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Love! Well, I’m sure you’ve read about it in a million articles, stories, poems and some even check about it in their horoscopes (now don’t lie!).  Don’t worry, I’m not going to assert the cliche regulars here about how, one day, you’ll find the love of your life and how everything in the world will be sunshine and rainbows. I secretly hope you do, though.  What I want to address is how love and romantic relationships are the two most intermingled words I have ever come across. We are so bewildered about the concept of love that we have made relationships and love practically synonymous. As an obvious result, we’ve begun to hate love, when in reality, it’s the claustrophobic feeling a modern day relationship brings that we hate.  You think you don’t need love but if you look close enough, a majority of our actions are driven by it, consciously or otherwise.  Why do we find ourselves limiting love to a romantic relationship? Love is free and profo...

The Corona virus has hit us hard, in every aspect, much more than anybody anticipated. Every power of the world has been trumped (pun intended!) and trounced by the virus. The world has come to a screeching halt. Among the many bazookas this lock-down has shot at us, a particular one seems to overshadow and overwhelm the lives of all, whether affected or unaffected by this demonic virus. There is a claustrophobic feeling which has engulfed nearly every one of us in varying degrees. From being a feeling of isolated restlessness for some, it has become a pandemic of its own for others. Psychologically speaking, prolonged social isolation like claustrophobia brings around anxiety and sometimes depression. Most of us tend to ignore these mental health issues as they do not surface in the daily hustle of life. Among this, some of us have made the hustle, the routine, the socializing a coping mechanism. Others still, live in denial and manage to not let their issues surface amongst ...

The world is only so much of black and white. It’s rather, often, different shades of grey. Everybody knows how to make a choice or call a difference between the good and the bad, the happy and the sad, the fulfilling and the unfulfilling. The black and the white. But this little life of ours here, loves playing games and twist and trick the hell out of us.  The choices of rights and wrongs are easy to make, but it’s the choices between two rights or two wrongs which define us as an individual. It’s more about perception than mere right or wrong. It’s more about circumstances, than just true or false. It’s more about beliefs, than correct or incorrect.  You know, the black and white concept is too objective and too unrealistic for a world like ours. I’d like to think that the world is very subjective. We are living in a million metaphysical complexities while each being a complexity in his own. Each one of us have our own drive, our own reasons, our own motives, o...