Close to Heart

I never knew there is such a word as emotional memory until i was googling something and stumbled upon it. We have a whole set of definitions, wiki pages, scholarly articles and on going researches for same. Basically its an emotion attached to a event of past in our memory. Have you noticed that how we may not remember the granular details of the event clearly but we exactly remember how we felt that day or in that moment. Its maybe surprising for some that the same emotion can be evoked by just remembering that event with the same intensity at the time of event, you can feel same amount of love, anger, grief, pain, joy, envy or jealousy simply by remembering an event. Sometimes the emotion change over the period of time, as time goes by and you get older, you can feel reverse of the emotion, like your wedding day, the emotions that get triggered by looking at the photographs of your wedding day can be different in each decade. You may feel happy and joyous in initial decades, but...

Amidst the #metoo movement of Bollywood, we all must have given a thought about it. Have we or not? Well let’s give it now, if we haven’t. We are hearing cases from all sections of society being sexually assaulted some or the other time in their life. Majority being women around us. Have we ever wondered the reason that the country were the women are worshiped have the highest no of assaults registered against them? And yes we not counting the ones that go un-reported. Well I have and I think it’s not education or lack of law or its enforcement. As we have many cases were we can debate that these are not the real reasons. So what does it boil down to? To me its #MINDSET. So is mind set related to education. No, certainly not. Then what? Mindset is not something we can change or incorporate into someone in a day. Its gradually built when we grow in life, seeing the things around us or that affect us, in a right or wrong way. Have we ever thought that we all teach our ...