Ritzy Karisma Redefined

Isn’t that headline shocking, sounds bizarre and runs down your nerves!! Think differently, out of the box in real and true sense! Now the actual question emerges... Are we Qualified? Have we heard the term female foeticide in animals, from where has this concept been seeded in and emerged? Probably the seed lies in ownership... Ownership of a girl child till her life!! From the day, this tradition of parting away from girls after marriage has emerged; lands into a series of cascading effects. One primarily being, the another house she lands into is mostly a frictional mode of relationships. The girl is always seen as a foreign body amidst the environment, the major shift of a foreign body attracts a lot of insecurities, adjustment of perspectives, thought processes, adaptation etc. the process is so complex that it lasts for years, passing on generations of the baggage of mom-in-laws; or if not, the modern day has a solution called divorce . Let us begin with the se...

Ahmedabad on 16 th March 2019, Saturday evening witnessed paparazzi, but this time it was a different purpose, that of transmitting the real message, the functional aspect of our life. LYLA is the first learning concert of India where the message was given by renowned celebrities from all walks of life. From a Bollywood celebrity to a painter, a writer to a Gay Prince of a Royal Family who was ridiculed and excluded from the family.   Learning as the concept goes, real life teaches you more than the books do.. Life itself is learning, a continuous process, the only constant! Shilpa Shetty Kundra told about her initial struggles, how from a middle-class upbringing she evolved as a sought after Bollywood celebrity, she also told the audiences about her failed relationships which were as if life was teaching her lessons. Rather than hovering over the gloom for a long time she moved ahead as a stronger person and found her life partner. Today she is not only an entrepreneu...

“Chaar Varan Ik Varan Karaya, Kal taran Guru Nanak Aaya” ; It’s the 550 th year when a legend called Guru Nanak. He was a true visionary, as the theories which we talk today were already explained by him while on a journey of preaching HUMANITY!! Kaliyug, as we term the current era, it is registered in scriptures in form of hyms, “Kal taran Guru Nanak Aaya”, that is Guru Nanak has arrived in this era and spread goodness around the world. He was born on full moon day, Kartik Poonam on 20th October 1469 as some scriptures mention, though being son of Kalyan Chand Das Bedi, a Brahmin...     He was always against the following few aspects: 1.        Caste system 2.        Favouring the Rich 3.        Gender Bias 4.        Pride and Ego He was a poet, philosopher and one of the biggest social-reformer of the current era. His first or openi...

Life brings all of us at various zones or points of pondering where we get the urge to find ourselves, better call it seeking or the churning of the life forces within, where energies surge and make us finally land us onto the right trajectory, after the big bang!  Finally , we travel or revolve and rotate on our or own unique paths, which are meant to be and true to ourselves. The biggest adventure you can take is to live  the life of your dreams." - Oprah Winfrey In a happening commercial city of Ahmedabad, where art and it's forms enjoy their own unique space! One Saturday, 16th February 2019 to be precise...I got to meet artists from various streams of existence.. they enjoy their own distinctive niche in the entire existence of the matrix and have gathered love, respect, and appreciation from their set of fan following. Art has various mediums of expression, language, poetry, stories, movies or canvas.  It's another platonic world where you me...

March 1930, a Swiss lens man leaves for a 20,000 km road journey, by car; and his works on our Satyagraha leader, freedom fighter, renowned for ahimsa (non-violence) worldwide, anti-British movement… all were published in his book Indien Kampft in 1931 … which as a cherished treasure have now been brought to India. Mahatma Gandhi in his daily routine, very personal moments, candid photography clicked by World famous photographer Walter Bosshard . Not only this, he travelled across Asia and captured a parallel world where  Mao Zedong, another revolutionary in China, was preparing for a war. Gandhi and Mao have contrasting similarities; both have been activists taking completely different paths as fighters. One chose non-violence for his country leading anti-British Quit India Movement and Mao in China fought a revolutionary battle against the caste and class demarcations. Walter visited China in 1938 where he also made a silent film on Mao, the training of Red ...

While we are stepping into the New year, 2019, another milestone in the lives of billions of humans, to recreate for themselves a future not only for ourselves but generations to come forth..  I take this opportunity to narrate some portion of the discourse on our platter as FOOD FOR THOUGHT which Dr. Vandana Shiva gave to Ambavadis.. Doctor who Dares.. she is the crusader, the torch bearer who is the ray of hope in farmers life. Indian farmers, who have not only go their hands coated and burnt in chemicals and fertilizers, but their lives too have suffered drastically when the artificial world took over these nature growers and feeders. Suicides, BT cotton, BT brinjal, overuse of fertilizers, farmer suicides etc. these issues are just a tip of the iceberg!! WE are in a fragile moment for the future of earth but that of humanity as well, if we don’t protect the mother earth, humanity will go for a toss. We are living in a period of fake rivers, fake bees, fake new...

Four young lads, closest to their father, Guru Gobind Singhji, following his footsteps to protect Hindus and their rights, all the four sons died a heroic death fighting and not submitting to Mughals for conversion to Islam. Background:  On 20 th December 1704, Guru Gobind Singhji with 400 sikhs had to leave Anandpur Sahib in Punjab; as all supplies of food and ammunition were cut. He along with his soldiers and children were promised a safe passage to leave Anandpur Sahib by Mughals by an oath signed by Emperor Aurangzeb sworn over Quran...but these proved meaningless as they all were brutally attacked by lakhs of Mughal troops who were fully equipped with arms and ammunition. Guru Gobind Singhji had written to Aurangzeb when he broke his promise. The verses are in Zafarnamah !! “13: Aurangzeb! I have no trust in your oaths anymore. (You have written that) God is one and that He is witness (between us). 14: I don’t have trust equivalent to even a drop (of water) ...