Friday 28 December 2012

Not so proud Indian

 I am writing this post with a very heavy heart. I did not know that one day I have to write that I am not so proud as an Indian. I have been reading and hearing the news of Delhi gang rape case. These kinds of rapes are not new in India or in any other country. But the intensity and the frequency of such cruel acts are very high in this country.
In the Delhi gang rape case, the victim is tortured to the maximum extent so that her intestines have come out. This is very brutal way of torturing anyone. Even animals do not behave this way. Animals just attack for the sake of food. But such hooligans attack for their mean desires. Such people should be tortured the way they have tortured the girl and the torture should be made public so that others do not dare to do such acts again. I cannot believe they are born from a woman’s womb. Do such people have mothers at all? If the same treatment is given to their mothers and sisters then will they be able to digest it and live with it?
I am afraid that people tell that because of the kind of dresses worn by women will result in men getting provoked and leading to such situations. But are there no incidents when women are in a saree? I read about a news where a 2-year old girl is raped. Can she have any dress which is provocative?
What is most painful is the way government is reacting to the situation. I feel that there is no connectivity between the ruling and the ruled. All statements from politicos are politically motivated and calculated rather than rational. I get no hopes of improved security or concern for women. Women in this country are subjected to many tortures in their lives in a patriarchal and misogynist world like ours.  
In this country there is no equality for women. That’s why there is no progress and India can never become a developed nation mainly because of I’ll tell you because of women’s curses. Right from birth, why birth? Before birth itself they do not want daughters. I know a friend of mine veena (name changed) who tells that her father never wanted a girl. She is the fourth child in her family and her father wanted to get the gender test done for the embryo.  The result turned out to be that it’s a girl child.  Her mother was asked to eat pills so that the fetus dies. But somehow that did not work and my friend survived and she was born. She does not have any respect to her father because she knows about this incident.

It’s horrible the way women are treated in India during birth, teen-age, marriage, after marriage, after child birth. It’s women who run the show in every family and they should be respected. Men and women are equal in every family and this society. That should be realized.
I do not have any respect for people who do not have any respect for women. Because they do not deserve it.
I definitely want to salute the protestors in the capital who have left all their personal work to come out in masses and fight for a cause. I can only pray that their concerns are addressed and stricter laws made to bring the culprits who torture women. I feel more such protests should happen with more frequency and intensity. Then only the government can realize people’s power and bent to take actions. Such days should come and I just hope they are nearer.

Last but not least my sincere prayer with the victim who is battling for life against odds for the mistake which she did not commit. My prayers with her family.
India will only shine when such innocents get justice at-least.



Tuesday 27 November 2012

A proverb for today

Today i was discussing something with my friend about the word "adhama" which is a kannada word.
I rememebered this kannada proverb..
"adadeye maduvavanu roodhiyoluthamanu
adi maduvavanu madhyamanu
adiyoo maadadavanu adhamanu"
which means
the one doesn't tell about his/her work but does it is superior
the one who tells and does his/her work is an average
but the one who tells but still doesn't do it is stupid..
applies to all people at all places in all the contexts...isn't it?
Give it a thought!
 

With Best wishes It's TVR..

Wednesday 21 November 2012

Rest In Peace - Savitha

Last week came to know about the death of Savitha in Ireland. Was shocked by the way she died. She was denied abortion even after her requesting multiple times. She died with a lot of pain.

Pregnancy and child-birth are like re-birth for a woman. And savitha did not come back from this phase.

But I wish her soul rest in peace and I pray and hope that no other woman goes through such pain, torture and die in any country in the name of religion or caste.

Let humanity win over all aspects of religion, caste, creed or country.

