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August 31, 2015

Beauty / Shringar – Navras 1 – Five Sentence Fiction

Shringar

The king walked into the maze which decided only the one that found the way out would go to heaven and rest?

After several turns he stood there mesmerised by her beauty, she looked like a goddess in the saffron green silk attire with ornaments of gold and precious gems covering her well defined curves.

Her face radiant, eyes big enhanced with kohl, fragrant flowers around her hair and her tantalizing smile luring him further, he confirmed to make it to the goal and a sense of triumph to reach heaven won his heart.

“She is mine!” his confidence and pride took over as he tried to wrap her in his arms, she laughed loud as he turned to ashes, another victim gave in to lust and attachment.

Her smile faded as she transformed into one with long protruding teeth, a huge body and burnt hair, the curse would end for the goddess only when a king would not give in to her beauty – Shringar for others was meant to enhance beauty for her was a curse.

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After our successful and pleasurable journey through A-Z April Challenge, Shashank (embarkwithmythoughts) and I are delighted to bring to you nine beautiful emotions that make the Nav Ras. A rasa (Sanskrit: रस lit. ‘juice’ or ‘essence’) denotes an essential mental state and is the dominant emotional theme of a work of art or the primary feeling that is evoked in the person that views, reads or hears such a work.

The Natyasastra identifies nav rasas with eight corresponding Bhava (mood) and this month we will try to win your hearts with our five sentence fictions on each bhava. Hope you enjoy it!

Today’s emotion – Shringar (शृङ्गारं) Dressing up, Love, Attractiveness. Presiding deity: Vishnu. Colour: Green.

Information: Wikipedia

Image Souce: narthaki

August 24, 2015

Take Me Now! – Wild Seduction

Rohan rang the doorbell twice with no answer. He stood there shifting his weight from one foot to another for five minutes thinking of the heated argument over a silly issue he had with Ananya in the morning. He placed his heavy laptop bag down and got the key to open the door.

The dark teak wood door opened in a lavish living room, a gush of cool but humid breeze brushed his face. The wind chime danced to the tune of the zephyr as it made its way through the full length sliding window. The room was dark, lights off and aromatic lavender candle burnt in a remote corner.

He walked to the window and stood there watching the dark clouds over distance sea from his 24^th floor penthouse. A light sound of an anklet tingling caught his attention to the single couch on another corner. He turned.

In the dim candle light her smooth skin radiated to the contrast of the black satin gown, the faint figure in the dwindling light appeared her to be sprawling seductively across the couch. His eyes moved from her inviting face to her voluptuous figure, the satin slip creasing exactly at the right curves. He moved forward with the sound of her anklets as she playfully moved her feet.

“What’s the plan?” he softly whispered lowering his face to hers.

“To apologize…to say sorry” smiling playfully she turned lying on her stomach.

Rohan dragged the pads of his fingers from the butt to the back of her thighs over to her calves and stopped the tingling of the anklets as he kissed her toes.

“Ah that tickles” she turns to sit facing him.

“So who’s saying sorry today?” he asks holding her close to his lips.

“You….” Ananya alluringly moves her tongue across his neck.

He unties her hair as she wraps the same scarf around his wrists. Rohan seems so beguiling his body warm and tasting sultry.

Holding his neck gently she climbs to sit across him and settles on his thighs. Passion unleashes when the lips greedily devour as Ananya starts to move. The craving deepens with Ananya’s every ride. Her palms settle on his masculine chest as she parts from his lips to move steadily to his broad shoulders.

Rohan unable to contain the temptation struggles to pull his hands off the scarf. In the next moment he embraces her encapsulating her under him to drop lightly on the floor his fingertips feeling her tattoo.

“Take me now!” she whispers biting his earlobe. The Victoria’s Secret thong with the satin slip are swung and thrown in a jiffy. Raw passion and endless love alternate as he fills her repeatedly with all the love he has. It lasts long before they consummate the light tiff with mutual affection as the drizzle from the falling rain lightly fall on them.

He seals the night with a gentle kiss repeating the question, “So, who’s saying sorry?”

“What sorry?” she sees him smile as the candle burns its end to the final flame.

