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As narrated by my sister, Joshika Gupta: A month ago Multu, our cat had her first litter of three kittens: Chashmish, Brown and White. Chashmish, the eldest of the litter has a black coat with white circles around its eyes giving him a goggled look. He is the fearless and most affectionate of the litter. He was the first of the lot to approach and befriend his Grandmother, Meow; Uncle Totu and two canine grandmothers: Pixie, a black Pomeranian and Winnie, a Golden Retriever. Every morning, he scampers into the kitchen to ask for his bowl of milk. One morning, my Mother asked my sister to check on Chashmish as he had not visited her in the kitchen for his bowl of milk. Joshika found him lying listlessly under her bed and refused to eat anything. She coaxed him to have milk which he vomited and dragged himself to his mother for comfort. A couple of times during the day, he did try milk and kitten food, only to retch it out and wreath in pain. Realising that Chashmish was suffer

While watching the Ad promoting Pepsi Cola, in which a team of people charting their plan of action  resolves not to drink, only to realise that one of the members, who had a bottle of the drink, unsuspectingly takes a swig of it and innocently confirms his action to the annoyance of the leader and members of the team. The reaction of the leader and the team made me think: When we use the word ‘Boss’ we mean the person is at a higher level, therefore, one cannot communicate freely with the person. In fact, at our workplace, we often find it difficult to be in tandem with our superior, supervisor or the reporting head, our colleagues or both. To be in harmony with both becomes a stressful activity. The same holds good at home between spouse, parents, and children but, do we try to find out the reason why it is so? Let us try to find out by asking ourselves the following questions: What is the purpose (objective) of my life; what I want to achieve in life? How I an