Theen filmen (Three movies)

In the last 1 month I watched three movies which I wanted to watch after hearing about the positive reviews on them – Barfi, English-Vinglish and Kahani.
Barfi is a very nice and feel-good movie I watched after a long time. It has a very powerful message on un-conditional love and affection. Hats off to the cinematography, lyrics, music and last but not least the performances by Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra. Both Ranbir and Priyanka have given flawless performances and no doubt they are among the best actors in bollywood today.
English-Vinglish again is a very simple story told in a very simple way too. It also has a message which no one can ignore. The contribution of ladies in the house, how it is taken for granted and not-recognized. Again very good performance by Sridevi.
Kahani of-course does not have any message. It’s a suspense movie which keeps one captivated and suspecting what may happen next. A great performance by Vidya Balan.
These movies were not only entertaining but had a theme and message in them. Also they are not very high budget movies made. But still had a very good story line and acting which one get to see rarely in these days of commercialization in cinema.
Watched jab tak hai jaan purely because I am SRK fan. The movie did not have any message to be conveyed but it did not disappoint me and yes SRK too. I watched him on big-screen after a very long time and I was happy to see him in his original form of acting after a series of not-so-good movies of him (MNK, KANK, Ra.One – I have not watched these movies).
Last word: I am continuing my morning walks. I am surprised by my own determination to keep this habit going for nearly 1.5 months. Today morning listed to song “do dil aise milenge” from Jab we met. An evergreen movie with evergreen songs.
Bye for now,
With Best wishes It's TVR..

Friday 19 October 2012

Thoughts in a morning walk

Since past one week I have started going for a morning walk for ½-1 hour daily. My doctor advised me to do little exercise to reduce my weight very seriously. SO I also took his advice very seriously and started this morning sessions of walk.
Really more than exercise or reducing weight or whatever health aspect I feel it’s the time I am getting for myself, for my own thoughts, for listening to music (usually devotional) on radio, for enjoying those songs and enjoying the sweat. I am feeling great and I can imagine how people feel who do exercise regularly.
It seems exercise increases the release of positive hormones in our body which reduce stress levels.  I do not want to put a big writing on benefits of exercising. I am not even sure that when I’ll lose focus and become lazy (which I do not want to). But people who have made it a habit are getting very good results out of it.
One of these days I was listening to song from the movie ‘The Dirty Picture’. The song is ‘Ishq sufiyana..’. What a great song! Good music and great lyrics. It goes something like .. ‘love is morning red, love is blossoming flower, love is divine blessing ..’ and so on. And the hero says I dedicate my love to you my love! It’s so nice to hear such things. It is tough to find such pure love in this world but actually true love is definitely all these as penned in the song.
I also remember watching this movie. Very good acting by actress Vidya Balan. She has carried the character so well on her shoulders.
I hear vachanas and bhajans sung by some famous Kannada singers. The vachanas are full on true and practical living in this world. Do’s and don’ts which if we follow, our lives become much easier and more meaningful.
Many such soothing songs come in the morning time and it’s pleasure for me to hear as I hardly get time to listen to songs in-between my son’s ’chota bheem’ watching.
I also see sun rise and experience light morning winds. I feel I am blessed by God in many ways at the end of the day after this exercise because it fills me with lot of energy and less negativity.
I hope to continue doing this for quite a long time at-least to enjoy the songs peacefully.
Bye, till I write next time I wish you all good health.

With Best wishes It's TVR..

Friday 21 September 2012

Coming back..

