I just quit my IT career of 11 years and travelled to the UK to do an MA in Creative Writing...I may have gone crazy...but I love being able to afford this craziness....
 

At Last! After a long long time!!!
 

Search for happiness within yourself. It is there somewhere!
 

I am back after a long sabbatical..
 

My Husband, Namit Sharma (Born: 25th March 1978) passed away on May 18th this year. He was 30 years old when he decided to end his life. Though I cannot justify his way of dealing with the problems in his life when he had so many other options, I cannot fight with him about this any more. I know what it means to actually lose someone now that there is no way of letting him know how much I miss him.

I hope and pray to God that wherever he is now, he should be happy and never lead a loveless life. God please take care of him.

I miss you kaku and I will keep you alive in my heart always.




 

Never in the past I have wished that I could be a child again. Never in the past have I felt this shaken ever. My soul is being attacked brutally again and again and, for now, I feel too helpless to act. I guess somewhere I have to draw a line to this uncertainity and stop caring about those who don't care about me. I may need to walk out of a relationship that I have cherished for so long...but there seems to be no other option.

Hope for the best. Have decided to give him a last chance. Hope he is doing this out of some ounce of love for me...
 

People say that my writings are gloomy. Well I accept it but I refuse to believe that they are not good just for this reason. I think that a writing can only be good if the author relates to it. And I only write the stuff I can relate to. In the last few years, our family has been through deaths of a lot of loved ones. While some of these incidents were expected and were easier to come to terms with, some still haunt me. I discovered that the only way I can stop these from haunting me is by writing them. The sudden unexpected death of my paternal aunt led to the following story, which tries to summarize her tragic life:

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Here is my Nishu update - for those who don't know, Nishu is my one year old nephew.

Till now, Nishu used to imitate us by holding the phone on his neck (he did not understand that we put it on our ears ) and smiling. The concept of talking to someone through the phone was still not clear to him. Now as my parents babysit him everyday, I call them up and ask them to hand over the phone to Nishu. Now, he is beginning to understand that you can actually talk to someone through the phone.

So now, he holds the phone to his ear and listens to what I say. And he is actually beginning to respond to things like "How does a dog bark?", "How does a Frog Croak?". Yesterday, I asked him to show naani where are his eyes. He did that too.

In a few days, I expect to have a meaningful conversation with him on phone. It is still to be seen whether he recognizes the voice in the phone as me.

Growing up is nothing short of a miracle.
 

which means "Stars on the earth" is a movie about a 9 year old boy, Ishaan, who suffers from dyslexia, which his parents and teachers fail to understand. As a result he undergoes physical and verbal abuse when he fails to pass his exams or fails to interact well with the children of his age. His family removes him from his school and packs him off to a boarding school so that he can be disciplined and get rid of his "attitude problem".

Being separated from his family, breaks Ishaan's spirits and he stops painting, at which he is really good. A temporary arts teacher is pained by Ishan's silence and tries to find out the cause of his depression. He reads his notebooks and identifies Ishaan's condition as dyslexia which had also affected him in his childhood.

After this, he visits Ishaan's family and tries to make them understand that their child needs emotional support. At first the father is defensive but later realizes the truth. By this time, with the help of the arts teacher, Ishaan improves his reading and writing skills and also starts painting again. When Ishaan wins an art competition in the school, his brilliance and intelligence is finally revealed to the world.

The movie is beautiful and a must watch especially for parents and teachers. Even for the rest of us, such movies make us see the light. The subtle taunts on the parents of the dyslexic child who is always expected to follow the footsteps of his brilliant elder brother are successful in touching the audience. I guess atleast 25% of the people who were watching the movie, came out as better people.

A job well done Aamir Khan.