2022-Jan
Jan-03: Write about the impact of mental health on your physical health.
Jan-04: Write an apology to yourself.
Jan-05: Write about what it means to have complete confidence in yourself.
Jan-06: Parenthood and how it's changed you.
Jan-07: Conflict you once endured because of mismatched morals.
Jan-10: Describe 5 habits your want to cultivate.
Jan-11: What has been your most beautiful memory this year and why?
Jan-12: How to introduce self-love into your life.
Jan-13: Write about what it means to truly love unconditionally.
Jan-14: Write about how morals and values shape happiness in life.
Jan-17: What truly contributes to happiness in life.
Jan-18: How has the past year impacted you in a positive way.
Jan-19: How learning can impact your health.
Jan-20: How others can affect your health.
Jan-21: Which family member inspired you the most this year, and why?
Jan-24: A specific form of exercise you’ve grown to love and why.
Jan-25: Write about the idea of wants versus needs in life.
Jan-26: Write about how not having parent/s impacted your life.
Jan-27: Describe a recent experience that has made your smile or self-reflect.
Jan-28: Describe a time you have faced adversity and came out successful.
Jan-31: How to enjoy your relationship in every phase of life.
2021-Dec
Dec-15 : How your childhood friends affected your adult life.
Dec-16: Write about the technicalities of being “healthy.”
Dec-17: How there’s more to life than JUST your faith and how to avoid blinding yourself to it.
Dec-20: Weigh societal values that actually negatively impact our lives.
Dec-21: What you can gain from being open-minded in every aspect of life.
Dec-22: Struggling with self-esteem and how it can affect relationships.
Dec-23: Write about your life’s journey to accepting faith.
Dec-24: What you expected happiness to be versus how it truly is.
Dec-27: The negative impact toxic friends/family have on your self-esteem
Dec-28: Do you believe in ghosts?
Dec-29: How to change your overall outlook to be more positive.
Dec-30: Whether or not your family can truly impact who you are as an adult.
Dec-31: How to help someone else learn how to help themselves.
2016-Dec
Dec-02: Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner - Lao Tzu. Do you agree? Have you ever felt your life limited by others imagination?
*Chet* Dec-05: Does technology simplify life or make it more complicated?
*Vij* Dec-07: Do folks give honest responses to prompts or fake it to show they have perfect life?
2016-Nov
*Vij* Nov-02: How to find more meaning in life?
Nov-04: Write about the color red.
*Chet* Nov-07: If you opened a business, what kind of business would it be?
*Vij* Nov-09: Is saying 'I Love You' important in a good marriage? How often you tell or hear from? Do you wish to say it even if your partner doesnt say it for you..? When did you hear it last? What word you say at the end of telephonic conversation to each other? Answer one by one.
Nov-11: If life is a TV channel, I'm currently on?
*Chet* Nov-14: Which is your favourite season of a year and why?
*Vij* Nov-16: Assume you are a relationship councilor.. here is the problem ..give solution 😀
I am a 32-year-old man and have recently joined a workplace where my ex has been working for many years. Though we do not meet regularly, we sometimes bump into each other near the pantry on our floor. It becomes awkward for both of us. How should I handle this situation?
Nov-18: If you were on death row, and were given the chance to listen to one last song before your execution, what would it be?
*Chet* Nov-21: Do all of you like prompts. Share the effect of prompts in your life. Does it help you in some way or is it a nuisance for you?
*Vij* Nov-24: How middle class are you? Make fun of your middle class life attitude (or that you observed in others).
Nov-25 : If you could instil one piece of advice in a new born baby's mind, what advice would you give?
*Chet* Nov-28: If you could have tea with one fictional character, who would it be?
*Vij* Nov-30: Prompt1- How do you plan romantic date with your spouse on their 50th birthday? Share your imagination.
Prompt-2: Love is never old.
2016-Oct
*Chet* Oct-03: I have observed, children are more close to their mother's side relatives than father's side. Do you think so?
*Vij* Oct-05: Prompt1: Who enjoys life more? Man or woman (boy/girl).
Prompt2: You have to stay in this cabin for 1 month. You have all you need: food, water, and firewood. You have no access to internet, cell phones, or TV. On the last day, you walk out with $100,000. Would you do it?
Assume you have said yes, let us know how you will spend the time.
Oct-07: There is a Chinese proverb that goes like this- To understand your parents' love, bear your own children. What is your experience with this?
*Chet* Oct-10: Significance of Ayudhpooja. How we used to celebrate when we were small and now. Share your experience.
*Nag* Oct-12: If tech innovation and creation was dominated by ladies/women, what would the world look like? What impacts would that have on men?
Oct-14: What reason can one have to oppose 'Uniform Civil Code', except that they don't believe all are equal? Do you support 'Uniform Civil Code'?
*Chet* Oct-17: People avoid small talks, but small talks help to improve connecting with people. Share your views on this. Do you agree?
*Nag* Oct-19: Two pics. 1. Four guys pushing a square shaped box and one guy pushing a sphere. 2. A cow jumping a fence.
What do you make of these images? What's the message that they convey? Did you or anyone you know experienced anything similar in the recent past?
Oct-21: Write about getting lost and finding an alternative way - it can be literal or metaphorical.
*Chet* Oct-24: Is peer pressure harmful or beneficial to individuals? Share your views.
*Vij* Oct-26: Which life better? Married or bachelor? Explain.
Oct-28: The great novelist Flaubert said "One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels." Your thoughts?
*Chet* Oct-30: Which is your favorite sweet you enjoyed this Deepavali?
2016-Sep
Sep-02 prompt: "Love is giving something you haven't got to someone who doesn't exist"- Jacques Lacan, philosopher. What do you think?
*Chet* 05 prompt: Share your childhood memories of Ganesh Chaturthi.
*Vij* Sep-07 prompt: What is your opinion/suggestion when a husband wants to share the expenses 50/50 for their honeymoon?
Sep-09 prompt: Quote and mention that one person who you haven't met but get a lot of positive vibes from.
*Chet* Sep-12 prompt: Do school uniforms make school more effective place to learn?
*Vij* Sep-14 prompt: I received a WA message - " Blore roads are calm.....if all family members stay at home continuously for more days...violence may start at home ....."
Do you like to enjoy life when your spouse away at work or business trips 😄 do you need such breaks ?
*Chet* Sep-19 prompt: Which is better, day dreaming or night dreaming?