Coming back..
I am coming back after a long time on my blog. Last year around same time I started writing this blog.  I got inspired by seeing my friends write in their blogs and I also started to write. I never thought that I would come this long in my writing that too in English.  But since June this year I did not write in my blog for various reasons. May be I did not get inspired enough to write on a topic.
Ever since I started this blog I wanted to make it a fun point where people enjoy reading it. But sometimes to be honest I have left out my frustrations also here which may not be correct. But for a writer, even the frustrations have to reflect in their writings.
Mostly my blogs are very much women centric and has kind of feminism in it which I definitely encourage because I believe very much equality for women as men. It’s neither freedom to ask for nor it is anything which anyone can grant. It is the birth right of every individual especially women who have been at the receiving end of some senseless society rules. Sometimes when it comes to women people tend to talk loose and see them down which is not correct. Hope my blog brings in some awareness about it.
I have written about my childhood many times and my likes and dislikes. Its good to get indulged in some of our past because it gives immense happiness.  The recollection about the movies which I enjoyed was the one which I enjoyed very much because I actually went through the movie watching joy when I was typing it.
Many things I wanted to write meanwhile. About my trip to Kukke, visit to Cubbon park, a peaceful stay at my native and also about my son’s pranks. But for various reasons I could not put them in words for a while.
Day before yesterday was Ganesh Chaturthi.  A  festival of lord Ganesha which I have enjoyed since my childhood days. I saw that my son was also enjoying this year. I was very happy to see him doing poojas innocently. I recalled how I used to go to many houses to see Ganeshas. One year I think we almost saw 80 Ganeshas which I and my friends used to have a count.  I and my father used to play with a tool called petlu.  I used to cry when we were leaving Ganesha in water. This year also the festival was fun. I prayed to lord Ganesha to give peace and content more than anything.
I wish lord Ganesha bless you all to fulfill your desires. And I also wish I continue to blog more to keep it alive to express my opinions, facts, pleasure and may be sometimes frustrations too.
Hope you all enjoy reading.
With Best wishes It's TVR..

Friday 25 May 2012

Positive, Compartive , Superlative

Hi All,
 Do you remember these English grammar terms which are the levels of degree for comparisons. For eg: good, better, best (positive, comparative, superlative degrees). I was thinking about how the comparisons among human beings work.
People appreciate others for their good deeds, good personality and good mannerisms. That’s why it is called Positive may be. And you want to do/practice some others have done/have been practicing. It definitely gives a positive feeling in us.
Sometimes we compare with others and think that they are doing good financially/professionally. We want ourselves or our spouses to grow like them. Ok, there is nothing wrong in comparing ourselves with people who have achieved a greater (comparative) heights. I do not see anyting wrong in trying to achieve what they have achieved. But it should not become obsession.  Such kind of comparisons may put us to go through some stress but there is nothing much or hardships required to achieve the targets, there is nothing wrong in going through it for the sake of our own good.
There are a set of people who always thing they are the best in every sense! (on what basis I do not know!)(Superlative right?;) ) Being best is like you have achieved some perfection or saturation and you cannot grow beyond that. Of course everyone wants to be best but I do not think that anyone on this Earth who is best or perfect. But boasting off about their qualities/families/achievements like they are the best are some things which others cannot hear, bear and and i bet it will not be true. Just to put down others some people do it. You feel like getting a break from them. If someone is doing this then they should reduce their degree of boasting, this also requires a work out.
Just give a thought on this. Which one to practice in our lives, and on which one we have to put stress to improve which can improve the quality of our lives without hurting others.
With Best wishes It's TVR..

lovable thoughts


These are the thoughts on love from one of the blogs I follow, a blog of Preeti Shenoy. While agree most of the thoughts on love what she has listed. Sometimes it is required to look back and also interrogate ourselves what is the love we have in our lives?!
Love is when you have that goofy look in your eyes and your smile stretches across your whole face.

Love is when you still do crazy things like calling each other thrice a day even though you're in the same town.

Love is still waiting to see each other at the end of the day.

Love is him telling all his friends about me, proudly.
 
Love is fighting like crazy but still hugging each other at the end of the day, because you can't sleep otherwise.

Love is doing something you hate, just because the other person loves it.

Love is each one thinking that they are lucky to have got the other person.

Love is something that casts a warm glow in your heart.

Love is still feeling a bit (a teeny weeny bit) jealous when I say that some guy looks handsome.

Love is saying cheeky things because you know you can get away with it :)
Love is what has stood the test of time.

My own thoughts on love:
Love is going through the same pain when the other one is going through a pain.
Love is having concerns of the other person as yours.
Love is respecting each other and their backgrounds.
Love is being there for the other person when he/she needs the most.

