professor? Any guesses? Well, it was none other than Dr Subramaniam Swamy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">But, what surprised me was the answer from the Indian students. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Why would they do that? It then hit me. It’s not their fault either. It’s the stability stigma that has been brainwashing such people over the years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Fortunately, things are now different. Entrepreneurship has changed the perception. In fact, it lead people to ponder deep thinking. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">So, what do you think was the deep thought? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Simple. People just felt like quitting their jobs to start their own careers with the money left out in their pockets. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">AND, this also became a habit for the freshly graduated teens. Don’t jump into conclusions now! As there are instances where millennials have spun millions out of an idea that was born over a mug of beer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Now coming to the big question - Why stability is a favourite word to Indians? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Well, going by the trend, stability is no more a burden to us. When I say US, it’s about the younger crowd or a bunch of people who’ve lost some hair in what you call an enlightening stressful career. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">People these days don’t fall prey to preachings like - Don’t quit your job, there is time for everything, you can live your passion later or what is known to be a middle-class favourite - RESPONSIBILITIES. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Don’t you believe it? Just feed some thought. Unlike the folks from the 70s and 80s, people these days are living their passion in their present. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">They could have played like the older ones who would think of their favourite careers only after a retirement. Isn’t it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">But, things are different now. Folks these days are eagerly looking forward to creating a dent in the universe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Gone are the days where dreams ended up with questions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Gone are the days, where for every solution, there stood a problem. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">At present, it’s about darting a solution at every problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">So, what do you seek?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Adding life to your years or Adding regret to your life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Choose wisely. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Written by Vishal Aryan Komara</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Yes it’s too late to review Kaala. Doesn’t matter anyway. You know what happened to the film. Don’t you?</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Truth tastes bitter and that’s reality. Most of us have grown up listening to this references and you know what’s the worst part? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">The highly worshipped star of India like Rajnikanth had to succumb to the truth in his latest flick. Oblivious of his ideology through his yet-to-be finalised political ambitions, the man of masses had to fall prey to Pa Ranjith’s confused ideologies. Ok. Call it frustration. Easy no? Let’s see how it happens? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Apart from Rajni’s fans, most of the folks pondered WHY after a lukewarm response Kabali received. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">With the same director, same ideology, ( coughs ), Kaala struck us back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">This time with a black shirt and a black dhoti. Because, it wasn’t Malaysia. It was Aamchi Mumbai amigos. To seek more attention, it was Dharavi, the same Ghetto region which inspired Kamal’s Nayakan and many other commercial pot boilers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Like Kabali, Rajni had to step into the shoes of a Gangster again who ironically is the only man of the Dravidian masses. Because, Director has an ideology folks. Unfortunately, only he understands it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Kaala again portrays a beard look who often depends on his kids and goons to do the talking; apart from the pre interval block where he is found bashing the goons with an umbrella. Never expect logic here. It’s Rajni after all!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">As a fan, I had some expectations from Rajni again. But, Pa Ranjith had a ball. Seriously! He was keen to bring all the ‘isms’ under one roof. Be it, the beef stalls, the leftist themes, the ambedkar terms and what not. What was missing? A story! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Irony is, Hari Dada is synonymous with Kaala’s attitude. Yes. Both sound same. Hari Dada has a purpose. He wants to give Dharavi a new name by making it Digital. He wants to rebuild it and at the same time, he also eyes on money. Let’s face it, it’s a politician thing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">Kaala is against it. He isn’t game for development. He doesn’t want the ghettos to shine and neither does he wants to develop it too. Not in the present and not in the future. Macha. Are you for real? You did well in ‘Muthu’ man, what happened now? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;">As for Rajnikanth, it was a strong foundation to kick start his political ambitions. But, let’s pray his political career isn’t too Kaala ( Dark ). As a fan, I wish him success. </span></div>
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Yes. That’s true. Most of us have succumbed to our jobs, personal songs and the monotonous routine. </div>
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In the journey of achieving many things in your lives, you slowly forget yourself. You forget your interests. You forget your purpose. Gradually, after a few years, you would just be a person living in someone’s dreams. </div>
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You have time for social media, tinder, gossips, meetings, breaks and what not. </div>
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An average human gets 7% of the time in a day to work on their personal interests, which is precisely called a Bucket List. </div>
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And, the irony is most of that time goes into thinking and guess what? It again leads to more thinking. </div>
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You can binge watch your Netflix favourites by hitting the cycle </div>
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You’re going nuts over that pretty girl or that handsome chap. Isn’t it? Millennials love fitness folks. So, every time you swipe in tinder, make sure you’ve shed some calories mate. </div>