Sep-16 prompt- Here is a line from ಗಂಗವ್ವ ಗಂಗಾಮಾಯಿ.."ಸ್ತ್ರೀಯರು ಕ್ಷುಲ್ಲಕ ಕಾರಣಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಜಗಳ. ವಾಡತೊಡಗಿದೊಡನೇ, ಆದರ ಹಿಂದೆ ಇನ್ನಾವುದೋ ಆಡಲು ಬಾರದ ಕಾರಣವಿದೆ ಎಂಬುದನ್ನ ಲೋಕಜ್ನರು ತಿಳಿದು ಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಾರೆ." Comment.
Sep-23 prompt: Isn't it funny how day by day nothing chages, but when you look back, everything is different?
*Vij* Sep-21 prompt: Please comment on Idia's double standards towards men and women. For example, why drinking and smoking reflects character issue of womens only and not men?? #Pink movie
*Chet* Sep-26 prompt: Which gives you more stress, work or no work?
2016-Aug
*Chet* Aug-01 prompt: Do you push the elevator button more than once? Do you really believe it makes the elevator faster?
*Chet* Aug-04 prompt: Write something which is special in your native place and you miss that all the time.
Aug-05 prompt: What did you used to be able to do that you would now find very difficult to do? What can't you do now that you would like to be able to do?
*Chet* Aug-08 prompt1: What is your happiest childhood memory? What makes it so special?
Prompt2- Which is your favorite festival? Why?
*Vij* Aug-10 prompt: Women v/s men. List the differences between the two genders (apart from biology/structural difference :-))
Aug-12 prompt: What major life decisions (starting/ending a career, relationship, place of residence, etc.) have you faced because you felt obligated or constrained or felt you had no other choice...feeling bound, perhaps cheated or forced into the decision...only to find in retrospect that it was the best thing after all that you might have missed your life today had it not been for that momentous decision that hurt so much at the time?
*Chet* Aug-15 prompt: Share your feelings about independence day. Share how you used to celebrate independence day in your school days.
*Vij* Aug-17 prompt: Have you heard any real 'hamari adhuri kahani'. HAK love story? Please share. What is your solution/idea/opinion to make HPK 'hamari poora kahani''.
Aug-19 prompt: What's the most interesting thing in your purse or vanity bag right now?
*Chet* Aug-22 prompt: Do you think face to face interaction is reduced because of Facebook. Share your views about FB.
*Vij* Aug-24 prompt: Why do we want our children to marry in same caste/ sub-caste/ same state/ same religion/ same country?
2016-July
Jul-01 prompt: What is the one question...the absolutely most last, most fearsome question anyone could ask you to write about?...the one you hope never comes up as a prompt?
*Chet* Jul-04 prompt: If your life was a movie, what would the title be?
*Vij* Jul-06 prompt: Please read the paragraph and Share such words -old, forgotten words and their meanings. ನಮ್ಮ ಪೀಳಿಗೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಯತೇಚ್ಛವಾಗಿ. ಬಳಕೆಯಲ್ಲಿದ್ದ ಎಷ್ಟೊ ಶಬ್ದಗಳು ಇಂದು ತುಂಬಾ ವಿರಳವಾಗಿ ಬಳಕೆಯಲ್ಲಿವೆ ಅಥವಾ ಗ್ರಾಂಥಿಕ ರೂಪ ಪಡೆದಿವೆ, ಹಳ್ಳಿಯ ಜನಪದರೂ ಕೂಡ ದೂರದರ್ಶನದ ಪ್ರà²ಾವದಿಂದ ಈ ಶಬ್ದಗಳನ್ನು ಗ್ರಾಂಥಿಕ ರೂಪದಲ್ಲಿ ಬಳಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಮುಂದಿನ ಪೀಳಿಗೆ ಈ ಶಬ್ದ ಸಂಪತ್ತಿನಿಂದ ವಂಚಿತವಾಗುತ್ತೆನೊ ಎಂಬ ಆತಂಕ.
Jul-08 prompt: What do you do when you dont have anything to say?
*Chet* Jul-11 prompt: If you had a chance to go back in your past life and change one thing, would you do it? What is it?
*Vij* Jul-13 prompt: What do you like about yourself?
*Vij* Jul-15 prompt: What do you like about each Tamarind Tree member?
*Chet* Jul-18 prompt: When you think of "home" what do you specifically think of?
*Vij* Jul-20 prompt: How do you annoy your spouse?
Jul-22 prompt: What are your friends made of? Did you pick them on purpose, or did they land in your life seemingly unbidden?
If you met them brand new today, would you keep them as friends...or have you or they grown in ways that make you less likely to accept them today if you met them again for the first time?
*Chet* Jul-25 prompt: Which activities make you lose track of time?
*Vij* Jul-27 prompt: Why it is not appropriate to wear knee length shorts to offices ,colleges .Why India is so conservative ? Why women don't wear shorts here. Sarees /salwaar etc are less comfortable .
(Clothes)
Jul-29 prompt: How important is good grammar?
June-03 prompt: Do parents have a favorite child? Do you? :-)
*Chet* June-06 prompt: When I look at the sky I always feel "sky is the limit". What do you feel when you look at the sky? Share your views...
*Vij* June-08 prompt: How do you overcome the feeling of missing someone badly who means a lot to you? You can also share the songs which describe missing feeling.
June-10 prompt: Which is your favorite "classic" TV show and why?
*Chet* June-13 prompt 1: A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. What is your opinion on marriage. Share your views.
*Chet* June-13 prompt 2: We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. Please share your views on attitude.
*Vij* June-15 prompt: What is dating? Why dating is not so common in India? Do our children miss that beautiful phase of life? Why D is not socially acceptable in India? Why do we fear? Are we narrow minded? Do u support your children if they want to go for a date?
June-17 prompt: What makes a woman a woman?
*Chet* June-20 prompt: If you could choose a sixth sense what would you choose?
*Vij* June-22 prompt 1: How do we know that ' we are not made for each other ' couple ' 😄 .NMFEO .Share some signs ..# fun prompt. Pl note it.
Prompt 2: Do miracles happen in real life, ? Share if u have experienced or heard about.
June-24 prompt: Aloha and Mahalo are the two most important words in the Hawaiian language. What in your opinion are the two greatest words in your life?
*Chet* June-27 prompt: How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
*Vij* June-29 prompt: What are the random thoughts come to your mind while you are attending a marriage function? Your thoughts from childhood, young, unmarried, and married phase of life.
2016-May
*Vij* May-02 prompt: Share about your life's first experience! It can be any experience..but should be 'first' like eating first icecream of life ( if you can remember ) ,first flight, first mountain hike, first experience of snowfall, desert visit, first speech,first lecture,..etc etc ..Share as many as u can ..😄 pl mention the month /year/place.
