Are you making a difference?

I just realized that today is 26th January - REPUBLIC DAY by seeing the Google doodle. Happy republic day to everyone!!  Few years back I used to be so excited I would wake up in the morning and wait when the parade would start and never ever miss any part of the whole thing. Now,it just seems to be another holiday. Another day to sleep till late in the morning.

This was the day when all of our rights and duties in the constitution came into action. We love to emphasize on the 'rights part' ignore the duties. We actually don't care till something hampers our comfortable lives like the recent rape case. We just woke up one fine day and realized that this could happen to us or our close ones so we need to react. I didn't understand one thing in the whole scene that we have came across so many rape cases in our city but why haven't anyone stood up for those cases. If we would have woken up a bit early this might not have ever happened. I believe it's not just the matter of  justice but it's also time to completely eliminate such problems. Is it because of seeing women as a weaker section of the society? Or human beings have lost all the goodness in them? Or the lack of security for women?

I watched an amazing video video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID0kgP9IVhs)- a must watch. We need to change ourselves and then the world around us would automatically change. Republic day is not about waking up one morning and realizing your duties towards the country but it's all about what duty you can perform each day to make this world a better place to live...If you give a little love...you can get a little love of your own...!!

Journey back to the wonderland

I just came back after a long holiday in the God's own country. It was amazing to see the state  filled with greenery from the flight. It was exciting to go back to my motherland after five long years. I still felt it close to my heart. After living in a city for so long you would love anything green or fresh. I  used to stop the car and take the picture of any place which was greener than the previous one and people used to stare and ask each other what is she trying to click?

Beautiful scenery, admirable tea gardens, lovely houses were just a part of pictures and films for me but now I was living it all. I went and lived in my own home which had the view of the whole place from it's terrace. Looking at the stars and tracing out the constellation used to be my favorite time at night. Sometimes, you can understand the meaning of true art from nature. Beauty is not only in the eyes of the beholder but also in the hands of the creator.

Meeting all the relatives is the most terrifying thing for me. They just stare at you for sometime and then pretend to know you better than yourselves and then they tell you that they saw you as a kid and then they ask me to recognize them... Give them a small smile and escape!!. The second question came soon after the first one that what do I do? Immediately I said I'm doing journalism then I then realized that for them any girl being anything other than a nurse was equivalent to doing nothing. They replied, Oh!! It's a very difficult job! Why didn't you send her for nursing( they asked my parents)? I thought nothing has changed in the past five years neither the place and nor the people...!!