Lifebites...

Today morning, I was sharing an experience with an old school friend about a very dear friend’s last day in office. I was saying how I sang the same song for her which I had sang in our farewell at school. He said he does not remember that particular incidence so clearly. And suddenly we realized that it has been 10 years since we passed school. Ten years ago, this day I was appearing my ICSE board exams in class X. The one exam which would decide my fate. Make or break my future. I was a very serious studious student, with my head down in the books always; at least for the whole academic year of 2004-05, I was damned scared about these exams. Anyone would be. All of us had only one thing in our minds, study, study and study. For any tenth class student, it is a do or die situation. Since I was good in academics, I had all the highest bar of expectations set for me. I used to be very nauseous in the mornings of the days of examination as my mom would try to shove food in my mouth whi...

International Women’s Day stands for the equality of women in a male dominated society. This day is about the empowerment of women, the moment to stand up as an equal, if not the stronger sex in the society. As far as I am concerned, women are far stronger than men will ever be. They do not require any special notification from the society to remind them that they are strong and powerful. I would rather say this day is like a notification to remind the men of the society that they are not all powerful as they assume themselves to be. They are in fact no one and would be no where without the women in their lives. This is not something I am saying, science, facts and great wise men say so. A woman is not equal to a man. She is much more than him in every possible way. God bestowed her with the power to create new life, for crying out loud. Without women, in the world, how will human race survive?  If she can nurture a new life for ten months and then undergo the most unbearable...

With the Festival of Colors smiling at us, I wonder a simple thing, how can you define colors? How do these different shades and binges give different meaning to our lives altogether? How do you explain them to a person who cannot see them? Light is easier to explain. You say bright spot of light and person without sight will at least have an idea that you are referring to something just opposite to what he sees every time he opens his eyes. But the different shades of a rainbow are a bit difficult to explain in words, I guess. Dictionary meaning being, color is the visual perceptual property  corresponding in humans to the categories called red, blue, yellow, and others. Color derives from the spectrum of light (distribution of light power versus wavelength) interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors. But to me, Colors are different shades of light displaying different moods. For example, you are happy and joll...