*Chet* May-03 prompt: All of you have visited so many sightseeing places. Which places have "wow factor". Share your views.
*Chet* May-04 prompt: All Tammies have visited so many sightseeing places. Which places have "wow factor". Share your views.
*Chet* May-06 prompt: Mother's day is coming. Today's prompt for Mothers. What do you feel when you hear the word "Mother", "Mom", "Amma". Share your feelings.
*Chet* May-09 prompt: What is the best way to manage anger.
*Vij* May-10 prompt: We all have heard this famous Hindi adage, "shaadi ka laddoo jo na khaaye woh pachtaye, jo khaaye woh bhi pachtaaye"? Do you agree? Share your opinion.
*Chet* May-11 prompt: According to me walking is the best exercise. Share your views on this.
May-13 prompt: Today is Friday, the 13th. Considered unlucky in western superstition😊. What superstitions do you have? Share your thoughts on superstitions and their effects around us.
*Chet* May-16 prompt: We all know money is the medium of exchange. But we can't buy so many things by paying money. Share your opinion on what we can't buy with money.
May-18 prompt: Do you think that dreams actually mean something... should we pay attention
to them... record them... or are they just something that coincidentally happen as a result of our life?
May-20 prompt: What suddenly lifts your spirits?
*Chet* May-23 prompt: Which style of shopping do you enjoy? Do you like malls, street shopping, exhibition or online shopping. Share your views.
May-25 prompt: Do we choose our circumstances?
May-27 prompt: What was something in your life that you did and loved every minute of it?
*Chet* May-30 prompt: Who is your favorite singer and favorite song.
2016-April
*Veda* Apr-01 prompt: Success breeds complacency; complacency breeds failure; only the paranoid survive. Share your thoughts on this.
*Geetha* Apr-01 prompt: Please share your most humorous experience on April 1st.
*Vijaya* Apr-01-02 prompt: Please comment - Love: A fool's game; A wise man's secret desire.
*Nim* Apr-04 prompt: Although growing up is a part of everyone's life, sometimes there's a longing deep inside to go back to childhood. Have you ever felt like being a child once again!!!
*Chet* Apr-05 prompt: Share your thoughts on your name, what it means ? Do you like your name? Did you wish for different name?
(Eponyms)
Apr-06 prompt: Can you imagine a world without colors? With just black and white? Such a world would be a boring place. Thankfully we have a wide range of colors and shades. All we need to do is look around and nature presents you with a melange of colors.
Which is your favorite color? Share your thoughts on colors in general.
(Colors)
Apr-07 prompt: I am sure comics were a part of the childhood days for most of us. So make a journey back to your childhood to recall and share your memories of the wonderful world of comics. Share your favorite comics series and any titles you were particularly fond of.
❤*Chet* Apr-08 prompt: Do you think love feeling is intense when you are away from your love?
*Chet* Apr-12 prompt: A stitch in time saves nine. Can you relate this to your life incidents? Share your views.
Apr-13 prompt: What are some of the quirky things fathers say that make you laugh. (If you break your leg doing that, don't come running back to me; when I was your age...)
Apr-14 prompt: How do you want to see the Tamarind Tree? Are you happy with how it is? Do you want to see some change and if so what? Do you want to see a reduction in the frequency of prompts? Are you uncomfortable with some topics? Do you want to see some restriction on how much each Tammie can post in a day?
*Nim* Apr-15 prompt: If you were given a choice to again choose your profession, what would you have liked to do? Something different or are you satisfied with what you are right now.
*Nim* Apr-18 prompt: After marriage and when you're expecting your child, what were your feelings!! How did you plan to receive your baby!! Did you have any preference like male or female child? Go back down your memory lane and share how you felt that time!!
*Chet* Apr-20 prompt: Which is the favourite outfit you want to dress up in? Which is the favourite outfit you want to see your spouse in? Share your choices.
❤*Chet* Apr-22 prompt: Share the beautiful memories of those lovely days of your married life before the kids were born. The time duration of those days may be short but sweet.
*Nim* Apr-25 prompt: These days many people are coming out of their traditional thinking and going for adoption. What are your views on this.
*Chet* Apr-26 prompt: Compared to our ancestors we have better medical facilities. Do you think all this is possible because of advancement in medical field or engineering field. Share your opinions.
*Chet* Apr-27 prompt: Which is your favourite fruit, and your spouse's favourite fruit.
*Chet* Apr-28 prompt: How about favourite vegetable today. Share your views.
❤*Chet* Apr-29 prompt: All Tammies have immense love towards their spouse. But some times there may be small misunderstanding. Who is the first one to console. You or your spouse?
2016-March
*Nag* Mar-01 prompt: Share your views and comments on India Budget 2016. What's good and what's not so good? Which bits/elements of the budget impact/touch your lifestyle and family priorities?
*Vij* Mar-02 prompt: Rujuta Diwekar says- 1. Eat food based on what is grown locally and not based on calories. Ex. banana better than kiwi fruit. 2. Listen to your stomach to know what to eat, how much to eat and when to stop eating. Please comment!
Mar-03 prompt: Who do people say you sound or look like?
❤*Chet* Mar-04 prompt: Immature love says "I love you because I need you". Mature love says "I need you because I love you". Please comment.
*Vij* Mar-07 prompt: What do you learn by keeping fast.
Mar-08 prompt: As it is Woman's Day today, share your thoughts and views on Women - their contributions and qualities that make life on Earth worthwhile.
Mar-09 prompt: Why do we find pleasure in talking about others' sins/mistakes/oddities? Do we have the same gusto in talking about others' good deeds?
Mar-10 prompt: Is there a difference between empathy and compassion? Share your thoughts.
❤*Sheela* Mar-11 prompt: Are women day dreamers? Dont men dream? Do they always think practically even when in love :-). Why romancing not seen in public places in India? Are we not better at romancing?
*Nim* Mar-14 prompt: Now there's a proposal to use waterways for transportation. I feel it's a good move. It will augment the present infrastructure and may be efficient and effective in promoting growth, job opportunities etc. I am not sure if it reduces pollution. Request all to share their views.
*Nag* Mar-15 prompt: This prompt is about the current trends of self learning, distance learning & changing ways to achieve qualifications.
What are the impacts of the new trends on current systems & institutions? What are the pros & cons as you foresee?
Mar-16 prompt: Do you make To Do lists? Write about the role To Do lists have for you. Love them? or Hate them?
Mar-17 prompt: What have you had to say no ro recently that you did not want to?