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You are really game for a trip. But, your friends aren’t interested. To hell with them. Embark on a solo trip. Meet new people, strike some like-minded conversations and build a new story around you. </div>
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If your near and dear ones are always pleasing you to click a photograph, you know what does it mean? You’ve got some serious skills. Grab your camera, step out of your house, try something new and yes, you shall definitely be happy after taking those cringeworthy selfies.</div>
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Every time, you crave for a Biryani, mount your fitness regime. After all, people who enjoy life rarely, have a flat stomach. </div>
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Your Ola and Uber are causing a pain in the arse. Right? Well, screw them for a month and take your bicycle to work. Maybe, your boss might get impressed and give you an appraisal too. </div>
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Most of the people would second such thoughts to fiction and move on to their regular-never-ending-monotonous-lifestyles. </div>
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But, as told before, such Bucket List Ideas can be accomplished for real and there are thousands of such people who are making it happen. </div>
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What if you get a chance to connect with such people? Wouldn’t that be great? In fact, you would be stepping into a new life, a life where you can find yourself - the REAL YOU! </div>
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Here comes Woovly, your game changer Bucket List platform.</div>
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Filled with 1000+ Bucket List Ideas,1000+stories, 1000+ experiences, you can now easily devote that 7% to your personal interests. Maybe you can multiply it with the help of Woovly. </div>
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So, if you really wanna waste your precious time. Waste it wisely and for better results, count <a href="http://woovly.com/">Woovly.com</a> </div>
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Vishalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879885300359373976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920218924730250729.post-9767105298487902472018-03-19T10:23:00.001-07:002018-03-19T10:23:09.885-07:00A humorous take on India and Bangladesh Final - What Actually Happened<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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But, all of a sudden, he realizes the spirit is a good one. It is highly calm and composed. Definitely not the one which is found in the Bollywood horror genre</div>
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Indian players run towards Dinesh and he still has no clue. Just before the players come closer, the spirit wearing a jersey number 7 leaves him and guess what? He still has no clue. </div>
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People are hailing him as the next big thing in cricket and the players are piling on him and still, he has no clue. That’s when it struck him, there is always a lightning spirit behind the stumps and luckily it hit him today!</div>
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<b>This is a work of satirical fiction. No offence folks!</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aspiring Journalist Ravi knew nothing about the Media Hub. But still gave an interview at Traffic of India, a well-known tabloid. He thought his so-called passion can make a difference to the media industry. He got selected in flying colors and embraced his luck for the favor. But little did he know about the reality he is about to face.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ok, Ravi. I’m Anita, the HR Manager here and I will be handling the ‘Employee engagement’ department. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Editor - Oh. Come on Ravi. In India, Only Bollywood should represent feminism. Normally we don’t talk about the so-called inspiring women you mentioned. Other countries will take care of it. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ravi - But sir, he is just an actor. Isn't it too early to talk about it; instead we can cover about agriculture, lack of economic growth, urban pollution and not to forget our very own brothers and sisters from the north-east. We can start this as no media covers them. Why would anyone bother about an actor who is hinting his entry into politics? That too all of a sudden! Nobody cares.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Editor - No Ravi! We need to write about people who can just talk and not represent. And what empowerment you are talking about? When Mr. Pichai was in his 30’s he was already on the verge of becoming a ‘Technology Star’. But look at Kanhaiya; he is brainwashing people in his 30’s. </span></div>
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Vishalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879885300359373976noreply@blogger.com0Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12.9715987 77.59456269999998312.4764182 76.949115699999979 13.4667792 78.240009699999987tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920218924730250729.post-47196961527351607702017-09-08T05:38:00.001-07:002017-09-08T05:38:54.862-07:00Not of the people, Not by the people and Not for the people?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Parshav, I have to go the diagnostic center to get the post-check up reports. Reach the airport on time and receive your grandfather. And yes, he is not an ordinary man, he is an Ex-Indian Army Hero. Greet him with a salute </span>and..</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That’s great Dada, Was eagerly waiting to meet you and what’s wrong? Why didn’t you visit us in the past two years? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oh! That’s a long story. After your dad and my wife left me. Everything seems to be strange now. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Parshav, some situations in life expects us to change in a drastic way and yes, I chose to be more fit now. And also, a peg of red wine is an added advantage. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After all, he is my son, Parshav. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No. I have already dropped her a message saying that we shall be coming home late. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What? No. You need some rest due to the jet lag. Let us go home for lunch Dada. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No. I’m absolutely fine. From the past two years, I could never binge on a biryani and on top of that the cook which your mom sent was a brahmin. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dada, I quit the 9 to 5 corporate gig and now I’m out to build my own startup. