Monday, June 20, 2011

Unburdening my soul......! :)

It may somewhat sound ‘philosophical’ but when you reflect back upon the life you have lived; you realize how you yourself complicated everything in your life and then you feel~' I wish I had been a little more mature'. But what is more important than to just realize it, is to learn from it so that you can make your life more beautiful; for yourself and for the people around you.



Since childhood our Moral Science Books taught us to ‘Forgive & Forget’. We did learn that, but we only learnt it in pieces. When we seemingly ‘Forgave’ people; we failed to forget. And when we ‘Forgot’ their follies; we failed to forgive, only to leave us getting reminded of it over and over again.

Today when I look back, I see it in a completely different light. My first interpretation of the phrase, as a kid, was that we should forgive people just because everybody deserves chance to rectify his mistakes. Today I feel, it was never really about others. 

Since past so many years, I kept regretting and fretting over my choices of friends because our friendship ended in a fight. Because of my anger, I built a wall around myself so that nobody could come close enough to hurt me. In the process, I mistakenly showed my back upon the people who really loved me, cared for me and were my true friends. I was so full of doubt that I never allowed myself to trust them. And what did I get? I lost precious time doubting people’s intention towards me when I should have been cherishing their friendship. I had so many well-wishers around but I felt ‘lonely’. And all this time, I kept blaming everything upon those friends who seemingly ‘broke my trust’. (*That is what human beings tend to do.. we always fail to look at our own mistakes, or, on a second thought, we are too egoistic to accept our mistakes)



But today I know who was ‘actually’ wrong. It was I. If I would have forgiven them and forgotten it all, my past 2 years would have been different. ‘To forgive’ was not difficult but ‘To forget’ certainly was. It would have taken time but certainly not as long as 2 precious years while I failed to value some beautiful friendships coz’ I chose to be full of doubts.

Now it sounds so silly that I used to miss having ‘true friends’ in my life while I was busy scaring them away myself. (What a strange brain did God give us.. hehe.. see, once again I am blaming someone else for my mistakes.)

I should also confess, that if my friends and I would have chosen to let go of our ‘ego’ and decided to ‘forgive and forget’, may be, we would have been able to save that friendship that brought us so much happiness for 4 long years and would have continued to do so.. only, if we allowed it to!

Somehow, everything boils down to ‘prioritization’! We tend to give a higher priority to our ‘Ego’ in comparison to ‘love & happiness’. Think about it. What was better ~

A satisfied ego; a broken heart full of mistrust, hatred and regret; a self-made life of loneliness & an unsatisfied life. Or,
A subdued ego; a happy and content heart with no negativity; Loads of friends around to love and care (including some old friends that you lost and some new ones that you made). In all, a satisfied life!

The choice is obvious now (Only if you let go of your ego)! 

Today I so wish to have forgiven them or (even better) made up with them. I wish I had chosen love over hatred. I wish I had chosen to forget their mistakes instead of constantly wishing them to be punished. I wish I had chosen to value the 4 years of friendship over 4 hours of fight......!



I know I cannot ‘undo’ things, but today I forgive them for all the things that hurt me. I would be lying if I say that I forgot all the wrong that happened but I promise myself to forget it as soon as possible.. may be by reminding myself of the happy moments we had together. :) Hey, I feel good already!

I couldn’t have been more wrong when I said to myself that ‘Friends to aur ban jayenge.. vo bhi inse better’. Silly me! Friendship is precious! If God gave us friends, we need to learn to value them or else God sure knows how to ‘teach’ us to value them.

Hence, Forgive & Forget. (Trust me, it is not as difficult as it sounds) There is one life and it is definitely not for carrying the burden of hatred and regret. After all, friends are precious! (Realize it now, or you’ll realize it later) :)

‘There is no forgiveness without love; and, there is no love without forgiveness.’

~That says it all!



Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Back to School ! :)


The other day, while my Mum was busy purchasing vegetables in Reliance Fresh Store, I was wandering around, seeing the objects in the offering. I moved past a rack dedicated to stationary. I then realized that this is the time when the schools are about to re-open after ‘the Summer Vacations’. What followed was obvious...... I tripped over the cliff and went rolling down the memory lane...... :)



  • What a delight it used to be to have a new school bag, a new Pencil box or a new Lunch Box! And if you had an entire new School kit, you were on cloud #9. :) We went around flaunting our newly acquired fortune in style. As for me, I would find weird reasons to open my new bag or the pencil box 100 times. :P
  •  New books! Whenever I went out to ‘Ajay Pustak Sadan’ or ‘Krishna Books and Stationary’, I was super excited. It was a treat to see the shopkeepers collecting all the text books and presenting them in front of you in a bundle. All you had to say was ‘Christ Church, Class xyz’ and they knew what to offer. And often you would bump into another classmate. (* I am sure all of you would agree, though we spent 300 days of an year together in the same class, meeting a classmate outside school was ‘out of the world’.) :)

  • Back home, the first thing I would do, was to flip the pages of the new books. My first choice was the English Reader. From The Gulmohur Reader to The Oxford University Press Books to Shakespeare and Charles Dickens......I loved them all. Next book used to be the colourful Science Textbook (till the time it was split into the more complex Physics, Chemistry and Biology) :/
  • The night before the school, Mum would sit and cover up all the books, (which I never liked) with the brown or the Orange covers. We later found a way to escape that by covering our books by transparent Cellophane sheet. Putting up name stickers on the books and notebooks. (The stickers were sometimes Disney or Fido to sometimes plain red and white ones) and writing our names on them in our best hand-writing. :)
  • On the first day, no matter how much your parents tell you to leave some books behind, you would insist on carrying all the books and notebooks in your bag......just in case! (as if you would cover half of the syllabus on the first day itself)
  • The lovely welcome by our beloved School Principal Mrs. W. Nair, in the Assembly. And ofcourse, singing The School Hymn in the first assembly of the new session. 

  • Then to check if our new prefect was a nice and kind senior or a strict and rude girl who would thrash us on seeing our long finger nails or if we forget to bring our Hymn book! :/

  • What could beat the feeling of writing in a new (fresh) notebook for every new subject! :)
  • I can never forget the excitement all of us had when we first moved from Pencil to Pen! It was in Class IV as far as I remember and we were supposed to start writing in ink. (Most of us had atleast 1 fountain pen with a green body and golden cap). Then we later moved on to ‘Auto pens’......Pilot pens...... and finally Ball Point pens, mostly Cello Grippers!

  • Writing the ‘Class Time Table’ in your extremely precious ‘Rough Notebook’ and then copying it down on the best Time Table (format) you had. (By the way, I hope all you Christ Churchians remember how we used to collect these time tables on the last day or rather the ‘Result day’ of a school session, when representatives of various stationary shops of the city flocked outside our school with colourful Time tables for publicity!)
  • Eagerly awaiting the distribution of the School Diary. :P (I wonder how many of you remember that)
  • While we tried to sit with our best friends on the first day, our Class Teachers would declare that we would be given our seats in accordance to our heights. We would crib and complain if we are separated from our friends, little knowing that we are sitting with a new ‘friend-to-be’.
  • And ofcourse, checking out the ‘new admissions’, if any and trying to act smart in front of them, being the older inhabitants of our second home. :)


Well, when it comes to our dear ol’ School, this can never be all. There are many more posts to come, because our school memories are the fondest of them all!  :)

P.S.- I would like to give the credit of this post to Aditi who literally ‘drags us’ back to our school memories through her blog! :) That is the reason why I love her Blog.



Friday, June 10, 2011

Lessons from Life ......!

All of us, during our lives, come across some life changing thoughts and learnings. This post talks about few of the priced thoughts that changed my outlook towards everything in life.




