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The Beauty of Silence Pause, unleash, unwind, and surrender… How about a world where we float in an ocean of colours... Now imagine a myriad colours injected in you; from the resplendent to the ashen, from the see through to the clouded, from the pastels to the starks. The one we reflect isn't the one we are known by? Beg to differ? A magical phenomenon, non-palpable in today’s traumatising world affected my psyche in various ways, when I surrendered myself to the power of silence, in the midst of colours. Cyan ; a hue of calmness Fiery Orange ; a ray of hope  Emerald ; signifying spiritual aura  Lemon Yellow ; duping the gates of inspiration  and Fuchsia ; a perfect jargon for love… Silence is an antidote to listening. This realisation dawned upon me when I saw ' The Ink in Motion' in the midst of silence. This fascinating array of colours touched my soul and healed me from inside. It preached me how to demarcate calmness from dis

The Art of listening  Have you ever experienced the beauty of listening? How about trying after reading this ? Nature is mildly silent yet fiercely breezy conveying disparate feelings. In this cacophonic world where it’s hard to keep pace with words, we excel in the ‘lack of listening’, not realizing the secret marvels of nature that we are losing!  Isn’t it is hard to pay attention to the quiet, the subtle, the understated ? One spends roughly 60% of the communication time  on  listening - of which only 25% is retained! ‘Listening can be defined as making meaning from the sound which is a mental process and a process of extraction…’ as quoted by Julian Treasure in his talk  on ‘5 ways of better Listening’ , a speaker at TEDx platform.  But why are we losing  our  ability to listen? What are the reasons behind it? Certain technological changes are responsible for this in some ways: the invention of writing, audio recording, and video recording! In this nois

I won’t be impressed with technology until I can download food! ~Anonymous Food… when I hear this word, I smell flavored sumptuous and mouthwatering dishes around me that lends me wings of joy! ‘ Food is any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth’ according to the dictionary. But to me, food is something else: it is something that elevates my mood, enhances my tummy-happiness, and satiates my rhapsodic urges aside providing me with nutrition and energy.  Some people just eat food to live, but I live to eat! It’s like a complete process: close your eyes, take a bite, and chew it slowly – only think about its taste, taste that no one tried before and make newer combinations in your palate to discover the tanginess, nuttiness, saltiness, crispiness, and crunchiness of innumerable cuisines. Yes! That’s how lost I am in the food labyrinth. When people ask me what makes me happy, I retort, ‘