Preethi Sriram

The split second visit to heaven !! Everything was a chaos .. my room.. my bed.. my wardrobe  and mom was yelling "Take ur brush.. You need to brush even when you are with ur friends , ain't it?" The sarcasm ! There was a reason . I have never been to a trip without my parents in the past twenty years.. well, since she gave birth to me and now out of nowhere I'm going on a trip with my friends and to a theme park and I said "I'm a grown up! and I can take care of myself". Enough said . she has been complaining since morning and now I'm all set to leave. Dad calls up from downstairs to inform me that it was the 'n'th five minutes i have been saying  and the bus was waiting. I was all excited and kissed amma goodbye. she hugged me and said  " stay safe annnd be back soon !" Don't imagine much. I was going to Bangalore which is like a 300 kms away from home and yeah, what's home without a bit of drama? finally, I struggle...

The Whatsoever's Day Back then, there was a time when Indians where known for their values and yes, for their savings.  Unlike the mutual funds and stock markets which makes your own hard earned money volatile , we, Indians were known for putting aside a part of our salary earned that no matter how hard the situation is we were able to manage it pretty well from the savings.  And then, it happened! The East India company they came in and lured us. They were astonished about one thing out of the million and  they found  the very reason behind the India having a rich heritage.  Yes, The savings!  As cliche as it sounds, they wanted to break this tradition of ours and hence came in the culture of celebrating mother's day,  father's day, Valentine's day, fools day, friendship day, sibling's day, husband's day, wife's day, this day and that day. We were lured into the culture and in no track of time drowned in it. 'What's the big deal in celebratin...