Regressive??

Author : Bhagyashree      Blog : Searching Self      Date : 6/18/2013 6:51:40 AM

'Frankly I did not know the meaning of the word Regressive. The meaning given in Oxford Dictionary is ‘moving backwards’. If by using the word regressive we mean that we are going back in time, going back to the Vedic times. Then wow what joy. If you are one of those who have lifted their […]'

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Some facts

Author : Bhagyashree      Blog : Searching Self      Date : 6/16/2013 5:26:12 AM

'This is a post written in 2010  but one which still holds true. Mergers, takeovers, even coalition governments look easier when compared to feeding a child recovering from illness. Who said that inane objects can’t think; my gas cylinder always empties on a weekend You will always get great offers when you have already purchased […]'

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For a cup of coffee

Author : Bhagyashree      Blog : Searching Self      Date : 6/11/2013 5:43:59 AM

'Sandhya loves coffee. At home she drinks filter coffee. No she is not a south Indian but she likes filter coffee. Her ex- neighbor got her used to it and from then on she makes it at home. There is something mesmerizing about mornings with coffee in one hand and the newspaper on the other. […]'

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Beautiful eyes

Author : Bhagyashree      Blog : Searching Self      Date : 6/8/2013 6:00:47 AM

'Those eyes... those big eyes like lotus blooming in a pond, could drive anyone crazy. I fell for her. We could spend hours. Me gazing at her eyes. She amused at my gaze. Her eyes spoke. Of love, of lust, of need. She moved in and I would be with her every second, to see […]'

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Glutton

Author : Bhagyashree      Blog : Searching Self      Date : 6/6/2013 5:55:25 AM

'Kavita was very happy. Today she was going for the dinner buffet at the Ramada. Her maid was on leave for the past one week and she was in no mood to do the dishes. Also she had heard that the buffet at Ramada was good. So she decked up and waited anxiously for her […]'

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Little steps…..Giant Leap

Author : Bhagyashree      Blog : Searching Self      Date : 6/2/2013 4:58:09 AM

'I have been struggling to better myself. Trying to control the temper which frays all too often, the face which even without words expresses the inner turmoil, the heart which withers when things do not go its way. And so in the beginning of May I thought of working stead fast on five ‘points’. Five […]'

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Your call

Author : Bhagyashree      Blog : Searching Self      Date : 5/28/2013 5:34:32 AM

'I was browsing. A post here and a prompt there. A like here, a comment there. And then came your call. We spoke, we became cheeky and then you dropped the bombshell. I kept the mobile down, looked up at the screen, oh so lovingly but no, there would be no more comp time. I […]'

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Pain

Author : Bhagyashree      Blog : Searching Self      Date : 5/23/2013 5:58:56 AM

'Aditya opened the door to find Nita holding her forehead. Seeing him,she screamed, ‘I have a terrible headache, I am sure I have brain tumor’. Aditya dropped his bag and took her to their family doctor. The doctor asked her to go to the ophthalmologist saying that maybe she has a vision problem. Aditya gave […]'

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A cut, a nip and a tuck

Author : Bhagyashree      Blog : Searching Self      Date : 5/15/2013 7:25:33 AM

'It is the 1980s, J has not conceived even after repeated tests she does not know the reason why. Morose she leads her life. Her vision gets faulty suddenly and she goes to the Ophthalmologist, he suspects something awry and sends her for a brain X-Ray. His suspicions come true. She has pituitary adenoma. A […]'

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Dark Secret

Author : Bhagyashree      Blog : Searching Self      Date : 5/12/2013 6:01:11 AM

'We all called her Aayi, she was a mother to all. Her children were away in the USA. Daughter had married a South African,  son a German. But Aayi never cribbed. 'They are happy, that is all I want', she said. We worked for destitute women. Inspiring some, motivating others. Finding new opportunities, selling their […]'

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Silent conversation

Author : Bhagyashree      Blog : Searching Self      Date : 5/6/2013 10:50:20 AM

'We were moving out of the mall when suddenly someone pulled my dupatta. I turned angrily. It was a woman in a hijab, with only her eyes visible. She raised a hand to ask for alms. I stared still angry at her. I looked at her eyes, they were watery and she seemed to say,  [...]'