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, you have decided not to get into your father’s footsteps. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dada, the last time I met dad, I was still in the corporate world. But I was just working on somebody’s dreams and I didn’t want to regret it before it’s too late. And you know what Dada? Dad wasn’t happy either back then. Before leaving, he told me to work on the idea I had so we can discuss it later. Even before dad left us, he was constantly in touch with me and kept on advising me. Well, it took me two years to call it quits. I guess he is happy about my decision. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hmm. Go ahead. I guess he told me about this once. I thought you were just another infatuated millennial. But I didn’t know you were this passionate to follow your dreams.\</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No Dada. I’m quite serious about it. Dad always wanted me to be purpose-oriented. He once told me that fighting the enemies across the border and taking the bullets might look different for others. But he always told me, he was destined to do that. He thought that’s his purpose. He loved fighting for his country.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No Dada. I’m talking about the ethics and values you have taught us. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Great Son. So, what is your new venture all about? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dada, It is a Content Media Startup. To be more precise, an online media channel which shouts ‘worthy content’. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, you are getting into the media songs and dancing to its tunes?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No Dada, Our motto is to dance to the public’s tunes. Shout, Write and Talk about the Reality. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, how does it look different when compared to the current trend. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Great Dada, Now we are talking. Let me start by saying this. The society we live in or the current media trends as you said are </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘Not of the people, Not by the people and Not for the people’.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> They are obsessed for traffic or yes, the so called TRP. Basically, going by the current trend, no media sounds favoring the justice. It is just justifying justice. </span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 40pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The left hating the right and the right hating the left. Politicizing a tragedy and linking to another. Not just that, they also have bonus offers such as seasonal attacks on religious differences.For instance, like the IPL league, we have come up with major league competitions which are based on tradition, culture, religion etc. So no room for publicizing hard work and development! Going by the current media scenario, moral responsibility can never be their cup of tea. Because, they are on a mission to uplift the uplifted, glorify the ignorant intellectuals and pay less attention to the true heroes who represent our country. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If at all there is a tragedy, the solution is not the focus. The main focus is to politicize it and finally, it fades away into the past. So what’s so big in covering intellectual people with a pessimistic purpose. And you know what Dada, the current trend is not to show patriotism by representing your country but blurting out opinions. So what’s the use of opinions when you can’t be the change? What’s the use of having intellectuals with a communal mindset? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Parshav, so the young blood in you has so much to work on? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No Dada, I have already started.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 40pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Great Son, Gone are the pre independence days when our politicians were good and now it is just a blame game formula. Currently, for every solution there is a problem arising and Parshav, always remember, till date, whatever India has achieved, it is not because of the politicians or the media. It is US, the citizens of our country and not to forget our freedom fighters and the ‘Real Heroes’ at the border. So, if there has to be a change. There has to be a change. But by representing as a person. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Happiness?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So Dada, Did you like my idea? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hmm. Let me give you a test first? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What if you come across a manhole which has taken around 100 lives and how would you react to it or how would you cover it as a news? Or let me put it like this - How are you going to showcase your so called ‘Moral Responsibility’? </span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 40pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First, I would shoot a video of the place and start creating a campaign on social media as that’s the best way to voice our opinions as results are faster. Second, I would write to the drainage and sanitation board to clean up the place instead of playing the video hours together. Third, I shall give a complaint to the nearest police station. So when the government is involved and exposed in social media, results have to come out. And Dada, one of my friend tried the same method in his hometown when there was a major water crisis, the result took 48 hours. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oh. I guess you are through and you know what? It sounds like a utopian formula. But I wish you success and happiness! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dada, before we wind up this talk, I always wanted you to ask something?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What’s that Parshav?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How could you come to terms with Dad’s death? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Simple! I was happy and Sad at the same time. </span></div>
