Exhbition

"BARIKA" holds an exhibition of exclusive real jewellery from Jaipur, along with thailand bags, cane items and other gift items.
Venue: Harbour Heights, 35/1 D.H. Road, Kolkata-700027
Date: 16th & 17 of december.

For booking and further details contact Swati Singhania on 9830127843.

Tuesdays With Morrie- Mitch Albom

Tuesdays with Morrie, touched me through and through. It was about enjoying every bit of your life till the last minute. It was about the relationship between a teacher and his student. There was a lot to learn from the book. Just because one is suffering from a deadly illness and knows the fact that he is not going to live for long, does not stop living. In fact when he knows he has got such a little time in his hands, he tries to make most of it, just like Morrie did with his endearing smile all the way through his sickness. This is the way of life.

THOUGHTS UNSPOKEN!

THOUGHTS UNSPOKEN!

In everybody’s life there comes a phase when everything seems meaningless. It is a phase of depression, when life is thought to be just a drama. Apparently, during this phase we human beings want to wear the mask of pretense showing the world as if nothing is wrong and we take in our stride to please all and sundry. This spurious act makes us cynical; life seems to be futile, and in the process we do not realize that we are losing the real us. We abstain from believing in anything right or wrong, we differ in opinion, become mysterious, start seeing ourselves as the most strange people this planet has ever produced, and compare ourselves with the compulsive tax that is levied on the “society”.

Instead of becoming so hollow, why not for sometime we become in a real sense just human beings. Why not reveal to people about our problems. A peg is all that we need. This sharing of experiences and opinions and abiding with it will make us feel less confused and more strong.

The problem with us is that we don’t want to open up; we want to lock ourselves in our world of sham imagination. Only talking to people will help us open new horizons and to realize our dreams. We will also get all the answers to all those unsolved questions on our mind. The world and the people will also suddenly become conspicuous. This will mold our real sense of existence with inevitable respect for other’s existence as well. We become approachable and achieve a perspective in life.

So, instead of exaggerating your worries, proliferate your dreams and bring meaning to your existence.

WAY OF LIFE!

You can never know when life deceives you

It will leave you thinking

And suddenly it will dawn upon you

That existence has been snatched away from you.

So they say, open the eyes of your mind

Let it know what it wants

Walk only that brawny road

With all your valor and poise.

Let the prejudiced stray,

Let nothing prevent you

Be forbearing and prudent

Till you reach your absolute way.

SHADOWS

The dark Illusions of the light,
Play upon the ground.
When thoughts are dark, dark as night,
The are shadowed in a frown.

Be it shadows in the sun,
Or the shadows in the mind.
We all are shadows, shadows shunned,
Forgotten Left Behind.

book review on A Thousand Splendid Suns by Swati Singhania

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The story is set against the backdrop of Afghanistan during the emergence of Taliban. It was a rough time for the women in Afghanistan, whose pleadings and problems were considered to be of no importance at all. It is one of the most poignant stories, about how even in those darkest hours of the two women, Mariam and Laila, hope was replenished giving them strength to continue and endure. The story is so simply written and finely woven that it grips the reader till the last word of it.

Mariam was an illegitimate child and was forced to marry into Kabul. She was troubled right from childhood till she finally met with her tragic end. Laila who lost all her loved ones at a very tender age, had to take a decision at that time which changed her entire course of life. Mariam and Laila crossed each other’s path at a time when Mariam was losing grit on her life. Laila who was one of her reasons of pain, suddenly became her reason of hope. In spite of a big age difference, we feel both of them could empathize with each other really well. They lived for their children bravely, crossing all hurdles till they finally made it to the happy times after years of resistance.

The story is about sacrifice, tolerance, compassion, struggle, optimism, losing your loved ones for perpetuity, and about bonding. Although the two women were relentlessly spited, they became a pillar of strength for one another, and fought till the end. The author, through them portrayed that even women have a right to be happy after all. Subtly written, this novel is inspirational and is a must read as it can be so finely felt by every living soul.

