The Public Diary

Just as I promised that I’ll down my guard of inhibitions in my next post, here I’m delivering that promise. If you remember I had slightly mentioned about a lifetime experience. My mom had asked me to not to make a hue and cry about it but I want to write down that experience to recollect each feeling if someday in future I wanted to, so here it goes. It was 22nd October 2018. I have disclosed n number of times that I travel daily by bus ­­– the safest mode. That day I was carrying a new purse to my office so I tried not to burden it with the weight of my elbows. So, I carefully placed it on my lap. I had a minor burn on my finger, so I applied an ointment on it. Urgh! The bus driver applied break and the sudden jerk wiped off a little bit of that ointment. Call it intuition or whatever, out of nowhere I was recapping the important phone numbers which one might need to remember in case of an emergency. I don’t know if it’s a ‘girl-thing’ to imagine oneself in difficult

I know I’m far behind the scheduled time that I had promised you guys. Reason?  Well, I’m feeling a little strange in this blogging world now. I guess this is the prime reason that they say, “Keep on writing every day, even if you don’t feel like.”  Otherwise, this gap plays out a spoilsport. This innocent and harmless looking gap. Mind you, it’s not really so.  Or I guess all of it is just in the mind. Honestly speaking, I am a bit perplexed not knowing where to start from. Inhibitions finding a place inside me, making me two minded if I should reveal some incidents that happened in these months or not. But I know, if not in this post, I surely will let the cat out of the bag in my next. And it is one hell of a lifetime experience. Anyway, getting back to ‘Gap’ and why I took this break. Actually, I had to appear in an examination which consisted of 4 exams back to back, with no days in between. Add to it the fact that they were optional. This word ‘option’ sounds

Hey guys! I'm here to tell you all that I will be on break for another month. So thought of announcing it officially this time rather than keeping you guys in tow (like every time I go into oblivion suddenly and then come back apologising for the same). Change is must, after all. See you guys after a month (October end or early November). Hopefully, my name won't get washed out of your devices in this period. I'll be back, for sure.

“Yeah, I know. That area is not that good, quite a ­­­­Muslim population resides there you know.” This is the general perception about the community that prevails amongst people. As much as I was taken aback by this statement, equally helpless I felt. I couldn’t argue with that person with whom I otherwise had limited, in fact, zero conversation. These are the sensitive issues that need to be addressed wisely. But it left me with a thought that why do we tend to generalize things. More importantly - generalize people – amidst the screams of uniqueness. No two people can be exactly the same in every aspect. Feeling disturbed on listening to such views, I went to another person with whom I could discuss the subject more openly. Who knew more such inputs were awaiting my query? Even that person went on to bash Muslims and their founder. He supported his point in a blunt manner. “Does Kuraan preach to be violent to protect the religion?” was one of the debatable points. I

I was reading an article in the newspaper. (An activity I used to happily indulge in but can’t nowadays; Life changes you in many ways). The article was about post offices and letters. While it was giving the age-old post offices their due share of appreciation, on the ending note it said that nowadays who will deliver a parcel half paid for…… It reminded me of a recent setback I had to face. I often indulge in artistic activities. So, the idea of sending a hand-made birthday postcard to a friend occurred to me. I asked my sibling to bring one postcard for me. She brought two. On asking the reason she told that a postcard costs 0.50 paisa that's why two of it for one rupee. I was amazed at the lowly cost in today’s time, but then a postcard is open enough for everyone to see what message it contains. After all, it costs you your privacy, I thought to myself. Who wants to hide a piece of art anyway, you never know it can bring a smile to the face of the person deli

This one is to blogging, And the fact that I have a log-in. Helping me in decorating my bio(s), And attracting a few ‘Wow-s.’ I keep on changing the looks and design, And urge people to read posts of mine. Seeing views count, I let the words over-mount. Where my thoughts are expressed, And imagination gets its wings to spread. Not knowing what keeps people hooked, I write about what life has cooked. In a way improving my literary skills, and working as a (self) satisfaction pill, by saving my creativity from getting killed. A promise to keep you engaged, is what I'll try to manage. What started off as just a Blog, I never got to know when it started to mean a lot. Writer's  Poetess' Note:  This is the longest poem I've written so far.

