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"Is it safe for women in India?" I have been asked this question several times outside India . Men, women, girls and boys all have asked me while in a random conversation about my country, India. Infact, few Indians living outside feel the same. Yes, it is a hurting question to hear. Nevertheless, it is concerning at the same time. Not that I am unaware of the fact. I have been through those

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It's now a year since I moved out of India. For the past few months, I have been taking the bus-ride for my daily office journey. Each day I take the same bus and quietly grab the same window seat with a rather gloomy facial expression of travelling lonely. So many passengers board and leave at their destinations. There has rarely been any conversation with my co-passengers. Some of them are

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Below is the complex sentence that fetched Marcel Fernandes Filho the Guinness World Record of "Fastest touch-screen text message record". His record time was 18.19 seconds. "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human." (This statement was copied from the Guinness World Records

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Our Indian society, its cultural norms and attitude per say has always reflected the patriarchal thought process. Sometimes I think it is a sheer oxymoron that we personify the Indian nation as a female while the societal hierarchy system is predominantly male. However, I would definitely agree with current chorus that the Indian society imbalance is changing. But the larger question is, has

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Parenting is the art of understanding unspoken words. This is the basic learning I have got seeing the newly crowned parents in my family and friend's circle. There is so much that babies say through their actions to communicate. All that parents wish is the ability to decipher that communication and keep their babies happy. In the process of early stage nurturing, dresses and diaper play an

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I live with three generations of mothers – my grandma, my mother and my sisters. Each of them have their nuances of nurturing their baby. So, when I thought to write for “Blog for Pampers #SoftestForBabySkin” I decided to Google all three of them. The answers were many. However, I decided to consolidate and present to you top five of my learnings on protecting the soft skin of a baby.

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Every time there is a festive season around the corner, we find the corporate world vying to increase sales. One effective way has been television (TV) advertisements (ads) for them. Cometh the festivals, cometh the emotional ads. This strategy has certainly worked for years now. With our generation getting closer in the virtual network and apart in the real world, has given advertising

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When I participated in the Tornado Giveaway II this August, organized by The Book Club, it was all for the excitement. It was via a fellow blogger, Shantala @ Shanaya Tales that I got to know about this Giveaway. I was certain it would be a mammoth experience to learn about over 900 books from 80 authors. The process was simple. Follow the authors, tweet about their books and register in the

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In life, there is always a cycle of chain reactions. I have been a believer of this since childhood. I have guarded my "karma" accordingly.  If we try to understand this in simpler terms. We learnt alphabets which helped us pronounce words. This allowed us to construct sentences. Eventually we were able to read and communicate with others effectively. So the "karma" of learning alphabets

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This post has been published by me as a part of Blog-a-Ton 56; the fifty-sixth edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. During her last rites, everyone remembered her as a jolly soul. Even at the age of 40, she was skittish like a teenager. God knows, she had a contagious smile, spreading the joy with all. When they read her diary later, they got to

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TWEET this! CORE IDEA - Shree Vinayak Chathurthi STYLE - Doodle Art MEDIUM - Pencil, Pen and Ink BRANDS - -o Sakura PIGMA MICRON (01,03,05 - Archival Ink) -o Studio Art Mechanical Pencil Doodling is often referred as scribbled drawings. This usually involves drawings that we do while absent minded. Newspaper sideline or corners, last pages of our notebooks or those side-spaces of text

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TWEET this! CORE IDEA - Day-to-day office events and items STYLE - Doodle Art MEDIUM - Pencil, Pen and Ink BRANDS - -o Sakura PIGMA MICRON (01,03,05 - Archival Ink) -o Studio Art Mechanical Pencil Doodling is often referred as scribbled drawings. This usually involves drawings that we do while absent minded. Newspaper sideline or corners, last pages of our notebooks or those side-spaces

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This post has won the Blogadda WOW badge. I was sitting at the wobbly table of the coffee shop. That is my favourite spot which no one prefers. In the midst of the fresh coffee aroma, it began to drizzle. Somebody above, behind the dark clouds was directing the perfect setting for my date. After a long time I was dating myself. And with the ambience it became an extraordinary moment for

