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Being Happy : Day 8

I don’t know what’s the matter with me today. Nothing worked today. My first priority within few weeks will be to go to bed early. I sleep quite late in the night. And get up early in the morning. I want to change that. I want to feel well rested in the morning. I want… Continue reading Being Happy : Day 8

Being Happy : Day 7

I again felt the surge of pain in my whole body while I opened up my eyes in the morning. My first thought was what the heck! Why I have to get up and do anything. But I had to. Someone was pressing the doorbell. It was my maid. I don’t know how she manages… Continue reading Being Happy : Day 7

Being Happy : Day 6

When I started blogging again, then one thought was quite prominent in my mind, We can’t reach a milestone everyday in terms of finances or career or fun. We can’t wait for few milestones in our lives to be happy. We can’t party everyday. We can’t hang out with friends and family everyday. We can’t… Continue reading Being Happy : Day 6

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Being Happy : Day 5

Ah! Weekends! How the name weekends sound music to ears. Even a happy feeling creeps in on the Friday evening itself.Weekend means throw all the carefully crafted routine to winds. Weekend means being yourself or breaking free from daily routine. I love it when we go out to visit someone or our friends and family… Continue reading Being Happy : Day 5

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Being Happy : Day 3

Today I opened my eyes to immense pain in my back and legs. Again, flooding my mind with positive thoughts flew out of the window for a while. I have woken up brooding why I am having so much pain? Then I remembered that last evening I played a lot in the garden and then… Continue reading Being Happy : Day 3

Being Happy : Day 1

I consciously make a choice to be happy. Today is my first day. I promised to wake up and flood my mind with positive thoughts and emotions. What happened today? When I woke up the first thought that crossed my mind was, “Oh! s**t! I don’t want to wake up with this intense pain in… Continue reading Being Happy : Day 1

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Being Happy

Once I was thinking about time. And suddenly a thought struck me that with each passing year, month, week, day, hour and minute, we are moving away from our loved ones and from ourselves too. Even the day we are born the clock starts ticking away and reverse counting starts. With each passing day, we… Continue reading Being Happy

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In Pursuit Of Happiness

How the meaning of happiness differ from person to person. Millions will be so happy to settle down in heaven on earth Switzerland with a career of their choice with Euro in their purse. But not Narayanan Krishnan, CNN Hero. He was working as a chef in a five star hotel. All set to go… Continue reading In Pursuit Of Happiness

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How To Be Happy

What stands out in this young man was his pursuit to be happy. I don’t want to say the usual things that how inspiring this young man Dinesh Thakur is. How fortunate we are. If he can do this why can’t we? We don’t have to watch some disadvantaged person to feel if he can… Continue reading How To Be Happy

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Ye Dosti Hum Nahi todenge… Sholay

  Image Source: Dainik Jagran (01/09/2010) During calamities humans are known to eat their own species. Today I have seen this picture in our Hindi Newspaper Dainik Jagran (01/09/2010) and it immediately brought a smile to whoever saw it. Its really true that a picture is worth a thousand words.

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What Ratan Tata did for the Mumbai victims

Ratan Tata (Image Source: Business News) What Ratan Tata did for the Mumbai victims of 26/11…. a every Indian should know. i AM COPY PASTING THIS POST FROM Small Strokes… Why main stream media is not interested in publishing this? I leave it to figure it out yourself. Ratan Tata is the chairman of Indian… Continue reading What Ratan Tata did for the Mumbai victims

Villagers Pooled in Their Own Money to Construct Their Railway Halt

When I picked up the Hindi newspaper Dainik Jagran,  Among the maze of depressing news of Arushi Talwar, Indians being attacked / murdered in Australia, Rathore being booked in Ruchika’s case, I was pleasantly surprised to read a particular news from Taj Nagar, Haryana,  Dulhaniyan aayi, Khushiyan Laayee. But instead of the photograph of a… Continue reading Villagers Pooled in Their Own Money to Construct Their Railway Halt

Mona Sarika’s Short, Disgraced Career, Thanks to Plagiarism

If you are writing blog for Wall Street Journal what a “normal” writer would like to do? of course he / she would try to give his/her best. Or would you try to plagiarize matter from another website, like BBC? One might be out of mind to do that. But shortcuts in life seem so… Continue reading Mona Sarika’s Short, Disgraced Career, Thanks to Plagiarism

N. D Tiwari and John F. Kennedy in Their Birthday Suits

N.D.Tiwari, ex-Governor of Andhra Pradesh has succeeded in doing the unthinkable. Read this: ND Tiwari beats Tiger Woods in Google  So what if we lag miles behind in producing a Tiger Woods in golf field. Indians can match Tiger Woods or John F Kennedy in “extra curricular” activities. Same is true here. N.D. Tiwari may… Continue reading N. D Tiwari and John F. Kennedy in Their Birthday Suits

The Mother

A doctor is talking to a mother.   (Doctor) “Where most children grow stronger as they get older, your son is going to get weaker. He’ll lose the ability to move. He’ll lose the ability to breathe on his own. And one day, he’ll catch an infection that will spread into his respiratory system, giving… Continue reading The Mother