July 17, 2015

Dragon Loyalty Award and Premios Dardos Award

I love rains and when it rains awards I love it to say the least. So here I am accepting two of those awards that got my eyebrows raised when I received them. No don’t get me wrong, eye brows raised as I had never heard of them and found them very unique and amusing.

So thank you Ashish once again for spreading sunshine and bringing smiles to me 🙂 Ashish as we already know from my earlier post is a poet who writes inspirational poems and quotes and accepts super writing challenges – all in all a fun person and a wonderful writer.

Before we go to the unique awards, I want to thank Deeshani Batra for nominating me for the Sunshine award. Thank you so much!! Deeshani we know is fresh off the boat in our blogosphere and write at Inner Thoughts of Taciturn.

. She is a sweet person and writes beautiful poems and amazing articles 🙂 Do hop on to her blog and enjoy her write-ups 🙂

The first of the two innovative awards is the Dragon Loyalty Award….wow, I googled it when I read it and understand that the Dragon’s Loyalty Award is an award for the loyal fans/commenters, whether the recipient is a fellow blogger or just someone who follows and comments regularly, innovative ain’t it? 🙂

The rules for Dragon’s Loyalty Award are:

Visit and thank the blogger who nominated you.
Acknowledge that blogger on your blog and a link back
You must share 7things other bloggers may not know about you.
Nominate up to 15 bloggers for Dragon’s Loyalty Award, provide a link to their blogs in your post, and notify them on their blogs.
Copy and paste the award somewhere on your blog.

Well, I am your very own Shweta and now you know a lot about me so I think whatever I say will be like a summary. Not sure if there are things friends don’t know about me. Toh jhelo boasting ab

While I love travelling and have extensively travelled Europe, I haven’t seen Greece and planned and cancelled three times, my best friend is Greek 🙂
I really laugh a lot when life gives me a chance to, I was very chirpy in college
I did paragliding this year (ok ok post coming up and I wasn’t scared)
Most know I am vegetarian, the upcoming fact is that I plan to turn vegan soon
I can make a disgusting face when someone around abuses but I slip some myself while driving (am super passionate about cars and possessive of my own, wash and wax polish them myself)
I can be very naughty sometimes 😉 (last time when I went to watch a movie the guy (stranger) next to me was polecat and I placed my hand on my nose visibly after which he changed his seat (nasty I know…but it was a torture)
The ultimate unknown fact I am coming to India in Oct and plan to meet all my super friends Shashank, Maniparna, Kokila, Datta, Somali, Bhavik, Ravish yayiiiii J

My Nominees –

I would like have a special nomination, this person has been regularly visiting my blog and motivating me to do better and I can’t thank enough but this is a way of telling her I value her giving time on my blog. She is none other than Sweta Biswal 🙂 Sweta shares amazing recipes at Oriyarasoi and I am sure she must be an amazing cook herself 🙂 Thank you namesake for being there 🙂

And my favourites

The second award is The Premio Dardos Award which means Prize Darts in Spanish 😉 I was in great awe for receiving this award as it is given from one blogger to another, in recognition of cultural, ethical, literary and personal values that are transmitted in the form of creative and original writing. Wow isn’t it? 🙂 Well Thank Ashish once again for considering me worthy of this award.

There are three rules that follow this award

When you accept the award given please post it on your blog along with the name of the person that has granted the award and link to his or her blog.
Include the image of the “Premios Dardos” in the post
Pay it forward and pass the award onto another 15 wonderful blogs worthy of this acknowledgement.

I believe a person who blogs has an ability to express her thoughts, views and emotions in priceless and powerful words. And I cherish this a lot when I read other bloggers. Of course there are things like you come across a blog with repetitive topics and not so good content but that can be worked on 🙂 So my nominations remain the same as above for this award too!

I always feel like a celebration when awards are shared so all the best super buddies and sweethearts, keep writing and love you have met you in this blogging world 🙂

July 15, 2015

Scorching – Five Sentence Fiction

SCORCHING

Few villagers caught him and tied him to a tree as the scorching sun blazed in the heat wave; death wasn’t far now he thought seeing one of them lift a handmade revolver at him.

