Ritika Ruminates

Self-respect. Self-love. Self-care. Self-worth. And many others. Sometimes we humans forget about ourselves while in the company of other humans. Sometimes, we forget to respect ourselves, love ourselves, care for ourselves, and we forget our worth, under-estimate ourselves and whatnot. Many a time, for the sake of saving relationships or for even our social image, we lose our self-respect. We let others treat us as they want. In the process of saving relationships, we end up losing our respect. We need to remember that people who truly love us will not make us choose between love and respect. They will respect us for the person we are and love us at the same time. By having self-respect, I don't mean you need to be egoist about yourself, but just respect yourself for the person you are.  We must learn to respect ourselves as others can't respect us if we cannot respect ourselves. We need to be selfish enough to have our self-respect as it is over everything, even love. R...

Recently I had watched the Bollywood film Article 15  which is based on caste discrimination. The one dialogue in the film really makes sense- " why are we following thousand years old practice till now?  (the dialogue is similar to these, I don't remember the dialogue exactly). Its 2020 and we still follow the caste system in India. I think whats the even need of it. The only thing it caused is even more discrimination and nothing else. Before watching the film, I thought the caste only affected people in government jobs and in marriages. That the untouchability is over now. But I was wrong. In some areas, it still has made the life of people from 'lower castes' a living hell. I feel whats the even need of such stupid practice? Heck, we even have chapter(s) about casteism in our history textbooks. Why?! Its 2020 and we still follow casteism in India. Casteism in itself is also a restriction and a threat to freedom of many. Casteism affects the professional, per...

The crime against women has been ever increasing. Every new day comes with various kinds of crime against women- ranging from as small as eve-teasing (which is uncomfortable too) to as big as acid attacks, rapes, and murders. There has not been a stop to these rapes since it has started. Every day, many girls and women have become victims of these crimes. The monsters and evils in the body of humans have been the reason for these crimes. Their lust has become more important to them than the moral human values. These evils have been satisfying their lust by committing these crimes against women. It is ironic that in the world where women are worshipped as goddesses, the crimes are committed against women. The reason for the crimes committed against women is many. The main reason is the lusty behaviour of these monsters. Every woman looks like a sex object to these monsters. They satisfy their lust through these heinous acts. The second reason is that they don’t understand what ...

Being stubborn is important. Well, by being stubborn, I mean to say about being stubborn for your dreams and even relationships. And not about being stubborn to buy any toy, chocolate or any kind of thing you like or being attracted to in a shop or so😅. One needs to be stubborn about our dreams and even our relationship. Whatever your dream is, you need to be stubborn enough to keep pursuing it and not to give up on it despite the struggle and failed attempts. It is ok to take a break but do not give up on your area. One needs to stand up for their dream. There would be many people who would make fun of your dream, would say that you will not be able to achieve your dream, would demotivate you, and whatnot. They would try to pull you down so that you cannot reach your dream or try to brainwash you and make you change your dreams. If you can not be stubborn enough for your dreams and stand up for your dreams, no one else will be able to stand up for you or your dreams. You will need t...

Here is my 1st try at a poem. This poem is based on acid attacks and dedicated to all the acid attack survivors out there. What a shocking moment it was for her, when a stranger proposed her for marriage, though she didn't feel anything for him, she politely rejected his proposal, but what she did'nt know was a storm that was awaiting her, the very next day, he threw acid on her face, spoiling her entire face, and later to be found laying at a hospital bed after hours of surgery, thoughts started looding her mind, 'was this his love?', 'was his ego more important than love?', and so does the other thoughts occupied her mind, months and years went by struggling, struggling through physical pains, through the comments of society and the fake sympathy, depression chased her, negativity chased her, but with support of family and friends, she slowly learned to accept and love the new lo...

Life. Is it the duration of time that we survive? Or we live? Everyone has their own opinion about life as per their own experiences. According to me, life is the duration of time we actually live along with the tests of fate or destiny. We can choose to live or direct life the way we want to. Surely, life will not go always go by our plans because of fate or destiny. Life is a roller coaster. We rise, we fall and we rise again. Life will not always be full of happiness or full of sadness. Just like a roller coaster, ups and downs are necessary to make life thrilling. Who would want the same things or emotions throughout the time that they survive and make their survival monotonous? Life is like the line shown on the monitors which shows our heartbeat (I don't know what exactly it is called😅). If the line goes up and down, we are alive. If the line becomes straight, we are dead. So even in the duration of time that we survive, both positive things/ feelings (happiness, success, e...

The quarantine has proved out to be boring for many people out there. We are confused about what to do. The coronavirus has proved to be anxious and stressful for people, especially after seeing the stats of the number of people getting infected with it and losing their lives to this virus. To reduce your anxiety, stress or boredom, you can do the following things. 1. Avoid watching the news all the time-  News can be really stressful after seeing the number of people getting affected and losing their lives due to it. It is corona all the time. It can cause negativity and put people into more anxiety than they already are. You can watch the news of the number of infected and deaths due to virus over the phone with a quick read for a few mins in a day and then avoid watching any other news. If even the news numbers of people getting infected and losing their lives to virus put you into a panic state, I would suggest avoid watching corona news completely. 2. Communicate with pos...

Let me introduce what is tomboy called (for those who don't know the meaning of tomboy)-  a  girl  who is more into traditional male activities like sports, camping, etc. Tomboys usually prefer wearing jeans and sneakers.  A  tomboy  is a girl who exhibits characteristics or behaviors considered typical of the gender role of a boy, including wearing masculine clothing and engaging in games and activities that are physical in nature, and which are considered in many cultures to be the domain of boys. In short, its a girl who enjoys rough, noisy activities traditionally associated with boys. Being a tomboy myself, I've had these experiences and feelings. If you are also a tomboy, just like me, you can relate to these things too. 1. Boy's clothing is more comfortable-  Being a tomboy, I feel boy's clothing is much more comfortable and more functional than girl's clothing. T-shirts, casual shirts and boys' denim are much more comfortable than girl...

23rd November 2019. I was on my way to attend the book launch of 'Dear Stranger, I Know How You Feel', a book written by Ashish Bagrecha. When we entered the book store named Title Waves, I reached quite early to the time of launch. So the next 45 minutes went into going through books, magazines, and games available in the bookstore. 45 minutes and then it was the time of the launch. I and the people gathered there for the book launch were waiting for the book launch to start. After 5-10mins, my favorite poet Ashish Bagrecha, along with his wife Savi Sharma, who is also my favorite author entered the venue of the book launch. It was amazing to see both my favorite poet and favorite author together. After they came, the books (one each for Ashish and Savi) which were covered with gift paper were unwrapped.  Then came the question and answers (as per as I remember). Questions were asked by the people at the book launch related to his book, inspiration, etc. It was fun. After ...

Hey, I'm Ritika. Nicknamed as Ritz by my friends (name does sound cool). Here are a few things about me- Tomboy - I'm a total tomboy. I love casuals, I really hate to wear make-up, and dislike wearing girly clothes and traditional dresses. Hobbies and passion - I love reading, writing, traveling (mostly beaches) and I really like football. Against superstitions, orthodoxy, stereotypes, and narrow-mindedness - I'm completely against superstitions, stereotypes, narrow-minded mentality, etc. Sarcastic and funny- I'm quite sarcastic and funny. So I would even post funny or sarcastic blogs sometimes. So my post of the blogs would revolve around tomboy, traveling, writing, reading, football, and against orthodoxy, narrow-mindedness, superstitions & stereotypes. I would write about even various other topics like feminism, self-defense, and quite various other things. I may even write about the most asked topics. If I write about the most asked topic or a topic I lik...