My Pensieve

I dedicate the idea of this post to a certain Miss I.B. who ingrained the basic idea in me long back in my middle school days at SPV.  At that time my mind wasn't profound enough for this concept. I could never comprehend it yet it remained in my subconscious only to emerge at a stage of life when I could actually appreciate it and relate to it. Usually everybody has this one best friend (guy or girl) that they simply cannot do without. Miss I.B. had 5 best friends!! I would innocently ask, "How can you have 5 best friends? Best friends can only be 1, the rest 4 maybe good friends or even very good friends. Isn't it?" But she would patiently explain - "All my best friends are for different moods, times and needs. One loves to shop and would come with me for shopping when I want to go. The other loves movies and would watch movies with me. The third loves partying and would dance with me and so on and so forth. Yet they are ALL my best friends. None is lesser tha

Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham was all about loving your parents, or so Karan Johar wanted us to believe. Though that is a moot point, I am not concerned with it. Irrespective of what it was, K3G is and will remain (I hope for sometime more!) one of my favourite movie. Even though the storyline did not exactly justify the tagline (as per all the people who exert influence on my thought process :D), yet, the tagline did and always does make me think. So does the dialogue by SRK to kid brother Hrithik - "ज़िन्दगी में कुछ बनना हो, कुछ हासिल करना हो, कुछ जीतना हो, तो हमेशा अपने दिल की सुनो, और अगर दिल से भी कोई जवाब ना आये तो अपनी आँखें बंद करके अपने माँ और बाबा का नाम लो, फिर देखना तुम हर मंजिल पा सकोगे, हर मुश्किल आसान हो जाएगी, जीत तुम्हारी होगी, सिर्फ तुम्हारी." Filmy as it is, the strength of it can be tested in real life. It works :) I remember my mom telling me something similar (when I was fretting for an impending exam!) much before it became popular by K3G, though ofcourse no

Imitation, is an art. Yes it is. Whether it is in the form of mimicry or imitating a jewelery design or a painting of a master. All these require great skills ranging from observation to more observation and some more observation! Not everyone can copy! It is important to get all the aspects of the object right. From the voice to the stance The swagger to the dance, It ain't nothing But the deep observation and not just a glance. It requires paying utmost attention to the details, the minutest of details. So how can it not be an art?

One of my favourite applications on the social networking site 'Facebook' is the one which goes by the name - "God wants you to know". I check God's message to me everyday. I am fully aware that such applications randomly generate messages for each user. They are not emotion sensitive and are not aware of what is happening in their user's lives. They do not and cannot generate custom-made messages. Yet, despite knowing all this, I am a devout follower of this God on facebook :-) Invariably, they generate messages which are at most times thought provoking. They also, at other times, provide the perfect solutions to life's problems which the user is going through at that very time. They provide answers to so many questions that our life poses at us. One such God's message, which happens to be one of my favourites and also one I firmly believe in, is produced hereunder: "On this day, God wants you to know that all is well. All is going according to

During the course of a usual conversation between me (a lawyer-to-be) and my sister (an architect), we happened to discuss the need for basic architectural knowledge for an interior designer. While trying to explain the same, she told me that even an interior designer needs to have a fair idea about the dimensions, areas etc etc of the space they are designing. To this I responded, "But they just tell what is to be kept where, what kind of lighting, furniture, curtains should be used in co-ordination with the wall colours and other similar things." "Well", she said, "they also look into the flooring, which requires a knowledge about areas, scaling, drafting the designs etc." She added, "As a matter of fact, interior designers charge in terms of per square meter too, just as an architect charges per square meter for the design/lay-out." I still had my doubts. Probing further, I said, "It makes sense for an architect to charge per square meter