SPIRIT OF MUMBAI

                                                                                        " Our Dreams have to bigger, Our ambitions higher, Our commitments deeper & our efforts greater " Dreaming up Big , Bold & Beautiful is our birth right as the Human Beings. Dreaming does not equate with 'Building castles in the air but having the base on the Earth ... to ascend the summit. ' How to realizes our Bright , Brilliant and Buoyant dreams with Matrikas ? Simple. Here we go ... First let's say 'Hi' to Matrikas. Well begun is half done with Matrikas. The name  MatrikaS   is  derived from the Sanskrit word for " MOTHER ". Our mothers possess powerful and positive energies. Matrikas is  inspired from the creative energies, ...

" Congratulations Sujata, you are the winner of Jeffrey Archer contest. You will be meeting Sir Jeffrey Archer in person at Trident , Mumbai and you will receive an autographed copy of ' Only Time Will Tell ' as a prize from EBay ."  This is just a tip of an iceberg and a chip off the old block - mother's version about my winnings. Since time immortal my mother kept on reciting to me stories of Mahabharata, Ramayana as well as Dadayana. Dadayana means my father-Dada's glorious achievements as a student / social activist / inspector / publisher / editor / founder and philanthropist. My mother, my first Expert in motivation , inspired me to be a Winner .  " Like Father, Like Daughter " , mother used to remind me whenever I was depressed from a setback. She used to bring me back on the right track, if and when I suffered a failure. Her reasoning to move on and forget the fall is : this is a trifle, you must aim higher as per your st...

A , B , C ... T ... I checked that list twice, thrice but my name was missing. There was no 'Sujata Tawde' in the passing list of Para Social work-entrance exam.  I don't remember how I returned  home   and collapsed in the arms of Aai, how she comforted me and made me sleep. I did not want to get up ever and face the cruel world. I wanted to die and that's that. But life is not that easy. It demands living, death can not be ordered on Flipkart. I had studied like a zombie for that exam. Every day I got up at 4 in the morning, so that I could study and reach office at 10 a.m. As soon as I returned  home  at 6.30 p.m., I would eat Varan-Bhaat and continue studying till 11.30 p.m. I had lost the sense of the world. It hardly mattered to me what's happening around, while I was preparing for the exam.  Next morning, after that horrible results, Aai handed me the news-paper and asked me to read a SC ( Single Column news ). It was about the ...