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TWEET this! CORE IDEA - Cuttack City (Odisha, India) STYLE - Doodle Art MEDIUM - Pencil, Pen and Ink BRANDS - -o Sakura PIGMA MICRON (01,03,05 - Archival Ink) -o Studio Art Mechanical Pencil Doodling is often referred as scribbled drawings. This usually involves drawings that we do while absent minded. Newspaper sideline or corners, last pages of our notebooks or those side-spaces of

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“I would never forgive her for what she did.” Rishi kept murmuring to himself while doing his homework. Curious, his mother asked, “Whom would you not forgive?” Rishi shouted in an angry tone, “Mishka” “But why? She is such a sweet girl.” his mother replied. “No Maa. She is not. She is selfish.” Rishi replied, adamantly. “What happened, Rishi? Tell me.” “Maa, I asked Mishka to help me during

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  I am a mobile games fanatic. I have thoroughly engrossed myself at every point with some game or the other. It has become a bedtime ritual for many years now. Starting from the Tetris and snake games on the Symbian operating system to Angry Birds, Temple Run, Subway Surfer, Candy Crush Saga, or Farm Heroes Saga on the Android operating system. These games happened to help me get peace

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  The medical reports of his ailing mother were delivered. When he read through, he had a smile on his face. Her body was receiving the new medication pretty well. They both were happy after a long time. He rushed outside. He returned with a bouquet of white lilies and wished his mother, “Happy Mother’s Day”. Featured in Wordweavers 55 Fiction 2015 Contest's Shortlist Image Credits -

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This post has won the Blogadda WOW badge.   They got the news they had been waiting for so long. She was pregnant after twelve years of their wedding. They had been to the doctor this morning for her first ultrasound.However blurred, he cannot get the image of their baby, out of his head. He continues to look at the scan for hours. This post is a part of Write Over the Weekend, an

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  Recently, Dutee Chand, an extraordinary sprinter from India, was returned her right to participate in national and international sprint competitions under the female category. Dutee Chand, who identifies herself with the female gender since birth has a condition called hyperandrogenism. This produces high amount of testosterone in her body and led to her ban on participating under the

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(Today this post culminates the short story Paris. Hope you enjoy reading it.) For a recap you may read Paris (Part 1) | Paris (Part 2) | Paris (Part 3) | Paris (Part 4). He had given Suresh the landline number of the nearby grocery shop to contact him. Every other day he inquires the shop owner. It is now over two weeks and Suresh has not called. Krishna starts to worry. The fear of missing

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(I will be sharing this story in 5 parts, at the most. Each week, one part will be released taking the story forward. Hope you enjoy reading this one. For a recap you may read Paris (Part 1) | Paris (Part 2) | Paris (Part 3) . “Then you tell them that you have one request to make.”, Suresh adds “One request?”, asks Krishna “Yes. You will request Manohar Ji to give you 2 lakhs.”, says

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(I will be sharing this story in 5 parts, at the most. Each week, one part will be released taking the story forward. Hope you enjoy reading this one.) For a recap you may read Paris (Part 1) | Paris (Part 2) . In the next three days Krishna manages to find the travel agent's address with some help and visits him. It is located in a residential area with very few houses. Most of them are

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(I will be sharing this story in 5 parts, at the most. Each week, one part will be released taking the story forward. Hope you enjoy reading this one.) For a recap you may read Paris (Part 1).                                                      Krishna leaves

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(I will be sharing this story in 5 parts, at the most. Each week, one part will be released taking the story forward. Hope you enjoy reading this one.) “Krishna! Krishna!”, she calls him. “Yes, Madam”, he hurriedly comes to her, adjusting his uniform over his frail body. “Take it. This is for you”, she says and hands him a gift which she had secretly bought for him. “What is it, Maya? What

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Quite often I tend to attach emotional value to an object. So, there are many such objects that I have kept over the years, carefully. I think I have got this habit from my father. I know he still has a pair of clay tribal figurines, he had bought when he was in third standard. As for me, I have a bag full of letters, greeting cards, postcards that I had exchanged with my school friends on

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