With Best wishes It's TVR..

Monday 7 May 2012

A starry experience!

My Brother-in-law (BIL) got a promotion. Me and husband had demanded a treat (in a five* hotel) from him when he had bought a plot in Bangalore. Both I and my husband had forgotten about it. My BIL was excited about his rating in office and he recollected that he had a treat pending from him and that too a hi-fi treat. So we decided to go on May 1st. But May 1st was a Tuesday and we did not want to go on a holiday in the mid of the week because we cannot cherish the moments in office the next day.  So we thought we will go on Saturday. But Saturday was very tiring. I and my husband went to a new Puneeth movie – Anna bond. So again we shifted the treat day to Sunday.
So the excitement started previous day and we were discussing about our wardrobe choices. We were imagining about the entry into the venue, the way we feel and all that stuff.
 Finally on Sunday my BIL booked 3 seats for Sunday brunch (that is what Sunday afternoon lunch is called) at ‘The Lalith Ashok’ hotel which is one of the oldest existing 5* hotels in Bangalore. The cost of each meal was whopping Rs.1750+VAT = ~ Rs.2000/head. We were little setback after hearing the price of the meal because for we middle class people, it is one month grocery cost. My BIL still insisted we go and we also thought it will be a different experience and set off to Hotel Lalith Ashok on Sunday afternoon and we were there by 12:45pm.  
The experience of entering the gate and the lobby was really good. We were feeling we are entering into an elite place and we had our own inhibitions because of coming from a middle class upbringing. After entering the restaurant we were made to feel comfortable by the staff and everyone was very much courteous to treat us good and we were well attended to seat ourselves outdoors near the swimming pool. Having lunch/dinner outside in the outdoors is always a different and pleasant experience. Once I and my husband had dinner in Goa in the outdoors with a background music being played and with lights on in the park.
Here too a live music was present and it was very good western singing. Then they started serving beverages and starters. Everything including beverages, starters was un-limited. We tasted almost 6-7 types of starters and two-three varieties of juices. The way things were organized for buffet was too good. They were all very good to see, the garnishing and the setting of salads, desserts, main-course, fruits..everything was good. Then I thought simply some hotels may not be rated with stars. All the dishes were very tasty and good. We tried different varieties in salads/desserts and in almost everything. We did not want to miss any experience. My son also enjoyed a lot of juices and starters. He played on the laws next to pool. For the first time he was seeing a swimming pool and he was feeling very excited to see so much water inside the city he had seen only natural sources of water! J.  We three also played a lot with him on the lawn.
Overall it was a very exciting and happy experience as we were also in good mood and health because once I and my husband had been to Le-Meridian hotel for dinner sponsored by my company for our anniversary. Even-though everything was same, we could not enjoy to the full extent because both of us were not well that day. After coming out of the hotel after spending 3 hours in the hotel we were very happy at the treatment and the food except that they did not have a menu for us to know what are the items.  We thought we can still afford it at-least once in a year for any special occasion. I thought I could see some sports/cine stars. But I could not find anyone except one TV anchor who had come with her boyfriend. Instead we ourselves felt like stars and thanks to my BIL who made us have a starry experience!


With Best wishes It's TVR..

Friday 20 April 2012

Living for others

Some people live for themselves. Right. They enjoy all the comfort and do not bother about anyone else. They just see to it that their comfort zone is not disturbed no matter even if their kids/siblings/friends are hurt or struggle. They just need their happiness and luxury of being emotionally independent in a different way.
 However some expect others also be like that. They do not disturb others zone. But some do not expect others to live like that. They just want to bug others so that their comfort levels are always met. Their expectations and requirements are always met no matter what happens to others expectations. They think let others go and even die, they should be happy.
But some live for others. I am not talking people who do a lot of social service. I am talking about people who live in a family and live for others – for the happiness of their siblings/kids/parents/relatives/friends. But I see that they end up in losing their happiness because most of the people to whom they live for do not exactly give back not even in the minimum terms and in the mean-time they would have lot of compromises in their lives.
Life for such people is a struggle on a day to day basis. Their state becomes so pathetic that no one acknowledges the sacrifices they make. The love they would have shared, the services they have done but others make their lives miserable. In office, at home life becomes a trishanku state(Not earth, nor the skies). Finally they end up just breathing because they have to breathe. Because again they are living for someone else’s happiness. If they leave this world, people who really love them will be in pain and he/she cannot bear to see their loved ones’ pain even from the skies.
This blog is dedicated today for such people who live for others and are unsung heroes in day to day life.


