“When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people” ~Helen Keller CochlearTM – the global market leader in hearing solutions, is striving towards reviving the lost contacts of the hearing impaired children and the society, by bridging the gap between...
Events/Sponsored Posts / Travel
by Meenakshi J · Published May 9, 2017 · Last modified July 12, 2017
“ He who returns from a journey is not the same as he who left.” ~ A Chinese Proverb I have been so intrigued by China , its culture , its traditions , its magnificent monuments since childhood that I have nurtured a secret desire to visit this ‘Land of...
‘Birthdays and Gifts, go hand in hand’ without saying, in most of the households. However, cake as a birthday gift is often frowned upon especially in our family, just because the general perception among the elders being -‘If it’s a cake then it ought to be made with eggs’! I was...
by Meenakshi J · Published March 20, 2017 · Last modified March 21, 2017
Shri Pranab Mukherjee, President of India inaugurated an international conference themed “Universities of the Future: Knowledge Innovations and Responsibility’ ’at O. P. Jindal Global University (JGU), on the 18th of March,2017. The 3-day conference hosted by the university was being held from 18-20th of March, 2017. I had the opportunity to be...
Delhi Diaries / Events/Sponsored Posts
by Meenakshi J · Published March 17, 2017 · Last modified March 27, 2017
“Two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun” ~ Stephen King The very first dinner theatre of Delhi is on the lines of the above thought. And this unique idea is named ‘Ghungroo – The Sounds of Yore’ What better than- a...
Story telling is the oldest form of education while imagination and creativity bring out the best in children. And the Colgate Packs encourage the same.Wondering, how? Well, read on….. The new ‘Colgate Family Packs’ have got three different sets of stories based on the theme of ‘Magical Space’ consisting of astronauts,...
Change is the only constant. More so, in the lives of a military family! Having shifted six houses in the last 30 months across three different terrains and states, I share a special bond with the statement – ‘Getting my house painted’. A Flashback My first tryst with this statement was exactly...
by Meenakshi J · Published December 28, 2016 · Last modified January 10, 2017
The raging debate on Twitter a couple of days back- over the invitation of RSS Speakers to the Jaipur Literature Festival 2017 left me perplexed! We, as a society have made sure ‘Hatred’ and ‘Arrogance’ supersedes our ‘Intelligence and Rationality’. This in turn has resulted in ‘Politics: based on religion, creed...
Three ‘Happening’ events in the Capital at different places on the same day and one is surely spoilt for choice ! This is what happened the last weekend with me. Two literary festivals and the Tata Hexa Experience event and all the three on the 26th and 27th of November!! As...
My very first official Bloggers’ Meet at the office of the most reputed Publishing Houses left me enlightened, excited , stumped as well as jittery. I will be lying if I say that I was just excited..actually I was Uber-excited about the meet and was smiling from ear to ear on...
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