Wednesday 8 January 2020
Wednesday 18 December 2019
Life as 30
Thursday 7 November 2019
Mommyness
Sometimes you look into the mirror and don't recognise the person you see. The tired body, stooping shoulders, greasy hair and a drained mind; the paling skin due to receding hormones and dark circles due to infinite hours of nursing at nights. Sometimes you feel like you are the only one awake in the world at those odd hours in the night. And then you soothe yourself by saying that there are millions of other moms across the world sailing in the same boat.
A plumpy child is not always a healthy one, but an active one is. Working mom is never a vamp, she is quarreling with the world each day for the baby's bright future. A daycare baby is not to be sympathethized but congratulated for being independent way before his peers.
All my dismay vanishes when I see the little one grinning at me after a tiring day at work, when the baby chirps mummma and phahhapaa (Papa) unexpectedly, when he crawls towards me and smiles for no reason, when he grows a new tooth or makes a new sound, when he clings to me tightly and makes me feel he is elated on me being around him and that he prioritises me over anyone else. All becomes worth it. He will not be a baby forever, and the innocence would fade gradually. The joy that he brings to us is second to none. My house feels full when he is around. I am sure he too shall be proud of his parents when he grows up.
Tuesday 24 September 2019
Book Review: City of Nine Gates
To begin with, the first thing I loved about the book is the quality of pages and the appealing bright cover.
The protagonist of the book is a millionaire named Gyan, who is an atheist. He is a a naive and young man who after a journey through city of nine gates transforms into a man who is aware of his potential, and above all of himself.
Gyan is an archaeology enthusiast, joins his friend and team in the excavation of a hidden city. On a secret trip to the ruins, Gyan finds the wisest sages at the city entrance and the history of this discovered city from the sages. While he was being awarded the entrepreneur of the year, he ended up reaching to the city of nine gates, following an explosion on the stage itself. I don't want to be a spoiler, so leaving the rest for the reader to experience!
The content of the book clearly depicts that the author has done extensive research and iterations of the content to create the ultimate piece of work that he has done. The Sanskrit glossary at the end is also a helpful reference.
Although I like most of the aspects of this book, but I would have had a better reading experience if the spelling mistakes at certain pages could have been proofread and rectified. I hope this will be fixed in subsequent editions.
(PS: the reviews expressed here are based on my personal reading experience, and do not intend to defame, derate or
Friday 20 September 2019
Divit's World at Eight Months
Thursday 25 July 2019
Diary of a Daycare Mom
Friday 12 July 2019
Happy Half Birthday Divit
Tuesday 21 May 2019
किसका आधार मेरी पहचान
इस लेख का उद्देश्य रीतियों या व्यक्तियों पर नहीं किन्तु नीतियों पर कटाक्ष करना है।
प्रिय बदलती हुई सरकार/ पुनः लौटती हुई सरकार,
मेरे 4 माह के बेटे की पासपोर्ट अर्ज़ी इसलिए रद्द कर दी गयी क्योंकि मेरे आधार कार्ड में मेरे नाम के साथ अब तक मेरे पिता का नाम जुड़ा हुआ है। मेरा surname शादी के बाद भी मेरे पिता का ही surname है और मैं अब तक सभी सरकारी दस्तावेजों में मैं w/o की जगह d/o से ही जानी जाती हूं। और इसलिए मेरे बेटे के दस्तावेजों को अधूरा करार दिया गया।
मैंने सोचा था "मेरा आधार मेरी पहचान" है, किन्तु वर्तमान में घटित घटना से ज्ञात होता है मैं किसकी बेटी या पत्नी हूँ ये मेरी पहचान है। मुझे ना ही अपने साथ अपने पिता का नाम जोड़ने में शर्म आती है और ना ही अपने पति के नाम से जुड़ने में कोई झिझक। तो यह तो मेरी इच्छा पर होना चाहिए ना कि मैं किसका नाम अपने आधार में जोड़ना चाहती हूँ। हालांकि मैं भी मेरे पिता और पति की तरह एक स्वतंत्र करदाता हूँ, लेकिन मेरी अपनी पहचान रखने का मुझे कोई अधिकार नहीं है।