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Vishalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879885300359373976noreply@blogger.com0Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12.9715987 77.59456269999998312.4764182 76.949115699999979 13.4667792 78.240009699999987tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920218924730250729.post-3752862385729478922017-04-27T01:51:00.003-07:002017-04-27T01:51:47.079-07:00A Girlfriend's Realization.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lochan makes a visit, gives a stare, and goes away with a blushed smile and the cycle repeats. However, the sitting duck here is me, – Aryan.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I seldom remember the day we met for the first time, but her grey matter was of top-notch.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The crucial part of the human career was the 12th grade, as our parents blurt out very often and to my ill – fated destiny, I had fallen in love with this lass at the same time. The feeling was like two people boarding a titanic vessel. Nothing was of sheer importance when you are in a relationship. Every aspect of your life would be a second option excepting for the love of your life. Every moment went on well, be it - watching talkies over a tub of popcorn, popping phone calls in the witching hours, long walks within few minutes. Theory of relativity made its presence. </em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Was that Love or Infatuation? It was an intriguing moment to decide. As I knew, this ain’t the right time for the sparks to fly. Moreover, the graduation was waiting for me at the other end of the tunnel. The competition was toilsome; I had stuck in a grueling situation, where I was to choose my career and this yet-to-be-finalized relationship.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As I told before, everything feels secondary at that time even though it does not make any sense. However, I was true in my relationship, not knowing what was going on in her loaf. She aspired to be a Filmmaker and sometimes I used to get pissed off with her inclination towards Art. In the beginning, every moment was delirious and fresh. A few months later, the process became a bit predictable and the long walks suddenly transformed into a one – way traffic.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I was not possessive by nature; she had a free hand after all. Everything went on well, but not as before. However, dropping a bombshell was not my idea. If this was not enough, the final exams were about to begin in a week’s time. I had fallen down in the dumps; I sometimes really wonder what the subjects in my grade have to do with my career?</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, I change my mind and come back to the boring books and the most important aspect - which makes a presence in every student’s ontology – The Distraction part.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Holding the math book, staring at those curved hyperbolas and the inner soul shouts in a different pitch. It is a common process, as I have mentioned before.</em></h3>
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<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u>THE GRUESOME PROJECT</u></em></strong></h3>
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<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lochan could never meet me due to the exam preparations and the pressure from her orthodox parents was up to the skies limit.</em></h3>
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<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Finally, the Gruesome Project came into the limelight. Everything went on well and the results were out in a fortnight. Her results had a boasting percentage of 88 and I was on cloud nine to be the premier among the last benchers.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She was not happy with my results. However, she did not show it on her face. I knew where I stand in my academics and was not peculiar about the grades.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Because, somewhere in my deep senses, I knew that the books were of no use to my career. However, according to the protocol, I needed them in my closet. It is just my opinion.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I slightly turned my career curve towards cooking as the white toque interested me and cooking was my impetuous passion from childhood. I was hardly 8 summers old when my granny passed away and she was a cooking maestro. However, she was a bit orthodox by nature and made sure that no one enters the kitchen.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Being youngest among the lot and most pampered in the entire house, I took this as an advantage to enter in the scullery. It was indeed a pride moment for me because no one so far had dared to go the kitchen.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, I was of no use to my granny. She single – handedly managed the entire process with élan. A strict scrutiny was only my task.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After my granny passed away, the kitchen was no more a heaven. My mother went through a hellish process all day. She had to shuttle around between her work and the household songs. It was this time; I had a free hand in the kitchen and the entire room was mine.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, I used to help my mother doing those veg - curries and south Indian dishes even though it was completely monotonous.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Being a vegetarian, I was more interested in cooking some Italian cuisines and up to the minute recipes in kebabs. However, for me - Chinese recipes were idiot – proof and it didn’t kill time.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At the age of 17, the authority of the kitchen was under my control and I had almost learnt many recipes by now. However, to become a chef was not a cakewalk. It would be a step – by – step process and since cooking is an art; the main asset an artist has to boast about is – patience.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes! A positive mindset is mandatory without a second thought and the most vital part of an artist’s life is to have immense self – confidence. I feel nothing more is required for the activity.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I was ready for the next level, where I had to convert my passion into a profession. Therefore, I enrolled for a degree in Hotel Management and I could not stop myself sharing this with Lochan. On top of this, we did not meet each other for a month or so; the gap was a bit exaggerating.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u>THE FINAL TOUCH</u></em></strong></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The ‘LONG WAIT’ for the girl, the common aspect - which every guy encounters during his relationship. Even though my clock was punctual, Lochan always chose to be tardy for the hang – outs. It has been a month seeing her beguiling face and on the other hand, I went berserk, as she didn’t turn up according to the time mentioned. The ‘135 Minutes wait’ finally ended with her presence. She was in her casual jeans, which she normally dislikes and this surprised me to think beyond the curve. I could see the odd vibes surrounding her and sensed something bizarre.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She gave me an orthodox hug. Hi, Aryan. What’s up?</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nothing had changed in a month; I was literally getting bored of her questions popping from her nous.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There is nothing much to blurt out Lochan. I have enrolled for a degree in Hotel Management as you know I have the zeal towards cooking. </em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Holy shit, what is wrong with you?