• Books - Relationships

    Kahlil Gibran’s Life Hack: The Nature of Great Marriages

    The Prophet speaks about the truths he knows before leaving the city of Orphalese. The seeress Almithra asks about love for which he says: “For love is sufficient unto love.When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.” ‘Love’, The Prophet | Gibran, Kahlil You can read his words on love here. Then, she asks him to speak about marriages. What does a successful marriage needs? We fall in love, and we get married to the person we fell in love with. But do all marriages have “happily…

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    Kahlil Gibran’s Life Hack: Why resistance is pointless in love?

    It is Part 2 of the series: Khalil Gibran’s Life Hack. Gibran speaks of love in his second chapter on the Prophet. Love is always complicated and messy. It makes you question all of the beliefs you have on your ideology. Love has been here on this Earth for centuries. Poets and writers come and go; they become immortal by writing about love. Though we know love for so long, we still don’t know how to define love. We don’t know what love is not. You can read Part 1 of this series here. A seeress named Almithra, who believed…

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    Kahlil Gibran’s Life Hack: How to Move Forward Without Sorrow?

    Kahlil Gibran’s ‘The Prophet’, an inspirational fiction, is a great reservoir of spiritual experiences. Gibran is notably the third-best-selling poet behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu of all time. Khalil Gibran, the Lebanese-American author of this beautiful life hack, is still a literary hero. The writer’s best-selling book ‘The Prophet’ is a deviation from the classic structure of the poem. His power came from some great reservoir of spiritual life else it could not have been so universal and so potent, but the majesty and beauty of the language with which he clothed it were all his own Claude Bragdon You can…

  • Feminism

    Elegant Females is a Trap- ‘Do We Need Feminism’ Series

    Feminism strives harder to break the shackles of patriarchy and gender stereotyping for years. It is time to focus on society’s view on Elegant females. Like men, women also have a certain set of rules and frames when they start growing up. Male and female have to follow certain qualities, characteristics and behaviour to fit into the sex they perceive themselves of. Do you remember the famous “Saatvikam, Prachodakam, and Bhayanakam“ dialogue from the Super Star Rajinikanth’s starring movie Padaiyappa? Apparently, the girls get classified into three categories, as mentioned above. Obviously, Saatvikam is a “marriage material”, while the other…