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Perpetual Shadows

It’s interesting how a fine morning suddenly transcends into a day of introspection. I had heard people say that a song can either make you forget everything or make you remember everything. Well, here it was a movie. It’s about a high school boy who battles his inability to make normal relations with people and being unable to “fit in”. This, he finds out stems from a childhood trauma of being sexually abused by a near relative. The movie brought back forcefully suppressed memories from my own past. I had been a child raised lovingly and protected by her family; but this beautiful landscape of childhood is marred by a particularly painful memory of being sexually abused as a child. What began as innocent hugs and caresses, turned into something so sinister, that it makes my fingers clench and I break out in cold goosebumps. For the longest time, I held myself somehow responsible for the entire ordeal. Afterall, how would a 7-8 year old draw any sense of what had happened? Th
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One Bucket of Life

ONE BUCKET OF LIFE “Thanks for nominating me for the ice bucket challenge! I further nominate XVZ for the same!!” “NO.” My social networking pages have been going crazy with people uploading videos of dumping cold water/ice on themselves for the past weeks. Not knowing why so many people would put cold water on themselves, i did what any of us would do, I Googled it. The   Ice Bucket Challenge, sometimes called the   ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, is the activity involving dumping a bucket of ice water on someone's head to promote awareness of the disease   amyotrophic lateral sclerosis   (ALS) and encourage donations to research. As i read more about the challenge I realized two things. One, ALS is a horrible, painful and expensive disease which makes the person suffering from it questions his reason for existing.   Secondly, in a country like India, where women in villages trace many kilometres to get drinking water, is it justified to dump buckets of water over ou
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yolo!

                                                                      YOLO!! What is teenage hood if not the adventurous, often foolhardy, desire to test the limits of acceptable behavior—because hey, why not? YOLO! YOLO', meaning You Only Live Once, is a viral quote mostly used by the teenage community. “YOLO”, popularized by the 2011 song " The Motto " by Canadian rapper   Drake , is used as a self explanatory phrase to justify any, let’s say, not so smart activities by many teenagers nowadays . Our generation says, Life is short and we live just once, why not live it to the fullest and have all the fun we can. But it seems that our definition of fun and living to the fullest has broken the socially accepted ones, often inclining to behaviours which harm the person as well as the society. Being a teenager was never easy, the strings of childhood are still attached and we are expected to act and think in a mature way, which give way to an indefinable pressure
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fundamental duties

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Rights, as said are the most crucial aspect of human society, without which no man can get equal status and opportunities in any field of life. Thus we have been granted a considerable number of rights by our constitution that has improved the way of living. It is evident that we all are well aware of our rights and are ready to fight for justice. But we do forget that besides our fundamental rights, we also have fundamental duties that our constitution calls upon us to perform. Freedom does not come for free after all!! How many of us have come across situations when public property is being destroyed as an expression of anger by the public themselves and we coolly say that this is common in India? But why do we forget that safeguarding public property and giving up violence is one of our fundamental duties?? The question which is foremost in my mind is that WHY are we always ready to draw our swords at the drop of the hat? And even so when our constitution asks us to develop
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