The Moonstruck Mystique...

It is Independence day tomorrow and one of the two days of the year ( cricket matches not withstanding) when the Indian feels patriotic. We will have the tricolour flying all over and people greeting each other ( if at all ); the goosebumps and the blood rush while hearing 'Vande mataram'. But to be very honest I don't think most of us, including myself, are patriotic in the true sense of the word. Pinning a flag on your shirt or singing the national anthem out loud does not prove our love for the nation. First, let us learn to value a human life. Let us learn to respect an individual for the choices he makes. Let him have his right to make them; infact give him a choice to make in the first place. Two days back I read a news item in the newspaper that a tribal girl was paraded naked through the village and it was even videographed and circulated as an MMS clip. And all this for having liked a boy outside the community. The girl and the father are under police protectio...

Mother, I wish I could understand the deal of how you think and how you feel... for when I'm happy, you just smile by an eye yet when I'm down, you pine more than I... When I want to give up, when I can take no more you take me by my hand and pull me ashore... You tell me I'm not alone, that together I am we whatever the problem, we'll find the key... How I forget every worry hiding in your bosom How you've taught me to never succumb... You are my conscience, my inner soul You are my strength and path to every goal... When I'm scared, when I'm unsure I yearn for you cuz you believe in me and know me more than I do... You are my life and this is true when I want the world, all I need is you.  ********************************************************************************* They say that God gives us mothers because he cannot always be with us. I'm luckier cuz I have two... they have always been my best friends.  I find it very interesting that tho...