Falling in love and wanting to marry a girl of the same village was a taboo. He had to pay the price like seven other boys before.

“Sirji, let’s kill him quick it’s too hot here and I don’t see this forest too safe to stay longer.” one of them whispered

Breaking news: The leopard of Chandrapur forest is back again, this time claiming lives of 3 villagers surprisingly a man tied to a tree was left untouched.

This post is linked to Five Sentence Fiction (Scorching).

July 3, 2015

And the Sunshine Award goes to….

We bloggers have our daily life…while some rush to work and manage home and there are super moms who amaze me with their balance and multi-tasking abilities. We bloggers have one thing in common the passion, the zeal that captures us when we start typing when we forget our difficult lives and embrace the first love when the beauty of black letters on a white background brings out a wonderful creation and when we post it we have a sense of satisfaction that all is worth it 🙂

And then when a friend reaches out to us with an award it’s brings pleasure unfathomable, it becomes a celebration! Its a reminder to go on and give your best and keep readers happy. I thank you Ashish for considering me for the Sunshine Award. Friends, Ashish writes beautiful poetry in English and Hindi and poignant quotes at AshishVision since 2011, my perception of him is a very polite and humble person who pings me when he posts a poem especially in Hindi and looks forward to my 2 cents on it.

I want to add this special note that since the number of people whom I can nominate for this award is not mentioned, I want to nominate my special friends who have made me smile and brought sunshine in some way through their writing or their friendship in my life 🙂 I consider this a celebration and a thank you to them 🙂

Now for the rules

Rules

Thank the person who nominated you.
Answer the questions from the person who has nominated you.
Nominate some other bloggers for this award.
Write the same amount of questions for the bloggers you have nominated.
Notify the bloggers you have nominated.

My nominees

Shashank @ Embark with my thoughts
Sankeerth @ The Spark Unseen
Maniparna @ Scattered Thoughts
Kokila @ Sunshineandblueclouds
Datta Ghosh @ The Dimension of the being
Bhavikk @ Bhavikk Shah
Somali @ Scribble and Scrawl
Ravish @ My way of looking at it
Purba @ Love Laugh and Reflect
Anoop @ Tranquil Yet Alive
Abhijit Bangal @ Gadget Garrio
Tenny @ Movies of the soul
Vinay @ Inspire 99

Well the list is not exhaustive but these are my favorite 🙂

Now for the questions,

1. In your opinion what is the biggest service to mankind.

When I was in school we were asked to do one good deed and share it with the class, it could be as simple as helping someone cross the road. For me biggest service would be to be yourself, respect nature, have faith, love and be loved and do good deeds. Simple things go a long way!

2. What is life?

Life is a gift of God with an expiry date and a condition to live it to the fullest, make it beautiful and enhance it each day!

3. What inspired you to start blogging?

Nothing actually, I wanted to pen my thoughts, my experiences and thus blogging started. I wasn’t inspired to blog!

4. The funniest moment of your life.

Now this is going to sound crazy but when someone falls I feel it to be very funny, I instantly start laughing (I know it’s terrible but that is how it is). I fall a lot too and I laugh at myself when I fall 🙂

5. You might have done mistakes in childhood. Share your favorite mistake. 🙂

I was notorious in school, I remember carrying and distributing snuff in my class (was a only girls’ school) and when the class started we all were sneezing, next I remember I was in Principal’s office!

6. What are your first impressions of my blog?

First impression is of a very thoughtful person who pens deep thoughts in the form of beautiful words.

Since I said it’s a celebration with friends I wouldn’t want them to work for my party and thus I skip asking them questions, another reason is also that I know them and asking questions would be stating the known.

Bring in more sunshine and happiness and a big thank you for being there always 🙂

June 24, 2015

My Quotes – 3 Day quote challenge – Day 3

I have been nominated by my blogger friend Dipanwita Chakraborty for a 3 day quote challenge. While I would have loved to share some beautiful quotes that have stayed with me which I read of other authors, I would like to share something from my upcoming novel, hope you like it. 🙂

The rules are simple.

