If you were given a choice between your Passion and a Job that you don’t like much, what would you choose? Of course you will answer that you would love to carry on with your passion and not with a job that you are not interested in. But what if that job pays you good bucks but your passion doesn’t do any good to you in monetary terms? Many people would probably switch to the job leaving behind their passion because of societal pressure and conceived monetary concerns.

It is true that people expect you to take a good job just after you complete your graduation and that way society assumes you to be truly settled in your life. But this well-paying job might just become something for the next couple of years before you start feeling so bored and monotonous with doing something you are not interested in and then you realize that you are definitely not getting anywhere with your life – or at least not where you wanted to. If that is the case, then it might be really frustrating to deal with almost anything going on in your life. So what you need to do is find your passion and go for it rather than just going for any other bloody boring job.

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Fasting is an integral part of Indian tradition. Fasting means holding oneself back voluntarily from eating something certain or even any kind of food for a definite period of time. In Hindi language it is called “vrat”. A fast can be partial or prolonged, e.g. for a duration of 24 hours. There are also some fasts in India which are observed for a week or more, examples being Navratri fasts, or Muslim fasts during Ramadan and Jain fasts. In Hinduism each day of the week is related to planetary constellations and devoted to a certain deity. These fasts are generally observed according to one’s individual needs. The day fasts can be understood in the following manner according to the different days of the week:

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I had never made the experience before of how it feels to guide somebody in a place that is so well known to me. On the 28th of May 2011 I held my first guided tour of my native place Old Delhi – and it gave me such a fresh feeling of being a representative of my culture and not just a sheer local of the place I have been living in for almost all the years of my life. If you ask locals of Delhi about Old Delhi, their first reaction often is a feeling of discomfort. It is a place which is mostly considered by people as a cobweb of streets that are overcrowded and where you can get lost easily if you walk alone and don’t know the place well. Even for me living in Old Delhi, before preparing for this walking tour, my locality was just so humdrum and tiresome – everything was so fatiguing to me.

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