वैसे भी मेरे पुत्र के आधार में तो मेरा नाम आना नहीं है, तो उसकी अर्ज़ी रद्द करने का कारण मैं कैसे बन सकती हूँ। हालांकि उसके जन्म के पूर्व, जन्म के समय और जन्म के पश्चात एक माँ के तौर पे जो तकलीफ़ें मैंने सही उनके इनाम स्वरूप मुझे हर मदर्स डे पर एक कार्ड मिल ही जायेगा, आधार या पासपोर्ट का कार्ड नहीं, ग्रीटिंग कार्ड। मेरा बेटा फिर भी मेरे नाम से नहीं जाना जाएगा। वो सिर्फ उसके ननिहाल में उसकी माँ के नाम से जाना जाएगा।
इन सब के उपरांत यदि मेरे पिता का नाम मेरे आधार में लिखा भी है तो मैं समझती हूँ कि उसे बदलने का क्या औचित्य है, मैं तो हमेशा मेरे पिता की ही बेटी रहूंगी ना। मेरे अनुसार शादी के ख़र्च में 50 रुपये आधार में "सुधार" के लिए भी जोड़ देने चाहिए। या फिर हमारे देश में जैसे 6 माह का मातृत्व अवकाश होता है वैसे ही "पहचान परिवर्तन" अवकाश भी होना चाहिए जिसमें की हर वैवाहिक महिला अपने सभी पहचान पत्रों में पिता के नाम से जुड़ने की त्रुटि को सुधरवा सके।
मेरे पास और लिखने का समय नहीं है। मैं चली अपने आधार, पासपोर्ट, वीसा, ड्राइविंग लाइसेंस, बैंक एकाउंट, पैन कार्ड, क्रेडिट कार्ड, डेबिट कार्ड, आफिस रिकॉर्ड, PF, वोटर पहचान पत्र इत्यादि में "सुधार" करवाने। गनीमत है सोशल मीडिया एकाउंट्स में परिवर्तन अनिवार्य नहीं है।
Thursday 18 April 2019
Kriti Agarwal: 10 Of The Best Self-help Books
1. The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Flock
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is one of a few
notable works of art on this rundown, however, I for one see it as the most
reviving one.
On one side, this self-improvement guide is actually what it
seems like: a manual for the propensities for fruitful, viable individuals. On
the opposite side, however, there runs an extraordinarily significant
suggestion that frames the genuine intensity of the book and the prime
takeaway: living with reasonableness and honesty is the way to most extreme
proficiency and achievement.
In our current reality where alternate routes, mystery arrangements, and contemptibility are noticeable, Covey's great lectures a message that the world needs like never before — and tells you the best way to apply it as basic, direct propensities.
2. The Power of Now by
Eckhart Tolle
On the off chance that you read one book on otherworldliness;
you can't generally turn out badly with Tolle's exemplary The Power of Now. It
isn't only a manual for otherworldly practice and how it can change your own
life, it's manual for changing the world with the intensity of that training
too.
The key takeaway here is that you can change the world with extra special care on the off chance that you take a shot at changing yourself from the back to front, and understanding that can work well for you for as long as you can remember.
3. Rich Dad, Poor Dad
by Robert Kiyosaki
On the total opposite side of the range, there's Rich Dad,
Poor Dad.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad is to money related proficiency what The
Power of Now is to profound practice. It presents you with a total arrangement
of sound, valuable standards for living better, and all the more successfully
with regards to cash and individual funds.
The book utilizes the difference between two characters,
"poor father" and "rich father," to show different money
related standards. The essential takeaway is that the individuals who aren't
acceptable with their cash and have less are that way since they work for cash,
though the individuals who are acceptable with their cash store up a greater
amount of it since they figure out how to bring in cash work for them. They're
all-inclusive statements, however, the exercises showed are no less important.
If you need to improve your capacity to deal with your
accounts, Rich Dad, Poor Dad is the ideal bundle of edifying information and
significant guidance.
4. Instructions to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie composed a few extraordinary self-improvement
guides in his time, however How to Win Friends and Influence People is
effectively his best. This book is a top dog with regards to figuring out how
to function and speak with individuals, so I think of it as required perusing —
particularly for a loner such as myself.
