Teri Meri Prem Kahani:)

This song was the most searchable love song of year 2011. I just love this songJ. Kareena looks so beautiful and Salman khan looks so handsome like alwaysJ...Love the lyrics and I just want to end this day with the following link. Fall in love and just love your loveJ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OGtjqDNN3g

Video: Embracing Our Fallibility

My art teacher shared this video on her FB and told me about the same in my class with her. I watched it and this is really a video to be shared with all my readers

After watching this, I am happy that I did go wrong at many instances in my life as it gave me a reason to understand me as a person. I will not regret that someone else is responsible for my downfall or success. My failures are my assets as they took me to the venue of success. As I am responsible for my success, I am equally responsible for my failures.

This video is very much related to many of us and it needs to be shared with all of you.

This video talks about - “Most of us will do anything to avoid being wrong. But what if we're wrong about that? "Wrongologist" Kathryn Schulz makes a compelling case for not just admitting but embracing our fallibility.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QleRgTBMX88

CheerioJ

Thoughtful Quotes - Happy Republic Day!

Films might run on three things – entertainment, entertainment and entertainment BUT a nation also runs only on three things – unity, unity and unityJ

I am happy that this blog gives me the platform to share that I am proud to be an Indian. Often people take me as of some other nation and the moment they say it, I get impulsive to clarify – ‘I am Indian’. I speak as good Hindi as anyone of you. Just that, I cannot read or write it. I cannot put myself into any other nationality as I love India and I am proud to be an IndianJ

The link to my previous post – Republic Day Wishes!

http://www.doyouthinkyouareliving.blogspot.com/2012/01/republic-day-wishes.html

I read few quotes and there could be no day better than today to post.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.
I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

- Abraham Lincon

 It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

- J. Horace McFarland

Patriotism... is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

- Adlai Stevenson

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

- George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

- Mark Twain

In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot

- Mark Twain

Jeorge Bush after 9/11 attack - " Tonight, we are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom. Our grief has turned to anger and anger to resolution. Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done. "

A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
- George Santayana

He who loves not his country, can love nothing.
- Lord Byron

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

- Henry James

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

- Adlai Stevenson

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.

- Henry Ward Beecher

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

- George William Curtis

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

- Nathan Hale

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

- J. Horace McFarland

Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.

-Giuseppe Mazzini

Happy Republic DayJ

Republic Day Wishes!

Our country is not only our home but a shelter that gives us liberty to live, express and act.

2011 was a major year as India saw ‘Anti-corruption’ movement by Anna Hazare. We could feel the real meaning of ‘unity in diversity’. I welcome our 63^rd Republic Day with a poem by Rabindranath Tagore as below:

My Country Awake by Rabindranath Tagore

Where the mind is without fear and the head held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever-widening thought and action;
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

Happy Republic Day
Proud To Be An Indian!

Satanic Verses vs. Salman Rushdie

When an author writes, he is just venting out his beliefs and feelings. It is a one man’s opinion and learning. His idea is communicated through his writings and it might interest a target of audience. But the purpose of writing is never to transform target audience into his beliefs. People read someone as they could connect to that author or like his writings. Nothing more than that!

Why am I writing this?

I have read almost all the links around ‘Satanic Verses’ by Salman Rushdie. I am trying to understand what is that content that is stopping a 65 year old author to visit Literature Festival even virtually?

 I read all the links and I am just at one conclusion can one book (I agree might have hurt sentiments of particular target audience) overlook his contribution to the field of literature. Is it right to forget what all he has contributed to the field of literature as the names are not few. ‘Midnight’s Children’, ‘Shame’, ‘Nicaragua’, ‘The Ground Beneath Her Feet’, ‘Shalimar the Crown’ and many more are his opinions that were appreciated and awarded.

I am not in favour or against of all those who read him and all those who are not supporting his visit to India. But just a thought, it is a world of opinions and we cannot always write for everyone. There will be 10 writings that might be liked by people though one writing that can be criticised. But what is the ratio that matters. Literature Festival is to acknowledge all those who have given their lives to writing. An author visits a festival not just for his one book but his contribution to literature on a broader perspective.

I will certainly plan to visit it next year if things go fine in my life to know more about the Festival, personally.

It was a thought and I just blogged!

What's in a name? That which we call a rose

Some lines that I read and I loved. The reference of a rose is beautifully used in these lines. Thought to blog with my wallpaper.

Juliet:
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."

Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)

It is right if we understand the real meaning of the above lines that name is just a reference to an identity. What makes one is not his or her name but what they are as far as their nature and traits are concerned. I will be the same even if I am addressed as ‘Archana’, ‘Archi’, ‘Archie’ ,’Archu’ and so on. What will define me is what I am as a person – good or badJ

But then we cannot deny the fact that name is our identity. It gives us an existence.

Cheerio!

Journey :Stories to Articles!

From stories to articles, I still have a long way to go. The link you see below is my first article that is published under the category ‘Inspired people development articles’. I wrote couple of stories for this site and I read few articles that prompted this thought to write an article now. This article is compilation of my homework around counselling for more than a year. I was always told by my doctor to see a counsellor to handle my pain management. To transform my negative thoughts to positive ones, he believed I need a counsellor.

My sessions with my counsellor were limited to my post operative visits only, I never thought I need someone to counsel me to handle my pain. But to be honest, I read a lot about counselling and counsellors in last one year. Those two sessions helped me to deal with my pain management and believe in myself.  There are situations that demands someone to help us at certain times and that is what this article is about.

http://www.inspired-personal-development.com/counselling-an-unbiased-approach-to-better-living.html

CheerioJ