So here we go ~ 

  • Whenever you say something about a person, if the person deserves it,  then it is fine; but if he doesn't, then it gets reflected back to you ~ In my adolescence, I used to be extremely short-tempered. (*As most of the kids are) so my best friend Pallavi shared this thought with me. And how true she was! Unless we are sure about the reasons behind a certain behavior of a person, how can we judge him and retort back to him (*or give our opinions about him) in an unpleasant manner! I understood my folly and rectified it with loads of practice. But somewhere that got lost again when my life became more complex. It became worse when I joined MBA, where everyday you had to deal with a lot of negativity around. But what I could not understand was that this added on to it. Sometimes in life you learn only when you stumble. The same happened with me. All my pessimism and negativity that I uttered, fell upon me. I could not even realize what I was doing until someone :) reminded me of this thought again. Today, when I have imbibed this into my life once again (through a lot of conscious effort) I am feeling its effects. You yourself feel so pure when you do not say ill about others. It is really a pleasant habit to adopt. :)
  • All of us have the power to decide our thoughts and the way we feel~ This is an original thought. :P But yes, it is true. I mean all of us experience this at some point of time but fail to adopt it as a habit. You know, whenever you are in a bad mood or feeling low, you can change it, if you really want to! The same goes with your thoughts. If you want to see good in something, you can; but if you wish to stick to bad thoughts, it is totally up to you. *Here I would like to mention something interesting! Yesterday, I came across the same thought in the famous book "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari". It was such a pleasant surprise to see something that once crossed my mind, written in exact words in an acclaimed best-seller! It made me feel special ! :)
  • The real glory lies in being knocked to your knees and then coming back ~ Well this is a proverb. The point is 'never give up' ! It makes me feel really happy to say that this is one thing I have practiced all my life (and with God's grace, will be able to practice later too). During the most challenging times I complained, I cried, I was sad; but I didn't give up! And as they say 'koshish karne walon ki kabhi haar nahi hoti' ...... I stood up again. :)   
  • Silence speaks a thousand words ~ It is difficult to be silent. Isn't it? But I have learnt something. The more you try to explain yourself to someone, the more he will misunderstand you. If you think you are correct, wait for the person to realize it, instead of defending yourself. If you think you are not valued,do not sing your own praises, instead, wait for the person to realize your worth. They say, 'Good deeds speak for themselves' If a person who is close to your heart) is rude to you, instead of having a war of words and making things worse, stay quiet, the person will realize his own mistake. Every rule has an exception though. I presume, you are wise enough to know when to use it.

  • Adopt the pace of Nature; her secret is Patience~ Patience is a virtue. It certainly is! I truly believe, if you are correct, there is infinite power supporting you and if you are wrong, then there is infinite power opposing you. So stick to the fight when you are hardest hit; Its when things seem worst that you mustn't quit ! So, learn from the previous rule. Stay quiet and wait, if you are correct, you will get your due. God will not be unjust. Though difficult, one should learn to apply the same rule in a fight. Don't jump on to revenge, leave it on God and it will be taken care of. This is a cycle of life, your deeds will never be left unrewarded.
  • Karma kar fal ki icchha mat kar ~ This was something I realized when I was preparing for my MBA entrance test. I am not a saint, that I started following it from the beginning. I started working on my preparation with a thought that I have to clear my entrance test. But this thought used to fill my mind with a lot of apprehensions. So slowly I decided that I will give my best shot (my karma) to y preparations and then whatever result I get, will be God's will. And yes, hard work pays. I got selected in the Institute that I wished to join. Since then, whenever I find anyone getting panic-ridden about results, I tell them this rule. You do your work sincerely, the rest will follow. :)
  • Believe and you can do it ~ They say, everything that you see in real life, was once in somebody's mind. 'Its impossible' says reason; 'Its reckless' says experience; 'Try' says dream! In Roadies, Our beloved contestant Anamika once said, If you give up in your mind and say to yourself "Its impossible" then it is over! Faith can do wonders and the best you can do is have faith on yourself. 'To keep trying' is the Mantra.
  • When you have given your best to something, leave it in the hands of God and it will be taken care of ~ It often happens that despite constant efforts and your best shot towards something, you see no results. This is the time when you should leave it in the hands of God. It is said, 'Once you have found the right direction, all you have to do is, keep moving.' And as I said earlier, your efforts never go unrewarded. :)
  • Think, before you decide to change ~ Most of us do this mistake in life. We change. I do not say that change is always bad,  but one thing is worth mentioning. Change, that comes naturally, can do wonders for your personality; but a change that is forceful, can be equally destructive. So when a person tells you to change, remember, he liked you for what you are and it is your duty to preserve it. That is because, the moment you will change, the same person will find it difficult to accept you in this new avtar. Worst of all, trust me, it is really hard to get 'yourself' back. :)
  • The more you run after something,  the more it runs away from you ~ Well, I guess most of us experience this in life so this doesn't need an explanation. :)
You know what, all this boils down to some key things. Believe in yourself; Be patient and Never do to others what you don't want them to do to you. At the end of the day, What goes around, comes around.  :)




    An Unexpected Guest ! :P


    This happened two days ago, on 8th June 2011, when a thief entered our house at night.




