This is about the song which was used by the 1st Indian Astronaut Rakesh Sharma, in conversation with the then Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi.
Guessed it? Nope?
Okay, one more hint…
This is about the song that is the marching song for the Indian armed forces.
Ab pehchaana? Nope?
Okay, so this song, jo hum sabne school mein zaroor gaaya hoga is….Saare Jahaan se Accha!
We all know Jana-Gana-Mana was written by Shri Rabindranath Tagore. Vande Mataram was penned by Shri Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
Toh, Saare Jahaan se Accha was written by…?
If you don’t remember it now, it’s okay…not many of us do!
And that’s why this post should be worth your time! The story of the author of this song is pretty interesting, and an important chapter in India’s history!
This is the story of Muhammad Iqbal…who wrote the ‘Taranah-e-Hindi’, the Urdu language patriotic song that we now know as ‘Saare Jahaan se Accha’ !
Muhammad Iqbal
Before it became an anthem of opposition against the British Raj, it was published in a weekly journal called ‘Ittehad’ in 1904.
Now, if you’re wondering ki “Arpita, isme itna kya interesting hai, toh hang on!”
Interestingly, this song, which is now one of India’s patriotic song, was first publicly recited in British India’s Lahore (which is now in Pakistan, of course!). Muhammad Iqbal was actually invited to preside over a function at the Government College, Lahore, where, he chose to sing this special song instead of delivering a speech! How thoughtful, right?
Next in line, is the fact that the ‘Hindustan’ being referred to in the song is actually an area of land covering present-day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh!
Obviously, we now sing the abridged version of the original poem, but the original context matters, right?
If you’ve read it this far, you’ve earned a ‘kahaani mein twist’!
So, this person, who envisioned this ‘Hindustan’ as being better than the rest of the world, obviously believed in a pluralistic society with a collective and composite Hindu-Muslim culture.
In fact, The Father of our Nation even sung the song over a 100 times, during his time in Yerawada Jail in the 1930s!
Where’s the twist?
In 1910, the same person who wrote ‘Tarana-e-Hindi’ changed the lyrics to ‘Tarana-e-Milli’ in just a matter of 5 years! And the essence of this modified poem just wasn’t the same!
Actually, it was in contradiction with the previous one!
Why? Because even though the world remained the same, Mr. Iqbal’s way of viewing it had changed!
Now, it was less about seeing Hindustan as our homeland, and more about seeing the whole world as our homeland’ , and here ‘our’ refers to only one half of the Hindu-Muslim community- the latter one.
The person who chose to sing this symbol of unity instead of his speech, now talked about a separate nation for the Muslims, and became one of those who inspired the idea of the partition of his own homeland ‘Hindustan’ and the rest is history!
So the next time I hear ‘Saare Jahaan se Accha…Hindustan hamara’, I don’t think the feeling changes for me…what changes is my belief in the power of the pen, which comes with the realisation that “With great power, comes great responsibility”!
80% of what you eat and 20% of training is the golden rule for fitness, they say. Ab yeh toh ho gaya physical fitness ke liye. Par mental health ka kya? You’ve probably seen dozenbhar posts about mental health by now! What’s new here? I really believe that the same golden rule applies to your mental health as well! Haan, the ratio might differ but the elements remain the same. You can’t expect to have a perfectly toned and healthy body if you keep on eating junk food and unhealthy food all the time, right! Toh unhealthy cheezein apne dimaag ko feed karke mentally healthy rehna kaise expect kar rahe hain hum sab? No offense, but look around you, (or rather look at your phone!), see what you’ve been binge-watching lately, what you’ve been reading aajkal, what posts you’re viewing and see if they are really HEALTHY or just FUN! Ab normal diet ke liye toh yeh dilemma hai hi, ki jo tasty hai wo aksar healthy nahin hota, aur jo healthy hai wo itna tasty nahin hota! I feel aajkal hamari mental health diet ke case mein bhi kuch aisa hi ho raha hai, hai na? Haan, physical health maintain karne ke liye ekdum se junk food chhodke boiled vegetables toh nahin khaa sakte hai na. Par junk food ko healthy khaane ke saath swaadanusaar mila sakte hain. Similarly, in dark web series aur reality shows ke junk food ke saath kuch positive, kuch funny, kuch lighthearted mila diya karo, zyada nahi, bas swaadanusaar! Thodi der apne screen ki floating window se nikalkar apni room ki window se jhaank kar dekho!
