Vidushi Gupta : The SoulHome

Once on my birthday, I distributed 30 five star chocolates of Rs 5 each to 30 kids who were working/sleeping on the streets around my city. Whole process took two hours. While I was giving one chocolate to this little boy, there was this Rickshaw puller standing beside him. He said “ What madam, you're rich, and still you're giving just this 5Rs chocolate to our kids. You should give at least a hundred Rs chocolate to each kid.” The entitlement some poor feel on the money of the people who earned it by working hard after several years generation after generation makes me sad. My neighbor is out, and they've left an old woman with her 18 year well built son to guard the house since 45 days. Every day she asks for water, ice and food sometimes. We give her whatever we can provide. One evening I was roaming in my garden and her son was sitting outside. I thought he will ask for the items as his mother wasn't around, but he was busy on his phone. So I locked all the ...

Case 1 Rahul and Shruti were in a relationship since six months. He wanted to take the relationship to the “next level”. Shruti said no. He started blackmailing her, telling her to prove her love for him by getting physical. Shruti dumped him and moved on. Mistake one - Never pressurise your partner for having sex. Case 2 Aryan and Riddhima started dating recently. They were in what I call “Getting to know each other” phase. Now Aryan started texting and calling Riddhima every half an hour, and he wanted to know every single detail of her life. Riddhima blocked him one fine day and Aryan was ghosted. Mistake two : Never suffocate your partner by excessive love, care and indulgence. Case 3 Aman and Priya were in a relationship since two years. Everytime Priya cooked something, or did something, Aman compared her with his mother. He also wanted her to change by telling her constantly for every second thing “My mother won't like this habit of yours after our marriage. ...

Men are emotionless -  Nope. Men are as emotional as women, sometimes even more. Men are brought up and conditioned in such a way by society that   they find it hard to express themselves. Therefore don't expect your man to be as emotionally open as you're. He will take some years and your love and support to learn how to open up. Men only want sex -  Wrong. Men  also  want sex, just like women do. Most men don't just go into a relationship/marriage to have sex only. Most men look for girlfriend/wife so that they have a partner to lean on for emotional needs as well. Men want love and care also.   Once I read an answer of an escort. She wrote around 50% of the men who hire her services never touch her. They just talk to her, tell her their emotional pains and leave. Men who're a   good son cannot be a   good husband -  Wrong. Depends upon the man in question and how well he can balance between relationships. Also depends upon the maturity...

Case 1 Last night I was watching one movie in which Katrina Kaif plays the lead female part. Now as we all know Ms Kaif is a beautiful lady. I won't comment on her acting skills because I'm sure I cannot act even half as she does. Now the point is after watching the movie I wanted to be as beautiful as Ms Kaif. I mean which girl wouldn't want to be absolutely drop dead gorgeous. But then I met with the reality. Reality that I am not as gorgeous as Ms Kaif. I'm not 5′10. I'm not as fair as milk. My skin doesn't shine like sparkles. My hair doesn't flow like silk threads. And I certainly cannot walk in heels without feeling like an ostrich. Oh my heart still pains with the reality, but that's okay. Case 2 I have this school friend. She's working, and is in a relationship with her school sweet heart. She has her birthday in September. Yesterday in our group, she told us how she and her boyfriend are going to Goa for three days to celebrate her...

Ahh informative article ahead. Recently, I had the eye-opening experience of reading comments from guys regarding menstruation on a Facebook post, which gave me an idea that how much the other gender lacks quality information on “periods” a.k.a “menstruation”. Menstruation starts at 12–13 years of age. Little girls, freshly stepping into teenage, find it hard to understand what is happening to their body. So the next time you see your little niece or sister acting all weird, you know one possibility can be this. We bleed for 3–7 days  continuously .  Day and night, 24 hours  and it's not just a few drops. The first comment on that Facebook post read “ You girls cry like you bleed continuously for days. Stop it. All you bleed is some drops for some hours. How bad it can be?”.  Needless to say, what happened to him after that comment was not cute. Period consist of two things - breaking of the egg and breaking of the uterus lining, both of which are developed, ...

7 A.M She -  “Can you wake up the children and get them ready for school? I will fix the breakfast and our tiffins by that time.” He -  “Okay.” 2 P.M She  * texts *  - “ Honey, I have this really important meeting in five minutes and it'll take hours. Can you please pay the internet and the electricity bill?” He -  “Okay.” She -  “You're the best.” 6 P.M She *calls*-  “I am at the grocery store for buying stuff. Can you please pick up the clothes from the dry cleaners on your way back home?” He -  “Okay.” 8 P.M She's making chapattis, and he's slicing salad and setting the table. She -  “Hon, you forgot tomatoes. Can you cut few tomatoes as well? Children love them.” He -  “Okay.” 10 P.M They're sitting in balcony, having coffee, everyone else is sleeping. She -  “Is everything okay? You seem lost.” He -  “I don't know.” She (holding his hand gently) -  “What happened?” He -  “Y...

I am working with Notionpress these days. Their head office is situated in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Their mother tounge is Tamil. Mine is Hindi. However, we converse in English. But do you think they don't know Hindi? They absolutely do. But I definitely do not know Tamil. But still neither of us has a problem talking in English. But the main point is, here we're talking on phone. Now lets reverse the scenario a little. My cousin visited their office in Delhi. There she met this guy who was appointed from Chennai. Now he had a conversation with her in Hindi. That is quite understandable. As he was in Delhi, we expected him to speak Hindi. But. When we visit Tamil Nadu, still we expect them to speak Hindi. So as Hindi speaking people, from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, and from Assam to Gujarat, we want everyone to speak hindi for us. And it's not like these people do not know Hindi. 90% of Indian or more knows Hindi, they really do, in a way Hindi is o...