    It was after 2 months of vacations that I decided to sleep a little ‘early’. So I wrapped up my novel and comics and lied down to sleep at 1:23 A.M. (This is ‘early’ after 2 years of MBA!)Little did I know that this night would unfold to be a really crazy one!


    I have this weird habit of suddenly waking up several times at night. (Again, all thanks to MBA). So that night too, I suddenly opened my eyes at 2:45 A.M. Now, we keep a small bulb lit all night long in the living room of our house. So, when I opened my eyes, I saw someone bent and picking up something heavy from the floor, in the living room. My immediate thought was that it must be our servant who must have come in for my Grandfather (who is not well since past few days), so I decided to sleep again. But I don’t know why some doubt popped up in my head and so I got out of the mosquito net. (Trust me, this is the first time in my life when I felt something suspicious and did not call my Dad, neither did I switched on the lights!)


    When I stepped out into the living room, I saw the door to the backyard open! There wasn’t anybody (the thief had gone outside for some weird reason). What a nut was I .. I kept standing there for about 30 seconds trying to understand what was happening (It happens when you’ve just woken up from half-sleep). For those 30 seconds I kept thinking ~ How did my servant come in, as Mom and Dad are not awake. Then I explained to myself that maybe Mom gave him the keys so that he can come in for my Grandpa’s aid whenever needed.




    While I was busy gathering my senses, I saw someone coming in from the backyard. And shockingly, it wasn’t my servant! He was a man in his 40s, I suppose, dark complexioned, wearing a stripped T-shirt and a weird cap. That was when I gathered all my senses and realized that someone had broken in into our house and the man in front of me was a thief!


    At, that instant I was seeing one of the biggest fears of my life in front of my eyes. I felt that my house is in someone else’s control and that I am all alone! Honestly, I had a thousand thoughts in my head every second!


    Before I could utter a word, the man rushed towards me with disgust. He had a knife in his hand! My eyes popped out with fear and I had a cold sweat. I took few steps backward while he came forward to get hold of me. A million thoughts crossed my mind at that instant ~ ‘Should I shout? But if I shout, he will attack not just me but whoever gets up for my aid. Should I wake up my bro who was sleeping in my room? But if I wake him up, the thief will attack him.’ Moving backward step by step I had come back into my room. I thought I should quickly close my door, but he was too close for me to do that. He was holding the knife right in front of my throat.. ready to attack!


    Finally I decided that I will stay quiet and surrender to him. (I must confess, I felt that in the next few seconds I may be _____ well I am too scared to say the word) But when it comes to your family’s safety, you are ready to take a risk...... and yes, I was ready.




    He rubbed his teeth and said to me “Chup, Chup !” I immediately kept my ‘finger on my lips’ and with my gestures, conveyed to him that I am quiet and pleaded him to leave. He still came into my room with his knife still in front of my throat and peeped in. He understood that the girl is not alone as my brother was sleeping there. Then, afraid of being caught, he gave me a horrifying look and rushed out of the door of the backyard.


    *All this happened within a minute.


    That moment when he was going out, I felt as if I am getting back my life again. My heart thumped. Even the relief was not relieving!


    I quickly went after him and closed the door. Till that time, I was not able to get a single word out of my throat. Then I turned around shouting “Papa, Papa, ghar me chor hai”. I rushed towards my parent’s room and saw the front door open, and lot of litter lying here and there. I was crazily scared. Hearing my voice everyone got up and came out. That was the time I re-gained my breath.

    We called up our servant inside and checked the house. The thief had broken the lock to get in. He must have been inside the house for atleast half-an-hour because he had thoroughly checked my brother’s room but thankfully my brother’s room is always a mess and is full of nothing but books, CDs, parts of his electronic project, shoes, clothes and a whole lot of non sense. So all he could get there was a wallet*. 


    (*Now here I’d like to mention ~ All that glitters is not Gold! The wallet was thick so he assumed it to be full of money but ofcourse he didn’t know that my bro has this habit of collecting all the silly receipts of the world. :P There were just 6 Rupees in that wallet. Though the wallet was a genuine ‘Lee’ worth Rs. 800 but its condition made it look like it is not worth pennies.) 




    Another thing that he stole was a mobile which was a CDMA phone. I must say, very thoughtful of him, he left the SIM behind. But poor soul, he didn’t know that the phone was 6 years old and could not run for more than 3 hours without being charged. :P So, in all, it was a loss of Rs 5806 for us and a gain of Rs.6 for the thief. :P


    What was interesting was, that everywhere the thief searched, he got a ‘Hanuman Chalisa’ which he left behind. :) There definitely was God guarding us that night.


