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On travel…!   I boarded bus and was searching for window seat..I was travelling from Bangalore to Salem. It takes minimum 3 to 4 hrs to reach Salem by bus. With 2 mins of search, I took a seat next to a lady, looks in her age of 25 to 28. Seated myself, put my bag next to me and was trying to settle down...She was looking outside window and drown deep into her thoughts.. the conductor asked for ticket money, there she turned and looked at driver..  I was running out of change for 2 rupees.. the conductor gave 5 rupees to me and asked us to share it on our own. Two strangers , for 2 rupees , there comes kindness. She said, that’s fine keep it.. I was giving a complete Colgate smile as though I won lottery ticket. Silly me…   She smiled and turned back and started looking at the window..   I started feeling bored , hence I initiated the conversation.  Me: What is your name?  She: She is Akila, from Tirunelveli. She is going to Salem and from there she...

Marriage,the system Marriages are made in heaven! Indeed….. Right!!  Today’s blog is inspired  on the reviews from my last blog . ..:-) Whenever we take the Marriage topic, the most conversation circles around to family, responsibilities and women empowerment!! Interesting, what Marriage has to do with women empowerment? Question that pops out immediately to my mind is that, is Marriage system making women weaker??  Or the expectation out of women in married life is so complicated that makes her weaker? Well, the expectations I could think of: Changing from carefree girl to responsible Basic cooking skills and change the taste buds.. Lifestyle. Voice out but not so loud.. Etc Well, I say all these there are few who raises out saying , Saritha, you have not upgraded yourself.. we are 90 kids. .Not 80 Kids.. the generation changed.. But the point is that , the 90k kids are guided by 80 kids. And 80 kids believes that making a family is in w...

  Well..Today, a tricky topic “ Equation that changes after Marriage…” Marriage is a system, that enables makes two individual to start a new family and  generation in a legal way. Uhmmm.. In all types of marriage, there is interesting equation change happens and  it is quite common, atleast as I far as I have observed in South Indian Marriages.. i.e equation of addressing each other..  After Marriage, Men status always goes one step higher than woman esp in the way they address each other in front of public. When a woman has to call her husband in public place, it has to come with a respect. He cannot be addressed by his name whereas  Man can address his woman by name and it is considered to be right.   Even if a woman address her man , the problem starts with Mother in law, relatives and her own family . But why it is not concern when woman is treated that way.... Is  it not they do not deserve respect in public place or  in the way of add...

 Qarib Qarib Singlle Movie Review Time: Qarib Qarib Singlle Accidently I happen to watch this movie.. Not now.. Almost two months back, but memories of the movie are still  same.. I cannot stop falling love with the character of Irrfan Khan.. or with himself.. What an actor.!! Incredible..  Lets go to plot line with no further deviation.. Jaya, a widow connects with Yogi over online dating app. On first meet, yogi does not impress Jaya much but he helps to get rid of a hacker. So, Jaya agrees to meet him on a second date. On the second date, Yogi reveals that, in past he had three girl friends. Eventhough, everyone is married and settled they miss him still.. He stress that point..So Jaya starts arguing on that and does not agree.. Curiosity builds relationship and curiosity comes out of interest.. That is key of the movie.. Her curiosity is to check, how can someone miss a loser poet , that too after break up when they moved on with the new life?   Like Aut...

  Today topic is on this Sound “ Walking on Dry leaves”. . here is my attempt…   Walking on leaves, while the crispy sounds could not break her silence…Her footsteps were crushing leaves and thinking what is next….? Hundred questions were running in her mind with a blank view.. Priya Ganeshan, aged 22 , reached Mumbai  to her friends’ house on search of a job. Her family needs an earning person. While on the conversation, her school friend asked her to come Mumbai and offered her accommodation till she gets a job.. That morning, Meenakshi Amma ,her friend’s mother told Priya, Do not think bad of what Jhavani appa told. He is telling for your own good...! Think of it and try to change your view.. Vishwanath Iyer,  aged  55, daily routine starts with Pooja for Krishna Idol .. Once he finishes pooja, he sits in the hall and switches on the TV. That day , as usual after a coffee, Jhanavi appas sat with a coffee and watching Baby doll song in TV..the song was ...

