Down

Life is turning upside down.

Even working hard,

My career is tumbling down.

 

Riding my bicycle on a steep,

Oh look! Road is moving down

Looking at the stock market,

Oh crap! Shares are falling down.

 

Thinking about investing little money,

Oh Modi! Economy is slowing down.

Trying to find a decent job,

Employment opportunities are going down.

 

Watching news channels daily,

Sadly! Reporting standards are lowering down.

Festivals are round the corner,

But wait! Chances of eating “sohanpapdi” are getting down.

 

Looking myself in the mirror,

Shit! My weight is only one thing that is going up.

In short, life is turning upside down.

Indore Literature Fest 2018 | Vlog| Part 1| #connection

2019

This New Year,

I don’t want to start a new chapter.

Instead, I want to add more chapters in the same book.

So that if I review my book,

I can have a little smile on my face

By seeing the progress of myself.

This New Year,

I don’t want to define my goals.

Instead, I want to drive myself crazy

With the work I do regularly.

This New Year,

I don’t want to remember

Who in the previous year came and went.

Instead, I want to accept the fact

That people will come and go.

This New Year,

I don’t want to jot down my priorities.

Instead, I want my brain to automatically recall my priorities.

This New Year,

I don’t want to welcome New Year

By reading Whatsapp messages.

Instead, I want to welcome by saying,

Thank You to my Omnipresent Friend.

This New Year,

I need to be more patient.

I need to focus on my work

And to meet new people.

I welcome this New Year wholeheartedly

And want to say one thing –

Come on! Let’s have some fun together.

Let’s sit on a roller coaster

And have an adventurous ride.

Bhagavad Gita

It’s not important

who has written this,

or how many times

it has been written.

It’s not important

whether it is

a fiction,

or a reality.

It’s about simple quotes

that are being delivered

through ages. That brings

positivity and provides serenity.

But, I could see some

who deny reading this

because of criticizing and questioning

whether God exists?

But, what if,

I tell you to forget

whether God exists

and read this.

What if, I tell you,

that you have something around you

powerful that tells about your

life’s simple meanings.

What if, I tell you,

renowned people and artists

follow this

and deliver their best work of art.

What if, I tell you,

these quotes, if understood,

have answers

to all your questions.

And I assure you

my friend’s sayings

will give you a

new vision and hope in your life.

Relationship

It’s not about

who earns more.

It’s not about

who is more talented.

It’s not about

who is more intelligent.

It’s not about

who is more knowledgeable.

It is about

trust, understanding

love and respect

in every relationship.

I know it’s easy to say

but difficult to follow.

But, I know it’s not fictional,

it’s a reality.

Oh my dear friend!

Just remember

those who understand this

they live a contented and a blissful life.

A False Modern Society

Amidst in the celebration of women’s contribution in Commonwealth Games, this country witnessed a barbaric and inhumane incident that shook everyone; yes I am talking about the abduction, rape, and death of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua District. This incident shook my nerves and coaxed me to think about in which modern society am I living? Is it really modern? Well, I think it isn’t since we are living in a false modern society and not-so-surprisingly lots of people don’t even know what modern society means.

So what is modern society? Well, I don’t want to get into that but surely I would like to raise one of the aspects of modern society i.e. women empowerment and equality. In this modern era where we youngsters are said to believe in women empowerment and equality (equality in terms of gender, caste, religion, and colour) are also involved and enjoy the discriminatory and cliché comedy or jokes on gender – how women and men behave on a particular issue, cities – the most common Delhi vs. Mumbai, Religion – how South Indians behave, etc. And in case of women empowerment, well we enlighten women’s strength on women’s day or enjoy and support the videos on women empowerment but the moment those are turned off we enjoy misogynist movies like Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety. We are all involved in boys vs. girls’ game. Our Whatsapp groups are flooded with cliché misogynist jokes.  But who cares? These jokes and videos are for entertainment and fun. We should not be offended, right? That’s what the attitude majority of people carry when I talk to them on this issue. But is this the time to ignore this issue?

Lot of social reformers like Savitribai Phule, Raja Ram Mohan Roy worked on women empowerment. Even Savitribai Phule worked to abolish discrimination and unfair treatment of people based on caste and gender. In the era where people were rigid towards their social norms, religion, culture, and thinking these reformers went into the roots of India i.e. rural areas, worked hard, and brought the massive reforms in India. At that time, they brought the changes that nobody could have imagined. They did this when there was no technology, when people were what we call orthodox and rigid towards their social norms, culture and religion.

When those massive changes were possible to bring in that era then why are we unable to bring a simple yet inevitable change of women empowerment and equality in this modern era when we have so many resources and people are upfront.  Why political parties effort to urge people to change their thinking, youngsters effort to abolish orthodox practices, talking openly about taboo topics viz. sex and periods and launching of social media campaigns that talk openly about sexual harassment are going in vain?