</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Are you nuts? Cooking can only be a passion. How can you be so stupid thinking to make a career out of it? It is not too late, join engineering with me and we will have a blast together.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meanwhile, during this conversation, my inner soul was visualizing me dressed up as a chef and serving delicious dishes to the customers and on the other hand, I was in no mood to pay attention to whatever Lochan said.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thanks for your advice Lochi; I am in no mood to think anything apart from Cooking as it has been my passion right from my pre – teen days.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So, is this your final decision! She blurted out in a squeaked voice.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I gave her a big YES!</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After having a limited chat, we both left to our places.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u>THE GIRL’S BLOW</u></em></strong></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trrrrnnnnng! My phone buzzed. It was an SMS from Lochan – “Hi Aryan, I have a got a seat in IIT – Chennai. I would be leaving Bangalore tomorrow. So, have a nice life and I would not like to be with a person who is out of his senses. All the best and hope we meet in future and goodbye”.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I was in a strange dilemma for few minutes. I was broken completely. I only had two options in my mind right now, follow her dreams or cook the bread.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I chose the second option. As Mr. Farrah Gray Quoted - </em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” It was absolutely a masterpiece.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u>THE BEGINNING </u></em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After completing my graduation in hotel management, I got a job as an intern in a seven-star hotel. My job was nothing but to make a note of quantity of vegetables used every day.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The first month went on to be a boring task, the work that I did; had nothing to do with my career. So I used to wind up my daily routine within two hours and jump into the kitchen to lend my hand to all those chefs.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Mukund was an executive chef and he had 6 years of experience in the hotel industry. He was highly impressed with my passion towards cooking and shifted my base to the kitchen. 8 months down, now I was a full-time chef in the snacks division.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A few months later, I got bored of my job and I had planned to start a business of my own.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hailing from middle – class family, I did not have the guts to lend my father’s hand. I modified our Maruti Omni into a Mobile – food court and started traveling to all the IT – hubs in Bangalore.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The survey on the latest Gen says that – 90% of all the people strive for the fast foods and this was the plus point for me to implement this idea.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On an average basis, I used to spend two hours near every IT – Park, so I could cover the entire city. This process went on for 3 years and I had 6 mobile food courts by now. </em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One fine morning, I was serving hot sandwiches to an old man, looking at his attire and color; I came to know he is not an Indian. However, I was happy after seeing him munching those hot buns.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Young Man, Can you please share the recipe with me as well?</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I was astonished for a second and asked me why he wanted to know about it?</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My name is Walter Mike and I am from Germany. I own a restaurant in Hamburg and I came to India for a vacation.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I was not in a mood to listen to all his shit because I couldn’t waste my time in the peak hours.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He walked away paying the bill and giving me a visiting card of his. I felt he would have liked my sandwich. However, the question, which troubled me, was how he could assess my talent with just having a sandwich.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10 years later…</em></strong></h3>
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<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Sapphire,</em></strong></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Hotel,</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bangalore.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hotel Sapphire was one of the famous seven – star hotels in the entire city. They covered all kinds of cuisines.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One fine day, a couple walked into the restaurant and ordered a combo meal for them. The wife was immensely happy with the taste of the hot chicken kebabs and wanted to have a word with the chef who made it.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Excuse me! Can I meet the chef who made these dishes?</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Of course, Mam and the bearer left.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sir, you have a call from one of the customers in the main hall. What’s the matter, John? I asked.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She’s impressed by your dishes and wants to meet you. Well, I will be back in few minutes.</em></h3>
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<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u>THE BITTER FACT</u></em></strong></h3>
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<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Compliments from the customers are one of the best appreciations you can have in your life. That makes your day.</em></h3>
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<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes, her husband started the conversation and told me that Lochan was highly impressed with the dish and that’s the reason they had called me.</em></h3>
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<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After a while, they were getting late for something and had to leave the hotel. Lochan told her hubby to take the car out and she would join him in few minutes.</em></h3>
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<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What’s wrong with you Aryan? Even in my dreams, I’d never thought I would see you someday in this kind of situation. Why did you ruin your career?</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Without any hesitation, I asked – “what did I lose Lochan?”</em></h3>
