Of feelings, flaws and fairy tales!

Hello there! I don't know why I wanted to blog this but yeah probably this becomes one of my favourites. Not impure. Period. No matter what.  It's 2020 and still there exist period taboos.  Long long ago, When there were no certain sanitation facilities; When there was  lot of work pressure on women ; These menstrual days considered to be the toughest phase she has to go through.  So some of 'em wisely decided to rest the women on "those days"in order to reduce her mental strain and physical pain.  Appreciation.  But what do you think it has evolved all through the centuries?  MYTHS!  Even women themselves feel they are impure when they bleed and voluntarily agree to not to enter kitchen, temple and bla bla bla..  Pity those women.  For five days, when we bleed and suffer from cramps, we absolutely deserve much needed rest.  Menstruation is a normal biological processes as normal as sleeping and eating.  But why does it make us...

Hello peeps! Before all else let me wish you all a very Happy Deepavali ✨! I wanted to write this blog cuz for many of us Deepavali is just lighting diyas, firing crackers and eating varieties of food(passing time with mobiles is recently added!)! To be honest, I am one of the active member of this club! But this time I really wanted to explore whats the point in celebrating blindly. Here we go!  Putting behind all the mythological stories we have been tuned into, lighting of diyas has a significance that matters.  Traditionally the deepavali is all about worshipping the deity Dhanvantri for one's health and well being. As time flew, dhanvantri and the trayodashi of this month combined to form Dhanteras which meant praying for wealth! So deepavali was about health became wealth!  Why is it about health is, for those who live in the northern hemisphere, certain things change from this moment. In a way there is a slow down of life! So in these winter months, how one should ...