Author: Karina Pandya

Music has the power within it to distract anyone. Most often, this distraction happens at the wrong times! Usually people listen to their i Pods, and walk mans while traveling and this is played a huge setback in their performance. We are led into this sub-conscious state, where our level of awareness is dimmed and body reflexes act in accordance to the tune we are listening to. This “so called” predication can be justified by the tempo of music playing in any gym. It is high paced, with allot of beats involved, so that the body is in the groove…

The current economic meltdown of one of the leading industrialized nations of the world USA, has now wrapped its way around the world!The effects of Wall Street, are not limited to New York and the US alone, but are affecting markets from corner to corner.With drops and blows to the US Dollar, to increased fuel prices, the shaken-up US economy throws its neighbours in one of the most deadly setbacks faced in the market in a very long time.A dark heavy cloud enwraps upon our destiny.Reasons and explanations may be given for this; yet people cannot fathom the idea of…

Its been such a unique year-2008. Starting the year off by representing The Banyan, where I worked along with my team members running the Mumbai marathon to creating a newsletter for my organization, called Nambikkai, which got recognition by appearing in the local Chennai newspaper this year has been full of wonderful episodes in my life. I never imagined that something I wrote, would get such recognition! In my own special way i was able to create an impact at the Banyan. This was the year I had first applied for my masters in communication and journalism. I wrote a…

it was a bright sunny day…. 26th November,2008. The day life changed for Mumbai, a city in the ocean of the country India… It was a normal day at work, and I couln’t expect anything to go wrong. I had a doctor’s appointment in Andheri, so I rushed from work to go for that in the evening-6PM. I felt-light hearted after meeting my neurologist.. Who knew that within the next few hours life could change so much.. I took a 7.30 train from Andheri and reached Churchgate by 8.30PM. There was something very very very wrong as I exited the…

We make friends in life…and, we lose some….these people who have come in my life have filled it with so much of happiness. I wish I could re-pay them back for how they’ve helped me, changed me as an individual. Today I am, all that I am i know because of whatever has happened in my life- the fights, the good times, the bad…the experiences and memories… “Stop being a kid…you’re a grown up!”.. all that i can say to myself, when i feel so rejected, and low in life.Life waits for no one… you just have to make yourself…

i believe in honesty and always have… even if i do something really wrong i can never get myself to lie about it. im transparent in my emotions, gestures, writings and sometimes i get angry at myself for that. Why the hell do i have to be like that?? why can’t i just stay quiet and not bother about anything… but i guess we all are made differently. i never get bothered by being straightfoward with people, letting them know how i feel.. but sometimes i just hurt myself by being so honest…i wish i wasnt always… wish i could…

Another day at work ends, and i come back home;switch on the music and think about all thats happened to me. Listening to michael buble always eases my mind.. that slow jazz in the background… i can never shed off memories. they keep haunting back again and again. theres so much to think about, so much to do, but i always am mentally reluctant to change. i tell myself over and over again its not worth the pain to think of things now, thats what its always like…. i always have to remind myself nothing in life is for real……

I come back home and think I’m safe….but minutes later I feel trapped. There is no escape from reality… no place to safely place your head down to sleep. It’s a cruel world out there…bombs, terrorism, violence taking place in different forms targeting people from all walks of life. The mind has become our worst enemy. With terror blasts taking place in major cities in our country where and how can we feel safe? Revenge, jealousy, status, distinction are all possible reasons why terrorists perform these terror acts, but who’s to say.. I take a step anywhere nowadays..a walk down…

Life is just like quicksand….. Whatever you have, whoever you meet…it’s so temporary… so unreal…. things have to dissolve, and your left to move on. Whoever said something can last forever. the only real, true aspect of life is change. it’s permanent.. No one can prevent change. Life has been like a gettaway.. a gettaway from whom i don’t know yet.. maybe myself. maybe to change and adjust to new situations … to new people and to new lifestyles… i often wonder what its like if i just stood silent for one day. no one would notice.. no one can…

Living life alone, having no one beside you-To face life’s dangers and still be brave to recover….Some of us are oblivious to what happens in our country on a regular basis;Not just in one city or two, but all over the country.Women face problems in all parts of the country and this is not even based on the fact that one is richer or poorer than the other.Eve teasing is faced by almost every woman in the country.Mockery is faced by every woman in some form or the other.It’s a sad fact that most of the women in our country…