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Life is what you make it: a novel by Preeti Shenoy Preeti Shenoy have always wondered me. She has an excellent talent of story telling with her deep observations and simple way of narration. 'Life is what you make it' is her second book after '34 bubblegums and candies'. I had heard girls saying about Durjoy Datta (romance fiction writer) He knows what rings in a girl's head. I would confidently say Preeti Shenoy knows what rings in a boy's head. Her works reveal her in-depth understanding of male psychology. The novel is a story of love, hope and determination. Story teller is Ankita and she lives in a very conservative family where boys are not allowed to call or visit her.  But she manages to keep in touch with her best friend Vaibhav who has got admission in IITD through letters and sometimes through telephone without falling into notice of her parents. She gets new friends as she gets into St.Agnes. Cochin  where she adores the position of arts secretary ...

(this is a work of fiction. Characters, incidents are either the product of author's imagination or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to any actual person, living or dead, events or locale are entirely coincidental) I was participating for the poem writing competition in our university arts fest two months ago. An air conditioned room was arranged for the writing competitions and I got inside. There was none there, so I was a little bit worried about whether I had been wrong about the stage number. But after a few seconds a girl came inside. She had worn a blue jeans and a white T-shirt, she looked like western born. And she looked almost of age nineteen or twenty. It was my first time I was participating a university level poem writing. I was supposed to compete with almost forty colleges under the university. So there was no meaning to assess, whether the counterparts were western born or not. She took a seat very distant from me in that big hall. But I could noti...

No relegion will discourage charity and the money spent for people in need is always noble in sight of any religious scriptures. We could see numerous people in short of basic needs like clothing, shelter, even some one to care them in their old age. What can we do by just feeling pity to them, we always count our shortcomings, how would it be if we are into providing the help for the needy, it would be more beautiful and promising than ruminating on our own unreasonable thoughts of helplessnes. Whatever we might have, spent for the needy, if we don't have anything to spent just a smiling face will do the difference for the people who are in need of love and care. Prophet Muhammed told "even a smiling face that you show to other people is like you spent in charity". It brings people's mind together and the thought of helplessnes is vanished by the soothing power of smile that arise from our hearts. #let's help #let's smile from heart.

Nadira has something to tell you.a story tore from her Memmories. On the eve of Nadira's uncle and aunt's tenth wedding anniversary, her sweet aunt updated her status on Facebook, it compliments her sweetest uncle. "Since the day of our wedding, he has been my father, savior, caretaker,best friend and lover, I wish I shall live to eternity, to be aside of him always. " The like counts hike to its peaks within minutes, and Nadira was in search of words to comment on this post but she ends up with a like. Excited, Nadira tells this to her mom who don't even know to use a computer or internet. She tells the content of the post. Nadira's excitement toppled to dust, when she saw her mom was smiling and her eye nooks were clouded with tears. Silence dominated the air between them. She remembered she had read somewhere. " Silence knows what does it meant. Like a cloud knows why it is turning dark and heavy. " Her father went abroad when she was just a...

Have you thought at any point of your life, the story of rabbit and tortoise has any real life implications? More than a story that conveys the message "hardship and perseverance lead to success", what will it convey if the rabbit wins the race? , if the rabbit didn't thought to relax for a while, what if the rabbit thought to relax after the finishing point? All these insane doubts came to me when I came across the concept of slow and fast paced learners, especially in psychology texts. Slow paced learners are the ones who take a long time to grasp a concept or new skill. Usually slow paced learners find it difficult to learn a huge amount of information within a short span of time. While the fast paced learners are the ones who are capable of learning a huge amount of information within a short span of time. They are blessed with higher fluid intelligence and short term memory. The slow paced learners also finds difficulties in memory retention which shows a lower f...

A couple of days back I witnessed one of the strange incidence in my life. An elderly man in his sixties riding a scooter and helping the students reach the school exit door. Once you get inside cochin university you have to walk a lot to reach cusat exit door, and that is quiet difficult in hot climate, below the scorching sun.I don't know his name, I was walking to exit door during a weekend. He stopped the the blue Honda activa scooter, and asked me wether I was to exit door side, he offered a lift and dropped me at exit door from where I could easily catch a bus. When I told a "thanks", "don't mention", with a heartly smile was his reply. It was first time, probably the first time that I could recall, helped by a stranger. He didn't knew me, I didn't knew him. Yet he helped me like a grant father. The incident left a question "why me?! ", May be I was over preoccuppied myself. But it got resolved when I heard, one of my best friend wa...

Love stories that touched my heart A beautiful anthology book, collection of heart touching love stories, the book is really worth reading.. We get a chance to know how young writers around India excelled in their writing skills to make their words really touch our hearts. The book is edited by Ravinder Singh the author of best sellers  'I too had a love story ' and 'can love happen twice? ' The stories unveil the unconventional forms of love, breaking our common views of love and relationships. Bringing a broad meaning of love into light, burning to ashes the belief that love is confined to only few romantic moments and the notion, love happens only in love marriages. The story I liked most is " a tale of two strangers" by Swagata Pradhan. Which portraited the childhood friendship drifting into love, the following pain and scare of separation. 'Heartstrings' by Dr Roshan Radhakrishnan, is yet another attraction, showing the eternal form of love,...

Courtesy:indianfunpic.com Every one had written exams at least once in life. These are some scribblings about what I felt when step off from a exam hall. Dedicated to my friends who always motivated me and made exam halls fun. ******* **** ****** **** ****** **** Exam halls are of silent kind But bombs and war still in mind! Yes I looked a girl sitting there. She looked like weeping, spelling lore Studious girls are always My nightmare. Tedious work I feel,  at times Can't beat them any more. Studious boys are sometimes Funny, deserves them no blames Always deceived by games. Falls and wakes, but still too late. Yes I had, you had full marks While we wrote our exams. But nearly null marks!  Once we checked for answers. ***** *** ***** *** ***** *** ***** *** Confession: the plot and the picture might not match me. Still the words are just for the sake of poem. ***** *** ***** *** ***** *** ***** ***

Demonstrating setup for showing how a material could be made invisible Light is a form of wonder to all ages. Writers had written a lot about it, poets had sung numerous poems about it, scientists had tirelessly worked to explore about it. From Plank to Einstein, the definitions about it had made a new area to search about, for generations of students to come. Recently I had a chance to visit ETCHNEW 2016, THE OPTICS FAIR held in International School Of Photonics, CUSAT.there was an exhibition about how lasers can be applied to several technologies.Here I would share some items which amazed me in terms of its variety and technological innovation.  Data Transfer Via light (not WI-FI But LI-FI) Demonstrator had two laptops at a distance and an equipment on which a small LED bulb is mounted. When we type something on one laptop, we can see a simultaneous blinking of LED bulb and appearance of same letter on the other laptop which is assisted by a photo detector. CLOAKI...

Why is it so embarrassing to talk to some strangers? I had asked 1000 times this question to myself, being an introvert, I had the privelage to be called book worm, non friendly and even heartless. But if anyone dare to asks me about an introvert  the only comment to post " it's quite comfortable to be silent, sometimes a silent and natural ambience is healing too from a stressed atmosphere " Personally I believe every introverts wish themselves to be at least energetic as an extrovert. But most extroverts are over talking, even though they make sense, it feels noisy.this is why introversion clashes with extroverts. The biggest ever problem an introvert  faces is the diminishing of creativity when trying to be as extroverts who are branially 24*7 times active. It is really hard for an introvert to initiate a conversation voluntarily with a stranger. Introverts are sometimes browbeaten in colleges, allegedly for being not smart, not addressing seniors with rev...