tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57134856687781351722024-03-13T04:34:25.740+05:30Home-brewed HappinessBecause it's fat, guilt and tax free!Cheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.comBlogger130125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-24367978641325634712019-08-30T19:29:00.004+05:302019-08-30T21:22:35.252+05:30That Woman Who Set the Ball Rolling
© Velchitra Naathan
When god created genders, seldom he knew that human beings would make this the very foundation of various theories, ideologies and doctrines. The stronger sex, i.e., males, would exert its authority on the fairer sex, i.e., females, and would even produce biological evidences to assert that it is naturally superior. The women would rather reluctantly give in to the say of Cheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-46833776404598521522019-03-06T11:39:00.000+05:302019-08-30T19:10:19.160+05:30A House with a Courtyard
Also published on Women's Web at: A House with a Courtyard
© myoki.in
When home is not a place
but a family, house is also not just brick-and-mortar but another member of it.
Where the drawing and the dining rooms were the elderlies, who took care of all
the guests and comforted them with love and warmth, the bedroom was the love
which locked plenty of secrets inside. It was like a Cheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-8877614567111147322019-03-01T22:09:00.001+05:302019-08-30T19:14:54.850+05:30Book Review # 20: Three Thousand Stitches: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives
My rating: ●●●●○
Sudha Murty
Three Thousand Stitches
India: Penguin, 2017
179 pp; INR 250
ISBN: 9780143440055
Summary: Well, I am back at this game and I confess I truly missed it. I
have been so busy going with the flow that I have actually forgotten how much
efforts it takes to travel upstream. This is my first book review in 2019 and I
swear I shall continue playing Cheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-2084857010290722442019-01-17T17:44:00.004+05:302019-08-30T19:13:46.240+05:30What on Earth is Facial Feedback Hypothesis?
We have been programmed to
think. Being humans, this is something which comes naturally to us. What comes
rather unnaturally is the habit of over-thinking. While we keep chewing the cud
at times, we begin to live in a virtual world, full of hypothetical
circumstances and non-existent situations. What could have been a really simple
situation is often made complicated by the thoughts infected Cheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-14579854653073602092018-12-31T15:22:00.000+05:302018-12-31T16:25:17.707+05:30Goodbye, 2018!
I see myself
as an imperfect human being, who is trying too hard to make things better for
herself, for her family and for the world she lives in. As I report to work on
the last working day of 2018, I get myself prepared to strike off some of the
resolutions made sitting on this desk last year and carrying over a few.
Just a quick
look at this chapter of my life story and I feel glad to Cheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-8520436895291692022018-09-18T23:17:00.005+05:302018-09-18T23:25:22.733+05:30Book Review # 19: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
My rating: ●●●●○
Robin
Sharma
The
Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
India:
Jaico; 1999
208
pp; INR 199
ISBN:
9780062515674
Summary:
If self-help is your favourite genre, then this book would be an additional
dish of ‘paneer’ for you with almost the same taste as that of all its
comrades. However, if this is your first tryst with it, then I must applaud you
for your Cheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-12361434928540453842018-09-02T16:10:00.000+05:302018-09-02T16:12:19.668+05:30To Hell and Back!
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Cheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-22568690890818108042018-07-18T18:58:00.001+05:302018-07-18T22:17:35.040+05:30A Blessing Like You!
This day
will always be special to me and to everyone I hold close, for it is your birthday
today!
I don’t know
where and how time flies, but here we are, all grown up, mature and all the
bullcrap they would love to call us. On the flipside, we are still the li'l cubs who
love to curl up in our mother’s lap, telling her all our problems and feeling
light.
Since the
time I opened my eyes Cheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-23278171820757460832018-06-26T19:40:00.000+05:302018-06-26T19:44:39.599+05:30Too Often to Notice
There’s some
effort it demands – self-love is never easy. There she goes, loving herself to
perfection. There’s so much to look after, after all. The hair, the skin, the
teeth, the nails… the list never ends. If done continually, self-love seeps
into one’s lifestyle to become a habit and there you go, practicing this as a
mundane task to the extent that you hate any aberrations from what you Cheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-57554537096798128162018-06-17T16:53:00.000+05:302018-06-17T16:54:51.226+05:30I will pass through this, O Lord
I will pass through this, O Lord,
I
will play along all through.
I
will stay strong and smile,
Never
surrender, repent or rue.
I will pass through this, O Lord,
For I look forward to what this will lead to.
I will stand through the storm,
For I know there’s a lot still left to do.
I will pass through this, O Lord,
For I trust in your game plan.
I will stay determined and Cheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-71359029777143580822018-05-29T19:35:00.001+05:302018-05-30T14:06:15.802+05:30Where are All the Good Women at?
They say
everything goes redundant with time, but the flavor of the past remains as
classic as that of a vintage wine. The generation which usually bears the brunt
of the passing time is most often the one which has seen the old and the new
enough to be able to compare.
Back in
time, unlike the twenty first century, a woman would grow manifolds having passed
any age milestone. The wisdom Cheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-48835938828439625162018-05-22T22:14:00.000+05:302018-06-11T13:51:39.555+05:30Somewhere in the Progress, Evenings were Lost
Also published on Women's Web at: When The Evenings Are Lost On Our Road to Success!
Talk about the
era of empowerment, women standing shoulder-to-shoulder with men in every
sphere possible and the increasing competition in the corporate environment.
