Love & Life

Last week a couple of friends and I had participated in a blind walk. It was a walkathon but with eyes blindfolded. The cause was to raise awareness about the difficulties blind people faced on a normal day basis. India has the largest population of blind people, a little more than 15 million people. That is staggering and even more because this entire thing can be avoided but is not only because people have not hesitated their eyes after their death. A lot of fears, inhibitions and perhaps ‘don’t care’ attitudes are the reason about 15 million people will continue to live in darkness. I read in an article, unfortunately I don’t remember it well enough to quote, that if all the dead people in India donated their eyes to the blind, we would be blind free in 11 days. Imagine that. Less than a fortnight we have the power to change our country from worst to the best. Alright I agree that this is a highly optimistic plan but we do have the power in our hands to change the lives of two peop...

Disclaimer :  All characters and events in this blog are entirely non-fictional and true. Any resemblance to real persons (or animals) is true and NOT coincidental (or photoshop'ed ;) ). Paris......... Paris - the city where everyone wants to go. Everyone thinks it is an awesome city and that it definitely is a thing on your to see list. Paris - people think that only the well off can visit Paris.  I got lucky. I had a chance to visit Paris. Happened when I was posted for 6 months in France. I am not rich enough to take a vacation in Paris, not yet at least ;). I was only lucky.  A couple of my friends (RK and SS) and I decided to take a 4 day trip to Paris. about 250 miles from the place we currently live in. After deciding the train and booking the tickets about a month in advance, we were ready but had made a grave mistake. we had not booked the accommodation. Until a week before the trip we were all sure of finding one before we leave, but ...