Happy Holi, Color Me Red, Pink, Green, Brown, Blue

Color me Red, Pink, Green, Brown, Blue

All the colors your heart has savaged for me

Color me Yellow and

I will know you are cheerful when you are with me

Color me Green and

I will know you feel refreshed when I am around

Color me Brown and

I will know you trust me with all you have

Color me Pink and

I will know your love for me is undying

Color me White and

I will know your love for me is pure

Color me Red and

I will know your passion for me

Color me Black and

I will know I have complete authority on you

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All your colors look great on me

From Yellow to Black

The journey has been exciting

Beyond Black I am sure our love

Will always remain White

Pure in all its essence

Wish you a Very Happy Valentine

You entered my life as a stranger,

Occupied a place just below my heart

Requesting me to let you in

But I refused,

For I did not wanted a

Stranger to enter that sacred place and scar it for a lifetime

Gradually you made your presence felt

I could feel you then, you were there in my thoughts

Occupying my mind,

Gradually I started missing you so much

My mind would often signal the heart to

Look down for you and would be often

Content just to know that you were there

Don’t know when missing you, became caring for you

And when caring for you became loving you

Soon heart opened its door for you

You entered in quietly and occupied my heart

Promised to keep me happy forever ever and ever

That year we celebrated our first Valentine

It is now 7 years since then

But it feels so fresh in my heart

My Valentine, Wish you a Very Happy Valentine 

Uttarayan – Is It Fair To Mourn the Lost Souls on this Festive Day

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Uttarayan, the famous kite flying festival is around the corner. For me it is my favorite festival, as a child we would have started flying kites as soon as we finished Diwali celebrations. We were kids then, and had lot of time. How I miss those days when we would meet up at friend’s places on weekends to celebrate the coming festival. Even today, the festival has not lost its meaning to me, though time is less, still I make it a point to celebrate the festival with lots of kite flying and Undhiyu (type of mixed vegetable).

While I await the festival for all the fun it will bring to our lives, I lament at all the families which mourn the death of their near and dear ones on this day. It hurts to see parents scolding or restricting their kids to celebrate the festival because on this day they lost someone dear. I want to ask how fair is this? How do you expect your kids not to fly kites when others are enjoying it so much? How can you see them unhappy on the day of the festival? How can you take away their happiness, just because you feel like mourning the death of a loved one?

Festivals are celebrated to bring joy to the world, by doing this, what we bring in is more sadness to our lives.

It is said that those who die find a permanent place in the heavenly abode. How sad, how unhappy they would feel to see you mourning their deaths when it is actually time to celebrate. In fact they will be happier to see you happy with all others in your neighborhood.

I understand it is really difficult to lose someone you love, their thoughts never live us alone, but they can be also remembered by being happy, why mourn?

Please, parents it is fine to mourn the death of someone special on this day for some time, but please please do not stop yourself and your children from celebrating the festival, it does no good to them, neither to the ones living the moments today nor to the ones who have lived the moments of yesterday.