❤*Vij* Mar-18 prompt: 1.Is it better for a husband and wife who are fighting to stay together or be apart? 2. Why do couples fight the maximum in the starting years of married life.. 3.What do you advice if ur kids marriage on rockes? If they decide to take divorce suppose..
*Nim* Mar-21 prompt: what do you expect in your immediate family - wife, parents, siblings and children
*Chet* Mar-22 prompt: Has music influenced your life. Share your comments.
Mar-23 prompt: Do you think the arts (novels, poetry, painting and so on) have a role in life? Share your comments.
Mar-24 prompt: Write about the best Holi celebration that either you have been part of...or that you have come across in a movie.
*Vij* Mar-25 prompt: Differentiate between Preethi, Prema, Pranaya.
*Nim* Mar-28 prompt: What is your opinion on vertical living?
*Chet* Mar-29 prompt: Mistakes make human perfect. Have you anytime felt that. Share your views.
Mar-30 prompt: Do you think swear words have a place and purpose? Share your thoughts on this.
(Insult words)
Mar-31 prompt: Birds dont get much respect from us. Maybe owing to their tiny size. But look a little deeper and you'll see they have quite a character. Share your thoughts about birds and your favorite bird, if any.
(Bird words)
2016-February
*Nag* Feb-02 prompt: As individuals, I presume that we all have been through set-backs at one or another time, where we had to cope with and recover from difficult circumstance(s) in our life.
Share your experience & thoughts on how did you cope with and recover from difficult situation(s) or set-backs that you have been through so far.
Feb-03 prompt: Slightly serious one this. Let's see how many Tammies are upto the challenge.
In the light of the recent controversy related to Shani Shngnapur temple recently, it is good to ponder over Hinduism as a religion.
Ambedkar in his Annihilation of Caste writes thus- "the Hindu religion, as contained in the Vedas and the Smritis, is nothing but a mass of sacrificial, social political and sanitary rules and regulations, all mixed up. Religion, in the sense of spiritual principles, truly universal, applicable to all races, to all countries, to all times, is not to be found in them, and if it is, it does not form the governing part of a Hindu's life".
Please comment.
Feb-04 prompt: How would you define GRACE, from your life experiences?
❤*Vij* Feb-06 prompt: How do you know when someone loves you?
(*vij* Feb-08 prompt:Which song you will dedicate for your Valentine...:-))
*Nim* Feb-08 prompt: How do you think that we can reduce e waste. Can we limit our love for new gadgets, acquiring new ones and doing away with our old ones?
*Nag* Feb-09 prompt:
What makes a friend - a 'Best Friend'? What's your advise for your teenage kid(s) on developing good/healthy friendship with someone of opposite gender? As a parent, would you encourage your teenage kid to have a 'Best Friend' of opposite gender? If yes, how? Share your own experience of when you were a teen.
Feb-10 prompt: Have you ever been knocked senseless (a fall, a collision, or so on) or have been induced anaesthesia? Recount the experience.
Feb-11 prompt: What has been the hottest day you have ever lived through? Not inside air conditioning, but really sweated through.
❤Feb-12 prompt: What makes couples to be together and yet feel, as Hemingway says, "alone wehen together, alone against the others"?
*Nim* Feb-15 prompt: Most of us live in metro cities and thus surrounded by numerous problems like traffic, commuting pollution and what not.
Al though we pay taxes, do you think it's always government job to take care of our surroundings? As a responsible citizen, what are the means and methods you allow to contribute in your own way to keep the parisara clean.
*Nag* Feb-16 prompt:
Dance is an amazing form of art! It is another way of expression like Music & Painting. I believe everyone (boys & girls) should learn some form of dance in early years/childhood. Dancing to music with friends is so much fun, really! It can lead to truly memorable events in our lives.
Share your own related experience, stories, thoughts & feelings. Include the ones when you excelled & when you felt awkward too.
kabhi kabhi bachhoonkee saath hameebhi shamil hookaar thodaa hilaaanaa chahiyeee - apne pasand ke ganaakee saath!
Aaapkaa kya khayaal?
Feel free to share a few pictures that speak of your "dance" memories.
Confessions are welcome too!!
Feb-17 prompt: What is your view on freedom of thought? Do you believe that we must declare a 'set of ideas' to be immune from criticism, satire, derision or contempt?
Feb-18 prompt: Write about a dream that you had in sleep. Add details and make it vivid.
❤*Vij* Feb-19 prompt: Please Share about -Any Love stories that you witnessed or L stories of people. (Friends /relatives )you met in ur life/ neighbourhood/college /office/travel/tour etc.
It can be any type successful love, love break,love lost, love unrequitted,love after marriage,old flame,love in old age.,senior citizen love :-) like shown in a film Smita Patil and Rajesh khanna acted..Bharati and Anantnag also done one film....etc
Its just about L between two people that you know.
*No need to mention their names .
Feb-24 prompt: What does "There are two sides to every coin" mean to you?
Feb-25 prompt: Share your thoughts about keeping things at an effective zone. Share an incident of someone you know getting into trouble by overdoing something.
❤*Vij* Feb-26 prompt: 1. Are Love and Lust two sides of a coin? 1. If one L is the stronger force why the other L is disparaged then?
*Nim* Feb-29 prompt: It is being said that water may not last for long and by 2020 there will be lot of scarcity. Presently what steps you follow in your own small way at home to use water in judicious manner.
There are so many lakes in Bangalore. Almost all have become victims of neglect, misuse and used as sewage inlets. What can be done to resolve this issue?
2016-January
Jan-01 prompt: If you could celebrate the new year from anywhere in the world, where would you go?
*Nag* Jan-05 prompt: Describe briefly...An advert or a headline/caption for an advert that you found to be wierd/amusing. It can even be a marketing message or a product name - that you found very funny or amusing. What product/service was the ad/marketing message for? Why did you find it amusing or wierd/querky?
Jan-06 promt: What food or drink would you say you are most like?
Jan-07 prompt: What is the worst food accident you have ever had? (spilling juice/ice cream on your dress and so on..)
❤*Geetha* Jan-08 prompt: When a man says to a woman 'I cannot live in this world without you' what these words exactly mean to you?
*Nim* Jan-11 prompt: If you become the richest person in the world, how would you contribute to the society
*Nag* Jan-12 prompt:
Describe a recent adventure / challenge that you went through with your kid(s) or any kid(s) for that matter. Any learnings you would like to share?
Prompt Jan-13: Am I allowing the fullness of who I am to be expressed?
Jan-14 prompt: What is the best way to "bribe" you into doing something you would not really want to do?
