Guftuguu

Guftuguu

By Surabhi MaheshwariSociety & CulturePersonal Journals
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Guftuguu episodes

  • My Love Story with New York

    The most epic love story of my life yet… My longest and most transformative relationship has been my relationship with New York. It wasn't love at first sight. New York grew on me slowly. Over seven years and countless moments, a part of my heart lives there & with everyone I loved there.

    50 min
  • Intensity
    Perhaps romantic love can be a little more than just a farce. Perhaps there is some truth to two people being able to connect to each other at the same intensity, and not all of it is based on selfish motives or hormonal urges. Maybe there can be something more real that draws two people together.
    15 min
  • The Weaker Half of a Relationship
    Power is never evenly distributed, in any ecosystem. In most relationships, there is a weaker half and there is a stronger half. What makes a person weak in the context of a relationship/ friendship, especially when, in most other areas of life, they may not be weak at all ( or in fact they may be stronger ) ?
    28 min
  • Humiliation and Injustice - Why we tolerate them ?
    “ Hatred cannot drive out hatred. Only love can do that”…..Anger cannot fight anger. Violence cannot fight violence. We have all been taught that since childhood. But there has to be a missing link to this argument that no one knows. Real life just doesn’t seem to work like that. ( P.S My very personal take)
    48 min
  • Happiness
    For some of us, this state of relative ease with life, that is sometimes called ‘Happiness’, is just not so readily available, or it’s much less available than it is to some others around us. Is Happiness really so important ?
    22 min
  • What advice would you give to your 19 year old self ?
    The older you grow, the more you start realizing that you have been fed so many lies by the world, by movies, by books, by teachers, even by your parents, and by each other. You wish someone had told you so many things before, you wish you didn’t have to live and learn.
    34 min
  • No Country for Old Men

    Is there going to be a day when we have outgrown the world around us ? With age, will there be a day that the world around us no longer makes sense to us; when we are 'overmatched', the world has moved on and the idea of the world we had no longer represents what we see around us..? If yes, what would that age be ? I have never actually seen this theme being touched upon before this movie. The movie is 'No Country for Old Men'. 

    14 min
  • To be in the world but not of it…
    „I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world“ - John 17:11, 14-15. How do you be, participate and act in the world, and not get swept away by it? Not believe this is all there is..?
    22 min
  • The Cool Girl Trope
    "Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl......Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl........Because “I like strong women” is code for “I hate strong women.” " - Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
    One of the most honest, accurate and brilliant pieces of writing I have come across recently. The Cool Girl Trope; This hits much closer to home for me (and I believe for a lot of other girls) than a lot of other writing I can think of.
    45 min

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