“The human mind has a primitive ego defence mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle, its called DENIAL”….. DAN BROWN in Inferno. As the saying goes …. The Ostrich instinctively buries its head in the sand hoping that the trouble in the form of a pack …
LIFE IN AN AQUARIUM…. Are we stuck in a TIME LOOP
Looking at the small aquarium sitting in my office, I often wonder about the life of the teeny weeny fish who day and night have to live through claustrophobia. I wish I could scan their emotions and understand their mental status. Remember 1993, Bill Murray movie, ‘Ground Hog Day?. The Protagonist falls into the …
VIRTUAL RELATIONSHIPS…. A boon or a curse.
A relationship where people are not physically present but communicate exclusively via email, texting, or another electronic communication device is called a Virtual Relationship. In a fast-moving world with an intricate brainy system where everything is available, but there is a shortage of time, life becomes fast-tracked and virtual. “PEN- FRIEND”….. remember this? During …
MILKING A RELATIONSHIP…..How much?
How much burden can a relationship or a friendship have? Is a relationship like milking a cow the last ounce of your desire? Or is it just a lemon that you squeeze until you get the last drop of the juice? Here we are talking about the individual capacity for sustenance. Just …
The ordeal of getting married…. PRESSURE COOKER.
Everyone has a point of view….There is no age for marriage… It is your life after all …..single doesn’t mean sad. “Gupta jee how old is your son?” Sharma jee asked my father. “He is twenty-four”. “Are you not thinking of his marriage?” Sharma jee asked with a legitimate concern. My father …
Want & Need – The paradox
They say that “to be happy in life; you must learn the difference between what you WANT and what you NEED.’’ WANT is to have a desire or wish for something. NEED is the urge to have something. . . to have it; to be obliged to. NEED expresses necessity, or something lacking. Two friends …
Sexuality & Love Making – The Enigma
God bestowed upon the LIVING [animal] WORLD three basic instincts – FOOD, for survival- SHELTER, for protection, and SEX, for procreation. The animals imbibed their instincts in a better way by performing them unrestrained and uncontrolled. Have you ever seen an animal hiding to accomplish sex? NO! They perform in herds, in front of their …
THE NEO-WORLD OF ‘DISTANCING’ . . . NO Handshake; NO Hug
Who would have thought that one day we will be steered into a world of Social distancing? A society that seems to be relatively unknown and uncanny. ‘Non Touching’ will become a way of life; Handshake and Hug will become a thing of the past inscribed in the National Archives Journals. We will narrate …
A MELODIOUS SYMPHONY…the father daughter relationship.
“I am a PRINCESS not because I have a PRINCE, but because my Father is a KING.” . . . A Daughter “I am softer. I feel more concerned about the world because my daughter grew up in it. I have concerns about her safety, which is not something I had to think about before.” …
Those scars, etch marks and impressions… The fantastic power of words.
The Chicxulub crater, in Yucatan Mexico, was caused by the impact of a giant Meteor, scarring the Earth’s face many years ago. An ASTEROID impacted our planet some 66 million years ago, and the scar was so enormous that there was mass extinction, and Dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the Earth. SMALLPOX. …