    When I told everyone about what had happened, they were ‘all praises’ for me for being so calm and patient in a situation where anybody would have lost his cool and for being so brave. **Blush Blush**




    But yes, brave I was! I must say I felt really happy with myself for dealing with the situation in the best possible way, without getting everyone into a trouble. With God’s hand on me, I faced one of the worst fears of my life with courage. :) For the first time in my life, I felt like a Rajput


    But now when I think about what had happened, I feel a chill in the spine. There certainly was God who was helping me out and He saved me that night through His divine blessings. I cannot thank God enough for helping us out that night. Jai Gayatri Mata !





    Something you need to take care of ......!


    I wouldn’t get into the statistics, but it is a common knowledge that numerous girls, especially in India, are anaemic. This post is just to let you know, what are the not-so-obvious effects of Anaemia in your daily life and what best can be done about it.






    I have been suffering from Anaemia since past 6-7 years. I am no Doctor, so I will not be technical. I would just like to share all the things that I have experienced all these years.


    Like any other girl, I used to believe that it is no big deal to be anaemic. You must have heard that Anaemia causes hair fall, difficulty in breathing, paleness – that is it. But it doesn’t stop here.


    As you must be aware that Haemoglobin is the Oxygen carrier in the body; less Haemoglobin leads to difficulty in breathing. What begins as a mild breathing problem, grows into continuous and prolonged fatigue. This fatigue is physical as well as mental. While you feel sleepy and lethargic all the time, you also grow extremely irritable and impatient. You get panic-stricken easily and you are always confused. (No kidding) Not just the thinking ability is adversely affected but your memory is also weakened.


    On the emotional side, the person is easily provoked and becomes extremely short- tempered. Not just this, you are very easily moved to tears at the slightest bit of a provokation. (No kidding here too, this has been scientifically proven!) You end up being perpetually depressed.






    For a blog, all this may sound like ‘gyan’ but when you come to think of it, it actually is very serious. For me, it affected my performance in studies and co-curricular activities; my friendships and my relationships. It was difficult for people to understand my behaviour and problem when seemingly, everything was alright!


    In all, Anaemia reduces your efficiency drastically. It drains you physically, mentally and emotionally. And worst of all, it is kind of a vicious cycle. 


    Now while these were all the reasons behind taking Anaemia seriously, here are some solutions that worked for me.


    Pomegranate ~ it is a blessing for people who are anaemic. You can feel the difference within a week of regular intake. I find it extremely boring to sit and take out each and every seed from the fruit so I took it in the form of juice. Trust me, it works wonders! Then of course there are the Green Leafy Vegetables that come to your rescue.


    A lot of people take Iron supplements for this. But what is worth knowing is that the absorption of Iron in the body requires Vitamin C. That is the reason why people keep complaining about the inefficiency of these Iron Supplements.


    I have recently started taking Iron and Vitamin C Supplements which are Amway products. I find them good. Lets hope they get me out of this. :)


    My intention behind writing this post was to spread whatever little awareness that I can, about Anaemia. My request is, take it seriously and spread the knowledge. If not much, I hope this post helps you to understand the psyche and condition of an anaemic person so that you do not judge him on his strange behaviour and extend a helping hand to get him/her out of it. :)





    Thursday, June 2, 2011

    An Artist's Touch !


    As I am blogging, it is easy to guess that I enjoy ‘writing’. My posts would suggest that I am spiritually inclined and I also take deep interest in human behaviour. Apart from these, there is another dimension of my personality. I am an artist. :) And this post is dedicated to the various forms of arts I have learnt!


    Sketching- This is the most basic form of art that children learn and I was no exception. As a kid, I used to draw sceneries ~ mountains with a sun, some birds flying in the blue sky with white clouds here and there, a tree and a small hut with a pot of plant kept nearby. :) This was nothing original. But it was cute!  Next, I learnt to draw human figures (*which were barely human :P). Straight hands and legs (*drawn with a ruler), face which was a perfect circle (*drawn using a coin). And a triangular dress! I made bundles and bundles of this same sketch. Though what differed each time was the pattern of the dress. :)


    I never really liked drawing still objects. I loved to draw life! Then as I grew older, I started drawing various parts of a ‘perfect’ house~ the bedroom, drawing room, veranda and my favourite, ‘the kitchen’! Then came another phase where I could draw anything that I was seeing. My imagination was lost. But, it was not long before I regained it (an artist’s brain :)). And now I can sketch what I think and imagine! Its blissful to sketch down your own piece of thought..sheer creativity!




