Sunita Sakshi, Author at India Alive

Is Dhanteras about Wealth or Health?

October 17, 2017 Sunita SakshiDeepawali, Dhanatrayodasi, Dhanteras, Diwali0 comment

Dhana Trayodashi (or Dhanteras, Hindi: धनतेरस, धनत्रयोदशी) is the first day of the Indian Deepawali. The festival is also known as “Dhanvantari Trayodashi”. It is celebrated on the thirteenth lunar day of Krishna Paksha (dark fortnight) in the Vikram Samvat Hindu calendar month of Ashwin. Shopping on Dhanteras is a very essential part of all Hindu’s as per tradition. BUT is really Dhanteras about Dhan (Money)? Although Dhanteras has become associated with wealth and people buy gold or silver jewellery and utensils on this day, there is no association of…

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The Beauty of Knowing (9): Thomas Hardy’s Bathsheba Everdene and a Timeless Classic

September 29, 2017September 29, 2017 Sunita SakshiBathsheba Everdene, Boldwood, Far From The Madding Crowd, Novel, Oak, The Beauty of Knowing, Thomas Hardy, Troy0 comment

Ever got sick of all the buzz that is going on around you? People wearing a grimace all the time, vehicles wizzing to and fro, buildings growing all the time, factories inccessantly crying out, yet people always getting attracted to a loci: all these point to our so-called priced cosmopolitans and metroplitans and if anyone wants to get ‘FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD’, all you have to do is pick a Thomas Hardy. Well, Thomas Hardy, in a nut shell, is a painter with a pen in hand. A few…

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The Beauty of Knowing (8): The Curious Case of the Balloon Deflating with a bang

September 28, 2017 Sunita SakshiBubble burst, Economics, The Beauty of Knowing0 comment

Everything seems to be random and chaotic in this random and chaotic world. But under all this there is always one recurring motif, or a kind of pattern. Whatever happens things keep wanting to be stress free in a sort of equilibrium condition. This balance of energy is happening everywhere and all the time. You name it, this phenomenon explains it: from the homeostasis of our body to the various elemental cycles of our planet to the climatic patterns causing currents and cyclones to radioactivity to even the Big Bang!…

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The Beauty of Knowing (7): Game of Thrones, the first killer? I think not

September 27, 2017 Sunita SakshiGame of Thrones, Spoiler free, The Beauty of Knowing0 comment

Have you ever been awake a whole day? Like, twenty four hours straight? I have! It has been for a quite of other reasons but the main factor: Serials! Yes, you can call me one of those guys who associate themselves with the modern trend of English-serial watchers and I say why not? Coming to the twenty-four hour gig, it has happened four times because of these four things: Arrow, Prison break, Game of Thrones and House of Cards. After college and returning to my room, as if it were…

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The Beauty of Knowing (6): Feddy an oldy? Think Again

September 26, 2017September 27, 2017 Sunita SakshiRoger Federer, Tennis, The Beauty of Knowing0 comment

This guy has been around ever since I was a kid. For the past few years he has made his name synonymous to his sport. There are very few names that have a global reach, fewer still in sports (for, many sports that are popular in one part of the world are not even followed in the other), fewer still in individual sports and fewer still for around two decades. I’ts the last feature that sets Federer apart from the rest of the world. Well, for one thing, two decades…

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The Beauty of Knowing (5): Emerson’s Self-reliance; O Captain, my Captain

September 26, 2017September 26, 2017 Sunita SakshiLiterature, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance, The Beauty of Knowing0 comment

Those of you who have watched Robin Williams’ awesome ‘Dead Poet’s Society’ know what my title means and those of you who haven’t, it doesn’t matter. I have read a fair amount of books and have this habbit of collecting the quotes that I like and on looking upon this small piece of text I think it is going to take me just an hour to finish with a few lines, if at all any, to take note of. What stupendous stupidity! I am writing all this as soon as…

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The Beauty of Knowing (4): From The Lives of Others to Life is Beautiful

September 24, 2017 Sunita Sakshicold war, Life is beautiful, The Beauty of Knowing, The lives of others, world war two0 comment

Let’s face it. Since the day we started watching Hollywood movies we would have relied heavily on subtitles. If not for those life-savers, what would have happened! Even today, when I feel I know at least some English, in walks Benedict Cumberbatch! Tell me honestly now, those of you who have watched ‘Sherlock’, can one do without subs! But on the bright side, from my read-subsi-watch-film hardwork, I learnt that you need not know a language to know the essence, and thus I tried my hands at other language films…

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The Beauty of Knowing (3): Adam Gilcrist, The Definition of Cricket

September 24, 2017 Sunita SakshiAdam Gilcrist, Cricket, The Beauty of Knowing, Virender Sehwag0 comment

Who can forget the moment when Sreesanth caught the ball! I almost thought he had dropped it, but he had not!!! India, having humiliatingly exited a world tournament, that very year had won another. I still vividly remember everything as if it had happened yesterday! I had no time to pity the valiant efforts of Misbah, I was literally jumping up and down in my house like a monkey! Cricket had been an integral part of my life all through my childhood and adoloscence. I used to watch each ball…

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The Beauty of knowing (2): Napoleon’s war and Tolstoy’s peace

September 24, 2017September 24, 2017 Sunita SakshiBernard Shaw, History, Leo Tolstoy, The Beauty of Knowing, Toynbee, War and Peace0 comment

‘Napoleon’, and everyone imagines an extraordinary hero (at least I did), but I say, read War and Peace; when someone says ‘Napoleon’ you will say ‘That clown’! For starters, War and Peace is a novel (though the author does not call it so and he has every reason not to), and a BIIIG one! But big and small have no meaning unless they are relative, so just for the sake of comparision: the number of words in War and Peace is around seven and a half times more than the…

The Beauty of knowing (1): How we “think” Atom is!

September 22, 2017 Sunita SakshiAtom, college, school, science, student0 comment

Atom? Like the solar system, right? Nope! Do not be sorry. If we time travel just 150 years back and ask the most intelligent man on Earth this very question he will probably say, “We are not sure if atoms exist in the first place!” Story: A few guys take a vaccum glass tube with one end connected to the positive and the other to the negetive end of the supply and turn on the power. BAM! There is suddenly light flowing from negetive to positive! Since it originates at…