❤*Nag* Jan-15 prompt:
Sankranti is very nice Hindu festival - popular for flying kites and more importantly - an occasion to meet relatives & friends and say those lovely words -
"Take sweet, talk sweet and be sweet"
Did you yearn to say those words to someone/anyone special in your life? What do you remember from that experience? What was the reaction if you were lucky enough to say those words? When was it and why does that memory lingers on?
Go on, share your Sankranti sweet memories with all friends under the TamTree without inhibitions...
*Nim* Jan-18 prompt: After the weekend or any extended weekend, how do you look at the forthcoming Monday!!! Share your feelings on how you greet the next working day.
*Nag* Jan-19 prompt: Share your views & comments on motivating/ persuading young adults/teens. Elaborate on instances of what inspired or motivated you when you were young.
Jan-20 promt: What is the one trait you would like to see in the youngsters of the next generation?
Jan-21 prompt: Has there ever been a time when you ran across someone that you could
not imagine them being there. ( Like running into your doctor with her
kids at the grocery store). How did you handle it? Would you want to
change how you handled it?
❤*Chet* Jan-22 prompt: There is an old saying that "Love is BLIND". Do you agree or disagree? Comment. Modify the quote by changing the word BLIND. Explain the new quote.
*Nim* Jan-25 prompt: Trees and plants have been close to mankind, I believe from the very start of existence of human life
Every person looks at them and perceive their own thoughts
. Poets use them to convey moods and expressions like leaves withering or flowers blooming etc
. Many in the city look at them as pollution reducers, oxygen suppliers etc. from health point
. For many couples in love, it's like as if the romance increases beneath a tree or behind the trees!!! Just the thrill!! For some others its God. Arasa mara, bevina mara etc. What is your perception on this beautiful species on earth without which I believe we are all incomplete!!!
*Nag* Jan-26 Prompt:
From the perspective of your child/children's development, describe a recent incident where you helped them learn something(anything) NOT directly related to their academics or schooling. Feel free to share a picture or two that reflect anything that your child / children created with your guidance or learnt from you - NOT directly related to their academics / schooling.
Jan-27 prompt: Have you ever wished to be the other gender? Write about why and what prompted this wish.
Jan-28 prompt: Who is the oldest person you have learned something from? The youngest?
?*Veda* Jan-29 prompt: Love is not love which alters when it finds alterations. What is your opinion frns?
Dec-02: Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner - Lao Tzu. Do you agree? Have you ever felt your life limited by others imagination?*Chet* Dec-05: Does technology simplify life or make it more complicated?
*Vij* Dec-07: Do folks give honest responses to prompts or fake it to show they have perfect life?
2016-Nov
*Vij* Nov-02: How to find more meaning in life?
Nov-04: Write about the color red.
*Chet* Nov-07: If you opened a business, what kind of business would it be?
*Vij* Nov-09: Is saying 'I Love You' important in a good marriage? How often you tell or hear from? Do you wish to say it even if your partner doesnt say it for you..? When did you hear it last? What word you say at the end of telephonic conversation to each other? Answer one by one.Nov-11: If life is a TV channel, I'm currently on?
*Chet* Nov-14: Which is your favourite season of a year and why?
*Vij* Nov-16: Assume you are a relationship councilor.. here is the problem ..give solution 😀
I am a 32-year-old man and have recently joined a workplace where my ex has been working for many years. Though we do not meet regularly, we sometimes bump into each other near the pantry on our floor. It becomes awkward for both of us. How should I handle this situation?
Nov-18: If you were on death row, and were given the chance to listen to one last song before your execution, what would it be?
*Chet* Nov-21: Do all of you like prompts. Share the effect of prompts in your life. Does it help you in some way or is it a nuisance for you?
*Vij* Nov-24: How middle class are you? Make fun of your middle class life attitude (or that you observed in others).
Nov-25 : If you could instil one piece of advice in a new born baby's mind, what advice would you give?
*Chet* Nov-28: If you could have tea with one fictional character, who would it be?
*Vij* Nov-30: Prompt1- How do you plan romantic date with your spouse on their 50th birthday? Share your imagination.
Prompt-2: Love is never old.
*Chet* Oct-03: I have observed, children are more close to their mother's side relatives than father's side. Do you think so?
*Vij* Oct-05: Prompt1: Who enjoys life more? Man or woman (boy/girl).
Prompt2: You have to stay in this cabin for 1 month. You have all you need: food, water, and firewood. You have no access to internet, cell phones, or TV. On the last day, you walk out with $100,000. Would you do it?
Assume you have said yes, let us know how you will spend the time.
Oct-07: There is a Chinese proverb that goes like this- To understand your parents' love, bear your own children. What is your experience with this?
*Chet* Oct-10: Significance of Ayudhpooja. How we used to celebrate when we were small and now. Share your experience.
*Nag* Oct-12: If tech innovation and creation was dominated by ladies/women, what would the world look like? What impacts would that have on men?Oct-14: What reason can one have to oppose 'Uniform Civil Code', except that they don't believe all are equal? Do you support 'Uniform Civil Code'?
*Chet* Oct-17: People avoid small talks, but small talks help to improve connecting with people. Share your views on this. Do you agree?
*Nag* Oct-19: Two pics. 1. Four guys pushing a square shaped box and one guy pushing a sphere. 2. A cow jumping a fence.
What do you make of these images? What's the message that they convey? Did you or anyone you know experienced anything similar in the recent past?
Oct-21: Write about getting lost and finding an alternative way - it can be literal or metaphorical.
*Chet* Oct-24: Is peer pressure harmful or beneficial to individuals? Share your views.
*Vij* Oct-26: Which life better? Married or bachelor? Explain.
Oct-28: The great novelist Flaubert said "One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels." Your thoughts?
*Chet* Oct-30: Which is your favorite sweet you enjoyed this Deepavali?
2016-Sep
Sep-02 prompt: "Love is giving something you haven't got to someone who doesn't exist"- Jacques Lacan, philosopher. What do you think?
*Chet* 05 prompt: Share your childhood memories of Ganesh Chaturthi.
*Vij* Sep-07 prompt: What is your opinion/suggestion when a husband wants to share the expenses 50/50 for their honeymoon?
Sep-09 prompt: Quote and mention that one person who you haven't met but get a lot of positive vibes from.
*Chet* Sep-12 prompt: Do school uniforms make school more effective place to learn?
*Vij* Sep-14 prompt: I received a WA message - " Blore roads are calm.....if all family members stay at home continuously for more days...violence may start at home ....."
