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© Velchitra Naathan When god created genders, seldom he knew that human beings would make this the very foundation of various theories, ideologies and doctrines. The stronger sex, i.e., males, would exert its authority on the fairer sex, i.e., females, and would even produce biological evidences to assert that it is naturally superior. The women would rather reluctantly give in to the say of

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Also published on Women's Web at: A House with a Courtyard © myoki.in When home is not a place but a family, house is also not just brick-and-mortar but another member of it. Where the drawing and the dining rooms were the elderlies, who took care of all the guests and comforted them with love and warmth, the bedroom was the love which locked plenty of secrets inside. It was like a

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My rating: ●●●●○ Sudha Murty Three Thousand Stitches India: Penguin, 2017 179 pp; INR 250 ISBN: 9780143440055    Summary: Well, I am back at this game and I confess I truly missed it. I have been so busy going with the flow that I have actually forgotten how much efforts it takes to travel upstream. This is my first book review in 2019 and I swear I shall continue playing

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We have been programmed to think. Being humans, this is something which comes naturally to us. What comes rather unnaturally is the habit of over-thinking. While we keep chewing the cud at times, we begin to live in a virtual world, full of hypothetical circumstances and non-existent situations. What could have been a really simple situation is often made complicated by the thoughts infected

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I see myself as an imperfect human being, who is trying too hard to make things better for herself, for her family and for the world she lives in. As I report to work on the last working day of 2018, I get myself prepared to strike off some of the resolutions made sitting on this desk last year and carrying over a few. Just a quick look at this chapter of my life story and I feel glad to

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My rating: ●●●●○ Robin Sharma  The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari  India: Jaico; 1999 208 pp; INR 199 ISBN: 9780062515674 Summary: If self-help is your favourite genre, then this book would be an additional dish of ‘paneer’ for you with almost the same taste as that of all its comrades. However, if this is your first tryst with it, then I must applaud you for your

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This day will always be special to me and to everyone I hold close, for it is your birthday today! I don’t know where and how time flies, but here we are, all grown up, mature and all the bullcrap they would love to call us. On the flipside, we are still the li'l cubs who love to curl up in our mother’s lap, telling her all our problems and feeling light. Since the time I opened my eyes

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There’s some effort it demands – self-love is never easy. There she goes, loving herself to perfection. There’s so much to look after, after all. The hair, the skin, the teeth, the nails… the list never ends. If done continually, self-love seeps into one’s lifestyle to become a habit and there you go, practicing this as a mundane task to the extent that you hate any aberrations from what you

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I will pass through this, O Lord,&nbsp; I will play along all through. I will stay strong and smile, Never surrender, repent or rue. I will pass through this, O Lord, For I look forward to what this will lead to. I will stand through the storm, For I know there’s a lot still left to do. I will pass through this, O Lord, For I trust in your game plan. I will stay determined and

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They say everything goes redundant with time, but the flavor of the past remains as classic as that of a vintage wine. The generation which usually bears the brunt of the passing time is most often the one which has seen the old and the new enough to be able to compare. Back in time, unlike the twenty first century, a woman would grow manifolds having passed any age milestone. The wisdom

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Also published on Women's Web at:&nbsp;When The Evenings Are Lost On Our Road to Success! Talk about the era of empowerment, women standing shoulder-to-shoulder with men in every sphere possible and the increasing competition in the corporate environment. The will to succeed, earn more and lead a comfortable life ‘in the future’ has left little in hand for the time called ‘now’ and the

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They say that your happiness knows no bounds when your home is not a place, but a person. How true; one could almost feel her adrenaline gushing at a mere sight of him. Their love story was no ordinary, for he defined love for her and he hardly was friends with words. &nbsp;She didn’t know if love ever existed in words; for her, it was a feeling, euphoria, a lot of warmth and him. Yeah,

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This is how it goes: there’s a Plan A and a backup Plan B and, then, God would tear your script apart and instead handover His plan to you, the best that could ever be. We set out from home to catch an early morning flight to Vizag and, alas, could only manage to bid it adieu from the shore.&nbsp; This is how our next, one-stop flight landed us in Bhubaneswar, steering our journey to a land

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The windows had been set open. After all, he could be here any moment. Other days might not have had that effect on her, but it was just a different day. Maybe it had set differently or progressed so, she was able to feel each moment passing by today. The ticking of clock was giving wings to the butterflies in her stomach. She was actually looking forward to her husband coming back from work

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I remember mine didn't say a word when the world questioned me, but lost his wits when I came home late, He forgot to have me learn how to cook, but appreciated every amoeba-shaped chapati I cooked, He never forced me to live by his dreams, but I always found him backing me for mine, He never shed a tear when my mom cried every day days before I wed, But couldn't help take his handkerchief

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My rating: ●●●●○ Robin Sharma&nbsp; The Greatness Guide&nbsp; India: Jaico; 2006 240 pp; INR 225 ISBN: 9788179925768 Summary: All the great men who talked, talked philosophy. The best thing about this genre of books is that it comes handy any time in life and one could start reading it from anywhere only to become wiser and more practical. The Greatness Guide not only inspires

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This is the question to all the new age women, who love putting themselves into various shoes in an attempt to prove them as independent – why do you no longer ask? There were and there are strong pillars of a house existing right there; yet, why do you no longer register their presence? You have the power and the ability and, then, there comes sharing not only responsibilities but also

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No matter where you go, there you are! - Confucius&nbsp;&nbsp; Another first this year: a road trip down the Yamuna Expressway to explore a city they all lovingly call God’s birthplace – Mathura/Vrindavan! This was one plan which was made impromptu and, therefore, all the fun it contained came as a pleasant surprise. Having set out at around 7:30 in the morning in our serviced Enfields, we

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There’s been a lot of air around Gurmehar Kaur, her gimmick and an easy exploitation of social media by all the celebrities who thought they know it better. While there have emerged a lot of her supporters, there have also shown up a lot more opponents of the thought put forward by this student of LSR. The supporters have been calling names to the opponents, trying to mark their presence in the

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My rating: ●●●●○ Luke Coutinho and Shilpa Shetty Kundra&nbsp; The Great Indian Diet: Busting the Big FAT Myth&nbsp; India: Ebury, Penguin Books India; 2015 288 pp.; INR 299 ISBN: 9788184007480 Summary: A recent surge in the number of books being published on health, fitness and diet proves that this trend is here to stay and flourish. However, there has been a serious confusion

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It’s heartwarming to see people who we follow speak, pouring their brains out on things that actually&nbsp;matter to us or to the world. Does this change the situation in any manner? No. Yet, we feel that we&nbsp;have been pacified now that we know how that super-human feels. Shahrukh Khan recently came out of the closet speaking how he feels about the Indian media being tad&nbsp;too

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