Gift a Smile



How much does that magical,beautiful and "to die for "smile across the lips of your loved one mean to you?Well my friends it is not an easy task to gift a smile 'without a gift' especially when the festive season has set in and each person around you is looking at you with  yearning eyes .Right from the most meagerly paid servant at home to the most well paid Boss......everyone is expecting a gift !!!There seems to be nothing wrong with this idea till the time we understand that it is the gesture that matters more than the moolah , but the problem arises when we turn this process into a 'pocket hole creator' which gives you neither pleasure nor a recognotion, and eventually this frustration turns the whole process of linking gifts with gestures into a meaningless, gestureless game of 'passing the parcel'.
Why then and what for are we blowing out those hard earned rupees ? To get social acceptance? , to show off  our status?, because it is a fad? or maybe a mandatory annual part of existence?
The reason maybe unique for each one but the reality remains that eventually we are not happy giving presents to people because it gives neither of the parties the much needed vitamin:smile.
Yes friends, very candidly I am proclaiming that this festive season I am resolute on gifting smiles to people by giving stuff to those  who really need it .When on one hand we are more than excited in collecting gifts for family and friends on the other ,we are equally worked up in shopping for the needy and the deprived .I know there are numerous people more needy than the ones around but we are adding to our 'blessings' kitty' by gifting  all those people and their famies who strive to give us a comfortable living .
With every gift that they receive from me, I quietly add a smile and a blessing to my account that makes my life beautiful and perhaps more illuminated this Diwali

Recreating the Magic

Its been long since I've been hearing about the art of expressing yourself through words. Well when it comes to playing with words I haven't had much of a tiff, rather I think at times this 'play' ( pun intended) with words  has saved  me a lot of unpleasant situations. These words do work 'magic' on a number of occasions but being a part of this so called "multicultural", "uber modern " lifestyle, we either simply forget the 'magic' or perhaps have no time to perform it anymore because our lives   have boiled down towards becoming  merely 'mechanical' and therefore no scope for left for any 'magic'.
Well friends, one again to recreate the magic of words in this mechanical existence I intend to write this blog . To express myself about the little thoughts, doings and expressions that add beauty and realization to our living but are  often shoved in some corner of our psyche. "Immaculate Intellect": a name that sounds 'pleasingly intellectual' is simply a platform of penning down those  clear thoughts or happenings  that make our existence a little more grateful and a little less temporal. For all those people who like to appreciate the little , beautiful things of life : here is a space for you .