    Paper-Craft - This is also something that is taught in school but I never restricted myself! If I had a paper, a pencil, scissors and gum; I knew I could create a thing of beauty. From various kinds of greeting cards (*some simple sketched ones and some made out of patch-work), envelopes, book covers to wall hangings! I enjoyed this simple art form. Yes, the paper changed ~ from using chart paper, I gradually moved to using the lovely Hand-made papers. (*Infact this is another hobby, I love to collect various kinds of beautiful papers :))




    Crochet – I have not learnt knitting but I learnt something more interesting~ Crochet! This was also from school. I remember, we were taught to make a Muffler with crochet. When I first saw it, I thought it would be extremely difficult but to my surprise, it was really very easy! I next plan to make myself a beautiful crochet jacket! 






    Macramé – You see them very often. Macramé chords are used for making lovely wall hangings ~ Towel holder, Magazine holder, decorative items, handbags etc. I first made a pink towel holder which was in the shape of an owl. It surely was gorgeous! 






    Artificial Flowers – We were given a choice, we could learn either to make lilies or tulips. Since, I have always liked big, bright flowers, I decided to pick up lilies (*besides tulips were easy so could be made later on!) Japanese ribbons are used for making these flowers. This one took a lot of patient handling and care. With a slightest bit of a jerk, they would we shattered! But trust me, they were worth all they patience! They looked amazing! :)


    Cloth Painting – This is absolutely marvellous. I simply love it! I mean what better than to print your own designs! I printed lovely purple flowers on an entire bed-sheet set. It transformed the plain pink bed-sheet into an awesome piece of art. (*I still haven’t used it for the fear of ruining it :P). There are some other forms too like block-printing which are easier! :)






    Papier Mache - This is an art of making beautiful objects using old, rough paper stacked and cemented together through a natural gum. We learnt it in our ‘Environment Class’ at school! One can create wonderful objects ranging from crockery, artificial fruits and decorative items to bangles, jewellery boxes, photo frames and what not! (*just like the cute birdies in the picture)






    Kalawa Painting – This has become more of tradition at our place than just an art form. This is generally done at Rajasthan. During Diwali, I decorate the entrance of our house using this combination of wall painting and kalawa, intricately decorating it with small round mirrors. It takes loads of time to do it but it certainly gives a miraculous touch to the beauty of our house. :)






    Rangoli – No rocket science, I know. But this is another Diwali tradition at our place. I make a life-size human figure in our veranda. :) You can see one in the picture!






    Calligraphy - I was blessed with a beautiful hand-writing. The praises that I got, prompted me to learn various kinds of fonts. (*Yes, I am a proud owner of a collection of gorgeous fonts) And all this was incomplete without calligraphy. This is something; I often use to make my things look more impressive~ be it an informal letter or a college assignment! ;) 


    Apart from all these, I have learnt glass painting, making aluminium wall hangings, tie and die, artificial jewelery and a lot more! These things not just supported my artistic bend of mind but also gave me wonderful creativity. I always used to tell another artist friend of mine, it is this creativity that gives us an extra spark which is visible in the way we add so much more to what may otherwise be a simple power-point presentation or any other thing for that matter!


    Pretty much like ‘Marketing’! ;) 


    Wednesday, June 1, 2011

    One Good Deed ! :)

    This post is specially for slim & trim girls like me who are unfortunately not eligible to indulge into good deeds like Blood donation ! So here is something that 'we' can do ! :)




    Many cute, small birdies have trouble quenching their thirst in the summers!(especially in cities, where you do not have many water bodies around) So one small act of ours can really help them big time.


    Just get a saucer shaped earthen utensil, fill it with water up to the brim (for making it easier for the birds to drink) and keep it in your veranda or on your boundary wall. (Thats no rocket science, I m sure !)


    Trust me, it feels so divine to see small birds coming down to your veranda and drinking the water you gave them. I bet they give us a thousand blessings.


    I do that everyday! If we are not in a position to do great deeds for the society  we can rather serve the nature through our little act of kindness.


    And later, if you start liking it, be more generous and offer them a little food too ! :)