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Generating Ideas

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As published in Daily Excelsior Heard or read about them sometime this year–The Heat Is So Unbearable In Odisha That A Man Tries To Fry An Egg On The Street And It Gets Fried! Chicken tries to cross road – taken into police custody! Wine drinking deity of Ujjain! Driverless car in Delhi, which then turned out to be a fake story and much more such strange incidents that were forced to be in news by some of the reputed news agencies and TV channels. Wonder who is the “creative brain” suggesting and who is the “budding artist” writing or for that matter “well-informed” reader reading them? There is no doubt that Journalism has expanded exponentially to include all life activities of today’s world. Besides, it is no longer limited to imparting knowledge or spreading general awareness of civic life or for that matter scribbling editorials on topics of current interest. Besides being a watchdog, agenda-setter and a peace-maker, media personnel in a multi-cultural society like India ha...
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Modern Women

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Posted on   19/06/2016   by   Dailyexcelsior Ticktack, ticktack….and here you go…your body clock is ticking five in the morning, oh no…not again…how you wish it wasn’t, but then what the h*** such is life and you somehow manage to push yourself yet again against the wish of your reflexes to go straight to your mission…awaiting in those four walls of a ‘holy’ kitchen. While you are doing this… your mind is working on that…what next…hurry…c’mon… what after this…and eyes on a constant look out for what is over in that Burney or a jar, what new to bring, what else to dispose, how to preserve…Oh my God you just can’t ignore those dust granules which keep finding their way back… and oh no how about those things that are left here and there, everywhere, except for their ‘sacred’ place…..Once all this and that of your ‘thankless’ job-cum-moral duty is done… you still manage to erect your back, get back to your sanity and stand somehow straight yet again to answer all the que...
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Creativity in everyday life

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Posted on   27/03/2016   by   Dailyexcelsior Ravia Gupta In this fast moving world, where life seems to be getting more and more full and crazy, being busy is not an act anymore and you seem to be struggling quite often to snatch a second to catch your breath, or smell the roses or the coffee, so what is that thing which one must do to sigh some relief is what I am hinting at. Close your eyes and imagine. I insist…close your eyes and imagine a creative you. Yes, you read it right, a creative you! No, I am not talking about Picasso or Einstein at all. All I am talking about is how creative are you or let me put it this way how are you creative in solving various problems that life brings to you as a challenge each day? Aha! sure you all can enjoy this Eureka! Moment, simply because the answer is NO Big Deal for you and you all have your own unique creative geniuses in tackling life’s most difficult tests every now and then. There is nothing out-of-the-box when it co...
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The Women’s Hub

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Posted on   1/11/2015   by   Dailyexcelsior Ravia Gupta Do you love the way you are succumbing to the increasing pressures of life? Is your creativity breathing, alive or even growing old enough with you? Does your life revolve around just home, husband, kids, work and not to forget a monthly kitty party? If the answer to all the questions is a big YES, then it’s time you “move on” and join something “out-of-the-box.” Now, here comes the next big challenge-where to find such a rejuvenating place, especially in a city like ours, which is still struggling to spread its wings and accepting women in different roles! Traditionally, women in India, especially in J&K,lived behind a veil, but, with changing times, women have started playing a dominant role in our society and besides just “serving”, they now have started thinking about themselves too. However, despite modernisation and “enlightment”there are still some women who remain at home and for them spending time has...
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For the love of hope

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Posted on   14/02/2016   by   Dailyexcelsior Come to think of LOVE, and daring still is to make an attempt to even write about it at 30 plus! How and where to start from is the challenge, whether to start from a good morning greeting, a nice cup of hot tea on a cold and frosty morning, planning for the entire day on a breakfast table, afternoon whereabouts and lunch enquiries to a warm evening welcome, a stress free walk, watching the sun set slowly together, taking pictures for memories, endless talks just before you call it a day and hoping still for an even greater and adventurous next day! Sounds absolutely perfect for a good start but what happens in between is a far greater challenge that silently ’KILLS’ all the rituals one ever dreamt to perform for a perfect love life balance. A lot has already been written on what love is and what it is not, but can you ever know what love is or not? Well, for some it’s just so easy to fall in and rise above,...
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Munch and Move …

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Like us on Facebook Most of the working people in ITs and corporate is that they have nausea, heavy head, gastric, reflux and what not? Some also complain that they don’t even have time to eat but still they are having bloated stomach and heavy body. what could go wrong/ The answer is that these working people are lacking healthy lifestyle. .Spending more than couple of hours in front of office desk, meeting office targets, keeping the social media status updated, and then bonding with real-life friends and dear ones. It reflects adverse effect not only on your physical but also mental health. While following the basic tech routine in daily life, we tend to neglect or overlook our healthy lifestyle. Healthy lifestyle has two main components; 1) Eating fresh and healthy food on time, and 2) Exercise for at least 30 minutes in day. If both mentioned factors are taken care of, one can enjoy a healthy life, physically and mentally. And of course, a healthy body and pea...
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MOMents to share!

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Can’t believe it! Recently, someone asked me how big is your lil one now? Well, it’s the first time someone asked me such a question in the past seven months or so and I wondered what to answer and started thinking that he is big enough to sit for a while without any support, smart enough to make an attempt to crawl or roll over to reach out for his favourite toys, wants to be left alone to see his feet moving, loud enough to initiate talks when no one hears him out, intelligent enough to not to go to strangers and innocent enough to smile genuinely even without a reason and kind enough to spread happiness wherever he goes… But then yes, this seven months old mama’s boy is too small to be left alone unattended, needs someone to change his diapers, bathe him, take him to parks, read bed time stories and then there is so much, which, I, as a mother, feel he simply can’t do without me (Nice feeling though for a few more years)!! Someone rightly said, once a mother, always a mothe...
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Dying student political activism?

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http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/dying-student-political-activism/ Student unrest was a common sight on Indian campuses in the ’60s, but gone are those days when change was brought about because ordinary people dared to do extraordinary things. Come to think of it or even talk about student political activism, even inside the closed doors, the answer is perhaps anybody’s guess “LEADERSHIP HAS NO FUTURE”! Many people believe that student political activism is restricted to colleges or universities alone and lack motivating factors like power, anti-establishment feelings and rational attitude among today’s youth. Indian student activism started in 1928 under the Indian National Congress for India’s Independence from the British Raj.It is  during the  freedom struggle that the student movement was born and played a crucial role in India’s freedom. It was Patriotism that united students from lower middle class families.And from 1947 to this day, the student movement has ...
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