Vanditaa's blog

The streets are empty, the public places are shut, most offices have been locked down, and some countries are closed too. Most of us are confined to our four walls, some getting more creative and more aware of themselves, and most who are frustrated and bored and are just waiting for this pandemic to end. We, humans, are the smartest of all species that exist on this planet. It’s us who rule the earth. By having invented most things that exist around us, to using nature at our convenience it’s us who decide the way everything functions. In the short lives that we live, we often forget that we aren’t as important as we think. We also forget that disturbing the harmony that exists around us for our convenience may cause greater harm in times that may follow after we cease to exist. But then nature has its own ways of reminding us the same, isn’t it? The existing coronavirus pandemic appears to one of them. One of the smallest existing entity on earth- a virus has reminded the r...

Of all the dynamics that surround us on an everyday basis, the most important aspect of our lives remains our relationships. It can be our relationship with our elders, our friends, our helpers, our colleagues or the most hyped and talked about relationships with our spouse or lover. In a world full of billions of humans beings, it is our connection with these handful of people around us that makes our lives more meaningful and beautiful. But unfortunately, it is the same relations which at times also become the cause of our endless sufferings and pain. The suffering from a relation is labeled to occur because of the change in dynamics due to lack of understanding, generation gap, fading away of love with time or altered emotional component of either person in the relation. But irrespective of love and emotion, which of course, are one the most marketed terms today, the only aspect of a relation which is highly overlooked and which has the potential to alter almost everything betwee...

Two junior doctors were badly attacked by the attendees of a patient, who died from cardiac arrest in a medical college in Bengal on Monday! Unfortunately, I had posted a very similar blog last year in March 2018; but the recent incidence has forced me to post this yet again. This is just one of the many incidences which happen on a very frequent basis with doctors and have been on an unfortunate rise in the past few years. I am ashamed to even type that the doctors are beaten up, shamed, dragged into consumer courts and at times even abused by the patients or their attendees for anything that goes  UNEXPECTED! I have grown up in a family immersed in medical science, and at present, I reside in a campus full of medical graduates. I have lived with doctors all around me since always and now that I am practicing as one myself, I realize the level of responsibility, care, concern, and compromise that the doctors carry on their shoulders. Medicine is not a branch where things ...

Tobacco a slow and not-so-silent a killer surrounds most of us in our day to day life. Smoking tobacco or chewing tobacco is considered as normal and routine by many. Having a bad day, take a puff, tired of looking at the computer screens, let’s go out and draw some smoke. Smokeless tobacco which is available to be chewed as gutka and other products constitute yet another common break from work for many, or at times is chewed for “passing time ” as well! And yes, just in case you don’t consume tobacco even then chances are that you might be under the radar of passive tobacco consumption because of someone near to you. You might be inhaling tobacco smoke emitted by your spouse at home, your colleague at work or by people around you in an authorized Hookah café! Being engulfed in a cloud full of poison does sound bad for sure, but the good news is that this bad is totally and entirely in our own hands. Tobacco in any form can have a plethora of ill-effects on the human body. Fro...

The recent “Aunty” incidence that went viral!   In a very recent episode a video on the social media went viral. The video that I am mentioning here is the one where a middle-aged woman popularly referred to as "auntyji" made a sad remark on a girl wearing a short dress. The comment though hasn’t been recorded exactly in her words in the video but she is alleged to have said, that for the short dress that the girl was wearing she deserves to get raped! The aftermath was obvious; the girl along with a few other friends who were accompanying her got in a heated argument with her. They repeatedly asked her to apologize but the lady did not, instead, she threatened to call the police which got the girls more violent who in response threatened her for the same. The argument was then joined by another lady, who is a mother, she was seen to boldly put her point across. She is seen supporting the girls in the video, where she says that she gives her daughters complete freedom of...

Yes, the day is beautiful and it’s supposed to be a day full of joy and smiles. International day of happiness was founded by the United Nations advisor, Jayme Illien to inspire, mobilize and advance the global happiness movement. Illien conceptualized the idea for a U.N resolution that would recognize the pursuit of happiness as a fundamental human right and a fundamental human goal. The day which was founded very recently in the year 2012 marks a new historical milestone in humankind’s ultimate quest for happiness, which dates back to the time of ancient sages and philosophers such as Buddha and religious figures like Jesus, and Prophet Muhammad all of whom theorized about the purpose and meaning of life, the definition of happiness and how to achieve it. While Gross domestic product (GDP) of a country has always been taken as the measure of countries overall growth and development, it was only recently in 2011 that Bhutan adopted gross national happiness (GNH) instead of ...

We have a lot of discussions around us every day about the rights and the wrongs and unfortunately most such rights and wrongs that are laid down by the society revolve around a woman. Wearing a certain type of clothes for girls is not right says one lot, and be broad-minded says the other; girls can party till any time they want say one lot, and there is a certain restriction that girls should follow for their own safety says the other. The biological clock for woman is always tickling and thus girls should get married on time so that they can deliver a healthy child says one logical lot while the other may argue saying that we have advanced and the girl should pursue her career, get stable or even buy herself a house and then look for a companion to settle. Change your surname it makes you more connected to the man you marry suggest some; maintain your identity say the other. And of course, in a very recent controversy which involved one of the best and a world-famous music compose...