To Ban or not to Ban

Origin of term, Ban

Ban or, in other words, boycott term was used ever since man was fighting for freedom. However, that time this official forbiddance led to something revolutionary. Making the foreigners leave their country attained freedom. This insurgency made people realize the impact of this noun and embraced it as they continued to rule, breathe and live on their terms in a country that they called home.

Man is boycotting things from his fellowman. Sure, sounds unconstitutional, but we ought to control each other by drawing boundaries now and then especially when we need to keep our environment clean from toxins that could be in the air or on the land. For an instance ban of plastic bags, or smoking cigarettes in public are some classic examples, which are worthy for the prohibition.

However, times have changed since then. Ban of some things, objects, and articles, have lately created a furor amongst the public.

When something is not going right ban it. When people oppress it, officially forbid it. When the thing is too explosive to handle, prohibit it. When an object is harming people, suppress it.

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Wordless Wednesday #75

Even though the above picture is an artwork, I can relate it to our Life since what it throws at us, and how we swing past each hurdle.

It is a miracle!

But that's what makes humans a smart machine.


Mantra for today: Every hurdle crossed, will help an individual climb a step higher in aesthetics, which could eventually help him reach his goal.

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Review and Spotlight of Hidden Passion by Summerita Rhayne

Hidden Passion  by  Summerita Rhayne  The Blurb Rukmani, the youngest of her family, has always had her way and she thinks she would too when the question of her marriage arises. But when she expresses her wishes, her world comes crumbling down because aristocratic affairs seem to matter more than her heart. Who can she run to but the strongest ruler of the region, Deveshwaraya? Devesh finds himself torn between duty and desire. He is drawn to her yet being with her jeopardizes everything he has worked for. When even protecting her invites trouble, how can he let his heart become involved?  When the walls of monarchical politics rise high between them, will her passion prevail? Hidden Passion – the story of a princess daring to reach out for her heart’s desire Buy @ Amazon.com |Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.in  Watch It  My Review Hidden Passion is a story involving an emperor, Devesh and a princess, Rukmini, who is in distress since her state had to face defeat at the hands of Emperor.   This book revolves around their chemistry, and how the princess can captivate him by her eternal love, fondness, and  her voluptuous endearment.  The setting is king Devesh's kingdom where the passions erupt, amidst the power thus taking the reader on a journey of lust, anger, hatred and romance. What I commend is the author's thorough research on this topic, and writing an explicable story keeping the reader hooked to the plot while maintaining the background to be majestic. I would recommend this book to anybody who is a fan of history since it will give the combined flavor of passion and power. Meet the Author Summerita Rhayne writes sensual romance with emotional conflict. She took up writing when she was in her late thirties and hasn't looked back since. She first got published in 2013 and has won contests with Harlequin and Harper Collins India. Writing, she finds, is the only way to deal with the numerous story ideas bubbling in her brain which pop up more rapidly than her keyboard can do justice to. Especially when writing time is in short supply while juggling it with a job and the demands of a family. However, her pet belief is that a story and its characters have a life of their own and will find a way to make the writer pen them down. What else can one do when cerebrally confronted with the sizzling interaction of two Alpha characters? She prefers to call her books sweet and sensual to denote the slowly deepening relationship between the characters. She loves winding down with music, movies and social networking. You can stalk her @                                      Check out The Book Club Tour Schedule  This Tour is Hosted by  Facebook | Website | Blog Tours | Twitter | Pinterest | Linkedin