Twitter ki chidiya ki jagah asli chidiya ki aawaaz sunkar dekho! Instagram ki pictures ki jagah apni purani album ki pictures ko dhundh kar dekho! Facebook ki jagah koi acchi book padhkar dekho! Snapstreaks ke saath saath, apne family aur friends ke saath yaadein aur kisse banakar dekho! Aur sabse important, recent emojis ki jagah apne current emotions pe ek nazar daalkar dekho!
Is virtual world ke high dopamine levels appealing hai par nourishing nahin! Haan, kuch dinon tak zara bland lagega un boiled vegetables ki tarah, par aapki mental health shayad badhiya ho jaaye! Aur jab control naa ho, tab CHEAT DAYS toh hain hi!😉
Itni shiddat se maine tumhe paane ki koshish ki hai, ke har zarre ne mujhe tumse milaane ki saazish ki hai!
Kehte hain ki…agar kisi cheez ko dil se chaaho toh puri kaayanat usey tumse milane ki koshish mein lag jaati hai.
Monsieur Ferdinand Cheval
Gaur se dekhiye is chehre ko! Yeh uncle ek aisi hi saazish ke shikaar hue the! Aaiye sunte hain is vaardaat ko anjaam kaise diya gaya! (Zyada der tak Sansani dekhna sehat ke liye haanikaarak ho sakta hai!)
Sunne walon…suno aisi bhi hota hai… Daastaan hai yeh ki ek tha naujavaan jo France ke ek gaon ka postman tha!
Baat hai April 1879 ki, when a 43-year old Ferdinand Cheval ( an extraordinary individual!), roz ki tarah apne free time mein, apni daily walk pe nikle the! (Just an 18 miles long walk! Extraordinary, told ya!)
Aur tabhi chalte chalte yunhi kuch toh mil gaya tha…yunhi kuch toh mil gaya tha…sare-raah chalte chalte…par kya?
Yeh- a sandstone shaped by water and hardened by the power of time!
Jis tarah thokar khaakar log sahi raaste par aa jaate hain, is patthar ki thokar ne Monsieur Cheval ko apne ek bhule hue sapne ki raah dikha di! Fifteen years later, his foot and the stone had reminded him of his long forgotten dream! (See the saazish?) That strange-shaped stone had piqued his interest and with that stone in his pocket, he returned to the same spot and found several similar stones.
And that set him on the path to turn his dreams into reality with the belief: “since Nature is willing to do the sculpture, I will do the masonry and the architecture”
During his daily mail round, he picked up stones and carried them home…pocket se basket, basket se wheelbarrow badalte gaye, but the one thing that remained constant was his perseverance…aur yeh silsila chalta raha, 33 saalon tak! Like all great people, he often worked at night, by the light of an oil lamp!
He spent the first 21 years, building just the outer walls! Built using stones bound together with lime, mortar and cement, the Ideal Palace, combines different styles with inspirations from Christianity to Hinduism!
The Ideal Palace (a glimpse)
Out of the numerous iconic phrases hand-carved by Cheval on the palace walls, the most iconic phrase he inscribed on the wall reads “1879-1912: 10,000 days, 93,000 hours, 33 years of struggle. Let those who think they can do better try.” (Could he BE more savage?)
The most remarkable feature of this palace is that, unlike other famous works of art, the architect of Le Palais Idéal had no formal training in masonry or architecture! Based on a couple of reference pictures he had seen on postcards and using his imagination, he built pieces of art that resembled those famous works of art that he had never actually seen! And after 33 years of hard work, he hand carved the following words on one of the palace walls- “The Work of One Man”
Another glimpseThe North Front
So if you ever feel ki akela insaan kya kar sakta hai….remember, binod toh akele hi nikla tha apna naam comments me likhne, log spam karte gaye, #binod trend karta gaya! #binod, also the work of one man (that went viral!)
Jokes aside, my takeaway from this story was- Poori shiddat se sapne dekho yaar, naa jaane kab aapka konsa bhula hua sapna sach ho jaaye! Gaane me kahun toh,
Chal bulleya chalna teri fitrat, rukna nahin tu raahon mein, Khud manzilein tujhe dhundhan aaye, itna asar ho aahon mein!
