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The Burden of a Generation Ahead: A Self Portrait

Its not always about having an inferiority complex, but sometimes it do happens so that circumstances arise such that you in spite of being well aware that you are better than the other person, start having an inferior feeling. It has been quite of time for be to be friends with the present generation of some of the most well known and prominent families of the state, and when you come into a close association with such people and start discussing family achievements and history, no matter how big achievement you have, you ought to feel a bit small. It is usually said that, its is all your hard  work that matters in the long term, but in a real sense, you need something inherited. What is actually common to all the successful tycoons of the present age, its that all of them had someone back in the history setting up everything to have a luxurious life of the forthcoming generations, and the only thing they had to do is expand their hor...

Congratulations You are SINGLE

I usually don't write this kind of stuff, but after having experienced various relationship related traumas of my friends, mind it, its my friends not me, I am compelled to share my thought. Once there was a time, when in our friends circle, we used to search for a guy who was into a relationship, but with time as trend changes, currently it happens so that we look for absolutely the opposite. Now we look for a guy, who is single and hail his luck.  With the advent of time, just as it has changed our life style patterns, the so called 'rules and regulations' of relationship has also been altered to a lot of extent. As the popular saying goes, 'Girlfriends and Boyfriends now a days can touch each other but can't touch each others Cell phones' . Whoever said this, must have the wisest and the most sensitive man of the century. With each other, couple share a different life, while away without each other, they are some one different. But the real problem...

Maa or Mom: Its not a Choice

Few days back, I was walking past this construction site, when this child of a construction worker came running to his father and shouted, 'Papa, mujhe kuch paise de do '. The moment I heard this, the first thing that stuck me was that, in urban India, the local salutations for father and mother, i.e. ' Maaji or Pitaji' have almost perished. No where in the Indian cities nowadays we find children using the traditional salutations for their father and mother. The words Mama, Papa, Mom, Dad , have replaced all.  I come from the state of Assam, where we use the word ' Deuta ' for Dad and common Maa for Mom, but hardly I find my friends using the salutation. Unknowingly we are making our traditional salutation extinct. It can be assumed that about 80% of the present generation in the cities have almost left the use of such salutation. Where is the impact is not so much in the rural area. If we go for the analysis of the probable reasons for this change, the ...

Markets Here and There: A Comparison between Vegetable Markets of Delhi and Guwahati.

It has only been six months since I started cooking on my own, but within this span I have developed a very good taste of visiting the vegetable markets. As a child, I generally accompanied my father to the Beltola weekly market every Sunday, and as such I had this close association with Vegetables for a long time. In addition to that, occasional visits of the S abzi bazaars of Ganeshguri and Fancy Bazar also helped me acquire and develop the knowledge of Vegetable shopping.   As my father says, there is skill in buying vegetables, this are commodities that do not come with any guarantee or with any exchange policy, but has utmost importance in our life, which cannot be compromised, and as such we should be careful enough that whatever we buy, it should be the best. After coming to Delhi, and spending my initial few months in a hostel, when I actually started to live on my own and started cooking, I rediscovered my old interest of visiting Vegetable markets. So from Uttam Na...