Review and Spotlight of Breach by Amrita Chaudhary

Breach  by  Amrita Chowdhury The Blurb How secure are your secrets in the virtual world?  Weeks before pharma-giant Acel is ready to file a global patent application for cancer wonder-drug Colare, its offshore data centre in Mumbai is hacked. The charismatic, young leader of its Indian business, Dr Udai Vir Dhingra, finds himself being blamed for negligence and breach of security. Battling market pressures, media scrutiny, livid American bosses and crumbling relationships, Vir must find the perpetrators, or see his career – and his life – spiral downwards. But the deeper he gets dragged into the shadowy world of masked online identities and muddied digital footprints, the more Vir discovers that nothing is easy or obvious, and everything has a price. Set across Mumbai, Washington and Guangzhou, Breach is a compelling and edgy cyber thriller that explores the dark and dangerous underbelly of our increasingly virtual existence Buy @ Amazon.com |Amazon.in |  Watch It  My Review The novel, Breach revolves around a biotech company, Acel Biosciences that is about to file for an International Patent on a cancer drug that would revolutionize the cure for the disease, but unfortunately gets in the muddle where their recent data gets stolen and upon scrutinizing it in depth, it is found that the information was being modified thus, deviating them from the much-awaited success. The beginning of the few chapters were mind boggling, and as a reader I had to force myself to sit through them, but then as the story started to unfold, I could feel the excitement within as the novel started moving relatively fast with small, concise chapters and saying to the point for a particular scene or a character. As a reader, I had difficulty remembering the names of some characters since the story line was moving from one country to another in a jiffy.  Tech terms were some times a little overboard, but the conversation between Madhu and Ankita made things a little effortless and elementary for a layman like me.  Besides, running around with Vir who was in the limelight of the breach of the Acel India division as he was trying to decode the hacker and get to the bottom of it, the author also took us on an emotional ride with him as he was in the middle of his ex-flame, Diti and his current fiancee, Tracey. Thus, making him live on the edge. Another story of a couple of teenagers was being unfolded amidst this rift, and it was interesting to see how these two story lines intersected in the novel. But, this story ended abruptly, and not with a bang, which disappointed me. I was expecting some big drama towards the end.  Breach is a well-researched novel, and in the fast lane especially once it's on the track of deciphering the hacker. And I would recommend it to any tech lover cause of the ride that involves thrill, adventure and the fireworks that exploded while cracking the code.  Meet the Author Amrita Verma Chowdhury is the author of Faking It, an art crime thriller about fake modern and contemporary Indian art. She holds engineering degrees from IIT Kanpur and UC Berkeley, where she was a Jane Lewis Fellow, and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon (Tepper Business School). Her work as an engineer in Silicon Valley led to seven US patents for semi-conductor fabrication – something to show for those bad-haired days. She has done Strategy Consulting and Board Effectiveness work in the US and Australia and has spent long nights fitting five-syllable words inside two-by-two squares. She has worked in the rarefied bastions of Ivy League education bringing together ideas and people. She currently works in publishing. She lives in Mumbai with her husband Sumit, their two children Shoumik and Aishani, and an assortment of pets including a cocker spaniel, a guinea pig and two turtles. She loves travelling, baking cupcakes with her daughter and hearing from her readers. You can stalk her @                                      Check out The Book Club Tour Schedule  This Tour is Hosted by  Facebook | Website | Blog Tours | Twitter | Pinterest | Linkedin

Happy Holi

Ragini's heart was racing when fingers were pointing in her direction.

 She had to decode this fear and get into the groove of fun for Holi or else she would be dragged outside and colored with all the possible hues.

Just then, she accidentally tripped over a table that had a bowl of dry green and blue color. The mixture flew like pixie dust and got sprinkled on her, giving her a whiff of the color tone, thus helping to bring clarity to her thoughts.
'Stepped out with confidence as the turquoise color had shown her the way!


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What grinds your gears?

"Jeez I hate how people backbite" laments Rose as she made that concluding statement after telling her ordeal on how she got backstabbed by her best friends, as she was getting her nails done.

"I swear! I just don't know how these people sleep at night," came a quick response from her stylist.

Just as Rose paid up and exited the building.
The stylist and her companion had a hearty laugh on her ex-client while mimicking her sobs.

Double crossing, dishonesty, mendacious, insincere, corrupted

Such traits roam around our planet in plenty. Am sure they all do it unknowingly, more so to be able to speak something, just anything.
Result: they hit rock bottom, and they continue to do this all the time, which eventually becomes a habit.

Now with a population of 318.9 million of the US, these things occur in plenty, and if I started worrying about it, I would have a nervous breakdown!


Thus, I want just to continue to focus on minuscule things in my day to day life that catches my attention and makes me grinds my gears!

Some of them are:
When the toilet paper is under and not over...geez! It's tough to grab it when you want to speed things up and clean!

When a certain someone wants to contact you ASAP, and hell breaks loose if you are not available!

When you brief your better half with all the possible instructions, and he calls you with the queries. Ughh!

When people use their saliva to turn pages in a book, and then the book comes to you for a read. Sheesh! I keep that book in the sun for a day to kill those germs!!


But then as Plato has suggested:

“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.” 
― Plato

So, I can take steps to avoid the anger step into my system, by applying the brakes in the nick of time so that my vehicle does not set into gear!

I can turn over the toilet paper. 'can breathe in a few puffs of oxygen to keep my cool and respond to the urgency, and can give the details when needed despite all the instructions given.  And I can prefer to read an ebook :)

Mantra for today: Tolerance towards actions of others is indirectly beneficial to one's health.



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Wordless Wednesday #74

Even if this planet is packed with billions of  souls; we have to row the boat of our life alone, learn to make our decisions and face their consequences, whether good or bad.


Mantra for today: One Soul, One Body, One Life. All our responsibility!

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