P.S. It’s the World Tourism Day! Is saal toh nahin jaa paaye, par ek din is jagah ko zarur dekhne jaisa hai! (Adding it to my bucket list now, are you?)
Apparently, a tiger is like that person in a group project who does all the work but jisko credit nahin milta! Movie ka naam hai The Lion King, par wo amazing, intimidating aur epic ROAR toh kisi aur ki hi thi! Par kiski? Tigers ki! I read this somewhere on the internet and was totally shocked! So, for the Lion King, they used some Tiger sounds, some Lion sounds, a voice artist with a trash can and an aircraft!
This was pretty intriguing so I checked out how a Lion actually roars! And….I was a bit disappointed! Because a lion’s real roar is not….quite….lion-like! It’s more like aansuon ka churan chabaake sher ne dakaar maara re! (True Bollywood fans would have read that tune mein!) Hear it for yourself!
A Lion’s roar!
Thodi aur jaanch-padtaal karne pe pata chala ki there’s a difference between a roar and a growl! If you wish to get into the technicalities, I’d suggest you to read the very interesting answers given by several animal enthusiasts on Quora! Par basically, growls amd roars serve different purposes, itna samajh lo!
Ab aati hai baat apne hero ki! The TIGER!
Almost every source on the Internet mentions that a Tiger’s growls and roars are more aggressive, intimidating, powerful and bone-rattling! Basically, everything you’d expect from a Lion’s roar! Yakeen nahin hota toh khud sunlo!
A Tiger’s ROAR!
Socho zara Lion King mein lion ki asli roar use hoti toh kaisa lagta?🤔
This is another reason why we shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover! And that’s just another reason to save our national animal from extinction! (Warna Lion ki dubbing kaun karega, bhai!)
Baat hai 14th August ki….(nahi, apne padosi desh ke independence ki kahani nahi hai yeh!)
Indo-Pak ka neverending war shuru hone se do saal pehle ek war khatam hua tha- the Second World War….yeh uski baat hai!
Toh 14th August 1945 ko Imperial Japan ne kiya surrender, aur isse New York me aayi khushi ki leher!
Khushi khushi me log nikal aaye Times Square ki sadkon par… Wahin se aayi ek tasveer pe bana hai yeh putla called ‘The Unconditional Surrender’. Ab aage rhyming sujh nahi raha, toh focus karte hain story par!
The Unconditional Statue by Seward Johnson
U.S. Army ka tha wo Sailor, War me Allies ka saath dene ke baad ab aaya tha New York wo kuch dinon ki leave par, On hearing the news of Japan’s surrender, he was glad the war was finally over!
Par yeh ladki kaun hai? Naam tha uska Greta Zimmer, Austria se bhaag wo aayi thi America ki dharti par (Kyun bhaagi thi yeh na pucho, tab Austria pe rule jo karta tha Hitler!)
Nurse jaise kapde pehne nikli wo daftar se, Jaanna chahti thi wo achanak itne log raaston par nikle kis wajah se…. (I don’t know why I can’t stop with this rhyming!)
Thoda nasha, thodi zyada khushi mein, he ended up kissing her, Captured by Eisenstaedt, this image published by Life Magazine, became really popular!
Dekho zara, is tasveer me aapko kya dikhta hai? Pyaar dikhta hai?
The V-J Day image by Alfred Eisenstaedt
Pyaar nahi, gratitude sahi, jataana chahta tha Sailor, Kyunki usne dekha tha war nurses ko, Okinawa ki ladaai mein, helping save the survivor(s)! (Yeh bekaar laga? Bollywood ke rap sune hain?)
Ab aata hai plot twist, she says it wasn’t her choice to be kissed! She wasn’t a war nurse either, wo toh thi bas ek dental hygienist!
Date par nikla tha wo kisi aur ke sang us din, She became his future wife, Oh, she’s also present in the picture, There she is, right above his shoulder, you can see her grin!
None of them was much affected by the picture; For years, they didn’t even know they were captured!
Cut to present day, The picture has became an icon of the V-J Day (V-J =Victory over Japan!). Greta ki kahaani saamne aayi bhi usi waqt, jab har jagah the #MeToo ke charche!
When, George Mendonsa, the sailor, died at the age of 92, Someone in Sarasota, spray painted on the statue, the words written were ‘#MeToo’!
Ab dekho tasveer me AAPKO kya dikhta hai? Ab bhi pyaar dikhta hai?
