Optimism-from Being Suicidal to being a Social Entrepreneur

A year down the line, I was devastated and desperate, I had lost the will to carry on with life and at the same time I had turned into someone who was always looking for an excuses. The abuses from the boss and the growing disrespect in the society made me succumb to the suicidal thoughts. My life took a different turn, instead of Holiday places I started making Google searches of dying—though I was already dead inside.

Depression and loneliness is distant cousin and they are related to each other in a very innate manner, you simply cannot pull out these from each other, they are going to grow into something grandeur and then they will whip all the happiness from your life. Same happened with when my Internet Start-up failed, I was dejected and people around me thought of me as a failure, I was coping up with the loss of failure but the loss of trust that my friends and parents had in me was the biggest lost.

I was adamant about making it large once again but the world was not allowing me to but then this world have two faces but it shows to you the only one you want to see. If you are strong enough at subconscious level then no negativity is going to get to your heart.

One event that filled my with a lot of optimism and with a hell lot of positive power was when I attended the grand event of a serial entrepreneur who once was a Dosa seller, he was really passionate about his story, the way he unfolded the pages of his story on grandeur stage inspired millions of entrepreneurs. I was also one of them, he told the world that you can whip us and you can also kill us but you simply cannot diminish our desire to the change the world.

His speech and his experiences made me feel better; it was the day when I realized that I am not the only one. People mocked Bhagat Singh and they even misunderstood Steve Jobs but sooner all these same people ended up worshipping and praising them. This world is an innocuous place it has loads of lethal aspects but then there are opportunities and need of people like us, who are going to make this world a better place to live. Then there are child who are born with nothing to eat and wear who needs our corporal help.

The world gave me everything to be happy and now as a social entrepreneur I am going to shower all the love back in multitudes.

Just like my small start-up Housing.com is also aiming towards a better world. https://housing.com/lookup here is allowing people to grab the best of deals and make their dreams of owning a house or property a reality. Their efforts and they desire to bring smiles and spread optimism are surely going to inspire thousands of young people to take up entrepreneurship as a career and change the world for better.

The Making of June Issue...Branwyn

Branwyn’s June Issue is here. It was a matter of pain for the editors and the technical support team to come up with this issue but then what has come out is no less than Grand. The June edition of magazine is refreshingly new and has some new features embedded into it with great intricacy and eloquence. Well! We with this post, we will take a quick look into this Issue: -

What is New?

The editorial team at Branwyn—which includes me too—is always striving to give its every edition a frsh look. In this issue we have incorporated a new idea known as Bookshelf and we have placed some new and good books on these shelves.

Books listed on the bookshelf of Branwyn are: -

·        Twisted Twenties by Deepali, published by Half Baked Beans.

·        Cheer up! Worst is yet to come by Ila Garg, published by Gargi Publishing.

·        Bad Romance by Hrashita Srivastava, published by Gargi Publishers.

The Cover Story

We have worked hard to finalize a cover story, there were times when we received very incompetent stories for our cover stories but our editors fought through the hard times to come up with something good and sensible.

Lately we have featured a sample chapter from the Novel “The Unwanted Shadow” by Bhaskaryya Deka. The unwanted shadow is published by Half Baked Beans and is doing decently well on online portals.

There’s more from this Grand issue of Branwyn but I am certainly not going to tell you about all of them, you need to read it on your own here at: - 

http://www.scribd.com/doc/233863667/Branwyn-June-2014

The-So-Called-Logical-Indian-Youth....

It’s been a month since world’s largest democracy witnessed the holy ritual of power shift. The political party, which came into power, has made immaculate use of resources at hand to draw the results no one expected.

Well! Pre-election assumptions and exit polls are now an entity of past, today, we stand at the threshold position from where we need to stop talking and get going.

Now is the time to be more active than we ever were or we thought ourselves into the fact that we were.

The contemporary Indian youth can be categorically divided into two classes and both of these classes constitute of 70 and 30 percent of the Indian youth respectively.

The 30 percent group is a combination of intellectuals, pseudo-intellectuals and wannabe intellectuals. This group constitutes of students from technical and civic background, some of them were really interested into knowing what-is-happening-into-their-country, while most of them were forced by their parents to read history books which ultimately helped them come up with referenced comments during pre-election and post election debates and discussions.

