Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7 May 1861 in Calcutta (Present day- Kolkata, West Bengal). He was a great poet and author. Author of “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse” of Gitanjali, he became the first non-European to win the Noble Prize in Literature in 1913. He wrote more than 100 short stories. Tagore easily intermix stark realism and poetic idealism in his stories which reflected the contemporary life in urban and rural life of Bengal. His many of the story portray tensions between the new and old, cruelty and sensitivity, male and female.

The story, “Kabuliwala” is narrated by the father of a five year old mini. Mini is sweet, talkative and innocent girl from Culcutta. She loves her father very much. Every day in their locality an Afghan based dry fruit seller, Rahmat comes to sell his dry fruits. One day she calls Rahmat and gets afraid of the hug bag which his was carrying. Later they both became friends and shares most of the time with each other. Besides all these, one day Rahmat (Kabuliwala) gets arrested and sentenced to jail for many years. After many years of jail, Kabuliwala comes to meet mini who is getting married now. Will she be able to recognize him? Why Kabuliwala is so eager to meet mini every day? Read the story to know.

“Samaaj ka shikar” is the story of the king’s son raised in palace. He never imagined that he would leave that luxury life and face the cruel reality of the forest. He heard the story of princess prisoner who goes to Shahzada to free her. Shahzada and princess fell in love with each other and got married. But how could the contractors of the religion tolerate that a grieving woman could get rid of the iron chain and lead a happy life. They send Shahzada to jail. After completing his punishment he found himself alone in the whole world. He was tired now. Who would serve this helpless wanderer? The child wonders in his mother’s lap and hears this story and thinks that, I am not that Shahzada.

“Patni ka patra” is story of woman expressing trouble and irritation through the letter to her husband. The letter reflects the difficulty of widows and the harsh reality of the society.
The story plot revolves around Mrinal, who is married to upper-class zamindar family as she is beautiful and not because of her intelligence. There, she meets Bindu who is a widow. The family urges Bindu to marry a mentally challenged man, she does that but eventually leaves him and comes back to Mrinal. Bindu cannot take that anymore and commits suicide. Mrinal is disturbed over the fact that woman is not treated well and finally leaves the place and writes a letter to her husband stating all this.

The great strength of Rabindranath Tagore’s writing is his ability to both inform and entertain. In addition to provide a fresh perspective, each story is well-written in a manner that audience feel engaged. I’d recommend this book to the beginners and will give it 4 stars out of 5.

Notebook story: Kabir (Zaheer Iqbal) fell upon the notebook where Firdous (Pranutan Bahl) has written her special moments. He falls in love with her without even knowing her and meeting her.

Notebook Review: Kabir an ex-army officer decides to join the school as a teacher. He has no professional training in teaching, and time gets really tough when he find it difficult to deal with the kids. He finds a notebook which belongs to previous teacher Firdous. And the diary open the story of firdous, where she has written some intimate moments of her.

Notebook is the incredible romance drama in the boat-house school in Kashmir. The story concept is unusual and new, but it fails to move beyond the plot of the story. The lead pair of the movie and the beauty of Kashmir looks really appealing to the eyes of the viewers. But the movie has no action, Kabir and Firdous has no seen together until the last scene. Hence chemistry is missing between the two.

The story is based on Thai Drama (2014). The Direction of the Film has done by Nitin Kakkar, cinematography by Manoj Kumar Khatoi starring Zaheer Iqbal and Pranutan Bahl.

If you are looking for old romantic drama film it is good to watch. But in terms of story and creativity could have achieved more.

Overall rating: 3.0/5

As we all know life is the combination of ups and downs. It is certain that you will have to face many problems in life, but to overcome them, you need to count on self-improvement and motivation. Only reading about self-improvement and watching videos on internet will not help. Comparing to the unfortunate people who don’t have what you have, will surely enhance the scope of self-improvement in your life.

Fighting with your fear and start doing things what you have always been afraid of will leads you to success. If you ask a successful person about his success story, he will surely talk about the importance of self-improvement and motivation. To contribute to self-improvement, you first need to find out your strength and weakness. Lots of problems happens in our lives probably due to lack of confidence and motivation. You can start improving yourself once you decide to change your mindset altogether.

