5 Mistakes I made , though i think of them as non mistakes

Author : Magically Yours      Blog : Magically Yours      Date : 4/1/2013 10:58:00 AM

'So Chetan Bhagat wrote 5 Mistakes of My life and you all bought it and I believe Kai Po Che was made and he minted the green backs , in our case the red backs ( if that is an acceptable word)I gave 5 answers and they are hilarious on hindsight and just wanted to share so that you look out for these 5 answers and think differently of the person giving these answers to you .Sometime back , 3 years and 7 months back to be precise , I had gone for an interview and today while talking to(...)'

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The first page of that notebook

Author : Magically Yours      Blog : Magically Yours      Date : 6/4/2012 4:13:00 AM

'I was watching that movie - The Last Emperor . I remember watching it many years ago when it was the talk of the Oscars . I remember a chinese kid running amongst red walls .Then, I had not understood the essence of the movie . Even today perhaps every movie , every book , every incident means different things for different people . At that time I was just petrified of the Chinese . I was already scared of the Germans and Chinese were the new addition - all this fear (...)'

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The Remote Control Dairies

Author : Magically Yours      Blog : Magically Yours      Date : 4/13/2012 2:57:00 PM

'Do you remember the days of the television when you had to walk up to the idiot box and change the channel ? The great thing about that is people could not call you couch potato completely , because one did get up to change the channel , increase the volume and sometimes in my case run up to the terrace to swerve and twist the pole that held the antennae so that the picture cleared up .If you lived next to a hillock like I did and a city like I did , a quick shower would ensure that(...)'

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From Mita Vasisth to Kelly Mcgillis

Author : Magically Yours      Blog : Magically Yours      Date : 4/2/2012 10:08:00 AM

'It will take a little chruning of our memory cells and you need to be born in the decade called the 70s or before to understand the first part of my blog . Discovery of India was a TV series that had captured most of our attentions. It was a very convenient series for TV watchers.You could tell your parents that you want to watch TV and before they say " NO " you could point out that it is Discovery Of India - adaptation of J.L.Nehru's masterpiece . Clever people existed even then s(...)'

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The God Business

Author : Magically Yours      Blog : Magically Yours      Date : 3/12/2012 9:46:00 AM

'Growing up in a city that boasts of one of the Shakti Peeths I always had this notion that no matter what Kamakhya would solve it for me . As a child never knew the meaning of this symbolism . Kamakhya is the ultimate symbol of womenhood and her strength ( for those who don't know this temple was built on , where Sati's womb had fallen while Vishnu's Sudarshan Chakra sliced her body).Whoever came to Guwahati visited Kamakhya temple and it would always be a day trip . Wake up in the (...)'

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Your Daily Horoscope

Author : Magically Yours      Blog : Magically Yours      Date : 3/3/2012 4:56:00 AM

'These days I have developed a beautiful habit of waking up early in the morning , 6-30 AM and I wake up with a spring on my feet and a twinkle in my voice. Religiously I fetch my news paper and make myself a steaming cup of tea . I have only an hour and half at hand - I need snooze from 8 am to 9 am to compensate for my early rise - quite like my life - compensating now and have hit the snooze button having had an early rise , as if to join the gang of the " also rans" .The regime i(...)'

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Divorcee - ecosystem

Author : Magically Yours      Blog : Magically Yours      Date : 1/16/2012 4:25:00 AM

'Sometime back I was traveling with a couple of friends . The sun outside and the air-conditioning inside the car was gently soothing me to a blissful sleep. My friend driving the car was more than considerate he avoided the potholes and tried to be smooth on the speed breakers and entertained the others in the car . I was dozing in and out of my pre planned car siesta. Suddenly my dreaded topic arrived . " You should get married " and there it was. My eyes were still half open and I(...)'

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Sense and Sensibility

Author : Magically Yours      Blog : Magically Yours      Date : 12/21/2011 4:09:00 AM

'I love to blog - it is an easy space to write what I like and what I don't and yet not be stoned to death.This blog I write with a very heavy and confused heart . The other day I was having lunch with a long lost friend of mine and while we chattered about his life , his job and his baby , he blurted out a very private and yet a important message to me . I guess he was looking for some advice . He said " it is going to be two years this 31st since me and my wife have touched each ot(...)'

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The Woe of a Non Mother

Author : Magically Yours      Blog : Magically Yours      Date : 11/16/2011 7:28:00 PM

'This topic has started intriguing me most . 5 years earlier I did not care what people thought of my maternal instincts and I did not care make random jokes about ugly , unruly kids and dumb moms but now I am cautious , I do not comment on anything - rather I am being taught not to , by stares , by silent non verbal nudges , by smug smiles and sometimes by retribution . The first child who pooped and threw up on me was a 16 month old boy , I was ten and he was my neighbors child . I(...)'

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Dilli Meri Jaan !

Author : Magically Yours      Blog : Magically Yours      Date : 10/30/2011 9:15:00 AM

'The best word I have heard anyone describe my love for the capital city is "Wannabe Delhite" in a mocking tone. For the first one second of hearing that I wanted to bash the person's face and then the next minute I acknowledged it - " Yes I am a wannabe Delhite" . I love that city and that is perhaps because I had spent 14 years of my adult life in Delhi and the city moulded me to love her . In Delhi I learnt to love,live,lie,give,beg,borrow,kill and steal. I ran from the cocoon of (...)'

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If You Like it , put a ring on it

Author : Magically Yours      Blog : Magically Yours      Date : 10/27/2011 11:54:00 AM

'If you like it put a ring on it I love that statement ,a lot of my friends have said that with a flick of their expensive hair at many a wine drinking session. It is such a double meaning sentence – here if I look at it from a feminist tinted glass I abhor this statement – putting a ring around anything to claim your stake is commoditizing it . It is like branding a cow . If I look at this statement from a “ Mills and Boons” perspective – of course a ring makes sense , the fairer ge(...)'

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Eat first - pray and love later

Author : Magically Yours      Blog : Magically Yours      Date : 10/8/2011 2:56:00 PM

'After being an obese teenager , I had managed to be a relatively lighter in my 20s . But as I moved to my 30s , I had started to gain one pound here and a couple there . Now very well into my 30s and nearing the dreaded next ' he who shall not be named' decade, those 1 pound here and 2 pound there have added up to be many pounds here and there.I had started being 4 pounds overweight and now I am 25 pounds overweight , so I have been on a perpetual mental diet from the time I had det(...)'

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Burn Ravaan Burn

Author : Magically Yours      Blog : Magically Yours      Date : 10/6/2011 2:37:00 PM

'I think I have seen the burning of Ravaan and his entourage probably 3 times in my life . Being a Bengali , Bishorjon took priority . Once I went for Ramlila in Gauhati - with my father and came back home thinking " poor Ravaan , it must really hurt to be burned like that " .I always believe that non living things have life too ( now you know why I am not a scientist).Later when I was in Delhi , I went to watch this with my parents who were visiting me and remember eating hot gulab (...)'

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Stay Healthy

Author : Magically Yours      Blog : Magically Yours      Date : 10/6/2011 1:57:00 PM

'I don't remember much about my childhood days in details during the Durga Puja season . I remember stray incidents that I have been a part of , seemingly strange rituals that I have seen my father and my mother performed , yet for me it was all about - no homework , no studies and week long of excessive food , new clothes , meeting friends ( mostly family friends who would be omnipresent ) and running up and down the stairs to our society or the neighbor hood pandals.On Bijoya Dasha(...)'

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