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<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I am completely satisfied with my job and enjoying my work. What kind of work is it? Did you waste so many years for this? I don’t think you’re on the right track!</em></h3>
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<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All of a sudden, inexplicably, one of the managers interrupted the conversation and said - Mr. Aryan, we are getting delayed for the meeting in the Oberoi.</em></h3>
<h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Two minutes Henry I said and I took a break from Lochan and told I would be back in few minutes.</em></h3>
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<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hi Madam, are you Ms. Lochan? Henry asked.</em></h3>
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<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes. How do you know my name? Everyone knows you here in the entire hotel Madam.</em></h3>
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<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Before I came, Lochan had left; I guess she did not want to make a fool out of herself.</em></h3>
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Vishalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879885300359373976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920218924730250729.post-31879315482188754332017-03-28T04:29:00.001-07:002017-04-04T06:51:32.736-07:00How An Engineer From Bangalore Solved A Water Crisis In His Village In 24 Hours? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://vishalaryan.blogspot.in/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #878787;">Water
Crisis</span></a> is one of the major household problems in the Indian villages.
Unfortunately, even the metropolitan cities now end up with such issues.
However, the question is who is taking the first step in eradicating such never
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There is a man from Bangalore who
solved a major water crisis in his village which was burdening the locals from
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Meet Vishnuvardhan from Bangalore,
a Chatbot Developer who took a bold initiative to eradicate the water crisis
from his village - Muddalapuram, Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh.</div>
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Armed with a PG degree in Computer
Science from NIT Surathkal, Vishnu is an R&D member working in a Start-up
at Bangalore. Hailing from a conservative family with traditional values, he
always had an urge to create some value to the society. </div>
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September 2016, the village - Muddalapuram, Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh
was facing a drought and major water crisis. Vishnu’s hometown was no less when
it comes to agricultural problems. The local villagers would travel on wheels
to the nearby towns to borrow water and this process has been continued from a
long period of time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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authorities, they turned deaf to his plea. He was left with two options, leave
his village and head back to his work or take up the issue seriously.</div>
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water crisis in the village, Mr. Vishnu dropped a mail to the ‘Ministry of
Drinking Water and Sanitation’ after coming to about the issue through his
mother and he also added few officials in the list </span>headed back to his
work hoping the Government would solve the Water Crisis in his village. </div>
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When Vishnu reached Bangalore in
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The investigating officials tried
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spread to the central government, they had to replace with a fully functioned
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While it has become a fashion for
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<b>Written By</b> <b>Vishal Aryan
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Vishalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879885300359373976noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920218924730250729.post-76886243701236188922016-11-24T08:26:00.001-08:002016-11-24T09:50:02.285-08:00A Common Man's Take On Demonetization and His Opinion On The Opposition's Drama - True Incident. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today while I was sipping a hot cup of tea in Indiranagar, Bangalore. I just asked a question to the Shopkeeper about his opinion on the Upcoming Bandh which is on Nov 28th and also as a Common man, what's his take on AAP, Cong and few other politicians like Mamata and few more morons.</div>
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"These Bastards have looted the country in the past. And now they are just fearing to accept the fact that, they are going to get screwed due to the <a href="http://vishalaryan.blogspot.in/">demonetisation</a> rules. </div>
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Yes there are few difficulties, however it's not like we are on the verge of begging. When someone is fighting for a good cause. It's better to support".</div>
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What surprised me was, a guy who wasn't highly educated had this kind of understanding and knowledge. </div>
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- Vishal Aryan Komara. </div>
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Vishalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879885300359373976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4920218924730250729.post-91293308412195073732016-11-10T12:08:00.003-08:002016-11-10T12:14:00.943-08:00True Story On Corruption Explained By Narendra Modi In The Vigilance Awareness Programme. Must Read!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As it sounds, the very first step is to develop the right communication plan with the industry related to your line of business. A new organization should select an advertising campaign which can target the small businesses in the beginning and look for connections which can match their requirements. For Example – If you are targeting to sell a Product or Software which is related to the associate level, selecting the small scale organizations with an Associate level title would be a good start. Grouping according to that will help you leverage your business.</div>
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We live during a time where innovation runs verging on each
part of our overbooked plans. Today, the majority of our activities, pastimes
and even free thought originates from what we read or see on the web, or which
applications stopping up our now restricted 16 GB memory space, can offer us.
