What the Brain Thinks

How cool is it to put up challenges up to your parents? Ever wondered about this? Well, I did. It seemed a queer thing to do, initially. But later, it turned out pretty much fun. Let me just give you a brief idea about my parents... From my childhood till today, I have known my mom to be the homemaker and my dad to be the breadwinner. So its pretty much clear that mom does all the work at home - from cooking, cleaning to laundry, while dad is sweating out to support it. Never have I seen my dad do household chores, except for the times when mom got pretty ill or had gone out for few days. Now coming to the challenge... A few days back, I had seen this particular ad about Ariel Matic #LaundryGoesOddEven activity. The activity is pretty much simple to follow. To promote gender equality, it only asks the men of the house to help the women with the laundry every alternate day, So I got my parents to sit and explained them this activity. More like, I put it up as a...

मैं जंगल में नन्हा पंछी, बैठा था अपने घोसले में माँ सुबह बोलके गई थी, बेटा कही ना जाना ।। माँ जा रही है करने काम, लेके आएगी मीठे आम ।। जलता सूरज ढलने लगा, पर माँ न आई लौट हुई मुझे उसकी चिंता, जा कूदा मैं अपने घोसले से ।। उड़ना सिखा था ना कभी, जा गिरा मैं जमीन पे ।। पास में जा रहा था इंसानी बच्चा, उससे लगाई मैने गुहार मदत की उसने मुझे प्यार से उठाया, और पटक दिया पिंजरे में ।। ले गया वह उसके बस्ती, न जाने बदले कितने हाथ ।। आखिर में जा पहुंचा एक बड़े से इंसानी पिंजरे में रोता रहा, चिल्लाता रहा, मैं अपनी आज़ादी के लिए ।। पर वह लेता रहा मज़े, समज के इसे मेरे गीत ।। आखिर मेने ठान लिया, करूँगा मैं इसका विरोध ना खाया, ना बोला, जब तक न खुला पिंजरे का द्वार ।। जब मिला यह मौका, लगा मैं कूदने दौड़ने ।। पंख फड़फड़ा के ख़ुशी में, जल्द ही लगा मैं उड़ने देखते देखते निकला मैं इस बड़े पिंजरे  से दूर ।। प्यारी थी वह उड़ान, मीठी थी यह आज़ादी ।। Thanks to my Hindi Guru - Surya , for correcting mistakes

While I was flipping channels on the TV. Ya, I do watch TV and yes, like most of the people I spend 90 percent of the time switching channels. Okay, so where was I? Ya, while switching channels, I happened to see this one particular ad. The one wherein Hema Malini is promoting an air purifier. (You can check the ad here , in case) And I was like, have we degraded our world to that extent that we need air purifiers to survive. Long ago, during the time of Grrr (Those who don't know who Grrr is, check this -  Story of Evolution ) the water was consumed directly from ponds, rivers and other sources. Later, as the pollution increased (with human population) we went on to use cloth filters and progressed with it to our modern water purifiers. In cities today, consuming water that's not from the filter has become equivalent to drinking poison. Soon, an air purifier will be included in the basic amenities of survival. The huge scarcity of water, has made people t...