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Kay Kasoor hai Amla ka !! SERIOUSLY

There is this new serial airing in my country-India, which is based on the atrocities faces by a gang rape victim. The above statement summarised what my topic of writing this blog is, and let me first clarify before anyone starts to bash out how dare I speak on a topic as such, I am not here to list out rights and wrongs, but just my view and perspective on what responsible creative media should be like in a country like ours-India. This show from what I saw till now is based on a girl, gang raped, in pain, feeling violated, and a society that blames her, a group of four men violating her and then finding a way out, a lawyer supporting them after they accepted that they committed such a heinous crime, a family where her sister in law is not supportive and blames her, hides evidences, and a long painful journey of losing love and everything. PEOPLE please stop, portraying something so horrifying with such horrifying conclusion will not help any women here, it will drive people aw

How to decide on where to travel and our psychoanalysis

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I recently got to travel... 7 days of escape, the place I chose was Sikkim and suddenly i realised we spend a lot of time planning our trip, i know we have these agencies to plan it, but let's face it how many of us want a strict itinerary, specially someone else deciding what time we need to wake up. So post this travel I devised an efficient way to plan my trip... especially from start to finish, which means below questions were addressed: 1) when to travel 2) why to travel 3) expectations 4) when to go and then multiple questions around HOW... I have realised every season start makes us want to travel to destinations with last season, for e.g. as summers dawn on us we all head to mountains and colder locations, and as WINTER IS COMING we all visit places with summer left in them. I have spent days planning but finally go this simple pattern and trust me my planning time has reduced to half... i think this happens as human is always more stuck to past than