The lemony life

Remember the time when every other guy you'd meet would introduce himself as 'Rahul'? Allow me to jog your memory. Actually, we have a superhit Bollywood movie to thank (or blame) for it. Don't misunderstand, even I like that movie a lot. If you are the 80s kid, you are well acquainted with the romantic notions that came with the movie Kuch Kuch Hota Hai which released back in 1998 .  You were probably a teenager at that time or maybe at the end of your teenage years and kinda hoping for someone to sweep you off your feet like SRK does in KKHH. And then this movie happened which made matters even worse for boys and girls alike. It was a romantic movie which had people well in their 30s play college going characters. But let's keep this stupidity of Bollywood aside as this is not the point of this write-up. I remember that guys who were lovingly named say 'Naveen' or 'Dinesh' didn't like their names anymore because of this movie. Boys w...

Blood donation is when a person voluntarily donates his blood which may help others in their time of need. It may be donated as a whole or as different components. It is a social cause that has always been close to my heart. Today is blood donor day and I am reminded of an incident from my college days when I was eager to donate blood and help people as I had seen my father donate his blood as and when he could. So when a blood donation campaign was organised in my college, I along with some of friends went to donate our blood for which I even skipped class of my favourite teacher. After waiting for 15 minutes, a young doctor approached our group and asked us to fill a declaration form. Thereafter we were directed towards an area where we had to get our body weights checked as only the ones with minimum accepted weight for blood donation were sent for further steps. By this time, my heart was already set on gulab jamuns blood donors were going to get. I was praying ...