EMAHO

"Don't quote me chatter but... ....".. God father in disguise, he has all the time in the world to be in social circles and on social networking sites. He knows it all from the half-an-hour back haircut of that random unconcerned lady to the things running through her best friend's life. He knows everything on his perception from everybody's updated profile. He is the MASTER OF SPREAD WORDS adding tinge and hues of his own insight. He is the Gossip King hither, thither and whither. Hail him with all grace and delight. Talebearing is his passion and rebuking with exaggeration is the talent inbuilt in the mechanism of customs of planting seeds of strife. Making me laugh, I see him just as an old age aunty frustrated in her own link of living and quitting time.  I don't know why women are scapegoated as historical bearers of gossip when we have such a man to compete till the rim of the power-struck aristrocracy of slandered words and gospels of thei...

I recall she mentioning it to me, "I am a graduate in journalism and studied post-graduation in film-making that I couldn't complete due to cancer. It was a passion and not a career that I was pursuing. When I used to shoot, I was the happiest."  Being diagnosed with Ovarian cancer at the age of 22, it can become an ordeal of disheartenment for any youth. She was a charmer who could bring smiles to many faces. Yes, Geetika Gupta or fondly called as "Geet" by closed ones is no more. Six months ago we lost a gigantic part of us.  Geet fought like a warrior through the war of - difficult emotions, physical constraints, fear of losing herself to death, continuous sessions of chemotherapy, leaving behind all the people she deeply inspired by her courage to accept and survive the life, hopes and optimism that she will win over cancer one day. In winters, her last whatsapp update was "The cold is killing me and I am having sleepless nights." After t...