Vaidehi Hariyani

          Rajatrang 2015 Youth Festival Selection                              Essay Competition    “Growth of technology is beneficiated or harmful”          Technology plays a vital role in today’s modern world. It has made life easier and flexible. It has made the world a global village. As we say “Every coin has two sides”, technology also has positive and negative side effects. Positive or negative, but technology is going to be everywhere around us.           Technology has made travelling very easy and speedy. In ancient times, people used horse-carts, bullock-carts etc. to travel. In those days, travelling was more time consuming. With the invention of metro trains, aircrafts, cars etc. travelling has become easy and comfortable. If we look at the other side of this invention, we see that people has also become lazy. Most of them avoid walking to a short distance also. Youngsters are always seen on scooter or bike. They avoid cycling or even walking. This

About the author:- Paulo Coelho is a contemporary novelists and lyricist. He lives in Brazil. His one of the famous book is “The Alchemist”. In total he has written 30 books. He is famous for his simple and beautiful writing. You can also follow this writer on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.                                       “Veronika decides to die" “Veronika decides to die” by Paulo Coelho kept me busy these days. As a fan of Paulo Coelho’s writing, I stumbled upon this book on Flipkart and was captivated by the major questions it asks about life and death. “Decides” is the key word in the title of this book. It is a story of a young girl who fails to die and leads to journey to discover the importance of living life to the fullest. Inspired by his events from the past, the writer tells us the story of  veronika. She is a girl of 24 and has everything she could wish for, yet she is not happy. She takes an overdose of sleeping pills, and wakes up at l

Hello everyone , I  would like to share one of my favourite poem 'An Introduction' by Kamala Das. AN INTRODUCTION I don't know politics but I know the names Of those in power, and can repeat them like Days of week, or names of months, beginning with Nehru. I am Indian, very brown, born in Malabar, I speak three languages, write in Two, dream in one. Don't write in English, they said, English is Not your mother-tongue. Why not leave Me alone, critics, friends, visiting cousins, Every one of you? Why not let me speak in Any language I like? The language I speak, Becomes mine, its distortions, its queernesses All mine, mine alone. It is half English, halfIndian, funny perhaps, but it is honest, It is as human as I am human, don't You see? It voices my joys, my longings, my Hopes, and it is useful to me as cawing Is to crows or roaring to the lions, it Is human speech, the speech of the mind that is Here and not there, a mind that sees and h