The 70 percent part of the youth is Hollywood group, all they know is Hollywood has this and Hollywood has that. All they want is to live like an American. Ask them about their vision on any contemporary issue India is facing and they will shy and end up saying “America mei aisa hota hai…”

“Bhai to America hi kyun ni chle jaate”. Nai jaa skte, kyunki America b tum jaise directionless people ko Visa ni dega.

America is different, their problems are different, their geographical and cultural diversity is different from us, they have undergone different storms and they have tackled different set of imposed rules.

From where, India stands today, it can be taken to either an epitome-al stage where it becomes impossible for any country to beat or it can undergo economy degradation ceremony.

The government alone cannot make our country a better place to live, government can only make laws and assign funds but an enthusiastic and responsible group of citizens can make those programs and funds useful. Local bodies understand the problems better and hence it can be said that they can solve their problems in much better ways. When I think of ‘local bodies’ the concept of mohalla sabha suggested by an unique political party which lost it’s identity in the fight of Delhi state assembly or Delhi parliament seems legitimate and beneficiary.

Half the youth of India lives under miss-conception. They think Prithvi Raj Chouhan is the president and they think Amir khan is the prime minister because he was seen talking more about national issues than any other personality on TV. 

The least youth can do for your country is be logical and when I say being logical I am sure that I am not talking about finding logic in Bollywood movies. Being logical is about understanding the local problems and trying to solve it on your own rather than waiting for Narendra Modi to come and solve it for you.

Faults-in-us...

We often do it! Sit and stare incessantly at our recently clicked snaps! What we really look for? For how beautiful we have grown into? Or for how smartly the photographer has made us hide our obscurities and has presented a viscous picture of our demons?

We all do it, we do it so often that we lose the count and yet we are not satisfied of what we see because instead of being proud about how good we look on screens we are sad about the person we have turned into or out to be.

We are sad about the so-called-friends we have lost over the course of time and still continue to loose. We are doubtful about our future given the present seems vague and we stare at ourselves trying to decipher the moments when things went wrong.

The photograph is merely a co-ordinated presentation of the happenings from the past, when we stare at ourselves we pose question and all we get to hear in return are excuses coveted under the synonym  The-fault-in-our-stars even though they are-the-faults-in-us.

We continue to live life, as it comes to us and one day when everything seems too different and difficult we feel infer rated and we feel lost and all we do is look for answers in our past. It can be anything, the move you made to win your friend back or the simple suggestion you cited to make your friend’s life better; if it was love which changed your life then the reason for the mishap can be none other than expectations, because we all believe love to be one-stop-shop of things we dream of, while love is a farm where you need to work through sunny and rainy days to grow the world which you deserve more than the world you need.

The world would have been a better place if we judged less and loved more, the world would have been  a far better place if we would have been less envious and more jovial about others success. 

Koyal For FMI!!!

The 51^st Femina Miss India, Koyal Rana—a 21 year old girl from Delhi—enamored the judges last night with her answer when asked: -

"In these past 30 days with the Miss India Organization which values or virtues have you learnt from your fellow contestants that you will take back with you?"

In reply to this nerve breaking question, she said: - "We had a beautiful batch of girls this time ... So vibrant, dynamic, professional when required yet lots of fun. They had both beauty and talent."

Her response seemed genuine and convincing to the highly decorated panel of judges; which led her to the win of 51^st Femina Miss India.

Koyal Rana, is a sweet little girl from Delhi. You may not recognize her but all of you have seen her in Coca cola ads in ads of Garnier where she worked as a Brand Ambassador.

In the recently passed week, I had kept a keen eye on the beauty pageant contest and was supporting Koyal for FMI over internet. The sole reason is very personal and encouraging.

I travel back to three years and smile remembering the innocuous and innocent replies she wrote in response to my flirting texts—needless to say, I was single at that instance. She was very down to earth and very genuine. I asked her few pretty questions and she answered all of them with extra wit and outstanding smartness—and hence she won the Tiara of Miss India.

A sweet little girl she appeared to me; she kept replying to me nearly for few more weeks and them she got busy with her busy schedule.