Disclaimer: Neeche likhi gayi baatein bhale hi padhne me kalpanik lagti ho, par asal mein satya ghatnaon par aadharit hain! (The following information may appear to be fictional content, but is actually based on real-life events!)
Imagine watching an ad like this one…
Kya aap ‘forever single’ memes se relate kar kar ke thak chuke hain?
Kya aap Valentine’s Day ki jagah Singles’ Day mana mana ke pak chuke hain?
Kya aapko real life me partner dhundhna chaand pe Vikram Rover dhundhne jaisa lag raha hai?
Toh aapki samasya ka samaadhaan hai hamare paas! Aap apna partner…..
Wait for it…
RENT kar sakte hain!
Sounds absurd but it’s true! In fact, it’s a booming industry in Japan! You can rent a girlfriend, a boyfriend, a wife, a husband, grandparents, grandchildren, other relatives, or an entire family!
The question is ‘WHY’? The answers lie in some famous Bollywood songs…
Tanhayee- aka Loneliness- one of the main reasons why this is a booming industry in Japan. Rental girlfriend, boyfriend, husband, wife, mom, dad, rental parents for single parents, infants, kuch bhi! Most rental companies have a cap on the maximum number of fake families an employee or actor can have. And these fake relationships can last for years! Mr. Yuichii Ishi, founder of the popular rental service companies has 25 fake families and has been the groom for almost 8 fake marriages (but he’s still single in his real life…लोल) So he’s the rental father to the daughter of one of his clients,who is a single mom,since the daughter was almost 8-years old. If the mom does not wish to disclose the truth to her daughter, Mr. Ishi will be acting as the father at the girl’s wedding, will be the grandfather to her children (if any), will be the ‘sasur’ to the girl’s partner for the years to come! So quite some commitment is required on part of the actors there!
Kaaran no. 2: ‘Kuch toh log kahenge, logon ka kaam hai kehna…’
Ab you’d say ki yeh toh India me bhi hota hai, (of course, tabhi toh yeh gaana bana hai) par these guys hire relatives for a fake wedding…bhale hi wo dulhe ya dulhan ki family ho ya directly dulha hi kyun naa ho! One of the clients had reportedly hired a fake groom for her wedding because the real groom was ‘really’ fond of tattoos (so much so ki Ghajini ki Tarah he had his whole body covered with tattoos)…and the bride’s parents wouldn’t approve of him in that avatar (toh…replace hi kar diya!)
Kaaran no. 3: ‘Madhuban me jo kanhaiya kisi gopi se mile, radha kaise naa jale’
Yes…the Hindi film logic! If one of the partners in a relationship feels like the other person isn’t giving him/her enough attention, they can simply hire someone attractive to make their significant other jealous!
Kaaran no. 4: ‘Pal bhar ke liye koi humein pyaar kar le, jhootha hi sahi!’
This is interesting! For this, let me use a real example… So a middle-aged Mr. Nishida has lost his wife to an illness and lost his daughter due to an argument! He has many friends and has enough social activities and a job to keep him busy throughout the whole day, but jab ghar aate hi ghar kaatne ko daudta ho, toh ‘yaadein yaad aati hain’.
So he rents two females to act like his beloved wife and his daughter. It’s simple, you need to describe to these actors, how you want them to behave and they put up a great show- something that is more pleasant than one’s real family!
This case is especially interesting because the rental daughter also tried to convince the client Mr. Nishida to call up his real daughter and apologize to her (in Japan, he can hire another person to do this also!)
At Family Romance, Mr. Yuichii Ishi, believes that these services should help people solve the very issues that have caused them to rent someone through these companies.
Kaaran no. 5: ‘Tera yaar hoon main’
That’s like Tinder for friends! Your solution to the problem of repeatedly cancelled Goa plans! Friends ne cancel kiya toh unko chhodo, random strangers ke saath hi chale jao! Not just that, movies, parties, family gatherings ya koi bhi situation where you need someone to accompany you, rent someone!
There’s a guy in the U.S. named Chuck McCarthy came up with the idea of starting ‘The People Walker’- a service that enables you to hire walking partners on-demand. The idea is to promote both- fitness and companionship!