Post a favorite quote of yours for 3 consecutive days, obviously a different quote each day from any book, any author of your choice. It could also be your own quote.
Nominate 3 bloggers with each post to challenge them.
Thank the person who nominated you.

My Nominations for day 2 are:

Shashank Tiwari

M.S. Mahawar

Gowthama Rajavelu

June 22, 2015

My Quotes – 3 Day quote challenge – Day 2

The rules are simple.

Post a favorite quote of yours for 3 consecutive days, obviously a different quote each day from any book, any author of your choice. It could also be your own quote.
Nominate 3 bloggers with each post to challenge them.
Thank the person who nominated you.

My Nominations for day 2 are:

Lata Subramanian

Sreesha Divakaran

Ashish kumar

June 16, 2015

My Quotes – 3 Day quote challenge – Day 1

The rules are simple.

Post a favorite quote of yours for 3 consecutive days, obviously a different quote each day from any book, any author of your choice. It could also be your own quote.
Nominate 3 bloggers with each post to challenge them.
Thank the person who nominated you.

My Nominations for day 1 are:

Purba Chakraborty

Ravish Mani

Cifar Shayar

April 27, 2015

A-Z Challenge – W – Wary

“You see that rope?” the film director asked Nick as both looked up the sky scrapers to a rope that connected one building to the other on the 20^th floor, “If you walk that rope without harness you on board my crew for the film.” He continued with a sheepish smile.

Nick was wary of the danger it involved but he thrived on thrill, “Yes, I’ll do it keep the contract ready.” He confidently said.

The rope was thick and heavy but it was too breezy, he picked a long metal pole in his hand to balance the weight and wind as he wiped a thin sheet of sweat from his brow.

A crowd gathered in the buildings on the ground as he delicately stepped on the rope balancing himself through the pole, the crowd went silent when he walked and wooed when he swayed, his body went cold in the last steps as he completed the challenge.

“What were you thinking while walking the rope.” asked one of the spectators, “No thought, I just saw a chair with stunt director written on it is all I saw, I never saw the rope or the challenge.” he responded.

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Did we have a lot of choice on W, no we didn’t realized how difficult alphabets and emotions could be 🙂 Shashank writes a brilliant post on the word, click to read it here.

April 25, 2015

A-Z Challenge – V – Vulnerable

The hundred head vicious snake hissed fiercely at her on one hand and on the other she saw a door with radiance beaming very inviting.

She looked up and saw beautiful colors, colors she hadn’t seen on flowers when her dad used to take her to the tulip garden.

She tried to fight hard with a demon inside it had grown huge day after day and she felt more vulnerable than before.

She rolled her eyes in all corners before they fixed on the table in the dark corner; there exactly there she saw her peace.

Her weak body rolled, crawled to the table, set the powder in a straight line and snuffed it in a jiffy; her addiction and vulnerability gave up on a beautiful gift of life.

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Say no to drugs or any substance for that matter. We speak of dowry deaths or alcohol abuse deaths but you did be surprised to know if I shared some facts about drug abuse in our very country.

At least 25,426 people committed suicide due to drug and addiction related problems in the last 10 years across India. This comes down to an average 2,542 suicides every year, 211 per month and 7 per day.

Appalling truth is that suicides due to drug related problems exceed dowry, poverty and money related suicides in India in most of the last 10 years.

India is highly vulnerable because it is sandwiched between two infamous drug routes and poppy growing areas, namely the ‘Golden Crescent’ on the northwest and ‘Golden Triangle’ on the northeast, where drugs are easily available.

Now the sad part is even though there are 3.4 million drug abuse victims, the government has only 401 rehabilitation centres functioning at present. That is an average of overwhelming 8,478 victims per Integrated Rehabilitation Centre for Addicts (IRCA).

Out of these 3.4 million drug abuse victims, a mere 0.3 million have registered themselves in these de-addiction centres, which is just 10% of the total figure.

And of the 0.3 million registered members about 0.15 million (50%) are from Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Odisha and Manipur.

We moved from vindictive to vulnerable and vulnerable I find people who want to quit addiction but are helpless. Read a very positive post on the same word on Shashank’s blog here.