Online Meetings Inspired by work from home -official meetings, today blog is on Office meetings during Work From home. The most happening activity part of official hours are being part of meeting or conduct meetings.. Uhmmm.. Tired of asking, Am I audible, here I am .. !   First of all, why we have these meetings.. silly question!. Uhmmm.. ofcourse to update status   and get update from others!   Apart from status meeting, work from home introduce   lot of informal meetings which was easy to solve while   crossing the aisle for a coffee or to get water or while you stopby to say hi..   Meetings was always part of official hours.. but work from home meeting got in lot of fun with stress.. ! As the lockdown period lengthened, lifestyle also changed..There is no predefined timings for certain activities like breakfast , lunch or tea time, bathing etc.. in office, almost, everyone time falls in same schedule with few exception. Now, with work from home,...

 Becoming a Person of Influence! Brian Gregozeski , project director gifted me this book. When we completed the first phase of our project, he shared his appreciation through his collection of books.  When we been asked to pick,. I picked this one! I did not know why did I take this that time.. but it was much needed for me when I took over the role as people manager. Thank you, Brian for the book! To Lead a team, the most important aspect is, one should be able to influence positively and  gain the trust of team member. Today, blog is on the book “Becoming A person of Influence”. The book consists of Eric’s story, who had a complicated birth with physical disability. He is blessed with supportive parents. Mentoring, Motivating, Be a Model and Make him to reflect for others, is pretty challenging for special kids.. But this was quite easy for Eric parents as they were following the below principles. Integrity:   Being Honest in a humble & polite wa...

Bandish bandits!💞 The week end watch review. A Musical love story . .the music that connects love.! In the same genre, there are lot of cinemas made in kollywood, Bollywood etc.. One of my favorite film in that genre is “Sindhu Bhairavi”. An intense movie! Beautifully created characters JKB, Sindu and Bhairavi! Even a non-music person would fall in love with this film songs..  While I started remembering Sindu Bhairavi, my mind took a long deviation from today's blog. Well, today blog... Bandish bandits! One of Amazon prime series! After “4 more shots please” , this is second amazon series I have watched..   Atfirst, I had restriction to watch it , as the actors/actress were unknown to me expect Naseeruddin Shah . After a long procrastinate, in the idea of checking out first episode, I started.. but I did not realize when the 2 nd   episode started.. likewise 5 episodes completed… 5 more pending..   Nice time spend on the series… Yes, Nearly I cannot ...

Setback! Until we breathe and breath out for last, there is always a setback that keep challenging us! A challenge to discipline lifestyle… Today the blog is on the feeling “hopeless”… While writing this, even I felt the same, it is been 18 days.. I wanted to blog  for 30 days because someone said, “practice for 30 days, it becomes routine.. even when the moments to leave , it will not leave .like brushing, it becomes one of the activity” I picked up from there, committed myself a blog for 30 days.. but it is not that easy as I said to myself..  lot of self-motivation ! The words that needs to be win is “shall I skip” or  “what if I do not skip? It is challenge to keep up myself on the track and keep blogging… Blogging is simple task .. but to execute that itself I needed lot of self-motivation..Uhmm.. If life is like a  movie song, that would be nice, where someone feel hopeless and in one song, hero changes the entire situation and make moment colorful.. Nice.!...

  Ganesh Chaturthi My all-time believer. He looks so cute even though he has the head of elephant and body of human. It is quite unimaginable that a person with an elephant head. These illusions or imaginations are rooted so well that you cannot ignore to believe it. that’s beauty of god’s story! Today, the blog is on the celebration, I have seen and my perception towards to it.. When I was growing up, in my native, I have seen always ganesha fesitival as house festival. We have small puja with sundal, kokulakattai. But in Bangalore, Ganesha festival is not only house celebration, it is celebrated as public get together celebration like area/street/community/apartment wise celebration. It is one of the grand festivals in their calendar. As Ganesh festival is reaching nearly a month, the stalls of Ganapati idols will be seen in the roadsides. While crossing the road, it is absolute pleasure to see my favorite person in different forms and colors.. Sizes vary from xlarge to...