These give us the most straightforward medium to speak with kindred people,
even robots (a valid example Siri and Cortana) and tends to topography, since
you can essentially be confronting your sister living abroad investing hours
'hanging out' like you would in your room at home. With all the up and coming
mechanical headways and improvements in the field of Artificial Intelligence,
our brains are persistent to make more for us, offering us most extreme solace
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What's more, that is the place Google's new application
'Google Allo' comes in. It has every one of the oldies in the square sitting at
the edge of their seats, since it is new and easy to understand feature will
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While <a href="http://vishalaryan.blogspot.in/">Whatsapp</a>
commands the universe of <a href="http://vishalaryan.blogspot.in/">Android</a>
and iOS informing alike, and has a client base of a populace of a couple of
expansive nations consolidated, Allo may very well be en route to take its
spotlight. In spite of the fact that Whatsapp, with Facebook Messenger and
iMessage hot on its heels offers a plenty of very propelled highlights that is
unquestionably making life less demanding for the cell phone client group, Allo
improves and presents a cluster of 'keen capacities', where it can basically go
about as your own virtual colleague, that will give it its edge. </div>
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Despite the fact that Whatsapp followers may stand up
against the new application, which is the second part to Google's new informing
arrangement with Duo, and remain wildly faithful to the Facebook-gained
application, here's an examination between the two conveying light to the
likelihood that Google Allo may soon be "besting" (all jokes
planned), Whatsapp. </div>
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The motivation behind why this application resemble having
your very own right hand is on the grounds that it is one, though virtual
obviously. In spite of the fact that Whatsapp has interesting components of
sending over an area, document, picture, sound recording etc these are all
spared records that are being shared by means of the application, which makes
correspondence so much closer. Be that as it may, where Allo varies is that you
could ponder about the travel time to a specific spot, or the best accessible
flights to a specific goal or rebates on inns and you should simply sort in
@google took after your inquiry or request. Before you know it, it will furnish
you with every one of the subtle elements, joined by a progression of pictures
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You could make supper arrangements or raving about the hot
new tune to individuals on WhatsApp – every time you wish to share and trade
data - you need to close WhatsApp (or run it out of sight, in the event that it
suits your extravagant) and get to a nourishment/music application to duplicate
the concerned connections/records to send in the talk. With Google Allo, you
can simply sort @google and get some information about forthcoming eateries or
the specific melody amidst the visit and it will give you the connections to both
in the talk so it can be seen and imparted to your contact at your tact. So
it's sparing the client the inconvenience of briefly shutting the talk to
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The application can give programmed reactions to messages
for the benefit of the client. It does this through a product that contains
machine-learning innovation, which shows signs of improvement at getting the
client's most oftentimes utilized reactions with expanded use of the
application. For example in the event that somebody sends you a 'How are you?',
the application will offer you the programmed reaction of 'Good, you should'
that you can send over. It might appear to be indifferent at first yet it
develops with more noteworthy utilize and is certainly advantageous for the
individuals who are on the run and are excessively caught up with, making it
impossible to sort out a reaction. </div>
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application, making it feasible for it to perceive a got picture and propose a
programmed reaction. For instance, in the event that somebody sends you a photo
of dusk, it will propose "lovely" or "goodness" as a
reaction, contingent upon your most extreme use of either, from which you can
pick the more material one and send it over. </div>
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While both Whatsapp and Allo offer end to end encryption for
talks, the last considers 'specific end to end encryption', which implies that
you can choose the reach you need to visit with in disguise mode, through its
'In secret Chat' alternative. Alongside this, the visit history will vanish
after you have completed the discussion, contingent upon the close time frame
you have set. On the off chance that you have exchanged off your termination
period, the talks won't vanish. </div>
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Google Allo permits you to design your content and send
crosswise over bigger and littler text dimensions of instant messages,
permitting you to increment or lessening the content size by sliding the send
secure and down individually, an element that Whatsapp does not permit. It
additionally has a more extensive exhibit of sticker-gathering and even permits
the client to write on pictures before sending it over. </div>
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Obviously, WhatsApp has been procured by <a href="http://vishalaryan.blogspot.in/">Facebook</a>, however Google Allo is an