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Happiness at a rupee

Author : Bhagyashree      Blog : Searching Self      Date : 5/4/2013 5:56:15 AM

'Way back in the nineties, telephone was still a novelty and obviously mobile phones were unheard of. Call charges were high in the morning and there were reduced rates for the evenings and late nights. Which meant that we girls in the hostel of Maharani’s College Mysore rarely spoke to our family. The office was [...]'

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‘Gift’

Author : Bhagyashree      Blog : Searching Self      Date : 4/28/2013 6:18:35 AM

'We came back with a gift. The meeting had been with a travel agency. They had some travel packages. Though we declined their offer, we were given a gift. We came home, I had some chores to finish but the kids were anxious to know what was in that gift and so they opened it. [...]'

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Of laukis and bhindis

Author : Bhagyashree      Blog : Searching Self      Date : 4/25/2013 5:24:37 AM

'‘Eeks lauki’, screamed Ajay. I let out a sigh. I admit I am no master chef but I do try to cook a variety of cuisines err Indian, Chinese and Italian. I am appreciated by everyone except my family. And the worst of them is my teenage son Ajay. He has always been a fussy [...]'

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Safety, what is that?

Author : Bhagyashree      Blog : Searching Self      Date : 4/21/2013 6:04:55 AM

'In an age where in parents have to work to sustain the family kids stay indoors; for no one takes them out to play. Standing, nose pressed to window grills they watch the world pass by.   Some where else kids do play in the belief that all is fine. Parents do watch out for [...]'

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Practice, it is…………..

Author : Bhagyashree      Blog : Searching Self      Date : 4/18/2013 5:39:51 AM

'I call  my father on his mobile, he picks it up and speaks about a minute and then says ‘ I don’t know what else to speak’ and then passes the phone to mother. And then for the next minutes when me and amma are speaking, he will be prodding her from behind. As far [...]'

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Fortune favors the brave

Author : Bhagyashree      Blog : Searching Self      Date : 4/15/2013 6:36:01 AM

'I have always been an outsider. When I was living in the North I didn’t fit in because I was basically a South Indian. When I came to the south, my accent classified me as a Northie. Now when I walk into the office in my salwar, women/ ladies/girls look at me and snigger. No, [...]'

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बदलते वक़्त

Author : Bhagyashree      Blog : Searching Self      Date : 4/10/2013 6:05:10 AM

'कपडे तह कर में अलमारी में रख रही थी की मुझे ठक-ठक की आवाज़ सुनाई टी। बाजू वाला मकान खाली  था सो मैंने सोचा की शायद नए किरायेदार आये हैं।  पर नहीं, आवाज़ तो  घर के भीतर की थी। ‘बिट्टू , बिट्टू घर आ गए हो क्या?’ मेरे पांच वर्ष के बेटे को मैं खेलने ग्राउंड [...]'

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Simple Joys

Author : Bhagyashree      Blog : Searching Self      Date : 4/8/2013 9:45:53 AM

'When the mind is engaged and the senses are busy; everything becomes joyful The sun is shining bright ( a tad too bright) but I am happy. It just means that my clothes will dry quicker I have a horrible throat congestion coupled with some wheezing but I am happy. I may lose some weight, [...]'

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Lessons fro a sapling

Author : Bhagyashree      Blog : Searching Self      Date : 4/2/2013 5:57:32 AM

'Kirti opened the door. Joy Uncle’s voice boomed, “Who is it?” ‘It is me’, she said. ‘Ahh Kittu, come here’, he said. By here she knew that he meant his terrace garden. She found hm tending to a tiny sapling. Joy knew that something was wrong otherwise Kittu would not have come to him in [...]'

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