Author - Jui Purohit.

Today everyone is talking Politics. Everyone has sides to take. Their own points of view. Their own justifications. But here is what famous people in the past had to say about politics..... "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it correctly and applying the wrong remedies" - Groucho Marx. "Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason" - Mark Twain. "No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and two. Whatever is number three is far behind" - Dr. Thomas Sowell. "Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times" - Winston Churchill. "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned tha...

When you arrive at the end of a year, you tend to reflect on things and incidents that happened to you throughout the year. Then you start analzying the pluses and minuses. You feel - things should have been better, things should have been 'that' instead of 'this'. You regret doing certain things. 'What ifs' start popping in your head - What if I hadnt said that? , What if I hadnt been there? or Had been there? etc..etc... Even though all this goes on in your mind - always remember - that you have grown as a person this year. You have had your share of ups and downs - you have climbed mountains of tedious tasks and descended valleys of work loads. You have achieved your set of goals. Those moments werent invain. They all added up to your skillsets, added up to you knowing what not to do again, added up to you being a better person. What's more important is that you are 'breathing', you are 'living' and you are fit and fine. Be ...

Human tendency is to believe what we see and hear. Its the faith that distinguishes the individuals. If you have faith in things, no rumors, would change what you believe in. Faith is seeing light with your heart, when all your eyes can see, is darkness. They say faith can move mountains! Even when you dont see the whole staircase, faith is what makes you take the first step. Its the trust you put in - may be its God or a Godfather or any other unknown power you believe in...that makes you believe to move ahead. "Man often becomes what he believes himself to be" - rightly said by Mahatma Gandhi. If the freedom fighters hadnt believed in 'freedom', we would still be slaves to British. They had strong beliefs and they put in their faith - faith in fighting and winning over - and hence we are breathing freely today. But sometimes we are misguided - we have superstitious beliefs and faiths. Such beliefs are actually of no use to mankind. I know that everybody ha...

I wish there was a time machine and I could time travel to revisit my past! Dont you all think so too sometimes? I miss being a little kid with no stress, worries or care in the world. I would love to revisit my childhood. I wish I could go back in my life - not to change anything but just relive fews things twice. I keep telling my kids - "you should go out and play more. Enjoy your childhood. Dont waste time infront of stupid screens. You have alot of energy, stamina, you have alot of enthusiam so just run, jump and play till you drop".  Ricky Schrodder rightly said - 'I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger'. Given a chance who wouldnt want to be young again? Now that we are grown-ups, we have to have a certain way to carry ourselves. We need to behave when in public. We have 'n' number of restrictions as adults, which we never had and we never minded, as kids. Wasnt it beauti...

The other day I got a call from my Mavshi (Aunt). She likes reading my blogs, she said. But the view she shared with me gave me a different perspective to think. She suggested that I should keep aside my 'woman point of view', my 'effeminate thoughts' and write something that both the sexes can appreciate. So heres something I came up with today. Hope you readers like it and relate to it, too! Men are from mars and women from venus! Yes, we all agree. I am taking references from my earlier blogs to see how Mars and Venus are different! On a relxed day, when its decided to go shopping - A Man would prefer to go gadget shopping. He would love to go to a Croma, or some digital store, a Bose or JBL gallary. He would love checking out the new digital stuff around, test the speakers and amplifiers - what sounds best! But a Woman - her happy feet would take her to a Sephora, a Vero Moda, a Caprese store or a Catwalk. She would love to go to a linking road or a fa...

I like to watch movies just like anybody else. The genre of movies people watch, varies according to their taste. Comedy, Horror, Science fiction, Romance, Action, Adventure, Crime, Animation, Drama, Documentry, Thriller, Epic, Biographical, Sports, Fantasy, Musicals, Historical, Superhero, Silent, Melodrama, Satire, Parody...and the list of genre is unending. While going through some movie articles I also got to know some new genre like - Noir - stylish Hollywood crime dramas, Slasher - subgenre of horror films involving psychopaths, Experimental - also called avantgarde cinema that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non-narrative forms. The movie buffs tend to watch movies very seriously. I really fail to understand (and at times envy) how can they memorise the dialogues, the scenes - frame by frame, what comes next, costumes worn by actors etc. They are also curious about what happens behind the scenes, the whole technical and political process of i...

My whatsapp friends' group chats recently, are regarding - how our kids behave these days! We have been discussing this alot. Our kids these days have more than everything they need to have. They can have all the cake by themselves, they can have much more candies than their little hands can hold, they have toys overflowing from their cupboards, they have limitless exposure to 'n' number of things which may be beyond their age to understand or sustain to. Having said this - how do we bring them up? how do we guide them? how do we make them understand the worth of everything? These are the major problems every parent faces today. I am not an 'authority enough' to give hundred percent solution to all this. But I would like to share my experiences. My friends and me have kids of somewhat same age. The older ones are in their adolescent phase. They need a guide, a friend to talk to. Discuss their problems. Speak their minds out. While some kids are open eno...