immaculate Google creation. The aim behind not fusing highlights like direct
calling or video calls is to divert clients to other Google applications like
Duo and Hangouts. It has the force of the sworn-by 'google seek' both inside
and outside a talk box furthermore makes correspondence simpler and
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In spite of the fact that Whatsapp is the current undisputed
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While there truly is nobody most ideal route, here are five
useful tips about dispatching an online Blog and acquiring cash from one that I
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on a subject you are enthusiastic about. I realize that sounds horrendously
self-evident. In any case, numerous speakers stressed the significance of
picking a theme you can see yourself expounding on for quite a while, for a
considerable length of time to come. Most bloggers post no less than a few
times each week and numerous posts each day to consistently fabricate movement.
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One of the most ideal approaches to emerge from the masses and adapt a website
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</span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">Sharpen your photography and online networking
abilities. In the previous couple of years, blogging has turned into an
inexorably visual medium. Subsequently, visual social stages like Pinterest,
Instagram and Vine are directing people to sites. Accordingly, bloggers need to
learn and create solid photography, picture altering and online networking
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</span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">Get associated with different </span><a href="http://vishalaryan.blogspot.in/" style="text-indent: -18pt;">bloggers</a><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">. In spite of the fact, that
blogging can feel segregating, it doesn't need to be. Actually, the quantity of
bloggers who obviously knew each other at this occasion amazed me. So approaching
to make casual virtual unions with different bloggers with whom you can share
content, cross-advance and offer backing. This can demonstrate monetarily
advantageous for all included, and is a decent approach to battle the dejection
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</span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">Put resources into exceptional preparing. At the
current year's occasion, there were various sessions given to finding out about
numerous sorts of online networking locales. </span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">Like any calling and blogging is a calling,
it's basic to put resources into expert preparing to keep your aptitudes sharp
and present and in addition to find out about the most recent alternatives for
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Well, when you are truly interested on a particular subject
to work on, you don’t hesitate a second. However, it’s the skills which you
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It’s your mistake if you haven’t acted well on your
interests. Well, being precise, Passion
can definitely turn into a Successful Career if you start investing on skills
which is related or even slightly – related towards your interest. Surf the
net, do the research, DIY the methods. Start acquiring skills, master them and
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Once you have mastered the skills, you have crossed the half
– way to the finish line. You would be the right person to assess the market
and strategize in a way that, you can reach your relevant audience to hit the
Jackpot. Since you have in – depth knowledge
on the subject, you need not worry about the outcome. You could rather start trying
out your own methods to reach out to the right loaf. For example – If you are
running a Blog, Focus more on the ‘<a href="http://vishalaryan.blogspot.in/">User
– Friendly</a>’ content rather than the content what you like. Start writing <a href="http://vishalaryan.blogspot.in/" target="_blank">Content</a> which is true and can be helpful for your audience to solve or cure
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I strongly consider the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/vishalaryan.blogspot.in/?fref=ts" target="_blank">Common Man</a> as the main threat to our country over many atrocities occurring now and
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The common man can never be happy
or satisfied at the same time; they always have an issue with everything. It’s their
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They want the entire nation to function
properly, the government, the politicians, the film stars and sometime they
also tend to blame the so – called supreme who again is named different
according to one’s specifications. Okay let’s not discuss that at this point. </div>
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The irony with these people is -
they actually don’t bother to indulge themselves for the development of the
country. It’s highly absurd to witness such morons who can highlight their patriotism
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Maturity is when you try to represent
your country and make it proud by winning accolades. Not by focusing on the
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You’re here for a Purpose, start
working on that and try being the change. Stop being a loser by questioning every
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