Can ever girl friends be replaced? I keep thinking about it all the time. Once you get a partner/boy friend or lover, I think girl friends suffer the most. Even if times have changed, girls always try to become part of their partner's family and friends. Although I personally did not have to go through that phase, where I had to make big changes to accommodate my married status, my best friends had moved miles away trying to start their new families. Yes I am writing this because I miss them terribly. Although there are few friends whom I left thousands of miles away in India, in quest of freedom it never occurred to me how they must have felt till recently. I was too busy being happy with my love. But, in the back of my mind, I was sure, I was missing something. In these close to 4 years, I have become close to my blood relations, my mom , my brother whom I never understood completely till the geographical distances made it evident that I love them alot and I miss them. As of now, my mom is my newly found Best Friend. Still, I can't say everything to her..I can't be sad with her..I can only share my happiness. She has enough grief in her life to deal with. Some how in between all of this, I realized I have moved away from my close friends unknowingly.

I think I am drifting away in my own thoughts and coming back to do reality check. Girl friends are irreplaceable. This is my salute to all great girl friends everywhere...mine, yours, anybody's ....

Recently I was looking at my friends' wedding pictures and I noticed the guy was wearing a suit for the actual wedding ceremony and performed all the rituals. At first I thought it was silly, then stupid then funny.
When I see south Indian weddings these days, they have become very modernized. Gone are the days when the wedding used to last 3 days, well who's got the time anyways. Every body wants to come to India for a Wedding vacation. 'Chat mangni, phat byah'.
The Indian wedding rituals and vows have very deep meaning in them, explaining the couple about the importance of the marital life, companionship and the life ahead of them. I pity people who don't make an attempt to even understand our own culture and traditions, when they have all the time in the world to morph Western cultures.
Start at home is my advice to everyone. People around the globe are trying to understand and learn about India. We being Indians should not neglect our own values.

When Microsoft programmed Cut, Copy and Paste, little did it expect that humans will get used to them so much that, it has become part of our living. We Copy Paste foreign food, life style, work, culture, emotions, dresses and accent. I am not debating the good or bad. I am simply saying this is what we do. When I see people copying art and say they got inspired???? it kills me. Losers!
Art, architecture, music, movies, you name it, you have it. People talk about piracy so much, but why not about Plagiarism. Though there is a copy rights act that bounds you morally and legally (?) from getting too much inspired by someone's work of art or research.
I have seen too many people doing this in architecture and music. I once confronted a friend of mine, who was directly copying projects from India and abroad into his website and boasting them as his own projects. I was surprised the confidence with which he was talking about those projects and empathized with people who were working with him including his clients. For telling him not to do, I got back offensive messages, showing his character. Though I didn't care about it much, I was awestruck by his foolishness and determination to copy projects.
Well! People! People! Such is the life of the parasites. 1 Zillion Peter Keating's will be born for every Howard Roark .