Silence

       O n June 5th I bought a few plants and these were left in the balcony among all other plants to get settled with the fellow plants and environment as these came from nursery and my place was quite new for these new comers. After a few days these were set in big sized pots and I started watering all in the same way since it was very hot those days. A small plant could not settle with the new environment and still available in my balcony but has no life. Another plant perhaps tried its best to live but over watering or unfavorable environment didn't allow it to live a happy life. Not died but lost all its beautiful green leaves and I really have no idea if it is going to live or leave. There is a beautiful song चिट्ठी ना कोई संदेश.....and a few relevant lines - एक आह भरी होगी,  हमने ना सुनी होगी जाते जाते तुमने,  आवाज़ तो दी होगी   .......They must have spoken in their language and unfortunately I could not understand.      ...

 W e are living in an era where everything is advertised, anything can be advertised and lac of brains are simply working on catching the catchy taglines. In other words they are trying their level best to catch our brains. And the journey started from 1970s with the ads of Nirma washing powder, Lux Soap and Colgate etc and today it’s Indigo selling same day flights “Sleep With Your Wife”. I am not being paid for favouring Nirma, colgate or Lux and neither my opinion is going to affect Indigo but its my own satisfaction that I am not supporting such cheap & unhealthy marketing strategies that’s all. I have no idea where was this billboard displayed, since how long and was really displayed or not. I came across a post on Linkedin today and found this disturbing and I really wish this should disturb each one of us. I always questioned why an advertisement be it men’s wear, radio, TV,  or anything else needs a woman in short clothes unnecessarily but it’s a trend. I am questi...