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Weekend Gossip Vol. 4 – Back from Vacation!

Swathy · February 3, 2013 · Leave a Comment

one of my fav shots 🙂

Hi Everyone!! How are you doing?? Yup, considering I have been absent from the blog scene for almost 15 days and a lot has happened in between, I decided to make this tedious Monday a gossip for my entire absence.

Before I begin, for all those who have commented and sent me queries, a big thanks to you all and please give me sometime to catch up 🙂

Now, getting back, let me tell you it was hell of 15 days for me and I have never yet had a more hectic time in life where I have had so much fun and so less work 😀

I shall definitely be posting on all the things slowly. In fact, I am planning to put up the travel posts so that I can chronicle all the things I did and may be bring the places I have been to to life for you all so that I can tempt you to visit those places 😀

Btw, I shall be doing all those posts on my other blog and I shall soon get the domain name for that as well so that I can concentrate more on it as well 🙂 If you are interested, you can join me there 🙂

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Swathy · January 28, 2013 · 2 Comments

travel - trip to guwahati, guwahati airport

that was at the airport, I donno why its not coming clearly!! its showing really well on the laptop though!

Wish you a Happy Republic Day!!

You all would already be aware that I am in Guwahati currently and I am staying here till Sunday and then I have another two day stop to make in Kolkatta in between before I head over to Delhi. This is the first time I have ever been to North-East so the experience has been pretty good in some ways. And, I am dead tired.

Yup, I did roam around a bit in Guwahati though there is not much to see here. Then, we are going to attend Republic Day celebrations after like what many years!! And, ya, I do have loads of snaps. The cam didn’t fail me but I realized I am not so good with taking snaps which, obviously, wasn’t a very heartening realization 🙁

Going across Brahmaputra on ferry is the highlight of the trip which I absolutely loved. We have done it many times but it never gets boring 😀 The trip details would come slowly and yes, I have another trip planned as well which I shall talk about after it happens.

What about you guys? How did you spend your week?

PS: This post was supposed to be published on 26th Jan but I had other things to publish before that so let this Tuesday be a weekend 🙂

Even a Queen needs Maintenance!!

Swathy · January 26, 2013 · 6 Comments

One day Draupadi was basking in the sun. She wasn’t aware that this was the day which would change her entire life and, with her, the destiny of millions of people. In all ignorance of future events or even the present ones, Draupadi was busy daydreaming about the pleasant life she had been living.

Her husbands are on the peak of their fame, they have a beautiful house which was a constant source of envy, her sons are growing stronger and brighter everyday and she herself was loving the power which she could wield over her husbands.

They have come for a short sojourn to Hastinapur on invitation and would soon return. She was yearning to go back to her own house. Somehow, she had never felt comfortable here. Still, she tried to divert her mind thinking about pleasanter things while her husbands were busy in the court matters.

Suddenly, she heard commotion outside. She went out to check what was happening and found two male servants had come with a message to her. She delivered strict strictures to those guards and dismissed them without any ceremony. And, went back to the garden.

She did become disturbed. The guards were trying to say something, she realized, but she had turned them off without letting them say a single word!! She wished she had listened to them. Anyways, she turned her attention to the book lying open on the same page since hours.

As soon as she had just got herself engrossed into the page she was reading, Dushasana barges into her presence. She was outraged and questioned his boldness. He informed her about the dice game going on in condescending accents.

He informed her how her husband had staked and lost her and that she was no more than a slave to his brother and he had come to drag her to the court if she doesn’t come willingly. She was aghast at this disclosure and tried to reason with him but he started dragging her holding her hair.

And, took her to the court where she entreated all the people present in the court with her pleas and rants and everything she could muster as long as her pride would allow. But, Duryodhana asked Dushasana to disrobe Draupadi so that she could dress like a slave.

And, the first thought which entered her mind was “Shit! I wish I had opted for my hair removal. What will everyone think? A queen doesn’t even maintain herself!!”.

This post is a part of the Gillette Satin Care contest in association with BlogAdda.com

PS: The last part of the story is a fictionized version of one of the crucial scenes in Mahabharata. It is not meant to make fun of any religious beliefs or hurt anyone personally or even make fun of the seriousness of this scene. It is just an entry for a contest and somehow this idea came to me because I am still in throes of “The Palace of Illusions“.