Carnegie works admirably of demonstrating that great
correspondence truly has nothing to do with regular ability or smooth words,
however realizing the correct strategies to use with interfacing with others,
something everybody can do.
Correspondence is one of the absolute most significant aptitudes you can take a shot at, given how basic correspondence is to everything that we do. If you need (or trust you have) to improve as a communicator, or need to show signs of improvement at working with individuals, read this now.
5. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Think and Grow Rich is one of a few old-fashioned works of
art on this rundown and its place is all around earned. For a long time,
creator Napoleon Hill contemplated the best individuals of
his time, including Henry Ford and Alexander Graham Bell, and chronicled those
discoveries together into one perfect little bundle.
The principle takeaway? An engaged, deep longing (or the
intensity of a made-up mind, what Wayne Dyer called goal), enables us to
accomplish or gain what we need most throughout everyday life.
In case you're searching for experiences on the best way to
accomplish your fantasy or a particular objective, this is great you can't
manage without.
6. What to Say When You Talk to Your Self which is written by know Dr. Shad Helmstetter
This book profoundly affected me at a basic point in my life.
A great that is not regularly recorded on best self-improvement guide records.
Our inward exchange holds tremendous measures of command over
our life, affecting each choice we make every single day. The main issue is,
our internal exchange is generally fantastically negative and foolish.
Things being what they are, what happens when you figure out how to ace this inward discourse and change it? Your whole life changes. I credit this book, to a limited extent, for helping me escape a troublesome spot in my life where I was working someplace, I knew didn't line up with my motivation yet didn't have the certainty or conviction to make the following stride.
7. The Power of Positive Thinking by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
Dr. Peale's exemplary is simply the quintessential assistance
book, being one of only a bunch of early books from around the 1950s that formed
the whole personal growth space all in all. Consequently, there are numerous
subjects in the book that you'll see reverberated all through a considerable
lot of different books on this rundown. Be that as it may, the point of view is
marginally extraordinary and an invigorating change.
The estimation of positive reasoning is such a fundamental mantra of personal development that it's presently nearly ignored. The Power of Positive Thinking is incredible for anybody hoping to get back essentials and get familiar with a portion of the central exercises that are basic to trusting self-assurance and an idealistic mentality.
8. The Magic of Thinking Big written by known David J. Schwartz
The Magic of Thinking Big is a book that I'll generally
recall since perusing it was likely the first occasion when I was acquainted
with the genuine intensity of the psyche. Like Peale's Positive Thinking, this
is another work of art, so the models and discourse that Schwartz utilizes are
frequently engaging in themselves.
Regardless of anything else, The Magic of Thinking Big will
show you not to bamboozle yourself. Plan for an impressive future, don't settle
and watch as a straightforward move in the manner you think truly changes your
outcomes.
9. Stir the Giant Within by Tony Robbins
Stir the Giant Within is likely Robbin's most notable
self-improvement guide and, when you read it, you'll know why. A significant
number of books on this rundown focus on a specific subject, yet this one
doesn't. It gives you the entire damn thing, to say the least. Robbins offers
his best guidance for improving your connections, certainty, funds, and finding
your motivation.
Nonetheless, the principle takeaway and the subject that goes through the whole book is that you have an internal certainty, a monster inside, that you can stir by changing how you think in a basic way. What's more, doing so will permit you to make a genuine change in your life–regardless of the sort of progress you need to make occur. On the off chance that that is what you're searching for, plan to be overwhelmed.
10. Brave Greatly by Brené Brown
A significant number of books on this rundown are based on
old-school thoughts of procurement and personal development. In case you're
somewhat burnt out on all that (I don't accuse you), this will be a much-needed
refresher.
The works of art are works of art for an explanation they
work. They incorporate priceless astuteness which for anybody attempting to
make an incredible dream or objective reality. Be that as it may, the more
established works of art will in general disregard something significant: the
difficulties we face all through life.
Of all self-improvement type books, analyst and writer Brené
Brown's Daring Greatly strikes at the core of the most significant issue of
all: our absence of self-esteem and battles with disgrace.