Bacon's essay "of truth"- a review

"Of Truth" is an ssay by Bacon. In this essay bacon reaches out to his readers by telling us what is the significance of truth. What i have understood from this stratling essay is that we all are aware of the vitality of truth, but the application is sometimes tacky and ironic. For instance, in the case of complementing one another, if we are blatant and truthful it might hurt the person. So sometimes even if we talk too much about being truthful we cannot adhere to it all the time. Traders cannot be truthful in their business at times. So we take it for granted that not being truthful to others sometimes is excusable.
Sometimes what we humans do is inexcusable. Even without listening to the entire Truth we start giving our opinions and judgements. This sometimes, rather most of the times proves fatal. Like Bacon mentionn in his essay about justice pilate, who without even listening to the truth passed his judgement on Jesus Christ. This example is a perfect one to understand the vivacity of the word truth. We humans forget to understand the depth of the word truth. It's rightly said that one truth is better than a hundred lies put together. But still we fail to make animpression of this statement on our minds. We invariably fall into the pit of sham, pretense, lies.
It's understandable that sometimes we have to avoid being truthful, in the case of complementing one another, because here the question arises, are we hurting someone's feelings here? this can be brutal so to avoid this emotional scene we have to make the person happy by praising him fallaciously. We have to take help of lies to make people happy. This can also be for a selfish reason. It's natural for us humans to be in the good books of one and sundry, therefore we often hold on to lies to make people happy and give a better opinion of our selves.These are the true facts of life.

Should euthanasia be made legal in India?

The oxford dictionary describes the term euthanasia as painless killing,especially of someone with a terminal illness. Euthanasia is self-imposed killing; it is a mercy killing, when there is not a slightest chance of endurance. Particularly, in India, where poverty is extensive, people do not much care about spending a lot in, incurable
disease, where there is really no hope of survival without pain. Hence,
from this perspective, keeping a patient under torment and unnecessary
pain seems pointless. Therefore, in this case euthanasia is the most
practical cure, and this is possible only if euthanasia is made legal
in India.

Also, the patients affected by terminal illness find themselves
under duress for being a burden on family and friends; this can be one
of the main reasons for legalizing euthanasia in India. When these
patients want to give up their lives, they know deep within them that
they are living on false hopes of survival and that there is not even a
small ray of hope for further improvement. The family cannot really say
directly that it is a mere waste of money and it does not really make
sense to keep the patient under distress when the pain crosses all
boundaries, also when there is not even a bare minimal chance of
living. It is then that the need of euthanasia to be legal in India
arises.

Ethically, this may sound improbable, but considering the sufferings
and miseries of an ill person, it is always better to relieve him/her
under all improbabilities. I feel this is humane, than to leave a
person in anguish day after day without much optimism, anyway.
Therefore, I see a compulsive need to make euthanasia legal in India.

Fleeting Time

Living in the frenzy of time
Reckoning every thought in the mind,
Realizing the inevitable recurring of uninhibited thoughts being too strindent,
And the time skimming away,
Leaving no space for the thoughts to sway.
No time even to grasp, as the time is like a winged chariot, it waits for none.
If only the chord was struck once,
The thoughts, could be in harmony with the tripping time.
Besides, it is too late to even ponder
And it makes no sense to flounder.
Accepting the truth will leave no space to doubt
Postponing the reformation of thoughts for the next suitable lifetime
And letting the time take over,
Closing my eyes,
I slip away with the time forever.

Life is like that

Life is a mystery, a package full of intricate surprises and coincidences- this may sound like a cliche- but it is left to us to unravel thses with profound braveness. We are often let down by the complexity and perplexities of the nature of Life and seldom accept life with alacrity.Like the famous sating goes- "One is never satisfied with what one has"- we are never satiated with what life has to offer. This is the satire of life. This greed of wanting more out of life make us volatile and we succumb to that level of trance where one becomes self-effacing and a sadist. We should not go against and become obstinate towards what life has instored for us. We might deviate for sometime. Savouring what we have, our lives, will only help us to save what we have and protect what is not our's.Rendering this deed to ourselves will help us to comprehend our lives diligently and respect for what our lives has to substantiate and offer us.