TVR..

Wednesday 11 April 2012

When The Earth Shook

It was a normal day with less work load and I was in relaxed mood. After my lunch and long chat with my friends, I came back to my cubicle and was reading a technical email not so seriously.  I felt the desk on which I had placed my hands on the mouse shook a little. I felt it could be my giddiness because of a warm afternoon then again my friend told see how the water bottle on her desk is shaking. Then I felt somewhat weird is happening. Then I got up and my cubicle wall on which I leaned shook a little. Then I and my friend thought it could be earthquake and started to walk out of the building. We told to some of our neighbors and then they did not care telling they did not feel anything. But we did not care and we walked out.
When we went out of building we saw already a bunch of people outside and it confirmed that we experienced tremors. It was really a scary experience. Until I came out of building I was scared when the tremors increase and the roof falls on my head. First thing flashed to my mind was just to escape from my building. Then one of my friends who was standing outside called her friend inside the office to come out. The other friend was asking my friend whether to bring any of her valuables because anyway she is coming out. I was not knowing whether to laugh at it or feel foolish about it. Because you are the most valuable person for your family and your life is valuable than the non-living objects. Then the entire building was evacuated for 0.5hr.  Some FM channels were making fun of it like Bangalore is shaking and its because Rajnikant had kept his mobile in vibrating mode!  The funny side of it.
I was scared for a while because I had seen the impacts of earth quakes and Tsunamis in TV. The scenes were horrible. May be the tremors we experienced were very mild but it takes few days to get out of the memory.  This kind of experience I had when Gujarat had experienced earth quake with Latur being the epicenter of the quake and massive damages. The night in which the incident happened I was sleeping on the floor in first floor in our house and got up when the shaking started because the tremor was very strong. Then I saw that the godrej almera was banging to the wall. I still remember that night very well when my father came running to take us outside. He told it must be earthquake and indeed it was when we saw large-scale damage it had caused in Gujarat.
That time I was in my teens and I did not feel much. But today I felt I should save my life first. As soon as I came out I called up my son’s crèche and asked them to get the kids out. They did not take it seriously but I could not do anything too. Then i called my family members. I just wanted my family to be safe.  Biggest fear was that I can run but my son cannot run outside based on the consequences. I just wanted him to live at that moment whatever may happen to me. 
Then I and my friend were discussing how uncertain our lives are and also how precious our lives are. We should enjoy our lives to full extent. When something happens in nature, when natural calamities happen then the results are catastrophic to such a large extent and nothing will be in our hands. We struggle so hard to build houses and the houses may not be there when earth shakes. What is important is just to live the moment and enjoy every moment of our lives. For people who did not experience it, this might not have struck that much, but people who felt, it was really scary and I was sweating until I went out.
This kind of mindset comes when we get such experiences of natural calamities and we want to be with our loved ones that moment.
Today I am leaving my office early. Feeling as to see my son and just want to spend time with him.


With Best wishes It's TVR..