Do you like to enjoy life when your spouse away at work or business trips 😄 do you need such breaks ?
*Chet* Sep-19 prompt: Which is better, day dreaming or night dreaming?
Sep-16 prompt- Here is a line from ಗಂಗವ್ವ ಗಂಗಾಮಾಯಿ.."ಸ್ತ್ರೀಯರು ಕ್ಷುಲ್ಲಕ ಕಾರಣಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಜಗಳ. ವಾಡತೊಡಗಿದೊಡನೇ, ಆದರ ಹಿಂದೆ ಇನ್ನಾವುದೋ ಆಡಲು ಬಾರದ ಕಾರಣವಿದೆ ಎಂಬುದನ್ನ ಲೋಕಜ್ನರು ತಿಳಿದು ಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಾರೆ." Comment.
Sep-23 prompt: Isn't it funny how day by day nothing chages, but when you look back, everything is different?
*Vij* Sep-21 prompt: Please comment on Idia's double standards towards men and women. For example, why drinking and smoking reflects character issue of womens only and not men?? #Pink movie
*Chet* Sep-26 prompt: Which gives you more stress, work or no work?
2016-Aug
*Chet* Aug-01 prompt: Do you push the elevator button more than once? Do you really believe it makes the elevator faster?
*Chet* Aug-04 prompt: Write something which is special in your native place and you miss that all the time.
Aug-05 prompt: What did you used to be able to do that you would now find very difficult to do? What can't you do now that you would like to be able to do?
*Chet* Aug-08 prompt1: What is your happiest childhood memory? What makes it so special?
Prompt2- Which is your favorite festival? Why?
*Vij* Aug-10 prompt: Women v/s men. List the differences between the two genders (apart from biology/structural difference :-))
Aug-12 prompt: What major life decisions (starting/ending a career, relationship, place of residence, etc.) have you faced because you felt obligated or constrained or felt you had no other choice...feeling bound, perhaps cheated or forced into the decision...only to find in retrospect that it was the best thing after all that you might have missed your life today had it not been for that momentous decision that hurt so much at the time?
*Chet* Aug-15 prompt: Share your feelings about independence day. Share how you used to celebrate independence day in your school days.
*Vij* Aug-17 prompt: Have you heard any real 'hamari adhuri kahani'. HAK love story? Please share. What is your solution/idea/opinion to make HPK 'hamari poora kahani''.
Aug-19 prompt: What's the most interesting thing in your purse or vanity bag right now?
*Chet* Aug-22 prompt: Do you think face to face interaction is reduced because of Facebook. Share your views about FB.*Vij* Aug-24 prompt: Why do we want our children to marry in same caste/ sub-caste/ same state/ same religion/ same country?2016-July
Jul-01 prompt: What is the one question...the absolutely most last, most fearsome question anyone could ask you to write about?...the one you hope never comes up as a prompt?
*Chet* Jul-04 prompt: If your life was a movie, what would the title be?
*Vij* Jul-06 prompt: Please read the paragraph and Share such words -old, forgotten words and their meanings. ನಮ್ಮ ಪೀಳಿಗೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಯತೇಚ್ಛವಾಗಿ. ಬಳಕೆಯಲ್ಲಿದ್ದ ಎಷ್ಟೊ ಶಬ್ದಗಳು ಇಂದು ತುಂಬಾ ವಿರಳವಾಗಿ ಬಳಕೆಯಲ್ಲಿವೆ ಅಥವಾ ಗ್ರಾಂಥಿಕ ರೂಪ ಪಡೆದಿವೆ, ಹಳ್ಳಿಯ ಜನಪದರೂ ಕೂಡ ದೂರದರ್ಶನದ ಪ್ರà²ಾವದಿಂದ ಈ ಶಬ್ದಗಳನ್ನು ಗ್ರಾಂಥಿಕ ರೂಪದಲ್ಲಿ ಬಳಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಮುಂದಿನ ಪೀಳಿಗೆ ಈ ಶಬ್ದ ಸಂಪತ್ತಿನಿಂದ ವಂಚಿತವಾಗುತ್ತೆನೊ ಎಂಬ ಆತಂಕ.
Jul-08 prompt: What do you do when you dont have anything to say?
*Chet* Jul-11 prompt: If you had a chance to go back in your past life and change one thing, would you do it? What is it?
*Vij* Jul-13 prompt: What do you like about yourself?
*Vij* Jul-15 prompt: What do you like about each Tamarind Tree member?
*Chet* Jul-18 prompt: When you think of "home" what do you specifically think of?
*Vij* Jul-20 prompt: How do you annoy your spouse?
Jul-22 prompt: What are your friends made of? Did you pick them on purpose, or did they land in your life seemingly unbidden?If you met them brand new today, would you keep them as friends...or have you or they grown in ways that make you less likely to accept them today if you met them again for the first time?
*Chet* Jul-25 prompt: Which activities make you lose track of time?
*Vij* Jul-27 prompt: Why it is not appropriate to wear knee length shorts to offices ,colleges .Why India is so conservative ? Why women don't wear shorts here. Sarees /salwaar etc are less comfortable .(Clothes)
Jul-29 prompt: How important is good grammar?
2016-June
*Vij* June-01 prompt: What are you doing to simplify your life? How to keep our life simple? Please share.June-03 prompt: Do parents have a favorite child? Do you? :-)
*Chet* June-06 prompt: When I look at the sky I always feel "sky is the limit". What do you feel when you look at the sky? Share your views...
*Vij* June-08 prompt: How do you overcome the feeling of missing someone badly who means a lot to you? You can also share the songs which describe missing feeling.
June-10 prompt: Which is your favorite "classic" TV show and why?
*Chet* June-13 prompt 1: A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. What is your opinion on marriage. Share your views.*Chet* June-13 prompt 2: We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. Please share your views on attitude.
*Vij* June-15 prompt: What is dating? Why dating is not so common in India? Do our children miss that beautiful phase of life? Why D is not socially acceptable in India? Why do we fear? Are we narrow minded? Do u support your children if they want to go for a date?
June-17 prompt: What makes a woman a woman?*Chet* June-20 prompt: If you could choose a sixth sense what would you choose?
*Vij* June-22 prompt 1: How do we know that ' we are not made for each other ' couple ' 😄 .NMFEO .Share some signs ..# fun prompt. Pl note it.
Prompt 2: Do miracles happen in real life, ? Share if u have experienced or heard about.
June-24 prompt: Aloha and Mahalo are the two most important words in the Hawaiian language. What in your opinion are the two greatest words in your life?