Kaaran no. 6: ‘Naa tum hume jaano…naa hum tumhein jaane…magar lagta hai kuch aisa…mera humdum mil gaya…’
When businessman Takanobu Nishimoto realised that most young Japanese girls relate to the song ‘Main kya karu raam, mujhe Buddha mil gaya…haaye…haaye buddha mil gaya’, he decided to get them acquainted with the the BigB from the movie ‘Buddhah hoga tera baap’! (suppressed urge to play rapid fire intensifies…). That’s how ‘Ossan Rental’ came into existence! ‘Ossan’ is someone who is ‘middle-aged’ (loosely translated as ‘uncle’). You can rent an ‘Ossan’ to listen to your rant for ₹700 or so (that was the rate in 2019) or seek advice from someone who is more experienced in the subject called LIFE, but someone who doesn’t know you (to avoid any gossip or rumour mills).
Kaaran no. 7: ‘Kya karein, kya naa karein, yeh kaisi mushkil haaye…koi toh bata de iska hal o mere bhai’
That’s for any situation that is too awkward or embarrassing for you to face…like apologising to someone, listening to the ‘amritwani’ from your boss when something goes wrong, or when you want to breakup with your partner!
Kaaran no. 8: ‘Cry cry itna cry karte hain kaayko…’
Obviously, for money! This is similar to the ‘Rudalis’ we have in India. Basically, you can hire paid actors to cry on demand for you…ideal for funerals (only for funerals, I guess!).
Would something like this work in India?
While the rent-a-friend thing is currently available in some parts of India, I personally don’t believe that this industry would be as successful in India as it is in Japan. Kyun? Suppose you put a picture with a ‘rental’ partner/relative of yours on your social media page. I am sure there would atleast one rishtedaar or friend who’d end up knowing or asking something about who that person is…and then you know the drill, right?
More often than not, the inherently curious or ‘panchayati’ nature of Indians wouldn’t let anonymity prevail in that business!
So, shows like ‘Sajan re jhoot mat bola’ weren’t completely weird then! Well, atleast something like this would have helped Akshay Kumar’s character in Housefull!
(Note: This article does not capture the intricacies involved in the rental service process. For that, you can watch the following videos on YouTube.)
If Yusaku Maezawa knew about Bollywood, he could have just used this song for his proposal! Why? Because this line legit sums up his quest!
What’s he looking for?
Zaroorat hai, zaroorat hai, zaroorat hai, ek shrimati ki, kalaavati ki….seva karne ka koi clause nahi hai par! Mr. Yusaku Maezawa is essentially looking for a female partner to (wait for it) GO TO THE MOON WITH HIM! And for this very purpose, he has organized a ‘serious, one-on-one planned matchmaking’ (Just hope wo yahaan ke TV wale swayamvar jaisa naa ho)!
Who can participate?
Well, now no one can because the deadline for submitting the applications was Jan 17 (sorry girls!) but the criteria was: -Single women aged 20 or over -Bright personality and always positive -Interested in going into space and able to participate in the preparation for it (because Bollywood has rightly taught us ki raat din taaron me jeena veena easy nahi) -Want to enjoy life to the fullest -Be someone who wishes for world peace
Oh wait, Vadhu ke details toh de diye….ab Var ki kundli bhi dekh lete hain!