Monday 26 March 2012

My Home

Everyone wants to put an adjective ‘sweet’ to home. Yes my home is my sweet home. I have worked on the details of it by myself. My mother in my marriage gave us the utensils and all the pooja materials as part of formalities of marriage. She was in my home and with me in the initial days of setting up of my home when no sophisticated things were present in my home. She used to bring the materials required for my home daily by the time we used to come back from office in the first week of our stay in my new home. Ok, she brought only small things and she helped me set up the home, but the help I got from it and the confidence I got to run my home from that was good enough during the initial days. From the day 1 I own my home.
After that point, both I and my husband stayed in that small house in our first year of marriage before moving to different houses. We set up all the major items of the house (like TV, refrigerator, washing machine etc). Many of other essential items I had got as marriage gifts from my aunts and uncles like gas stove, cooker, mixer etc.
I do not care if anyone admires it or not, nor if anyone remembers how my home was set up. But I definitely remember those initial days. We were not getting the kind of salary packages we are getting now because we got married in our early 20s. So it was a little different experience at the startup and it was good too.
Now in our home (I do not want to call it a house, its ‘home’) I have all the necessities which a home should have. I have developed an immense attachment towards it. It may be a rented house but as long as we are living in it, it’s ours. Because all the details in the house are worked by me in that house. I have struggled hard to build my home the way it is. I work in office and at home, but still once I come back to my home I feel contended. I want to keep it clean as per my standards.  I do not want to be judged by others’ standards for my cleanliness. It’s their problem if they do not agree with the way I have kept my home because as per my standards others may not be clean enough right!
Yes there always comes comparison with my hometown home where I grew up and having all my memories with the house in Tumkur. I love the house where I was brought up. I like to spend some of my time in that house once in a year. I do not deny any attachments to my hometown nor my ancestral home.
But now my first love is my home where my family lives and breeds.  Where I dwell and struggle in my day to day activities. Where there is lot of effort and struggle, you love that part too somewhere in the corner of our hearts. Because it’s for my own family I am struggling and I want to see my family happy at the end of the day with my struggle. And with our own hard-work whatever I get I feel contended and fulfilled in that and one feels he/she owns it. That is how my home is built over the years and I own it undoubtedly.
I want my son to grow up happily in my home and he should also feel proud about what as a family we achieved together and I want to gain respect from him for all the hard-work done for the home and love we share.


With Best wishes It's TVR..

Thursday 8 March 2012

Happy 101th women’s day - 8th March

“MAY SOLIDARITY SHINE today & always. May women be equal. May there be no violence. Peace!”
May equality and dignity be there for every woman in every forum and in every house. Let there be decrease or eradication of inequalities against women worldwide.
To daughters, to mothers, to sisters, to girl friends — and to men who support what today is all about:
Happy International Women’s Day!

This is the quote I got in my office:

Proud to be a woman..
TVR..

Wednesday 22 February 2012

Feeling of Pain

Feeling of pain no one wants. No one wants to foresee a pain coming to him/her. No one wants to recollect anything to feel the pain. Some forgotten thoughts in subconscious mind are like knife is a shawl.  You will only know the pain when you put on the shawl and only you can make out the pain given by the pricking knife. You do not want the shawl with knife. From outside everything looks fine but  no one can make out the knife inside it.
Such are the sorts of some of the pains in life. When it pains no one can understand what we go through. Only we know the pain that knife gives. And to no one we should tell that there is a knife. They tell its in our imagination and they cannot see it.
It pains more when there is self-blame for keeping the knife inside and being blamed for the pain it gives. The whole and sole responsibility finally lies with us to get rid of the knife but is it so easy than said? I am not sure how people handle different situations of pain. But when you are alone in this process of pain, then it pains more. 
At-least if I can do this blogging or if I can throw the knife out definitely by not sharing with people, but through some other means, then I can get relieved. But I doubt such a situation can come until my death. That’s why one needs ‘mukti’ from this world and not re-birth.
My son now recites – “Asathoma Sadgamaya, thamasoma jyothirgamaya, Mrityormam Amritangamaya, Om shanti shanti shanti…”. True, only the true light of divinity can revive us from all our pains and not just humans.

