Neo Imaginations

Nothing compares to the charm of college life. The fashionable clothes, movies with friends and canteen treats, all become a memory for a lifetime. But college days are also best known as “I am broken dude!” days. Yes! We all agree on that. It is undoubtedly the most frugal days of our life because we are totally dependent on our parents for pocket money. The needs are umpteen and funds are uber scarce. With maturity seeping in, we also understand the financial limitations of our parents and restrict our enticements with a heavy heart. But wait. Guys! Don’t be too harsh on yourself. Don’t restrict yourself too much. Learn your liberties and expand the ambit of your dreams. There are plenty of interesting jobs that you can easily take up during college days and meet your day to day needs. Besides, it also hons your professional skills and can win you brawny points in college campus/recruitments. You will be a cut above others for sure. So, choose the best-suited job from a hos...

In August 2019, we a group of 10, trekked on Himalayan Ranges to Valley of Flowers and Hemkund Sahib in Uttarakhand. It is a collection of those memories to cherish nature and the bonding we shared together. Thrillophilia was our trip planner. We started on 24 August 2019 from Haridwar. We were picked up by Thrillophilia team and had our night stay at Auli after 12 hrs of road journey.  The next morning we trekked for Ghangaria, the base camp for Valley of Flowers and Hemkund Sahib. This is a trek of about 12 km. It is not an easy trek. You need a fair amount of physical and mental strength. Keep motivating fellow trekkers and get motivated in return. Sip water regularly and take short breaks without letting your body cool down. If you start at about 8 am you will reach Ghangaria at about 5 pm. You will be happy to know you have already climbed 10,000 feet by the end of day 2.  The next day is Valley of Flowers trek that is about 15 km both ways. It is not that...

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To learn new things sometimes we need to unlearn our old learnings. Old learnings are like habits that don't change overnight. Those old habits or learnings may be in contradiction to our new desired learning.   #Learning #Quotes #Creative Writing 

Translation: A place where the assassinator of Mahatma Gandhi, Godse is referred to as Godse Ji can only be Gandhiji's India. Beautiful, Inclusive and Tolerant.

I am not someone who is frequent. I appear in your life rarely, barely enough for you to register me as a reality. I am like a rare dream and you are like the rarest memory of that dream in the morning. I happen and I dissolve. -- Midnight Poetry #neoimaginations

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Jahid Akhtar - Story of Tublu                         There are some books that send you into deep thoughts and psychological exploration. And then there are some that simply sit face to face with you and narrates the story as if the author himself is in conversation with you. This is exactly what Jahid Akhtar’s debut novel “Story of Tublu” does to you.                The book starts with its lead character Tublu as a child and his gradual journey from a village Govt school to English medium and finally into an Engineering college. His childhood love for Maina, Mr Sharma’s daughter moves the story. The book meticulously covers the natural beauty of Assam and its simple lifestyle. But as the story advances, the book makes a smart transition into the life of metro cities like Chennai, Mumbai and Bangalore. The book further takes you to the United States and Germany with the ...

Every time I hear about the term Air Pollution my mind is engraved with pictures of vehicular emissions, industrial chimney menace and burning garbage dumps.  The idea of a common man ends with it. He thinks staying indoor is living healthy and safe. But is it that simple? No!  The facts are alarming and shocking. For a factual shock, the air inside your house may be several times more polluted than the air outside. Also, considering the fact that we normally spend more time indoors (10 to 12 hours) than outdoors makes the situation even worse. The sources are many and identifying them would help us to improve the quality of air both indoor and outdoors.  The indoor air not only includes the outdoor pollutants but also has significant contributions from in-house pollutants that are a by-product of various chemicals, domestic fuels, cosmetics, personal healthcare items and cleaning agents. Your indoor living space may have hazardous chemicals suspensions 8 to ...

The other day my wife shared a piece of write-up written by her college friend, Trisha. The write-up was actually a kind of diary note that elaborated her feelings for the boy she loves and wants to marry. I was mesmerized in the flow of her words and feelings. Trisha explained her bewilderment, the traumatic shock that she would go through on being married to someone else. The narration was based on the imagination of a probable situation in future where she is being married to someone else. The narration ends with the line, " I would run away. " She loves X and wants to marry him. She also loves her family and cannot imagine leaving them forever for marrying X. Now, Mr X is not a simple entity like English alphabet X. He has an arithmetical angle too. Yes, the same letter x of mathematics, aka synonym for complication, complexity and convolution. Mr X is from another world, I mean Religion, Region & Reign.  It is normal for Trisha to leap her parental ide...

                                                                                    Source: http://www.storyofasuicide.com/ Book                 : The Story of a Suicide Author              : Sriram Ayer Illustrations     : Ghana               The novel is a story of four students -- Hari, Mani, Sam and Charu. It is tense to begin a book with the title “The Story of a Suicide” but the story magically takes you into the freshness of love and student life. The story is fresh, vibrant, eccentric and contemporary . The novel has characters that are symbolic of today’s youth. The situations, the reactions, the issues are all contemporary and...

Children have a world of their own - A world that is pure, innocent and playful ! I enjoy when my son narrates me his own imaginative stories that have no relevance or purpose and yet sound so funny and de-stressing. I love him for that. It shows his innocent world to me where things are beautiful and lovable. According to him a home lizard smacking on an insect is about lizard kissing the baby insect and that perspective sends me into a laughter frenzy. I love to hear similar stuffs from him when i get an opportunity. I question him like a baby and he comes out with his own imaginary answers to which we laugh a plenty. I understand that my baby loves to see me laughing and he makes sure to give me enough reasons all day long. As  parents we need to pamper our children to be more imaginative and creative in thought. We need to check on what kind of inference they draw when they come across day to day situations of life. Stories are the best means of introducing your children...

We learn what we see and we follow it without questions. The routine becomes a universal law, a law that we never even try to test or challenge. We have grown up seeing our mother doing the laundry of the house. A daily chore where she never expected anyone else to help her with and neither did other members of the family felt the need to offer her a helping hand. That became a universal norm.  Traditionally the daily chores have been divided on the basis of physical efforts and strength required to do the job. So those activities that needed more physical strength and endurance came to men and women were tasked to do things that were comparatively less straining. In that perspective, the laundry task seems to be an exception or say a complete misfit. It requires an enormous amount of physical strength and endurance to do laundry yet it fell to women. I as a man find it the toughest task among all the known house chores.  Ariel has taken a commendable initiative by s...

                                                      Image Credit It is needless to emphasize the importance of Social media in creating and surviving a brand. No business can bet the risk of not being active on Social Media channels like Facebook and Twitter. The Social networking sites are like open markets that can be explored and exploited infinitely to bring exponential growth of brands and its customer loyalty.  Social media not only provides a forum to reach the target customers but also facilitates a brand to customize itself according to the changing trends and preference of the customers. It provides a reliable feedback mechanism to brands so as to make them fit to survive the test of time and competition.  Social Media has made brands out of common people, rewritten the fate of extincting brands and has brought epic s...

                                                           Axis Bank partners with Apollo Munich  to offer Bespoke health insurance solutions to its customers Bank’s exclusive Bancassurance partner for health insurance solutions Unique support and service mechanism for the Bank’s customers Paperless processes to ensure minimum TAT for policy issuance and service              Commenting on the partnership, Rajiv Anand, Group Executive & Head Retail Banking, Axis Bank said, “Over the past couple of years, we have observed the exponential rise in the cost of healthcare and the need for customized and affordable health insurance solutions. With the objective of ensuring the health and wellbeing of our customers, we are delighted to announce our exclusive Bancassurance partnership ...