Mr. Yusaku Maezawa, a billionaire from Japan, who stands out in the conservative Japanese culture. The 44-years old entrepreneur launched Japan’s largest online fashion retail website called Zozotown, making it a household name in Japan (so basically, Japan’s version of ‘apni dukaan’). He’s also set to be the first private passenger to fly around the moon, in SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket that’s supposed to be launched in 2023. So Paisa…. check!✔️
It wouldn’t be surprising if Mr. Maezawa becomes a household name in countries across the globe soon since the guy is an expert at self-promotion. He holds the record for the most retweeted Twitter post (4.7 million retweets in January 2019). How? The trick was simple…he announced thay he will be giving away 100 million yen to 100 Twitter followers. As a part of his ‘social experiment’, on New Year’s Eve, he announced that he plans to give away more than 9 million dollars to 1000 Twitter followers to see if thst money makes them any happier! Uske liye karna kya hai? You guessed it, just retweet the post!( Mr. Ambani, any upcoming Jio scheme similar to this?) Toh Skills….check! ✔️
Oh, ladke me aur bhi gun hai ha! Ladka drummer reh chuka hai. In high school, he teamed up with his classmates to start their own rock band! He is passionate about collecting Japanese antiques, supercars, vintage wines. He seems to have a soft corner for artworks. In May 2016, he spent about 98 million dollars in just two days (you read it right) on artwork. Shocking the entire auction room crowd, in 2017, our hero bought an untitled painting by Jean-Michael Basquiat (estimated 60 million dollars) for….wait for it…..110.5 million dollars! So he now owns the most expensive artwork created after 1980 and the sixth most expensive artwork ever sold! However, he plans to loan the piece to institutions and exhibitions around the world and eventually make it a centerpiece at his museum in his hometown Chiba, Japan. He has also announced that he’s planning to take six to eight artists with him on the moon voyage. Kyun? The rationale is really good. Under the project ‘Dear Moon’, he intends to show the beauty of our planet to the people of Earth by taking artists up there so that they can come back, produce works of art that can convey that beauty and their (literally) out-of-the-world experience! In a world jahaan dost Lonavala aur Goa tak ke plans cancel kar dete ho, the task of getting artists to agree to go the ‘moon’ doesn’t look so simple! He has already invited American Film Director Damien Chazelle on camera to join him on this trip around the moon but Chazelle gave the same reply that we hear from our friends when we make plans….’dekhte hain’. Matlab, Kalaprem…. obviously check! ✔️
Money can’t buy happiness, they say. then you have this guy who is apparently trying to buy love! This seemingly absurd quest for a life partner to go to the moon has already attracted 27,000 applications. The final decision is expected to be revealed in March. SpaceX has scheduled this project to take off in 2023. The woman who wins this ‘dating contest’ will be the first woman to travel to the moon! Mr. Maezawa’s ‘swayamvar’ has been criticized by some for this very reason. They argue that the ‘first woman’ to travel to the moon shouldn’t be someone who simply wins a dating contest, when there are several women who work tirelessly to become astronauts or dream of becoming an astronaut. They believe this contest could set a bad precedent for the younger generation.
What’s your take on this? Share it in the comments below!
There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.
—Brian Tracy.
To me, the start of something new is like standing between the devil and the deep sea. Now I know that phrase typically means choosing between two equally undesirable or difficult choices (yep, Googled it for confirmation). But coming to think of it, would ‘deep sea’ mean something ‘difficult’ or ‘undesirable’ for everyone? If that was true, underwater diving wouldn’t be as popular as they are. In fact, beaches wouldn’t even be such a popular tourist destination in that case! Basically, sab aapke perception ka khel hai boss!
What I mean by ‘deep sea’ when I use that phrase is more positive. So when I am thinking of beginning something new, it feels like I am looking at this lovely deep blue sea- a sea of opportunities, expectations, excitement. Like the positive illusions that grip new lovers, every idea that I come up with during that time seems like a potential masterpiece! And so with a bright smile on my face and with a bag full of optimism, I finally start working on something new, and BAM! there’s the devil standing there bringing all my insecurities and apprehensions to life, enough to make me question this whole venture! More often than not, the devil wins. That’s what has resulted in the long list of ‘things I wish to try but couldn’t’ and the first thing on that list would be writing!
Then there are times when I ask myself, for how long do you let the Devil keep winning? How many times do you let the Devil get the best of you? How many things are going to be added to that ‘dreaded list’? Kab tak? Aakhir kab tak?
And I believe that any attempts to move out of one’s comfort zone take place during such times.
There’s an interesting change method we’ve recently been taught in class- the force field analysis. So Mr. Kurt Lewin, who introduced this method to the world and eventually to our syllabus, says that (Jargon alert!) for any change to be successful, the forces driving toward change need to outdo the forces that hinder progress toward change.
Relating this to the current topic, I mean that for any one to be able to step out of the comfort zone, one needs to really just throw the Devil in the deep sea! (Whatever that means) See it’s these kind of sentences that I come up with that make me question my writing skills! But no longer.This world we live in is an incredible place. There’s so much to ridicule, to criticize, but there’s so much more to appreciate, to simply share with others! Considering all this, should your writing skills or English really hold you back from expressing yourself?
So here I am, writing ‘mera pehla pehla blog’! The Devil is still there, with the insecurities and apprehensions (yep, turned out to be too heavy to pick up and throw in the sea so mission aborted), but I chose to turn back, look at the sea and enjoy the view, because that’s where all the action happens. After all,
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