This one’s coming from a girl who is feeling a little pumped up. (Do I need to say that that girl is me only.) Reason? For I just finished reading a novel. So, what’s the big deal? Why so much of hullabaloo and drum beating about it? If this is what came to your mind then I need to tell you that this one novel was pending for a complete read for more than a year or so (I’ve mitigated the time period to make it sound nice.) Thankfully, I can now get rid of the guilt feeling of half-read-novel . ‘ Meri laundry ka ek bill, ik aadhi padhi novel, ’ this song often playing out in my head. You know I’ve always been the one who would taunt others for not being able to finish reading the novel, if they had any. I used to fail to understand how people can’t make it a point to complete the task at hand. And now I myself was falling into the same category. A lot of events happened during this span of one year that they led to the overdue delay. Also, the fact that

'Every o ne has a thoughtful day when a philosophy bug bites them  and spreads its venom into the thoughts of the mind.' Does success really have any timing? No; the obvious answer to this common sense question. It can occur at any time, which brings me to the next question, "Should you get success early on in life?" No. 1. For you don't get to test and try all the possible outcomes by yourself. And "Who likes doing easy things, anyway?" The swag that comes with uttering this sentence.... is unsaid. 2. You don't have any regrets that "I didn't get to do tha,t" "what if the other option was better than this and that I could have been happier than I'm right now." (It's like the apple in the others' basket always look bigger situation.) 3. An opportunity to tap all the options that one has. That is one learns from one's own experiences and not a mere read/listen-and-follow process. 4. You do

Hey guys! A movie buff reporting here! I know I’m a movie freak but I don’t know if my choice has become too lowly or it is really the spring of interesting movies. For a strange reason, there are a number of movies which I have liked off late (Padmavat, Raid, Hichki etc being out of them) and a few of them coming up  on which I have pinned my hopes quite high.  Can’t say how well they would turn out to be, but at this moment they look really promising. When I sit down to write this post I’m reminded of my old post where too I was geared up for some movies which, later on, completely dashed down on my expectations. Fingers crossed. Otherwise, I’ll be labelled naïve in the field of judging movies from the trailers. Read on for the list: 1. Nanu Ki Jaanu Watch the trailer When I just started watching its trailer, I was confused, “Did I hear the right sound? Is it supposed to be a horror movie?”  Going by the name, one tunes into the trailer least expec

People miss old days; especially their student life. “The best part of the life is your life of the student days,” said a person recently. Reminding me of this long overdue post that I’ve to complete. And it’s, almost, been 2 years that I’ve completed my college but here in this little moment let me recollect the memories of those days, those stupid days. I remember on the last day of my school, everyone else was hugging out each other, with a few of them even teary-eyed. But I was lacking that emotion. I have never been missing-this-missing-that type of person, or maybe I don’t make friendships so deep and pure. Even at the time of last days of my college, I was sure that I would be in the same waters as I was on the last day of school. Surprisingly, I was missing the college, even before I had completed it. I faintly remember those were the pre-exams preparatory holidays and suddenly I got the feeling that I’m missing the college. I am dead sure that it must be for the sill

…. Continued from Part I Siblings, this one I’m leaving upon you to identify in which part I’m talking about whom. I know these are obvious enough to guess but it’ll be an exercise for your junked brain. (Even this ‘junked part’ is targeted at ___) Sibling __: I want to take some cooking skills from you (especially the fried foods ;) ) and those surprise plans. I wonder if this one is still there (or I guess I already have taken it) but yeah I want to take that goodness/kindness part as well. Ah! How can I forget? I want to take that control of one’s own laughter which is utterly needed in times of anger and befooling others and ….. in wrong (intense) situations. I want to take away your desire of being so-and-so person every time on seeing some influential (and sometimes even not-so-influential) personalities. Alright, we do find some people impressive but how can you leave your own personality to slip into that person’s beauty/brain/character. Present da

I had promised my sibling that I’ll write such a blog post that they all will feel compelled to read it. That was a promise I made in yesteryear, not literally, but yeah it’s been a long while. It is: Things I want to ‘take’ from so-and-so person, that is, qualities I like in them and which even I want to imbibe and Things that I want to ‘take away’ from so-and-so person, that is, qualities I don’t like in them which I want to take away from them and throw them out of the window. Alright, so what if you are not my sibling; You can read on just to know what all I want to imbibe from people and what are the things that I don’t want in them. Even you’ll relate to some of the points even if you don’t know the concerned people personally.                                                                                                                                                                           www.elegantthemes.com Daddy: I want to take (or better