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Smell of the journey!!

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  Smell of the Journey!! Today, after a long time, I am going to put this feeling into words, it is not that it is a special story or an anecdote or an interesting event, it is just a story of those few hours in which one goes to their city yes, the city where one spent her childhood. It becomes more emotional when that one is a married women and even more touchy when it is by train. It takes you back to the days when you used to travel by train with your parents even grandparents in your childhood. Nevertheless, Train is not just a public transport to me it’s a feeling that takes me back to my childhood. When I used to travel with six coach passenger train from my home to the places of my grandparents. We used to board the train from a very small station where one could always find a goods train of coal in those days. Smell of brown cardboard ticket along with faded impression of red and blue ink still reside in my mind. The only music that we used to listen was the sounds of bird roa

Privilege of being a girl

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  feminism ! feminism! feminism! Don't worry folks its not about discussing the decade old debate of feminism .I am here to share the privilege we being a woman can adore in this journey of life .We always listen ,read, think and even fight for the injustice done to us by the society. Can we deliberate for a moment to cherish the beauty we experience in living as a she version of the life. Starting from the birth of a girl it's considered a symbol of 'goddess Lakshmi' .In this materialistic world what is more important then being the suprema of it .As we girl progress in life we are worshipped as 'Goddess Durga' epitome of Power and beauty. We as girl have a liberty of choosing the profession no one says that its not going to give you a high paying job ,we can pursue any dream that we have or thought of being. It will be quite unfair to mention the thanks to our male counterpart "bhaiya ji" for the tasks like cleaning of roof-top, lifting the heavy box