*Chet* June-27 prompt: How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
*Vij* June-29 prompt: What are the random thoughts come to your mind while you are attending a marriage function? Your thoughts from childhood, young, unmarried, and married phase of life.
2016-May
*Vij* May-02 prompt: Share about your life's first experience! It can be any experience..but should be 'first' like eating first icecream of life ( if you can remember ) ,first flight, first mountain hike, first experience of snowfall, desert visit, first speech,first lecture,..etc etc ..Share as many as u can ..😄 pl mention the month /year/place.
*Chet* May-03 prompt: All of you have visited so many sightseeing places. Which places have "wow factor". Share your views.
*Chet* May-04 prompt: All Tammies have visited so many sightseeing places. Which places have "wow factor". Share your views.
*Chet* May-06 prompt: Mother's day is coming. Today's prompt for Mothers. What do you feel when you hear the word "Mother", "Mom", "Amma". Share your feelings.
*Chet* May-09 prompt: What is the best way to manage anger.
*Vij* May-10 prompt: We all have heard this famous Hindi adage, "shaadi ka laddoo jo na khaaye woh pachtaye, jo khaaye woh bhi pachtaaye"? Do you agree? Share your opinion.
*Chet* May-11 prompt: According to me walking is the best exercise. Share your views on this.
May-13 prompt: Today is Friday, the 13th. Considered unlucky in western superstition😊. What superstitions do you have? Share your thoughts on superstitions and their effects around us.*Chet* May-16 prompt: We all know money is the medium of exchange. But we can't buy so many things by paying money. Share your opinion on what we can't buy with money.
May-18 prompt: Do you think that dreams actually mean something... should we pay attention
to them... record them... or are they just something that coincidentally happen as a result of our life?
May-20 prompt: What suddenly lifts your spirits?
*Chet* May-23 prompt: Which style of shopping do you enjoy? Do you like malls, street shopping, exhibition or online shopping. Share your views.
May-25 prompt: Do we choose our circumstances?
May-27 prompt: What was something in your life that you did and loved every minute of it?
*Chet* May-30 prompt: Who is your favorite singer and favorite song.
2016-April
*Veda* Apr-01 prompt: Success breeds complacency; complacency breeds failure; only the paranoid survive. Share your thoughts on this.
*Geetha* Apr-01 prompt: Please share your most humorous experience on April 1st.
*Vijaya* Apr-01-02 prompt: Please comment - Love: A fool's game; A wise man's secret desire.
*Nim* Apr-04 prompt: Although growing up is a part of everyone's life, sometimes there's a longing deep inside to go back to childhood. Have you ever felt like being a child once again!!!
*Chet* Apr-05 prompt: Share your thoughts on your name, what it means ? Do you like your name? Did you wish for different name?
(Eponyms)
Apr-06 prompt: Can you imagine a world without colors? With just black and white? Such a world would be a boring place. Thankfully we have a wide range of colors and shades. All we need to do is look around and nature presents you with a melange of colors.
Which is your favorite color? Share your thoughts on colors in general.
(Colors)
Apr-07 prompt: I am sure comics were a part of the childhood days for most of us. So make a journey back to your childhood to recall and share your memories of the wonderful world of comics. Share your favorite comics series and any titles you were particularly fond of.
❤*Chet* Apr-08 prompt: Do you think love feeling is intense when you are away from your love?
*Chet* Apr-12 prompt: A stitch in time saves nine. Can you relate this to your life incidents? Share your views.
Apr-13 prompt: What are some of the quirky things fathers say that make you laugh. (If you break your leg doing that, don't come running back to me; when I was your age...)
Apr-14 prompt: How do you want to see the Tamarind Tree? Are you happy with how it is? Do you want to see some change and if so what? Do you want to see a reduction in the frequency of prompts? Are you uncomfortable with some topics? Do you want to see some restriction on how much each Tammie can post in a day?
*Nim* Apr-15 prompt: If you were given a choice to again choose your profession, what would you have liked to do? Something different or are you satisfied with what you are right now.
*Nim* Apr-18 prompt: After marriage and when you're expecting your child, what were your feelings!! How did you plan to receive your baby!! Did you have any preference like male or female child? Go back down your memory lane and share how you felt that time!!*Chet* Apr-20 prompt: Which is the favourite outfit you want to dress up in? Which is the favourite outfit you want to see your spouse in? Share your choices.
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*Chet* Apr-22 prompt: Share the beautiful memories of those lovely days of your married life before the kids were born. The time duration of those days may be short but sweet.*Nim* Apr-25 prompt: These days many people are coming out of their traditional thinking and going for adoption. What are your views on this.
*Chet* Apr-26 prompt: Compared to our ancestors we have better medical facilities. Do you think all this is possible because of advancement in medical field or engineering field. Share your opinions.
*Chet* Apr-27 prompt: Which is your favourite fruit, and your spouse's favourite fruit.
*Chet* Apr-28 prompt: How about favourite vegetable today. Share your views.
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*Chet* Apr-29 prompt: All Tammies have immense love towards their spouse. But some times there may be small misunderstanding. Who is the first one to console. You or your spouse?2016-March
*Nag* Mar-01 prompt: Share your views and comments on India Budget 2016. What's good and what's not so good? Which bits/elements of the budget impact/touch your lifestyle and family priorities?
*Vij* Mar-02 prompt: Rujuta Diwekar says- 1. Eat food based on what is grown locally and not based on calories. Ex. banana better than kiwi fruit. 2. Listen to your stomach to know what to eat, how much to eat and when to stop eating. Please comment!
Mar-03 prompt: Who do people say you sound or look like?
❤*Chet* Mar-04 prompt: Immature love says "I love you because I need you". Mature love says "I need you because I love you". Please comment.
*Vij* Mar-07 prompt: What do you learn by keeping fast.
Mar-08 prompt: As it is Woman's Day today, share your thoughts and views on Women - their contributions and qualities that make life on Earth worthwhile.
Mar-09 prompt: Why do we find pleasure in talking about others' sins/mistakes/oddities? Do we have the same gusto in talking about others' good deeds?
Mar-10 prompt: Is there a difference between empathy and compassion? Share your thoughts.
❤*Sheela* Mar-11 prompt: Are women day dreamers? Dont men dream? Do they always think practically even when in love :-). Why romancing not seen in public places in India? Are we not better at romancing?
*Nim* Mar-14 prompt: Now there's a proposal to use waterways for transportation. I feel it's a good move. It will augment the present infrastructure and may be efficient and effective in promoting growth, job opportunities etc. I am not sure if it reduces pollution. Request all to share their views.
