Feel Alive

Though I was not planning to watch recently released ‘Interstellar’ (not for any specific reason though), but accidentally I could not get any other movie ticket for my available time and on last minute had to book this one. No regrets!!! An awesome, thought provoking movie! I was thinking how I could not have watched it. This movie really got me excited while relating Movie scenes with Hindu Mythology instances. I might act as a bit of Movie Spoiler but I’m not giving any story here. So you can read it and then watch movie. That would make your experience even interesting. While ‘Interstellar’ explores 5-dimesions which are understood and manipulated by future Humans, could these 5-dimesions be related to 5 heads of Brahma in anyway? As we know, Brahma is the Creator. And as a Creator, one needs to have control on at least Time and Space. Yeah, one head was cut off, which dimension is gone? Philosophically, one of the dimensions is related to Physical consciousness of

When everytime I seek happiness in world around me, I see 'Someone' in so peace with self that I wonder - Is happiness nothing but just a way of being or agreeing with yourself? While moving on in life; we sacrifice, be selfish, envy, be a loser or winner. At all these times, we are too worried to look at those small pieces of puzzles, which actually put together our actual self, which bring happiness.  With Love come Worries. Worry of losing, betrayal, their well being and you can keep going endlessly on this. What you choose to take forward, shapes state of mind. I don't know if it is natural disability for some to ignore Love and pick worries out of everything or a Choice you make everytime. Usually I'm critical while analyzing people and more if they are dear, so as to eliminate any chances of bias. Still I see 'Someone' with so many behavioral differences, yet with amazing ability to ignore worries. Maybe it is too much of optimism by nature or a state of m

Many companies are coming up with several Women – Centric options to retain Female – Talent. Though Female employees come with their specific Pros and Cons to any Industry, they hold special place due to many corporate reasons. Naturally women have physiological limitations, which compel them to lesser Job Hops and hence better Job Stability. Emotionally as well, it is difficult for Female employees to change Offices and co-workers very often. This brings them up in the list of reliable work force. Thus, to balance Career ambitions and Physiological Limitations, Apple and Facebook have announced Egg-Freezing Benefits to their Female workforce. Though it sounds pretty interesting on how far companies can extend their support to retain talents, is it really viable option in India? How practical is it in India where social structure revolves around Family , not career ? Could there be better options? We in India, diverse in religions, cultures have one thing in common – Fami

Story of a Loyal Software Professional - turned - Disloyal " I have been associated with an organization for quite a few years. I worked hard and they paid me well for few years, great recognition, appreciation et. al. Few months back, then I realized its time & decided to move on for various reasons. Now things changed as soon as I resigned. I was no more insider. Everybody had told me - this is how they are and I never believed until I experienced. Now this is how things turned out to be and I was surprised (not shocked, will tell you why) Story starts here -  Usually company disburses Performance Bonus in certain month of every year and that very year policy was changed - to disburse bonus a month later. Though it was not fine (c'mon, everyone is not super-rich. We plan our payments.), but nobody had an option and after all, Management didn't care.  Fortunately / Unfortunately, I had to resign before bonus was disbursed. Though I knew there was n

Dil ki gardish mein apni Kashti bade mushkilo se sambhali hamne । Kashti ka kiya gumaan hamko naseeb daar keh diya logo ne ।। Kaise dikhaye logo ko woh haatho ke chhale aankho mein khoon । Chalo kashti ko toh khabar hamari hai ye tha sukoon ।। Par kismet ke rang toh dekho tutata hai har sukoon । Kashti ka dil hua ab main kisi aur ko chunu ।। Uff takleef apno ke naa samjh paane ki, hamein hindolo mein chhod jaane ki । Lekin ham kaha kam hai - ek aur kashti banayenge aur ussi gardish se ubhar kar aayenge ।। Koi samjhe naa samjhe ham toh ek din zaroor Khud ko samjh jaayenge ।।।

One of my family group on Whatsapp had a circulated message sent by one of my cousin. Usually I stay off from these distractions in office hours. But this one had that peculiar irrational logic, which I'm still learning to ignore. So it was about inter - religion marriage, to be specific 'Hindu - Muslim'. Yeah, now you know how serious it can get. So after reading that very long message, I was like - "Dude, you are going to be an engineer of 21st century and still stuck with this. Don't you have better things to do?" I get predictable defensive response saying 'Truth is truth'. And I want to know how the hell do you decide what is Truth ! I will come back to this again.  And he wakes up and realizes (not sure in lack of proper reasoning or to avoid being rude) that I'm his elder sister so he can't argue with me as it is not our culture and he is sorry.  Seriously !!! This is why his parents are spending so much money, so that he can

Today is special for various reasons. I'm excited, nervous, doubtful, hopeful, bit sad and very happy. It is last working day in Gujarat after being here for almost 1 Year and almost a quarter, just want to say 'Loved you Gujarat and specially Ahmedabad...' Started Gujarat with  'Fast & Furious 6' and it has been a chase round the year for deadlines, engagement, wedding, increments, travelling, job search, packing and finally moving to new city. Gandhinagar was calm, isolated; too peaceful for this Mumbai Girl. Ahmedabad is rush (not as much as Mumbai though so chill !), really liked the city and specially the place where I stayed. One of the best thing about Ahmedabad is AMC (Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation). They go door - to - door for garbage collection almost every alternate day. You won't find garbage mounds dumped round the corner. They spread pesticides during rains to prevent Water-borne diseases. AMC will go to every house to check cleanlin

