It’s my space

Give India is a NGO which promotes different social causes… It is a donation platform that allows you to support a cause of your choice. Some causes that you can support are

• Educate a street child for one year
• Take care of a poor elderly couple for one year
• Support a women’s self-help group for one year
• Provide physiotherapy for one month to a poor disabled person
• Help a poor handloom weaver by upgrading his loom
• Feed 30 tribal children a nutritious meal for one month

All these stated causes is possible for just Rs 3000..

On that day, a lot of emotions engulfs the hearts

Happiness and tears sharing its equal parts

On that day, a new relationship has born

On that day, a swarm of people come flocking to meet

On that day, huddles of gifts and wishes are piled to greet  

On that day, sparkling colours and grandeur permeates a lot

On that day, tasty delicacies  adhere to what the  taste buds sought

Sherwanis, Lehangas, Dhotis and Silk Sarees

Adams and Eves look best to the T

Conversations, Chuckles, Chit chat and lasting talks

Excitement and Entertainment brimming in the scene

On that day, musical instruments compete for its attention

Moving Palanquins making proud of its creation

On that day, all eyes are on the hero and the heroine

On that day, she exhibits an added flavour of feminity

On that day, he showing the macho latent in him

On that day, the knot witnesses its inherent beauty

On that day, the guy and the gal get into the wedlock.

This is what happens in front of the scene.The back scene affairs need to be highlighted

• Exorbitant rates of Marriage halls running into time cost in lakhs
• Decorations all over the place leaving no space in wall left unnoticed
• Expensive clothes having no space to look at the fabric being decorated with lot of gimmicks
• Foot wear of brides having sparkling gold plated accessories costing more than 10 grants
• Gold plated Ganesha gifts of acknowledgements for members attending the occassion
• 2 floors of huge array of delecacies  representing each state in all time zones — A way of national integrity?
• Number of dishes directly proportional to the number of dustbins to carry wastages — Not referring to used plates , used dishes getting wasted.

Just for that day, should the spend go beyond the wallet ?should investments be diluted ?should to-be -more appreciated lands be sold ?should loans join in to be a perennial family member? and should finally should the family liability sheet need to increase ?

For people who need not do any of the above actions , should there still be a requirement of expensive wedddings ?

Cannot the money be spent in a more useful manner ?

Monday morning. The clock strikes 8.45 am… Oops so many things yet to be done before leaving to office. Yet to iron the clothes, have breakfast, pack the office bags, organize the lunch bags, check if wallet has sufficient bucks etc etc..

Most of us would be into such helm of thoughts typically on a working day. To add to the last straw to the hat would be honking cars, sea of heads popping up from two wheelers, ahoo ahooo (cough) at the smoke generously coming out from autos..The thought that runs most of the time in my mind is that I spend more time waiting on the roads with my vehicle rather than moving on…Wheel the biggest invention of the world gets into my nerves seeing the reach to its wings…Name a person and he has a vehicle..Yes it is undeniably an inevitable possession…Happy that the purchasing power of people have increased…Really sad that people do not take that step to see how best they could make use of…

Let me take the liberty of asking few questions

•   How many 4 wheelers do you get to see every day while going to office?
•  How many 4 wheelers have more than one passenger?

Most of our answers would be Q1 being inversely proportional to Q2… Hey, let me make that simple… There are many people who have cars but they all love themselves so much that they only travel in the car… He may wave to his neighbour and say a big hello in another car almost travelling to three fourths of his distance. The two would wave at each other every day as though they are great friends…Then why cant such great friends also do much more talking than just saying a hello by getting into one car?

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• How many  of us take our vehicles to office everyday ?
•  How many of us know some one who also needs to travel to the same place /through the same direction?
•  How many of us get the groups together to travel together ?

Do you know ?

- A small car emits around .59 pounds of carbon dioxide per mile
- A medium car emits around 1.1 pounds of carbon dioxide per mile
- An SUV/4 wheel emits around 1.57 pounds of carbon dioxide per mile

 What do we get to gain ?

• Lesser number of vehicles leading to less noice , smoke and people pollution
• Reduces virtual expenses on owning a car
• Reduces stress levels fighting traffic
• Reduces need for parking
• Reduces ahooo ahooo (caughs ) and sneezes due to smoke emission
• On a lighter note one can also extend conversations more than a hello by travelling together
• Finally ,  we also get to answer our Mother Earth  !