My Story

  Recently I came through an article in the newspaper stressing on the issues that many school children committed suicide because of body shaming. Body Shaming means humiliating someone by mocking or criticizing their body shape or size. It may be your friends or neighbours making fun of you because you are fat or slender. The pain that he or she undergoes is terrible. That taunting will echo in their ears the whole day. This will break their mental health and push them in the state of depression. Because I experienced it. I was a big fat boy when I was a kid. The weight was exceeding my age. My siblings were thin and fit. School and neighbourhood friends mocked me whenever they saw me. They gave me nick names like Sumo, Thadiya, Football. They enjoyed calling me by that name. I hated myself. One day while playing cricket with neighbourhood friends, one of them started calling me sumo showing several action, rest of them were laughing. I just threw the bat away and ran to home...

   Consider the Scenario.    There is 2 group of people. After death, they are facing God.   In the case of 1st group , after death, they will go to heaven and face God.  God will ask, ‘I have sent you to earth, I have created it. What did you see? Did you see the big mountains? Did you see beautiful islands? Did you see the Desert? Did you explore it? Did you like your home? What is your opinion on my creation?’   Well, we need to have an answer to all these questions.   In a house warming ceremony, we used to explore the nook and corner of the house including the toilet, bedroom, kitchen, etc. After exploring it we will go to the house owner and say, ‘This house is very beautiful. Hearing this the house owner will be very happy.    Likewise when we say to God, ‘God, thank you for sending me to earth. I have tried my level best to explore your creativity. I have traveled to the Himalayas, the Alps, Niagara waterfal...

  Childhood is the best thing that everyone had. It’s magical. At some point in life we used to say, ‘I wish I was a child again.’ We used to spend our time turning the old photographs. It’s beautiful. We take ourselves back to the old good memories. Moreover, we used to laugh at the stupid things that we have done in our childhood. Everyone has something in their childhood that make them laugh. We used to say I was so stupid back then, I feel to laugh at the crazy thing that I have done. Let me share one of my crazy beliefs that I had during my childhood. When I was a kid, I don’t like eating vegetables. I used to complain to my mother that it tastes bad or smells bad. While eating the food my mother sits beside me holding a stick in her hand. If I don’t eat vegetables she would surely beat me. I still remember there was not a single day I never cried. One thing my mother used to say is that if you eat vegetables you will be stronger and you can beat anyone who fights you. She tri...

  Leena Thomas Mam was my 1 st , 2 nd  and 4 th  grade class teacher. She was my class teacher for 3 years. She taught Mathematics. From early times onwards I was weak in Maths. Sometimes Leena mam used to get angry with me whenever I do simple questions wrongly. Sometimes she used to beat me with a stick. I was really scared of her. I still remember during 4 th  grade mam wrote a question on the blackboard and asked me to come and do the calculations. Suddenly I got panic, fear in mind, I slowly stood up and went to the blackboard. My body started to shiver. I stood in front of the board for some time without writing anything. The whole class started to laugh at me. To my surprise Leena mam didn’t scold me, she asked me to go and sit. During the PTA meeting my mother accompanied me. We met Leena mam. I thought that she is going to scold me in front of my mother. But nothing happened like that. She said,‘ Aswin is a very good boy. I know he can do better. Be stron...

   Covid had hit us so badly. We are still recovering from that massive blow. Vaccination is on full swing. But it will take some more time to get a normal life. Some says that we need to learn to live with Covid. Also masks should become a part of our daily life.Well, I not saying that we should wear make for the rest of our life. If we check History, the humanity have faced so many catastrophes. But we bounced back. 100 years ago the world shivered because of Spanish Flu. About 50 million people died across the globe. But humanity survived that pandemic. I believe that soon we can live without wearing masks. Because History have shown us the proof. Majority of us are still finding uncomfortable at home for a long time. During the 20 th  century Humanity faced World War 1 and 2, Spanish Flu, also other catastrophes. During that century, more than 10 billion people died. At that time people faced so many hardship. The war scared people to sit inside their home. They were ...