Tag: life
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From the beginning of time to timeless being- we seem to have come very far!
The BIG-BANG!!!! I am sure if you would have looked at the night sky with a sense of awe and curiosity, some of these questions have definitely crossed your mind at some point of time in your life- “What was there at the beginning of this universe? Was something there even before the big bang…
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Old by age, but young by willpower!
The story of an old lady entrepreneur The resolute old lady “entrepreneur” selling guavas On my afternoon stroll during lunch hours, I often see an old lady sitting under the hot sun in the open walkway area near the Patel Chowk metro station. In summers, she sold jaamun/Indian blackberry and today she was selling guavas/amrood/jaamphal.…
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Lessons from the mountain trek
Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to climb Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world, remarked that “It is not the mountain that we conquer, but ourselves”. Looking back at my trek experience at the Hampta pass (situated at a height of 14,100 ft above sea level), I cannot agree more with Mr. Hillary.…
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Expecting solution to common person’s problems from the elites- are you living in a fool’s errand?
The world as we see it is not the same for different classes of people. Every class of people, on the basis of income levels, level of education, access to money, resources and opportunity, and proximity of power, has different problems facing them. Although, the basic problems plaguing a particular society, of which every class…
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Everything in the name of honour- even death?
A historical perspective of Johar If you haven’t been totally cut-off from the history of India, then you must have heard about the practice of “Johar” or “जौहर प्रथा” practiced in the medieval times by women of some communities, particularly in the Mewar region (now a part of Rajasthan). It was a practice of self-immolation…
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Vanished in a second! When passion is more powerful than even life!
The Ferrari boys who gave up their life for racing Peter Collins- gone too soon…. Image courtesy: Museums Worcestershire Yes, that’s what it takes to take your life- just one second! Things move here and there, bizarre and unexpected, and wooooshhhh!!!! Before you could even think what happened, life’s gone out of the mortal body!…
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What is a human being, if not a living story?
Today marks the one year since the dastardly terrorist attack happened in Pahalgam last year, which took the lives of 26 people. Each of them left behind their family mourning for them, their lives completely shattered, and their story cut short by an untimely, unlucky and unfortunate incident. Every single individual had their own story…
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Where do you stand between creation, preservation and destruction?
Creation, preservation and then destruction is the law of the nature. All living beings take birth (creation), they live their life (preservation) and then they die (destruction). Even this universe including the galaxies, stars, planets etc. was created in the big bang about 13.8 billions years ago (creation phase is still ongoing), then there is…
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What is it in the fire?
One of the five constituents of nature In ancient Indian philosophy, the human body (or infact the nature itself) is considered as made up of five basic elements, viz.- Air (Vayu), Water (Apas), Earth (Pritvi), Fire (Agni) and Ether/space (Akash). Lest, we forget, repeat in that order- Air, Water, Earth, Fire and Ether! Not just…
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What if the life suddenly comes to a full stop?
Can you imagine in your wildest of dreams that if after one fine night you don’t wake up to see the upcoming day, how life would be like for your loved ones? And if that misfortune happens in reality, without any prior intimation, due to any reason, how will the world around you change in…
Anupam- The Dreamer 