Ban Ganga

A big milestone in my life is approaching next month.... and after years and years of dreaming what it would be like to finally complete the milestone, finally when it is at my doorstep I am most ill prepared... and i really wish I could do all the things I had planned to do for that milestone... share it with so many people...

alas... not to be .... as my life has been the past few months - everything will be in a rush and I will not even get the time to breathe and take it all in....

Have you ever seen a wall of your house collapse? What do you go through when you see that wall which was till now a major part of your house is no longer standing?

Immediately you feel a sense of fear, you dream of the various unwanted elements that can come into your house since there is no wall anymore... and wonder whether you will ever be safe again... and then you weep for having taken that wall for granted... and you attempt to immediately reconstruct the wall... but it will take time... and it is not easy....

and you learn to live with the fear till such time that the wall in built....

So Yahoo is set to have a woman CEO after many trials and errors over the last 2 years... now the obvious fact that it is a woman heading a global organisation is itself startling.... and to boot the fact that she is a mother of 5 already with a 6th on the way is a huge thumps up everywhere for women all around the world.... constantly women I know have had to choose either one of the options- career or children... and most often (and very rightly in their view) so the option is to have children and forgo on their career... most women are happy to do it but somewhere I am sure there is a feeling of having missed the boat.. or a sinking feeling of whether you will ever be relevant to anyone outside of your family.... while on balance many women are content, given the off beat chance that all women are not made same there may be instances when a woman must be looking longingly at her degree.... close on the heels of this annoucement was a study which proved that women are actually becoming than men

so can a woman have it all? in my view she can... if her husband is supportive... and the family helps out as much as they would help out a man...then a woman can have it all...  and I dont think this should by any chance be considered as a beacon call for all women to have a career and children... its ultimately her decision to make...

everytime i feel a dip, a click gets me back.... yes, I take photos to uplift my moods... it must be something to do with creativity.... mumbai in the rains is very tough to capture with a camera... I tried anyways...

It was like any other day.... I woke up in the morning to go for my morning walk, carrying with me the windcheater to protect me against sudden burst of rain.... in the monsoon that is essential you see.... as is my practice I walked through St. Andrews church... to quickly talk to God and ask him how is doing before walking on towards Bandstand.... did a quick prayer after carefully removing my headphones (you dont want to be disrespectful to God) and quickly put it back on after I had done my short and sweet conversation with God (mostly onesided).... I take a turn and lo and behold the most unexpected thing happens to me.... I see 2 women crouching on the floor... I go closer to see what happened and see a most unexpected sight.... a little baby wrapped up head to toe with a milk bottle right next to her lying on the floor in the drizzle.... an abandoned baby ... and instinctively I know that it is a girl... a beautiful, sweet, small baby... not more than 15 days old I would think... at first I thot the women had dropped the baby down.... but the baby was not crying....the frantic search for something by the women made me think that this is an unusual situation..... Last thing I saw the women had bundled up the baby and taken it inside to the church... and feeding her with the milk bottle that was left beside her by the unidentified person who abandoned her.... Sometimes God gives to those who dont want it .... and doesnt give to those who want it badly.... in my next conversation with God I will discuss the importance of system correction with him... to give the have nots before the haves... overhaul is highly recommended in the distribution of blessings.....

Today somebody remarked that they need some softness in their life... .and I immediately thought of Baby George ......