Branwyn...

It’s less about what-people-will-say and more about what-you-want-to-do thing which drives the passion inside you to sail out of safe harbor and create waves in the vast sea of opportunities.

Same is the case with Sneha Gupta—the first working lady from Lalganj—as quoted by Times of India. Provided with the indispensable education she has developed wings and lately she has been found making waves in the field of Literature. In India she is basically known for her two national bestseller novels but foreign readers know her because of the name associated to her-Branwyn.

Branwyn is an outcome of collaboration of few intellectual minds from literary field. With the not-so-good-experience in the publishing industry during the initial days of publishing a book Sneha Gupta went on a mission to bridge the gap between Authors, Readers and Publishing houses.

A gap which was profound enough to make a published Author anonymous in a crowd. A dividing line drawn by the obnoxious publishing houses. Sneha Gupta now acclaims of bringing a change in the way authors are now being perceived. This monthly e-magazine which has been read by more than 10,00,000 times is now an integral part of every reader who wants to peep into the life of their favorite authors.

Readers are found coaxing the editor for more and more. They are

the ones who have made Branwyn what it is today. The huge success and infectious growth in readership indicates ‘how desperately people out there were waiting for a revolution’ Branwyn has surely made a huge difference. Being the first of its kind from India is too an achievement for Branwyn.

From today we are starting with a series of blog-posts on this literary extravaganza; where readers will get to read about the various segments of the magazine. We will be updating readers about the latest contests organized by this Magazine. We will be serving our readers with a sneek peak into the making of this magazine. One by One we will introduce every segment and the faces behind those segments.
P.S- Keep checking this space for more and more about Branwyn and contests.

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you can read the January edition of the magazine here- http://www.scribd.com/doc/204862236/Branwyn-Jan-2014


Thank You.

Self Policing...

This post was written for the blog of Half Baked Beans--A Delhi based publishing house...
You can read more of my articles at- halfbakedvoices.blogspot.in

How many times a day we comment on the way a person prefers dressing. How much of time we spend every day judging others. How many times does our comment or judgment make things better? Do we even consider how sentimental our slander may be? Do we even try to decipher the genesis of the way in which one behaves?

 Will we ever change? Will we ever understand others?

No! Not until we are on the other side of the road.

Been on the other side of the road, we would have understood, how it feels to be one with no fortune, with no luck and with no happiness. Life has long ceased to be fair and to us life is good because we are lucky or in layman’s word because our parents have got money.

Money these days is an onerous thing with a cryptic meaning. Money brings to us everything-food, friends, relatives, happiness and love. Money without love is a waste and a love without money is embarrassing.

How we have turned into so hard shelled? Since, when we lost the hinterland values? What made us so stiff? Will we live like this all our life? Will this ever end?

The answer lies within you. The answer lies in Self-Policing.

Self-Policing is merely a term in English language which means-‘the process of keeping order or maintaining control within a community without accountability or reference to an external authority’, but in the situation we all are living in, the way we all have got succumbed in our shells, this term is no less than an anecdote.

We all need to get accused of being ignorant and get investigated for the damage we have made to us, others and to our planet. Yep, not just we humans, our thoughts with bad frequency damages the planet too; and with the speed we are judging people and declaring our opinions as gospel no doubt we will not need any nuclear weapon to annihilate our planet.

Self-policing can help us attain peace and can help us make this planet a better place to live. Every-time you think of someone of as creepy and weird just because they dress-up differently ask yourself ‘why will anyone deliberately like to be a laughter stock’. I am not suggesting you to develop a self-doubt, but I am requesting you to be generous and intellectual. A mind with intellect thinks over things and acts accordingly. A mind of animal with no intellect attacks; and not to forget we are human beings.

Self-policing is considered to be a part of yoga; where we tend to understand our short comings and overcome them with the help of Meditation and physical exercises. Yoga(ancient word for exercise) is the best way available to understand one self. When you start understanding yourself you start understanding the world.

We all small, big, gay, straight, black or white need to understand ourselves. We need to understand this world moves in a cycle. We need to understand we all are a part of that cycle and we need to understand the disruption in cycle may lead us back to the genesis of life which is assumed to be dark, very dark.

And as the famous poem from Zindagi Milegi Na Dobara goes…

“Dilon mein tum apni betabiyan leke chal rahe ho.
Toh zinda ho tum!
Nazar mein khwaabon ki bijliyan leke chal rahe ho
Toh zinda ho tum!
Hawa ke jhonkon ke jaise aazad rehna seekho
Tum ek dariya ke jaise, leharon mein behna seekho
Har ek lamhe se tum milo khole apni baahein
Har ek pal ek naya samaa dekhe ye nigaahe
Jo apni aankhon mein hairaniyan leke chal rahe ho
Toh zinda ho tum!
Dilon mein tum apni betabiyan leke chal rahe ho
Toh zinda ho tum!”

Do everything you want to do but make sure nobody is getting hurt; nobody suffers a loss in your gain and make sure you are making your planet a better place to live.