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Meeting Them So They Can Select You: Arrange Marriage

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It was the first time she was going to meet someone. Her parents, friends, relatives were all very excited. She had gone to her uncle’s place where they were going to come. Her mom woke her up that morning. Her father greeted her lovingly. Aunt and Uncle smiled when they saw her. Both the brothers were busy in arranging gift packets and fruits on the tray. Her sister had got that beautiful maroon dress ironed for her. Grandparents gave their blessings and she felt very special that day. Everyone was happy. She quickly took a bath and put on that anarkali salwar kameez. Then some kajal, mascara, compact and a lip gloss. She wanted to keep it simple and original. She looked at herself in the mirror and felt good. Half dried hair, little makeup, typical Indian salwar suit with dupatta and her smile! So good! She felt happy and content. How girls sometimes fall in love with themselves! Her happiness was no because she was going to meet that person, who, if destiny allowed, wou

The Magic Called 'Life'

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"The true taste of success is experienced only by those who have failed a lot of times" The best architect of the world, our creator, the one who designed this universe and humans surely must have thought a lot before making mankind. How else can someone make something so damn perfect!  Life, i think, is a well thought and creatively designed model whose creator paid attention to every single detail and designed a well planned masterpiece. To prove this, lets take this example: Don't you sometimes feel that life is being unfair to you, when wrong things keep happening. Firstly, you blame the people around you, then you blame the surrounding and when there is no one to blame, you finally blame God or your destiny.  Then someday, things suddenly turn good, that too at the time when you had never expected. Then, as if it was all an unsolved puzzle, things start making sense to you and you realized that everything happened for a reason. The time that pass

Do we know ourselves?

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In today's fast paced life, all of us are moving too fast. Some after goals, some after money and the rest after other people! What everyone is missing is the life that they have. The life that is static and calm, forever.  Today, when we have the answer to almost all questions of life, when comfort has become cheaper and when we are almost done with all the questions about our origination & our life, we have now started to learn about life on other planets too. Our daily schedule is fixed. We wake up with a goal in mind, we have our regular coffees, then we go to our offices, with the thought of doing more work, learning something new and then we come home, change and again go out with friends (coz of course we need to release all the stress of work), we come home tired, late at night and go to bed. In this highly busy and fast schedule, we manage our relation with friends, lover, relatives (though their existence has almost become zero today), neighbors and those hi-by