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Just a Letter!

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Dearest Aditi, Drinking tea? I bet you are. How are you doing? I did not wish to start the letter with such cliche questions but now that this year 2020 has taught me that these cliche questions are what make one's lives and relations healthy and worth living, I will continue to ask. Hopefully, you are joyful while reading this letter and have a lot to share with me, unlike the days when you sit gloomily near a window or breathing under an open sky, flying high amidst the sunshine. Because if the latter is the case, I know how heavy your heart must feel after reading this question and you would have wanted badly to share a lot, still. Just one thing, dearest Aditi, do share and do speak. Liberate yourself from the shackles of the past and live. Do you still cry on your birthday and feel claustrophobic? Did you reach to the roots and found out why? Oh! You did already. Are you doing something to mend it? 2020 had a lot to teach and it certainly did. Months passed by. Quite slowly an

HORS DE L’EAU (HORS DE L’EAU) | GOBELINS

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  ''The art is always open to interpretations.'' Back in school days we all have witnessed the questions where we were asked what the author wished to convey or depict through the poetry or the story. Rote learners were there who often got full marks in language subjects (Hindi or English), thanks to the paraphrased answer books they had access to. There were also students who wished to interpret something bizarre than what was already mentioned in the books, they did not score much in language subjects (let’s keep aside the grammatical errors they made for a moment), thanks to the already available traditional answers we have been piled up with. Now, when I write poetry and stories myself and make a few people read them, they come up with several interpretations -completely different from mine. It is good to see that they yet are open to interpret things though, unlike many deadly alive grown-up souls. This short-animated movie ( https://youtu.be/E4BhEBaeQdg ) is open

ATMANIRBHARTA: A FIZZER. A BURP.

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  The National Handloom Day is observed on August 07 annually since 2015, to commemorate the Swadeshi Movement which was launched on this day in 1905 in Calcutta Town Hall to protest against the partition of Bengal by the British government. This year marks the one hundred and fifteen years of the Swadeshi Movement.  To revive the Indian economy, the  ‘Atmanirbharta’  fizzer was embraced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his May 12 lockdown address to the nation. The textile sector which is finely self-reliant enough has indubiously its roots set deep in the domestic markets. Though we get to see that there’s an increase in the textile and clothing imports by India, the worrying part is the decline in the exports of cotton yarn and cotton fabric.  The Wheel That Spun A Direction: A Brief History Charkha , which in English is called as Spinning wheel, is quite ubiquitous and has its essence and inclusion in literature, politics, art and in various areas and cultures in the world. Havin