“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 …
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 …
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. …
CIRCLE OF LIFE. WHAT IS IT?
The circle of life starts with the first cry. That is what we always think and understand. Logically, life begins here, but where does it end? I mean the circle of life. Surely, Death is the culmination. But is the circle of life confined solely to the tortuosity of life and death? If not, …
Experimenting with the past…..deal it and heal it
Life was a roller coaster ride for him. He was excellent at making relationships. Following the ideology of — Trying Anything and Everything, to make life happy, he left no stone unturned. Life took turns and Destiny placed him on different pedestals, changing his perspective. New relationships were going through ups and downs, making …
Be a student always…
Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student…’George Lles’ My five-year-old daughter had a fight with her neighbour, over some trivial issue. “Papa, I will never talk to Pinki. She fought with me over a piece of cake.” She cried and hugged me. “OK, don’t talk to her”. I was hurt …