Dusty Little Diaries

  Dear Alia , I was only 12 years old when I first got a glimpse of you on the silver screen as Shanaya Singhania. You were this cute bubbly little teenager, new to the industry as well as new to acting. Nobody could have ever imagined then that the same cute bubbly little teenager could deliver a movie like Highway and bag a Filmfare for it! With Highway, we all understood that 'picture abhi baki hai mere dost' and Highway was just the trailer to all that was coming, and this was just the beginning. You completely won me over with Highway and ever since I have waited to watch every movie of yours. From cutting your pictures from the newspaper and sticking it in my scrapbook to putting your pictures as my phone's wallpaper, I have done it all! My heart smiled each time I saw you be it on tv or the newspaper or some random poster on the streets. Anyone who saw this side of me thought that I was crazy! Everyone thought that all my efforts were going in vain and that you wou...

You are not born- with confidence, you need to build it within yourself. It is one of the most valued virtues in today's times. No employer looks for 'confidence' as a skill in the resume but the lack of it might just cost you everything you've ever wanted. Along with building technical skills, people invest in building confidence within themselves.  Well building confidence doesn’t require you to be successful it requires climbing the following steps till you have reached a point where you are comfortable being uncomfortable. You might need to navigate your way through these check posts to get where you want to. ·        Self Awareness ·        Self Acceptance  ·        Self Belief   SELF AWARENESS “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”  ―Aristotle We try so hard and spend hours thinking and overthinking to understand others, understand their actio...