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Is it not funny that we preach about the uniqueness of each human being and yet try to follow the norms so that you could easily blend into the society? Who told you that its 'not so good' to stand out in the crowd? Why is an intelligent child branded 'autistic' just because he lacks the social skills? Since when did we 'need' to artificially cut the umbilical chord after birth? Who decided the rights and wrongs of social co-existence? How many of us really are aware that the oxygen supplied from the placenta makes it much easier for the child to adapt from the watery womb to dry land. So why do we follow a 'clamp upon emergence' protocol and assault the child as a welcome gesture to this so called beautiful experience of life. Why do you want your child to be welcomed with these 'earthly' gestures just because every other person is? Conformism is so much part of us that we never deviate into the"why's" of the "What's...

It took a new cartridge used in the ‘Pattern 1853 Enfield Rifle Musket’ for the first organized rebellion against a century long invasion by a company. The rebellion brought Change and led to a shift from “Company Raj” to “British Raj” with the Crown assuming direct administration of India. It then took some 1650 rounds of fire on an unarmed crowd and an official fatality list of around 379 (337 men, 41 boys and a six-week-old baby) for the next significant change - the first ever series of a nation wide non violent resistance and civil disobedience - the change that paved way for what we call “Independent India”. It seems strange that ammunition formed part of the inspiration behind every significant change we saw in a country that was eventually formed by a non-violent movement – without firing a bullet. Sixty years of “Independent India” has been quite action-packed with major wars with our own people who chose the other side of a border line, the never ending fight against some w...