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Retrieving Diversity in The Global Village

There were times when people adhered and lived by their ideas, social norms and customs. And, we started calling it 'culture'. In India, especially in the past, a foreigner would have experienced a cultural shock for every hundred miles s/he traveled. Such was the case in most of the continents. But the only downside of the diversity was that people were less open to other cultures and considered their own culture as the supreme one. There was celebration within the people of one culture but not between cultures. But what do humans do? Evolve. A human is said to be more evolved than he was a year ago or just yesterday. Thanks to the technology and globalization that made the strings that are connecting all of us stronger and making us more unified. In the process of amalgamation of cultures, we forgot the distinctiveness of each culture. What we adhere to now is totally chaotic to persons we had been as children and what we are being as adults (Refers to the people born in ...

Replenishing Your Response-Ability

This post is out of regret of not taking the opportunity. Do you wonder what opportunity it is? Is it the opportunity to earn money or gulping down the yummiest food in the town or the place you wanted to visit? No. Absolutely not. It was the opportunity to help. Usually in India, people prefer two wheeler vehicles unlike many other countries. I rode my sister to a phone shop where I sat on my bike as she left. After wasting my energy in useless thoughts, I saw a man trying to come out of the glass door that said 'pull' from the same shop my sister had gone to. He was old. Frail. Powerless. Like typical old men he wore a dhoti and held a basic phone. However I found his face looked disheartened. I didn't know the reason. I just assumed that he didn't find the thing he came for or more likely that he didn't receive enough help; the reason I was more inclined to believe. The phone he was carrying couldn't give them more money but they could have guided him. I...

HERO IN YOUR MIND

What does the word hero remind you of? Does it flash a picture of your childhood fantasy cartoon or anime hero? Or does it show yourself standing at the apex you had dreamed of?Hero is the synonym to accomplishment of dreams. It differs by age groups, regions and atmosphere they are grown up in. To me, being hero is being human. I would like to tell about the blog that it doesn't refer to a particular age group or region. It's for all of us. This is going to be psychological, motivating, financial help, travel, happiness, guiding, life,relationship platform. You have no idea what genre the articles come into with passage of time. It is vast spread and you can also see this blog as a problem solver. Feel free to post about anything regarding the articles or the troubles you are facing to be your kind of hero. Enough of the introduction, I suppose. (Giggling)