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Why To Celebrate & How To Celebrate This New Start ?

What is the newness of the year? Where is the freshness of it? We know that we have been growing from our babyhood to adulthood. We did grow, and there was moment-to-moment newness in our life, and we know that we are becoming newer and newer every moment. If that is the case, what is so special about New Year? At one second past midnight on January 1, the day will changed from Saturday to Sunday, usually an unremarkable transition of no special significance. But somehow we've decided that this change, which will end one year and begin the next, is different.Why does the start of the New Year carry such special symbolism? Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a pause, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. My teacher always says that New Year is a day, to tune the rhythm called SOUL, with best chords called EXPERIENCES and play the guitar called LIFE. Yes. This is the time to reflect upon ourselves, to review our mistakes and learn/unlearn...

Letter To Vaikunta

My Dearest Grandma, Words can’t describe how much you are missed here. If heaven wasn’t so far away I would be up there in an instant. No matter what you will always be in our hearts. I knew I would think about you, but not being able to physically hold you or give you a kiss was driving me crazy. It’s so hard to be at our home when you’re not there.  Since the time I could walk, talk and remember, you were with me. You looked after me, fed me, defended me, and played with me. You told me Ramayana and Scenes from Krishna’s life as bed time stories so that I would go to sleep. You cooked me a delicious meal every day. You helped me always. You were with me for whole of life and suddenly you had to leave forever.   Not a single day passes without me thinking of you. Yesterday was your birthday and I could not sleep.  I want you to know that I think of you every day. I want you to know that I miss you more than anything, and I would give anything to tal...

Crossroad

Guess life is really a road marked by crossroads. It's not the long and winding stretches that will hurt us the most. It's the crossroads. We make a bad choice and it's a tumble and a rumble before we get back on our feet again. But we'll get back on our feet. We'll find ourselves. And then we’ll be off to our next adventure; Crossroads, I mean. Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home. Very often in our lives we find ourselves standing at a major crossroad where have to make an important choice. It is at these crucial junctions that we need to make important decisions about matters that might have far reaching consequences in our journey and a long-lasting effect in our lives. I’m not talking about simple choices such as a car purchase or figuring out your weekend plans. I’m referring to the bigger decisions such as whether should marry or re-locate to another country, ...

India's bid for NSG Membership

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When we all talk about India’s failure in getting Nuclear Supplier Group membership, This blog is to throw more light on what NSG is all about and its background. What is NPT ? Before understanding what NSG is all about, one must know about the Non-Proliferation Treaty. NPT as it most commonly known is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. This treaty came into effect in 1968. It recognized the countries that had nuclear weapons and that time as Nuclear Weapon States and other signatories as Non-Nuclear Weapon states. The treaty recognizes five states as nuclear-weapon states: the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China (also the five permanent members of the United...