 I was heartbroken to not receive replies from her but today when she won the Miss Femina India 2014, it all seems vague--my disappointment and sadness.
She is made for bigger things in life--like everyone of us. It's just that she kept all the distractions aside and NAILED IT...:)

The Rise of Reality TV...

The year 2013 is gone by. We have already witnessed the award season of Bollywood and we have witnessed the rise of singers in the gone by year. Ask any random chick about her favorite song from 2013 and she will flit between ‘Tum Hi Ho’ or ‘Sanwar Loon’; if you can decipher the hidden meaning then you have witnessed the rise of reality shows in India.

Arijit Singh the Filmfare recipient for the best male singer 2013 was once a reality TV show contestant. Monali Thakur the cute bubbly girl who is ready to make her debut in Bollywood and the recipient of best female singer Filmfare 2013 was once a contestant of Indian Idol. Sreeram Chandra the man with the soothing voice who sang the song ‘Shubhaanallah’ in the movie ‘Ye jawani Hai Diwani’ happens to be the winner of Indian Idol 5.

In recent past we have heard people bantering about ‘how fake these reality shows are’; we have even seen people cursing the creative team behind such shows, irrespective of the fame and employment they have awarded the contestants from the show with.

If you are a person with optimistic mind setup you are gonna agree with me, when I say that reality shows have changed the artistic world for betterment. We all have heard the quote ‘Every Artist Needs an Audience’ and with the advent of these innocuous reality shows this quote just got real. Every artist with a profound artiste irrespective of the town he comes from and undiluted by the creed he belongs to has received tantamount love and respect for his art.

If you are a person with an abominable mind setup then you will count onto the failures and trauma these reality shows have spread. There have been bad luck and people have faced criticism and depression but the primal reason behind those futile outcomes was the lack of creativity and the sheer absence of art of presentation.

In recent past India has seen an outburst in the field of reality television. Most of them are borrowed concepts and some of them are just the translated versions but till the time people are moving forward it is ok and as the quote goes ‘Rome was not built in a day’ like same change is not gonna come instantly, first people will copy, then experiment and finally one day they will innovate.

Till then Sit back, Relax and enjoy the Not-so original Reality Television.

Green Rock Store-Your Search for cool merchandise ends here!

Indian market is saturated with merchandise brands that sell Tees that are either too common or have become out of fashion! The need and the taste of the consumers are always dynamic and the brands or the brand owners must keep this dynamics in their minds. If you roam around the metro cities in India you will, most probably observe people wearing Tees with the same caption or designs. Apparently, the reason for this is that people are facing a huge lack of options and choices. The number of brands that sell Tees with ‘out of the box’ caption or designs are very few in number. Thus, the consumers are forced to buy the same humdrum sort of stuff again and again.

Green Rock store is one of those brands that have made an effort to eliminate the lack of choices for the end consumers. The young Indian youth has a huge fad about the TV series, animation, movies et al. that’s exactly the theme of the Green Rock store. The store aims at making cool Tees that are inspired by TV series or movies. That said, they don’t restrict themselves to merely tees but they make hoodies, posters and would soon venture into laptop skins, coasters etc… So, if you have an idea in your mind, you can always share the same with Green Rock store. The stuff of the cloth is worth a buy as well! After-all you want to preserve your style statement as well! Also, the brand is more than happy to take bulk orders. So, if you want your companions in college or may be in the company to have cool Tees or any other merchandise of that sort, contact Green Rock store without any delay whatsoever! Also, if you don’t have an idea for design or caption in mind, Green Rock store would always be there to suggest you.

So, the entire big bang theory fan here is your Big chance to buy a Tee that says a huge Bazinga to everyone! Also, the entire Breaking Bad fan, Green Rock has some really cool designs that will surely impress you. The entire How I Met Your Mother fan can also visit the store to buy stuff and can tell everyone How I Met Green Rock!

Green Rock Store already has demonstrated its ground level presence in this Comic Con event in New Delhi, many colleges in the Delhi region have already ordered their bulk stuff and the response so far has been really good. The huge crowd and all gung-ho response at the Comic Con festival has encouraged the brand to take things further from here. The Delhi bases store is all set to rock the market. Visit the Green Rock store today and order your stuff for an amazing and impressive experience.

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