  Sacrifice   Truly a big word!  Google definition: The act of giving up something that you want to keep especially in order to get or do something else or to help someone. Yay. Correct definition! One takes choice to give up something to get something else. It is completely individual choice or sometimes situation. Situation is a big culprit or individual choice?? As soon as we hear this word Sacrifice, everyone remembers Mother. the great living god who is known for sacrificing or tailored to do sacrifice? Nature has given the ability for women to carry the child in her womb and makes her responsibility for the well bringing. Is it nature mistake that it gave women special abilities and got the right hormones to make her to feel responsibilities for the children? It is truly sacrifice or nature’s mistakes? Men and women, sacrifices their life’s desires equally in the complete life journey. Women are expected to move out of her birth house and expected to settle i...

Backstage:  A  place were most things happen to present a beautiful, colorful events to audience. There will be mixed sounds with different rhythm. I do not think anyone could understand the exact word from the sound. Still work keeps happening. Mixed emotions, excitement, nervous, tension .. the vibration of backstage would not be lesser than a wild thunder!   Jhanvi , biting her nails and looking herself in the mirror which is in front of her.. She looks absolute stunning. Golden saree, adding glow to the face. Kajal brightened her eyebrows. Jhumka, waving to the air that blowing towards with creak sound. Red bhindi, enhanced the beauty of complete face. Anklets were making sound as keeps small steps in the same place and bangles, dancing as per her heart beat.. Next is her performance. Her dance show before marriage. Not sure whether it would be the last performance for her.   While she left home, her mom was shouting at her, who will dance in front everyone? What...

Rewind! Rewind... Rewind... Umm... I do not want to do it until unless it is my favorite song! 💃So why to rewind?  Is it reshape it for better life? Or just go n come back again to have glimpse of it!   In given any moment of life, everyone would have felt that “I wish life had a rewind button”.😜 Most of us want to rewind to childhood or school days.  Not to reshape the moment! To live in those moments. The life of childhood, free from fear, no worries, no stress, no diet, play until you break yourself, sleep with no alarm and many more. Beyond all of this, always judged as cute, adorable. Pamper, Pampered...  Ask anything! Freedom to express.! Surprises, gifts and center of attraction …what else one need!  👼Uhmmm.. “I wish I had done something different” …Yup! True! … A line that been told many times in life or regretted for own action would want to go n back reshape or make it better .. Wishing to rewind to a particular moment to try a different re...

An alley! The dark down path that leads to the closed gate. Everyone told Pihu not to go over there. It is the passage way in-between the house of stranger.. Phiu, a two year old girl with dimple smile, curiosity filled eyes lives with her grandma, mother and father. One week back, her family shifted to this new house due to her father job transfer. She was missing her neighbor friends.. There were no kids to play in this new place. She has to spend most of the times with toys. She was bored. As we was walking around, she stopped by alley gate and tried to open it. Her mom warned not to go saying "there is a kidnapper, do not open the gate". Even though she was scared for the moment and her mind was filled with the alley. Next day when her mom was busy in kitchen, she opened the alley gate.. It was narrow passage that lead to another locked door which connects to backyard.  She stepped in the alley and walked in the lane for few times and looked up. There was waving han...

Justice! Today the topic is,   Justice! As soon as I heard the word, I remembered Karna! Most of us favorite character in Mahabharat! It is my version. Hence I request not to compare with the epic Mahabhart and the literature written by legends!😌 His birth was impulsive act by  princess Kunti! Surya’s Son. Born as prince , he did not get the right to live the life of prince! He was not mentored by Dhronacharya. Panchali insulted him in her suyamavar because of the caste he grow up..  His guru and cow herder gave a curse, that costed his life.. Kunti confessed the truth when the life of Pandavas was at risk.. It is hard to digest the fact that the mother who gave birth does not want accept and acknowledge him as her son! Injustice!!🙍 His life was tailored to face injustice !! What Karna did towards injustice is made him today also as Hero in Mahabharat and  equivalent to Arjuna!  He embraced all the injustices given to him. He has given his best to exce...

