Society and Lifestyle

"Surroundings can help a person grow or stoop" I believe that the environment of an individual plays an important role in his/her growing process. Just as a tiger’s behavior depends on whether it is born in a forest or a zoo, humans’ behavior is also directly proportional to the environment they lived in. For instance, a tiger is supposed to be a vicious apex predator. This criterion is fulfilled by many tigers living in a forest but not the tigers born and brought in a zoo. In a zoo, it hardly knows how to hunt. Remember the incident from the Delhi Zoo, when a man fell into tiger enclosure. It did not hurt him until the onlookers throwing stones at him to shoo him away. Only after the attack by the audience, it grabbed the neck of the man and went towards its den. Many articles claim that ‘grabbing the neck’ was an attack but I think it was not. The tiger never knew how to hunt. Moreover, this is how they carry their cubs as well. The basic instinct was to save the man fro...

This is not just a list... The pandemic has made our lives even more monotonous than it was before. Since the first lockdown, I have consumed a lot of online content. Few days back I was watching “The Devil Wears Prada” again and I realised how much I want to resonate with the protagonist or sometimes even with the strong side character. I watch movies where I can connect to the story or find some part of my life in it. Few of these stories stay with you for a long period of time. Evidently, “Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani” is one of those movies and is an absolute delight for many of us. Why do I think that? Well, I have a list. First, let aside all the latent characteristics of the movie, we all want a trip with friends. You may have travelled with your friends to some really cool places but are we ever satisfied with just a few? I know I have an uncountable number of trips to go on.   Second, the characters justify every road towards the future. If you are a topper, your hard work wi...

 "I've had choices, since the day I was born. There were voices that told me right from wrong."  Before buying any book, I always check the reviews online or select the book which is highly recommended by others. Based on these recommendations and reviews, I started reading Yuval Noah Harari’s “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind”. Following are the remarks by some famous personalities. “Interesting and provocative… It gives you a sense of how briefly we’ve been on this Earth” ―  Barack Obama “Jaw-dropping from the first word to the last… It may be the best book I’ve ever read” ―  Chris Evans And hence began the quest to complete the text. I must say it was a roller coaster ride. It started with an amazing perspective of evolution and agriculture revolution and then it took a turn towards coins (How interesting!!). I jumped ‘the scent of money’ to land on ‘the law of religion’ which was quite interesting, not the jump, the topic. I was trying hard to like t...