We all have heard it many times before,”You can’t love others until you learn to love yourself. ” To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness. It always motivates you to do better. I truly believe true health starts here- on loving ourselves unconditionally.

What is self-love?

– Well it’s all about putting your needs first.

– Taking good care of youself and being happy.

– It’s trusting yourself and your life and being okay with your career, your body and your relationship.

– It’s being loyal to yourself and always keeping yourself at the top is the priority list.

– It’s embracing the imperfections and knowing that it will make YOU unique.

Fashion has been always a center of attraction for most people since many years. Fashion is the style of outlook personality with clothing, hairstyling, style of living and also behaving.

Fashion can bring an interest in our boring life which can make us more confident and up to date according to the changes in the environment. Trends of fashion depends on place to place. Many youth follow glamour world for fashion trends.

But now the definition of fashion has changed, it is not only limited to clothing and wearing but also it include everything you do on your regular basis. Take for an example, going to gym rather than doing exercise at home has now become a trend and the need of fashion. Playing classy sports like tennis and badminton are now trends.

Many people in our country are influenced by new trends and fashion but the best thing that I love about our country is its rich culture and tradition which is always in the heart of every individual of our country.

Today I’m going to talk about the most mischievous relationship. I hope you got it, its brother and sister’s relationship.

Although brothers and sisters constantly argue, there is a bond of love and friendship which you cannot deny.

Have you ever had something nice or a favourite video game and then your younger brother wants the same? I know, this has happened to me many times and then I used to call him “copycat”. The beginning of world war. And then suddenly instead of arguing I started taking it as a compliment.

Even though there are lots of constant arguments and rivalry but I know there is love behind it. I have many arguments and fights with my brother, but when someone else targets him I always stands for him. And the best part I feel about our relationship is though we fight a lot at night but next morning we behave like nothing has happened.

Sometimes I feel like having an arguments is also necessary for healthy relationships. Apart from this I feel blessed to have a sibling. I feel like I have someone close to my heart to whom I can share my secrets, chocolates, laughter and what not.

What are the challenges in life?

Challenges are the part of our day to day life. Challenges are those what makes your life meaningful. Without them life becomes meaningless because you have nothing to compare your good or the best time to.

By facing challenges we got to know better version of ourselves. Facing challenges is the way to see ourselves what we are capable of. Facing those challenges give you lots of experiences which is much needed to live our lives. Every challenges teaches something new and giving lots of experiences. When we look back at those bad times or tough times, we can be proud of how we dealt with the challenges and remind ourselves that life does get better.

The greatest challenges of life is when we struggle to find love, security and assurance that life truly has a meaning. Sometimes, our fears, unhealthy behaviour and excessive emotional struggles bring down our thinking capacity, which makes us an able to cope up with our problems. In spite of that it increases our difficulties.

Surprisingly, all life challenges have direct connection in defining the purpose of our life. Many of us are unprepared for life’s challenges. We often find that during those time we break under its pressure. Sometimes we feel that the strains of life begins to threaten our patience and stability.

How to overcome challenges?

Life becomes very beautiful when you are surrounded with positive people. You’ll always focused more on achieving your dreams even in worst situation. Don’t give up, keep trying is the mantra to overcome tough times. Do something that pushes you towards your limits and beyond. Do not use the word depressed. Studies have shown that repeatedly using those kind of words relating to old age, will make you slower than those that were exposed to younger words.

Most of people keep asking questions like, “what’s wrong with me?” or “why can’t I do this?” If you ask questions like that, your brain will find an answer. Instead of this ask yourself question like, “what’s good about this situation?” and “How can I make this work?” This question will make you think and will shape you experiences of life.

Thinking positive and working hard is the key to success. Time management is necessary thing to do while talking about success. Some obstacles seems to beyond your control, so unsettling with fear that you have no idea that how to get through them. This experience maybe paired with some other emotional reaction.

No one can reaches the Mount Everest in a single day. Make a small chunks of your dreams. And shrink that intimidating mountain into the series of more achievable goals. Seeking advice and support from the experienced one is also the important component of overcoming challenges.

However, always remember that life will always through challenges your way, keep in mind that you always have options. If you failed for the first time never mind, but never end with giving up.