  The moment... Taking a bold step and coming out of the comfort zone is indeed a challenge. Why to come out of the comfort zone when monotonous is not bored and they are the best in what they do ! Well, today I am going to talk about the latest challenge I did by stepping out of comfort zone and attemptted something for the first time! I am not known person in stepping out of comfort zone. But miracle keeps happening! Yeah! Even, I did few things out of comfort zone.  Driving : When I was kid, I was not comfortable with the front seat of bus as I cannot see through fast moving vehicles. I have phobia towards fast moving things.. Get to feel nausea and that was the most scary thing to do! But over a period, by travelling through a lot by bus , got sort of adjusted to travel through vehicle.. but still I cannot see the vehicle movement in the place of driver. To overcome the fear, I  cultivated the habit of reading while travelling. However, things keep changing ...

 Inspiring Inspiration! Today it is about inspiring Inspiration i.e. anything/anyone has inspired and that inspiration taken a glory in life! Uhmm.. Challenging one for me!💪 Because I do not have specific person whom I follow or worship.. Ideally, so far  in my journey, I have had a lot of wow moments, when I hear something about which is really commendable. But did I do something to become one of them..Uhmm.. Not completely.! Perhaps that’s reason I have not seen myself as a person whom I want to see. Take one goal seriously follow it. Ummm…But I have wish , that I should become inspiration for someone and one should look up to me.. crazy right? Yes ..one of my dreams! 😜😜 Hehe. Well, today let me list the personalities for the reason I look up  and feel great about them.. Friends: All my friends  whom I  travelled with me so far in my life.! Really great inspiration..I am today because of you all! Thank you! One or other way you all inspired and ...

Conversation! What a topic! It just close to my heart. Because, I am bad at conversing.🙊 My conversation style includes most often, not using right words or without uttering a word or laugh at places (where I need to say few words and someone has to google why I laughed because I do not have answer. An immediate reaction.) Well, here is the couple of funny ways how I use to communicate: One Coin Laugh:  Indeed my laughing has got me a name as “one coin laugh”.   During those days, where the “one -rupee coin box” was in hi ghly use d and one day, my sister tried reaching me through  that.    Imme dia tely, she raised a complaint to my parents on our call. the complaint is that “this girl kept laughing for one complete coin time and I am not going to dial her..” Not only here, in many places I happen to laugh where I am not supposed too.                              ...

Secret🤐 A key to success or failure or a twist. A burden one willing to carry for a lifelong. A person tells to  a friend and ask to keep it as secret. Do you think it is secret? When it is known to more than one person, it is no more a secret! Right?👭 Today we are going to look at the secrets that one hold tight to themselves . Example, One would be starving to maintain zero figure and to the outside world, they would project them as foodie. Silly though! An embarrassing moment where one does not know to laugh at their mistakes! An illness they are suffering A talent etc.. Why one do that? Is it due inferiority or  terrified of society judgement? Or is it we hold so tight to please someone? It is debatable right!😵   If it is on someone’s character, how long one could fake it up? Well, readers!  Do  you hold a secret.If so, how long?💣 Do you consider sharing it with others? An unfolded secret has  the power to...

  Heartbeat!   The best natural sound ever !! In god’s creation , one of the magical sound anyone listened. Blog on a heartbeat! I am sure I cannot justify the magical creation by my words. However here is my take on Heartbeat”..   Sita’s heartbeat!!💖 A heartbeat was beating for 12 months.. Sita, the warrior , Princess heart was beating for Rama for 12 months ! Sita, had a magical birth story, daughter of earth brought up by King Janaka. King Janaka and his kingdom heart beat was doubled with joy and happiness. As the seasons passed, years passed, Sita reached the marriage aga.  In those days, “ swayamvara ” was practice where girls can choose bridegroom! Men had the liberty to attend as many as swayamvara as they want. Not ladies!! very partial! Huh..Lets not deviate from the topic!!🙇 Sita found Rama through swayamvara practice and married him! Her heart beat was filled with lot of desires and dreams! 💞 Due to Karma, Rama had to go for 14 years exile! S...