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Illustration: Poulami Singha Roy Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! Anne Frank
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Let there be LOVE

PC: Google Several genocide massacres, looked upon by religious fundamentalists as Satan  worshipers, these people who are they? STOP. today history repeats itself with millions of innocent trapped in the modern land of ancient Mesopotamia STOP Oh let there be love in these crying times, for bellowing in agony are the Yazidis, STOP children playing in the park amidst chaos for land possessions,  naive  and unaware of their actions. STOP What did they do? Born on the other side, the strike of those shrewd, nasty gunmen for the possession of the ‘open air prison’ STOP Brutal coercion from the subjugated holocaust survivors, today choose the brain of the ram STOP Oh let there be love in these crying times for bellowing in agony are the Palestinians, squeezed like ants from their own kind STOP Women, children, every hour, every day, unsafe in a nation of lecherous hungry  beasts ...

A Jump in Euphoria

PC- Google Act like a child, believe in magic and walk like a court jester if you want, you know just to funk things up. When you do these things life would present you with surprises. And ta-dddd-aaa you’ll become a wizard. (P.S- if your really stuck up then, perhaps the wicked witch of the west) Warning: This is strictly imaginative, if you can't imagine yourself to be a wizard/witch, that's alright; just go watch Harry Potter :p. A Jump in the puddle and that's all it takes, to see some bubbles  and the noise it makes; Splash splash splash there's water all around the joy of rain or all that's cool, smell in the freshness of the wet mud and act like a fool A jump in the puddle is all it takes; to make you a child in wondrous lakes
“Your life right now is a reflection of your past thoughts. That includes all the great things, and all the things you consider not so great. Since you attract to you what you think about most, it is easy to see what your dominant thoughts have been on every subject of your life, because that is what you have experienced. Until now!”  ―  Rhonda Byrne ,  The Secret This video is worth watching. It's one of my favorites and I think its best if others see it and decide for themselves if they learnt something from it.  Although in my opinion you definitely will ;). Its just a matter of opening your mind to different possibilities. 

Women's day....is it?

Now see I can come up with a million reasons about why being a woman isn’t that cool; one of them being- getting your monthly menses, the others ranging from safety issues to conforming to social standards of feminism that basically dictates everything you do, like; You should know how to cook, You shouldn’t sit or walk like a guy You shouldn’t wear this and venture outside inviting guys to attack you (as if fully clothed women don’t get attacked), You shouldn’t argue much and question everything, Don’t be so carefree all the time and think only about yourself, You should call up your in laws every now and then, You should learn how to adjust otherwise you might have problems in your marriage, You shouldn’t be that adventurous and travel anywhere you want, You should marry at the right age and have children before it’s too late (aaahhhh like  India needs more children. Actually if we choose to not have children we could be doing huge favo...

Can we call ourselves educated?

Article 32 of the UNCRC (United nations convention of rights of children) talks about abolition of child labor. Children out of school also come under the category of child labor since the basic right of a child means his/her right to be educated. There are so many of us who unknowingly contribute to child labor without realizing the consequences it could have on a child's future. This reality is all around us and I'am amazed at the blatant way in which we ignore it particularly when we see children being employed as domestic workers or children  working in dhabas, restaurants, road side shops. During my field work experience, in Bangalore I came across a case, wherein a young girl was hired as a maid in one of the houses in BTM layout from an agency which was dealing in giving employment to domestic workers. This little girl who was about 13 years old had eloped from her village in Andhra Pradesh and was later taken in by traffickers who were majorly dealing with 'selli...

Which Mask?

Here’s our Indian Society, PC: Me of course :P so many faces, mostly masqueraded it’s all just a game of thrones where power manages to succeed squashing those who challenge the ‘accepted’ ways of rule, This power comes in many forms; viewing people in bondage, enslaved by the hegemony of caste, class gender and money We all are an accomplice to this injustice in subtle or blatant mannerisms, subjecting our prejudices against those we consider weak,                                        So it’s time for you to look carefully, In this game of power which Face belongs to you?