Few months / years back, my Dad's kids were inseparable. Talking school / college gossip, office nuisance, technical talks, philosophy diggings, self made theories, analysis, conclusions, everything was routine. Whole day chit chat and my Mom was like 'How much you guys have to talk?' That time probably we never thought of being apart. Even our Dad dreamt of a big house where we 3 will be together forever (no joking, seriously !!!). But as they say - O nly permanence in universe , is Change . As Wheels of Time rolled to add number of greys, we grew up in our careers, got better opportunities for better growth; money and things kept moving. And, now when I look back, we three are at three difference places, busy in our own new daily routine, We still do all the talking / gossiping, but far less than how it was earlier. We probably could have never imagined that, we would survive with this less talking to each other. However, as the saying goes, a Bird will always

Today when I complete 5 years with my current organization, I want it to be special. 😎 For the first time my Sister has written some literature stuff (😱 except for the Exam times) and that too it says good things about me (so I want to keep record of it 😄). Special occasion treat !!! 😉 Here she goes - "... Today suddenly when I look back 6 years from now, i realize being in IT was not bad decision ( me - as if she had so many choices 😛)   Even it makes me think, Nothing can be better than this. I can't forget the day when I took admission ( me - her college was like in Village, so far. I still wonder how she travelled their everyday for 4 years.) .  I can't even forget my First code that was printf of C written by Bhaiya ( me - my younger and her elder brother) and motivating me to learn coding. Then as years went by and I completed my engineering,Ii realized that while in college I learnt nothing but hats off to Bhaiya and Didi ( me - Didi is me ☺️ ). I don

Excerpt from  Immortals of Meluha by Amish Tripathi (First part of Shiva Triology) - When Shiva decides to fight against Evil by collaborating with Good who were waiting for him from years. After dreadful massacre and victory, he realizes that the losing Evilious enemy was also waiting for him to make them victorious over Evil by being on their side. It turned out to be just a matter of chance for who got hold of Shiva first and fed him with Goodness of their civilization and Evilness of other civilization.  At this point, Shiva realized that none of them were evil, they were just Different. Isn't it a difficult feeling when you fight for something which you so much believed to be right, turns out NOT to be the only right thing!!! Suddenly all strength you drawn to fight that one cause seems so meaningless.  It's not ego, it's not lack of intellect to judge, still it went wrong and it hurts. Not because it has defied the cause, it pains because it has hur

One of the most beautiful feeling is to have younger sibling/s. I'm the eldest so not sure how it would be to be younger to someone, especially younger to someone like me 😉 (my bro and sis must know).  But, having same gender sibling: 😳 I'm thinking if it is more irritating or still beautiful 😶. Having same gender sibling has it's own perks AND compromises. The best part is to share clothes. So my sis initially used to get all my 'To Be Discarded' ones.  New clothes were specially for me because I was in college. To start with, you get to learn how to handle jealousy and how love can ignore all worse to worst arguments or fights. You share, care, make it up with each other after crazy fights, laugh at stupid and embarrassing things you do. But at the end, you be what you are - totally exposed and still accepted. Well for accepted part I'm not very sure. At least my siblings are like that 😘 But losing part was for my lil sis who used to get second hand dresse

On Valentine's evening, Poet in me has kicked in few beautiful lines !!!  E njoy the feeling ... 😍 Jo mera nasha main kahu tumko, toh nasha utar bhi jaata hai ! Nashe mein dhut jo ho yaha, usska thikana bhala kya hota hai !! Jo mera junoon sochu tumhe, woh bhi toh pagalpan hai ! Junoon mein kabhi insaan, bhatak bhi toh jaata hai !! Meri fariyaad jo kahu tumko, toh har koi maangata hai ! Fariyaad toh woh bhi hai, jo adhura reh jaata hai !! Mera imaan jo kahu tumhe, woh kaha tikta hai ! Imaan ka wajood hi toh niyat hai, imaan bhi toh bigad jaata hai !! Meri zid Jo samjhu tumhe, woh bhi toh Aham hota hai ! Zid puri hokar bhi adhuri hoti hai, Aham bhi ek din toot jaata hai !! Lafz nahin hai ke bayaan karu tumhare wazood ko meri zindagi mein, Bina maange jo inaayat ho uska sazda kiya jaata hai ! Sar - Aankho se kabool hai jis khuda ki bandagi mujhe, Usski haqqiqat par kaha shaq kiya jaata hai !!

Today I'm seeing my self as one who has witnessed one of the illegal criminal act and done nothing to stop or protest it. Bhabhi who stays on the ground floor was 4/5 months pregnant. This was the 6th time she was pregnant and she already has 2 sweet girls.  She had to go for sex determination of baby in her womb.  Since it was Pitrapaksha till 14 January i.e. Uttarayan, normally people don't start anything new or do anything important.  Now she went for sex determination on 21st January, hoping it would be boy and she will be relieved from more pregnancies.  I remember the conversation when she told me this. I told her, who cares about all this nowadays. And if it's boy, who knows he will take care of you or not. She said, it's not we who want a boy, but in-laws have a wish. I felt real pity for her that time. I couldn't imagine what she would be going through and what it would have been to abort already 3 unborn girl child.  When I asked her

As we bid goodbye to 2013 and welcome our new life guarded secretly and safely with 2014 , I wanted it to be fun way. Well why not !!! It had been a whole lot of funny year for me. We had a Theme setting at Office today where we had to come up with some sort of Skit / Play Act.  Though not an area of expertise for me, still I tried with better Team, got it proof - read from internal Experts. It was fun, mainly based on recent political developments of India. Though Politics is no less of humor in any Country, still it needed some effort to make it humorous when we talked about it. We practiced thrice. Few friends are meeting tonight on New Year's Eve to celebrate arrival of New Year and bid grand Good Bye to Current Year.  Though I wonder at times, what do we celebrate? Seeing ourselves aging with one more year gone and trying to be happy than be sad or welcoming new opportunity that coming year might hold. Probably the later one. Celebration to hide