A chaotic life deserves a peaceful weekend. Beaches have always been sign of peace for me, so has been the sea. The sound of the sea waves hitting the shore and the shrill wind brings calmness into you, which possibly cannot be defined in any language. Mumbai is hectic, at least my college is. After 8 hours of classes and insane number of readings, sometimes you just wish to escape into some place where you can at least hear yourself. The fascination towards sea further exaggerates your desire to look for the inner peace, which is important for you remain sane. But in the cosmopolitan Bombay, do you have any place where you can find peace and the sea together? I am new here. I had no idea, until this friend of mine informed me about Aksa Beach. A small and calm beach some 14 kms from Malad. And there I was exploring life, on this calm beach. The following Photo Story narrates the tale of life.     Peace and the beach When you are kid, you are just car...

Writing philosophical stuff does not really sell. People these days prefer spicy, GIF rigged, bullet listed posts. But people do make a business out of your emotions. They just say, it’s none of your business to comment and exploit my emotions; the entire society lives and survives on gossip and your vulnerability is someone’s talk of the day. So let’s talk about something that apparently bugs almost every college going social animal. Let’s talk about bridging a gap, filling a void and getting strings back. Not making things complicated, let’s talk about removing differences in friendship. The problem with most of us, in fact all of us, is that we are ready to forgive but never really admit that the mistake was ours. Emotions are always complicated are so are expectations. Hence the scope of emergence of differences is very high. The most painful thing that one can experience is probably the feeling of not knowing someone who you used to know the best. I mean just consi...

I have always wondered what would probably be the best compliment one can ever give to anyone. For a girl, saying you are beautiful like a hundred times a day would probably make her feel good, but will that make her happy. Though the concept of happiness has been used again and again to describe one's feelings, but it being very subjective make things really difficult to determine what makes you the happiest.  Again, if you are asked why do you like someone or rather what makes you like someone. This has been the trickiest question of the textbook ever. To be honest, yes most of the times looks do the trick and you start liking anyone, but have you ever realized if only looks can make you happy. And unless you are happy with someone how can you even dare to say that yes I do like someone. This clears the the thin line of difference between between liking and infatuation. A question that has been asked over and over again.  Again you might come across a question abou...

Defying that mask which you wear everyday before you go out of your home is really difficult. Many a times people tend to take you very differently, though in actual life things are way to different. The generation today is used to lead multiple different roles, all under the shadow of a mask. You have a social mask, a social media mask, a pretentious flirty mask and so many other masks. But at the end of the day, when you come back home, you shed your ego and mask, and get back into your real self. You realize how much fake you are and how much people can misinterpret you. “What you see me Is just a fake me A me stuck in morass Sinking with the weight of a lie” A Fake Me The issue with wearing a mask everyday is that you forget your self and people tend to think that you are someone else. For someone who is ever jolly might me shocking for others to realize that he has a sentiment inside it. There is defense mechanism through which many make fun of themselves to b...

I was in class VII, when I first came across the word ‘flirting’. (This apparently proves my weakness in vocabulary). Anyways, it was my friend Jyotirmoy who was talking about him flirting with a girl. As usual, an innocent me, asked, “ এই flirting মানে কি? ” Which apparently meant, ‘What does flirting mean? What an apt description he gave, he said, it is an act of conveying someone that you love him/her verbally, though you hold no feelings for him/her by heart. Mind it, class VII we were, and we were already discussing how to fake love. That was good old 7 years back, in a phase of time, where at least love was not merely a matter of one night stand. Over the time, Jyotirmoy did excel in the art of flirting on screen, no wonder, he is yet to score a girl, but he has surely excelled. This is an art, an art probably all of the cool dude modern guys surely have good hands on. But what I am more concerned about is actually described in the last part of the last line of th...

“ Shared  joy is a double joy;  shared sorrow  is half a  sorrow ” I would like my friends to concentrate on the second part of this famous saying, Shared sorrow is half a sorrow . The line has a clear meaning. When we are sad, share it with a close friend or relative, or sometimes even with a stranger and you feel much relieved. And I suppose everyone does that. The exceptions are only those, who are fortunate enough to have a strong inner will power and the unfortunate ones who don't have anyone to share, and usually all of the people in the unfortunate category upgrades themselves to the fortunate category with due course of time. Share, you feel light hearted Nevertheless, coming back to the sorrow problem, as Teenagers or rather official adults, what are the major reasons of sorrow that we share, particularly with our friends. I suppose 30% would share their family problems, restrictions; 5% about our studies, and 65% definitely...

After fighting the battles of Education and Job, most of the youths today ultimately go through a war in their homes regarding their take on Love Marriage or Arranged one. Though exceptions are always there, but generally our life is filled with various battles, the battle for Chocolate , the battle for Excellence in Studies , the Battle for Job and ultimately  the battle for marriage . Unlike the previous generations, where parents used to commit their close friends that 'our dosti will be converted to ristedari', parents these days are way cooler and acts according to the wish of their sons and daughters, though always in some corner of their mind they always long for Arranged Marriage, which seems quite obvious. But the real problem is with us. What are we suppose to choose? The most interesting fact of the present romancing generation is that, almost most of us are associated in multiple relationships. The magazine concept of Playboy, is qui...