Reaching There

Act I Life is full of coincidences. The other day while I was almost about to doze off during my layover at Dubai airport I met a friend of mine. Okay..a coincidence...good for me. The back-story is that I knew he was travelling and we discussed we'll meet up when we're back in India . However never for a moment it crossed our minds that we can plan to meet in Dubai! So a silly little coincidence.  Moral of the story is - good things can happen unplanned too. Act II I was pondering over the thought of changing jobs soon. With every change I get a box full of doubts as a gift from my mind! Ain't that a shame? Naah, that's the nature of an introvert (ref: Susan Cain's Quiet ). I was pondering over the "mysteries of universe" and "ephemeralness of life" and "Black Holes" and many more topics which would have been useful if I were a scientist or a psychologist.  All this "bullshit" was shot down when I r...

I don't know whether you've heard of Johannesburg based rock band, The Parlotones . They have some of the best songs I have heard in a while. Their 2009 album "A World Next Door to Yours" is worth a listen each time I play it. Anyways, I was listening to a song "I'll Be There". It has a beautiful melody but the lines that kind of got stuck within the corners of my brain go like this: Another love song A silly love song But it's our song And it's forever A simple set of lines but with a strong sense of intimacy and naivety. Intimacy, of course, because it's "our" song. Naivety, not in the sense the world (or dictionary defines it) looks at it, but in a way the emotions of intimacy (and simplicity) washes through any prejudices or worldliness. It was nice breath of fresh air. You can listen to the acoustic version here . This doesn't end here. I had this urge to define something that's my own. My own "love...

Free-dom [ free -d uh m ] noun the state of being free, rather than in confinement or under physical restraint. the power to determine action without restraint personal liberty , as opposed to bondage or slavery. The attempt to "define" this word would be a futile attempt to confine the vastness of emotions associated with it. Thinkers, aristocrats, philosophers, artists, political leaders, governments and ordinary people throughout the history of humankind have defined freedom in ways convenient to the time. Golshifteh Farahani Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani (Body of Lies fame) was banished from her home country of Iran - because she posed nude for a French news magazine, Le Figaro . According to the 28-year-old actress the aim of the photo is a symbolic gesture to remove the common taboos associated with nudity in society. You can read more about this at ' Iran's "nude revolutionary" Farahani says image is symbolic '. This...