Nirbhaya we have failed you again

Another Nirbhaya has happened, God knows how many are happening and how many more 
willl  happen!
The spirit of every Kalpana Chawla, a nirbhaya would dampen.
we are failing miserably, that too as Human Beings,
No progress seems to help us by any means!
An indigenous GPS we now own,
But are souls have sadly turned to stone.

Shameful, sad, disappointing, unfortunate, I am at a grave loss of words. How do I express the abysmal pain, sorrow and fear I feel at the fate of another Nirbhaya, this time from Kerala- the state with the highest literacy rate in the country. What leaves me aghast is the fact that what is it that brings up these inexplicably gruesome, inhuman attacks upon the unfortunate woman? My education in law does not help me to understand the whys, hows and how to stop them of these crimes because I feel so terrified as a woman that the lawyer in me succumbs to the helplessness of being a woman. Nirbhaya was a doctor in the making and this poor soul a lawyer. Is this the punishment we as a society have determined for the new age women who are trying to break open the shackles of all sorts of limitations through education and independence.We rape, assault, disgrace, throw acid on and murder these women for their audacity to attempt to live their lives on their own.
Why is no eveteaser scared of the innumerable bystanders?
Why woman empowerment is just a rhetoric?
Something has grossly gone wrong with us as a society. Is it our education system or family values or moral uprightness? How long and how far shall we betray the Devi, the Durga? Sorry Nirbhaya we have failed you again.  

Void

                                    

The Void persists, the emptiness does not go,
The pain is deep, it does not mellow.
The world is fast and I am slow,
I want to relive the days lived long ago.

Close to mother's heart I knew I was secure,
 Since I was her part.
My heart cries for her, she is very far.
Survival has spoilt everything, life is now a constant war.

The aroma of a home cooked meal,
The chatter of siblings playing with zeal,
The cosy shelter full of care,
The warmth of a home, gone God knows where!

I penned these lines while feeling overwhelmed with emotions,that I myself could not understand. As my hand scribbled I found myself engulfed in nostalgia, childhood, student life, time lived and shared with siblings, life lived so far rushed in my memory and what I experienced was a massive void.

 An inexplicable emptiness as I was reminded of few of my favourite lines from a poem that was a part of my curriculum during graduation, they were:
               

               We look before and after and pine for what is not.

                Our sincerest laughter with some pain is fraught.

                 Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts.

So true, I wondered, these lines are and I feel, shall always remain. Only If we could actually and literally seize the day and make the most and the best of the present moment. Also it dawned upon me that no matter how difficult any phase or time of life has been, it always bears something that shall be later remembered or even longed for.  

Why Heartminded?

                                               Why Heartminded?

Heartminded is the first step towards quenching the irrepressible urge to express! With negligible knowledge of computers and least of tech-friendliness, Heartminded is just an expression of heartfelt thoughts. A platform created for all like minded, heart minded and even unlike minded only if the thoughts are heartfelt and mindful! Also being heartminded is a cure for all most all troubles, in all most all walks of life. A sensitive and sensible parent, spouse, child, friend, colleague, in-laws, neighbour or a neighbouring nation, precisely every thread of the web of  relations we exist in, could make life so lively! Not only this, to be heartminded or kindhearted or sensitive for one and all is actually what primarily all religions of the world preach! Thus lets be heartminded, for compassion and kindness is the essence of being homosapiens!

Heart, however is not all that we shall talk about, we humans are also the most intelligent, intellectual and mindful craft of the Allmighty! Thus, Heartminded also welcomes all mindful content, discussions and exchange of opinions. No amount of Knowledge, love, kindness or talent is complete unless shared and expressed, so engulfed in the bliss of being humans and blessed with the capability to express lets start with heartminded.

                   Why Heartminded? my mind, why heartminded you are?
                    it tells me, because i am not blind,
                     to the painful story of, each of humankind's scar!
                     open your heart it tells me, then even you will find,
                     what you were meant to be and what you are!  

           Paridhi
          25/04/2016