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2020: The Year in Review

COVID-19 pandemic is at the top of everything that has happened. Lots of my friends suffered because of it. I am at home since March 2020 and so about 10 months without seeing the outside world. I walk a lot at the work place as well in my commute. It has become zero. I also couldn’t visit gym. Well, that is why I am wondering how I reduced my weight from 78 kgs to 74 kgs. An equally astonishing thing is how I missed my reading habit. Staying at home with no time spent on anything else, apart from work, should have given me more time. I found no time to read books for several months. In fact, I realised it very late and started reading books again. India After Gandhi is the best read in 2020. I usually don’t prefer to read books over 300 pages, but this one, almost 1000 pages felt like 50 pages. Lean In , The Black Swan , The Five People You Meet in Heaven are few of the books I felt disappointed as I my expectation was high on them. Section 375 , Girmit , Bohemian Rhapsody , Pa

Love Marriage, Arranged Marriage and the Married Life

Love marriage is the one where two people love and marry without considering much about anything else. Arranged marriage is the one where two people meet in a planned way and marry by considering as many things as possible. Love is blind and that doesn’t mean that love marriage will suffer. The couple may already get everything that the arranged marriage helps to fetch in. They can also handle things as they are not kids. We have many tools and service agencies to help us find facts about anyone. So even in an arranged marriage, knowing the other person doesn’t take much of our time. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the arranged marriage won’t suffer. Knowing the facts about someone and understanding someone are not the same. It is unwise to say that one is better than the other for a married life. There are so many things involve in a successful married life. The list is endless with things like personality, goals, culture, nationality, religion, language, family, friends, activities