Monday 20 February 2012

The power of prayer

Yes there is so much power in prayers. I have experienced it myself many times. We do not have to do extraordinary poojas, follow shastras but true prayers will be answered somehow. I have experienced it myself when I got my job, or when I was blessed with my son. I do not think some of the aspects do do not work only if we have capability, the blessings are definitely required. Yesterday had been to do surya namaskara (bowing to sun) in the early morning in my hometown. It was so nice to see how morning looks with people cleaning their outdoors, taking milk, or even going to temples. I miss them so badly these days. I will be engulfed in my daily chores so much in the morning.
The surya namaskara was performed in a place called aralikatte (It’s a place in the town where a small temple is present and two big banyan trees and also neem trees will be present). It was such a nice place to do little meditation, small prayers and bow down to God. Here we were doing surya namaskaras. Sun is source of all the life on this earth. He is the source of energy and our ancestors used to pray him for good health by putting namaskaras. It seems for lord Surya putting namaskaras itself is good enough to please him.  Though I do not believe much in many shastras/rituals or sometimes blind beliefs, I definitely believe in the power of prayer, the power of listening to the chanting mantras (For Surya, it is "Aditya Hridaya").  They fill our soul with little relief and we get a little bliss from our mechanical life.
I would like to pass the same to my son and make him aware of our ancestral practices. We ourselves do not know much about many practices but whatever we know we can pass on. Many of the values and practices which our ancestors used to follow (I do not say all) had some true meanings and benefits which if we follow can be little more disciplined in our lives and can improve our health and mental peace.


With Best wishes It's TVR..

Wednesday 25 January 2012

Women who made difference

Yesterday I was reading in Times about a woman (French-Manipuri, a yoga guru, dancer) who is 94 and still came to India for a ball room dance show. I felt any 16 year old girl will not match to the energy levels of her when I saw her photo. She had a hip bone surgery a few months ago and she is already in form and has come back to her dancing. Her doctor advised not do padmasana but she did not listen to him. Today her doctor calls her “miracle woman”. I could not stop staring at her photo again and again.
These list of women did not have any privileges by birth nor did they grow up in a very luxurious environment but made so much difference to their lives by determination, hard-work and focus. I could not stop admiring these women when I saw the list and the details about each one of them published in yahoo about women who were here with a purpose and achieved what they wanted against all odds in this male-dominated society.

Mother Teresa


Joan of Arc


Marilyn Monroe
I would like to add a few more names to this list:
And many more whom I cannot recollect at this point of time. But there are many whom I admire very much.
Want to get inspired by them, become truly positive and achieve satisfaction at my personal level.

Friday 6 January 2012

Much Love Appa!

As I type this I was wishing my father on his birthday over phone.  He turned 64 today.
You gave us so much love when we were brought up.
You took the responsibility of your family at an age of 28 to bring up your two brothers and two sisters. But you never complained nor nagged on the responsibilities you had. You are admired by your siblings, wife and by us for that!
You are an abode of patience at-least with your kids. You never screamed on us and always guided us in a very gentle manner.
Even though you had much tensions at home and office, you never made your wife feel lonely. You both never stopped enjoying the good aspects of your lives!
You took care of your mother with so much love, when people just keep talking about taking care of their parents. Not only her, you took good care of your mother-in-law also. I remember how you spent money and your time when Amma’s mother was in hospital. You always adored her too.
You never made us feel the troubles you faced. You insulated us from them and gave only protection.
You were always liberal in spending money and always gave Rs.100 if we asked for Rs.50 because you knew we do not spoil it and you were always very liberal in spending even though you had faced so much troubles financially too. This attitude we both kids of yours have imbibed. Cannot live as a stingy person anytime.
 You still have so much confidence on your kids and I know you are so much proud of us in every sense.
 You gave me the gift of art of reading. I love the hobby and I still continue to read and acknowledge the beauty and happiness of reading books!
Off late you have some health problems. You suffered from piles and sometimes still get leg pain due to uric acid issues and you have blood pressure. But do take care!
May you have many many more years of celebration!
Happy Birthday Appa!

With Best wishes It's TVR..