This is because of the fact that we have no proper agenda. We are working in an aimless direction. The moment we praise women, these lame and misogynist jokes that hit in our mind, trolls that force women to answer on their clothes, sexuality, and nationality smother the flame of women empowerment and their freedom to live in this country. The subtle laughter and persistent jokes are ceasing us to think about this world differently.

Surely we youth can write and express our anger on such incidents on social media. We can involve and support campaigns like #metoo and lighten our heart when we tell the world of what we faced. Surely we can come together and urge our government to have stricter laws for rapists; but do you really think this would work? Do you think this would change the society’s perception towards the discrimination against women? Do you think this would change the thinking men are superior to women? Do social media campaigns worked in India? Do our parents even know about campaigns like #metoo? Do people living in villages know about this? Yes, they have smartphones but they don’t necessarily have media literacy. We can tell the public of what we faced, we can urge the public to change their thinking but are we actually making an effort to change the thinking from our home. Are we going to the roots of this country?

The merger of stricter laws and the changes in people’s thinking would make this country modern and developed, would bring the women freedom they deserve. But at the same time, it’s time for us to come out of the virtual world and bring the campaigns on the floor of the real world. It’s time to accept that these uncles and aunties are not hypocrites but we are also hypocrites. It’s time to choose an option between do we support women empowerment and equality or trolls, discriminatory and lame jokes that divide gender, caste and religion. It’s time to start taking initiatives to change people’s perception towards gender discrimination from our homes and then spread it to the roots of this country. It’s time to remove the hypocrisy, turn this false modern society to actual              modern society.

I know we cannot bring changes in few days but at least an initiative, a reliable, strong aim that exists and works in the real world would gradually bring some noteworthy changes.

The Unexpected Turn (I)

It feels like decades since I haven’t posted something on my blog. Okay! Yesterday I posted a prose on Water but that’s a part of my job. I daily write Short Sayings for my Facebook and                Instagram page.

So coming back, I literally tried a lot of times to write about what’s going on in my life. But I am so involved in content research, content and video editing, content writing and script writing due to which whenever I used to write about myself I just gave it up. This is because whenever I used to open my laptop instead of writing about myself I started searching about current news that I needed to post on N-ed Buzz. And at this time also, I need to make a video on Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Issue but I gave it up and started writing this post.

So my life has completely changed. It took various unexpected turns and how all these happened, for that, let’s go in the flashback.

A Year ago when I was working in MyFm, I dreamt of a plan. I made a plan that once I would be popular, when I would make a lot of contacts, I would start making videos for my YouTube channel and then I would earn through them. But soon the plan got broke when I had to leave MyFm due to a reason. I wanted to be a Radio jockey. I was living my dream every day. But everything got changed. I was shattered. I didn’t know where I would go, what I would do, how I would earn, and where I would find a new job. But thankfully after few months, I got a job as a content writer. Though I didn’t want to work as a content writer still I was relieved. I had a job. A Job! You know how important that is once you get graduated. So initially I was contented with my typical 10-7 job. I was living like a simple office-going girl who used to wake up around 8-8:30 a.m., went to the office, worked on her regular commitments, and got happy at the beginning of every month when her bank account got credited. But soon the feeling of content started fading away. It had to because of two reasons – first, I never wanted to work as a content writer and second, my office was like hell to me. People didn’t use to talk much. Everyone used to work silently and there were so many other reasons for which I need to write a different post. So basically these two reasons made me irascible and forced me to think about what I wanted to do. Every day I used to fight with myself. I couldn’t sleep at nights as several thoughts were running through my mind. Every night I used to think this was not the thing which I wanted. I never wanted to be a content writer. I always had fun in doing something creative. Then why I got stuck in this? Perhaps I didn’t have the courage to do something on my own. Perhaps I wanted to become independent as soon as possible. So the thought to quit my job was really scary.

But one day when I looked at myself pale, dull, unsatisfied, unhappy, and lost I decided to quit my job. I didn’t think of much how I would start doing something on my own, how I would work for my YouTube channel and there was only one thing in my mind, ‘the more I would think, the more things would look complicated. So stop thinking too much. Just do what you wanted to do. And Remember three things Passion, Patience, and Perseverance are required. So, stop thinking too much and quit the job’.  

The next day before giving the final decision, I met a person who was a motivational speaker. I told him about my decision along with my fear to start something of my own. For this he told me, if you feel confident to start something of your own then go ahead and for the fear well, dar ka koi vajood nahi hota, woh ya toh dil mein hota hai ya dimaag mein (fear has no existence, it’s either there in your mind or in your heart). His words motivated me a lot and hence I went to the office and gave my resignation.

I quit my job!