Prachi Patel

So listen to me carefully beta , said dad while we sat on the mini terrace of my house watching cars pass by on a  hot summer afternoon in to get  some  air over some chilled sugarcane juice "Apparently on a regular Sunday afternoon , when  the upper east siders  of Southern California were are all drenched in sociality mostly over poker games and high profile meet ups in a fine dining restaurant   restaurant , along with them was also a father daughter duo having some family time over food , when the waiter showed up with the bill the daughter left him a heafty tip of all most $500 dollars while the gentleman also  being from a well off man chose to keep it as low as $5 , with many questions in her eyes the daughter kept staring at her father and the man spoke " You young lady are born to the world's richest man but I was born to a woodcutter , can you guess the legend  ?The words were from Mr Bill gates himself ! " continued my dad who was on a...

Fear is powerfully  consuming . it consumes your thoughts ,your judgements , your confidence , it shakes foundations , ruins ideas and innovations  . It steals words from the tip of your tongue and makes you go numb and freeze like a tray of ice deep freezed in the frozen section of a refrigerator . Everybody in their lives have once faced such engulfing fear that  made it all  look blank . Long back ago in the year 2009 , on a cold yet hysterically calm night of December 23rd at about 7:23 pm there was a kid who took her first steps towards a huge dark stage from the green room on the count of 3...2....1...Go..,that night the audience consisted of  about 900 parents and students gathered up in the two storey multi purpose  grand auditorium cheering for their respective  kids performing , among them all in the very near front rows was a couple in their 30's both a mother and a father ready with a camera and a handy-cam respectively desperately waiting ...