The will to succeed, earn more and lead a comfortable life ‘in the future’ has
left little in hand for the time called ‘now’ and the Cheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-25611584840877120892018-03-22T22:59:00.000+05:302018-04-29T20:35:45.861+05:30You would never say.
They say that your
happiness knows no bounds when your home is not a place, but a person. How
true; one could almost feel her adrenaline gushing at a mere sight of him.
Their love story was no ordinary, for he defined love for her and he hardly was
friends with words.
She didn’t know if love ever existed in words; for
her, it was a feeling, euphoria, a lot of warmth and him. Yeah, Cheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-67787555608738208102018-03-06T18:33:00.003+05:302018-04-29T20:37:02.503+05:30An Unplanned Date in Bhubaneswar
This is how it goes: there’s a Plan A and a backup
Plan B and, then, God would tear your script apart and instead handover His
plan to you, the best that could ever be.
We set out from home to catch an early morning
flight to Vizag and, alas, could only manage to bid it adieu from the
shore. This is how our next, one-stop
flight landed us in Bhubaneswar, steering our journey to a landCheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-2748291547874332032017-07-25T20:29:00.000+05:302018-04-29T20:39:24.168+05:30Waiting for Him
The windows had been set open. After
all, he could be here any moment. Other days might not have had that effect on
her, but it was just a different day. Maybe it had set differently or
progressed so, she was able to feel each moment passing by today. The ticking
of clock was giving wings to the butterflies in her stomach. She was actually
looking forward to her husband coming back from work Cheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-22127172413784234242017-05-21T14:59:00.000+05:302017-05-21T15:00:54.698+05:30Fathers must be Aliens!
I remember mine didn't say a word
when the world questioned me, but lost his wits when I came home late,
He
forgot to have me learn how to cook, but appreciated every amoeba-shaped
chapati I cooked,
He
never forced me to live by his dreams, but I always found him backing me for
mine,
He
never shed a tear when my mom cried every day days before I wed,
But couldn't help take his handkerchiefCheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-81707905116012123182017-04-27T22:07:00.000+05:302017-05-02T15:12:42.640+05:30Book Review # 18: The Greatness Guide
My rating: ●●●●○
Robin Sharma
The Greatness Guide
India: Jaico; 2006
240 pp; INR 225
ISBN: 9788179925768
Summary:
All the great men who talked, talked philosophy. The best thing about this genre
of books is that it comes handy any time in life and one could start reading it from anywhere
only to become wiser and more practical. The Greatness Guide not only inspires Cheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-79597096916965099382017-04-24T18:33:00.000+05:302017-04-24T19:46:39.449+05:30Why Do You No Longer Ask?
This is the question to all the new
age women, who love putting themselves into various shoes in an attempt to prove them
as independent – why do you no longer ask? There were and there are strong pillars
of a house existing right there; yet, why do you no longer register their presence?
You have the power and the ability and, then, there comes sharing not only responsibilities but also Cheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-89710307321119995452017-04-03T22:23:00.002+05:302017-04-19T16:07:30.434+05:30Road Trip Saga: Delhi-Vrindavan-Mathura-Delhi
No matter where you go, there you are!
- Confucius
Another first this year: a road trip down the
Yamuna Expressway to explore a city they all lovingly call God’s birthplace –
Mathura/Vrindavan! This was one plan which was made impromptu and, therefore,
all the fun it contained came as a pleasant surprise. Having set out at around
7:30 in the morning in our serviced Enfields, we Cheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-19482450857597316442017-03-08T15:32:00.000+05:302017-04-03T14:44:22.233+05:30Education is to Literacy is what Venus is to Mars
There’s
been a lot of air around Gurmehar Kaur, her gimmick and an easy exploitation of
social media by all the celebrities who thought they know it better. While
there have emerged a lot of her supporters, there have also shown up a lot more
opponents of the thought put forward by this student of LSR. The supporters
have been calling names to the opponents, trying to mark their presence in theCheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-47896081169285450682017-02-26T23:21:00.000+05:302017-02-26T23:21:48.598+05:30The Freedom that Sets Free
Cheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-20997555354440887842017-02-18T18:30:00.004+05:302017-02-18T18:33:53.365+05:30Book Review # 17: The Great Indian Diet: Busting the big FAT MYTH
My
rating: ●●●●○
Luke Coutinho and Shilpa Shetty Kundra
The Great Indian Diet: Busting the Big FAT Myth
India: Ebury, Penguin Books India; 2015
288 pp.; INR 299
ISBN: 9788184007480
Summary: A recent surge in the number of books being published on health,
fitness and diet proves that this trend is here to stay and flourish. However,
there has been a serious confusion Cheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-60594136294675824112017-02-11T17:56:00.000+05:302017-02-11T17:57:27.130+05:30The Best in Me
Cheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-73578515676700851242017-02-01T18:30:00.000+05:302017-02-11T18:04:06.973+05:30Chronicles from the Corner Office - II
It’s heartwarming to see people who we follow speak, pouring their brains out on things that actually matter to us or to the world. Does this change the situation in any manner? No. Yet, we feel that we have been pacified now that we know how that super-human feels.
Shahrukh Khan recently came out of the closet speaking how he feels about the Indian media being tad too Cheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5713485668778135172.post-84827647620824520582017-01-29T00:25:00.000+05:302017-01-30T11:32:40.819+05:30Love Story
Cheena Choprahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951016840663460616noreply@blogger.com2