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Be a Santa

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Unfair.. Why does Santa go to homes of only those who cud actually by themselves get what Santa brings them? Why does Santa not visit homes of those who actually need them? Why doesn't Santa give gifts to the poor and the drained? How could the Santa be so biased? Very unfair... Who will get gifts to to houses where Santa doesn't go? Should the children of those houses stop believing in Santa altogether? Should they forget about and stop believing in childhood too? Take birth and take the world straight as it is. No Santa, no Christmas, and may be no God too..!! Well this could be your chance, may be you are a Santa, may be you are God himself. You don't need to be God but you could try and be a Santa!! That's not tough. This year, let us rebuild lives. This year, let us nourish the childhood we have so fond memories of, in someone else's life too. This year let us make a child happy, let us protect childhood. This year make a child believe in Santa, by being a

Give the Gift of Life

The weather is bad again, and she has again forgotten to bring an umbrella. With the mobile phone battery dead she cannot even call back home to say she would be late. “Mobile phone is switched off,” says a worried Ashish, “why on earth would she switch off the phone? Could something have possibly gone wrong? She is never late beyond 8 pm.” Looking weirdly at her watch, 9:40, Kavya, dashed towards the local train station. Kavya, a 46 year old software engineer works in an MNC in Mumbai. She has 2 kids, elder, Ashish, 20, is an engineering student and younger, Amit, 18, is in medical college. And life for Kavya is as tough as it can be for a widow living with two children, with her job demanding as much from her as demand her home and 2 fatherless boys so attached to their mom after their father’s departure that they would get worried if she was late even by half an hour. And they would always dine together, just like they used to, with their father in too, till about 3 years back.