*Nag* Mar-15 prompt: This prompt is about the current trends of self learning, distance learning & changing ways to achieve qualifications.
What are the impacts of the new trends on current systems & institutions? What are the pros & cons as you foresee?
Mar-16 prompt: Do you make To Do lists? Write about the role To Do lists have for you. Love them? or Hate them?
Mar-17 prompt: What have you had to say no ro recently that you did not want to?
❤*Vij* Mar-18 prompt: 1.Is it better for a husband and wife who are fighting to stay together or be apart? 2. Why do couples fight the maximum in the starting years of married life.. 3.What do you advice if ur kids marriage on rockes? If they decide to take divorce suppose..
*Nim* Mar-21 prompt: what do you expect in your immediate family - wife, parents, siblings and children
*Chet* Mar-22 prompt: Has music influenced your life. Share your comments.
Mar-23 prompt: Do you think the arts (novels, poetry, painting and so on) have a role in life? Share your comments.
Mar-24 prompt: Write about the best Holi celebration that either you have been part of...or that you have come across in a movie.
*Vij* Mar-25 prompt: Differentiate between Preethi, Prema, Pranaya.
*Nim* Mar-28 prompt: What is your opinion on vertical living?
*Chet* Mar-29 prompt: Mistakes make human perfect. Have you anytime felt that. Share your views.
Mar-30 prompt: Do you think swear words have a place and purpose? Share your thoughts on this.
(Insult words)
Mar-31 prompt: Birds dont get much respect from us. Maybe owing to their tiny size. But look a little deeper and you'll see they have quite a character. Share your thoughts about birds and your favorite bird, if any.
(Bird words)
2016-February
*Nag* Feb-02 prompt: As individuals, I presume that we all have been through set-backs at one or another time, where we had to cope with and recover from difficult circumstance(s) in our life.
Share your experience & thoughts on how did you cope with and recover from difficult situation(s) or set-backs that you have been through so far.
Feb-03 prompt: Slightly serious one this. Let's see how many Tammies are upto the challenge.
In the light of the recent controversy related to Shani Shngnapur temple recently, it is good to ponder over Hinduism as a religion.
Ambedkar in his Annihilation of Caste writes thus- "the Hindu religion, as contained in the Vedas and the Smritis, is nothing but a mass of sacrificial, social political and sanitary rules and regulations, all mixed up. Religion, in the sense of spiritual principles, truly universal, applicable to all races, to all countries, to all times, is not to be found in them, and if it is, it does not form the governing part of a Hindu's life".
Please comment.
Feb-04 prompt: How would you define GRACE, from your life experiences?
❤*Vij* Feb-06 prompt: How do you know when someone loves you?
(*vij* Feb-08 prompt:Which song you will dedicate for your Valentine...:-))
*Nim* Feb-08 prompt: How do you think that we can reduce e waste. Can we limit our love for new gadgets, acquiring new ones and doing away with our old ones?
*Nag* Feb-09 prompt:
What makes a friend - a 'Best Friend'? What's your advise for your teenage kid(s) on developing good/healthy friendship with someone of opposite gender? As a parent, would you encourage your teenage kid to have a 'Best Friend' of opposite gender? If yes, how? Share your own experience of when you were a teen.
Feb-10 prompt: Have you ever been knocked senseless (a fall, a collision, or so on) or have been induced anaesthesia? Recount the experience.
Feb-11 prompt: What has been the hottest day you have ever lived through? Not inside air conditioning, but really sweated through.
❤Feb-12 prompt: What makes couples to be together and yet feel, as Hemingway says, "alone wehen together, alone against the others"?
*Nim* Feb-15 prompt: Most of us live in metro cities and thus surrounded by numerous problems like traffic, commuting pollution and what not.
Al though we pay taxes, do you think it's always government job to take care of our surroundings? As a responsible citizen, what are the means and methods you allow to contribute in your own way to keep the parisara clean.
*Nag* Feb-16 prompt:
Dance is an amazing form of art! It is another way of expression like Music & Painting. I believe everyone (boys & girls) should learn some form of dance in early years/childhood. Dancing to music with friends is so much fun, really! It can lead to truly memorable events in our lives.
Share your own related experience, stories, thoughts & feelings. Include the ones when you excelled & when you felt awkward too.
kabhi kabhi bachhoonkee saath hameebhi shamil hookaar thodaa hilaaanaa chahiyeee - apne pasand ke ganaakee saath!
Aaapkaa kya khayaal?
Feel free to share a few pictures that speak of your "dance" memories.
Confessions are welcome too!!
Feb-17 prompt: What is your view on freedom of thought? Do you believe that we must declare a 'set of ideas' to be immune from criticism, satire, derision or contempt?
Feb-18 prompt: Write about a dream that you had in sleep. Add details and make it vivid.
❤*Vij* Feb-19 prompt: Please Share about -Any Love stories that you witnessed or L stories of people. (Friends /relatives )you met in ur life/ neighbourhood/college /office/travel/tour etc.
It can be any type successful love, love break,love lost, love unrequitted,love after marriage,old flame,love in old age.,senior citizen love :-) like shown in a film Smita Patil and Rajesh khanna acted..Bharati and Anantnag also done one film....etc
Its just about L between two people that you know.
*No need to mention their names .
Feb-24 prompt: What does "There are two sides to every coin" mean to you?
Feb-25 prompt: Share your thoughts about keeping things at an effective zone. Share an incident of someone you know getting into trouble by overdoing something.
❤*Vij* Feb-26 prompt: 1. Are Love and Lust two sides of a coin? 1. If one L is the stronger force why the other L is disparaged then?
*Nim* Feb-29 prompt: It is being said that water may not last for long and by 2020 there will be lot of scarcity. Presently what steps you follow in your own small way at home to use water in judicious manner.
There are so many lakes in Bangalore. Almost all have become victims of neglect, misuse and used as sewage inlets. What can be done to resolve this issue?
2016-January
Jan-01 prompt: If you could celebrate the new year from anywhere in the world, where would you go?
*Nag* Jan-05 prompt: Describe briefly...An advert or a headline/caption for an advert that you found to be wierd/amusing. It can even be a marketing message or a product name - that you found very funny or amusing. What product/service was the ad/marketing message for? Why did you find it amusing or wierd/querky?
Jan-06 promt: What food or drink would you say you are most like?
Jan-07 prompt: What is the worst food accident you have ever had? (spilling juice/ice cream on your dress and so on..)
❤*Geetha* Jan-08 prompt: When a man says to a woman 'I cannot live in this world without you' what these words exactly mean to you?
*Nim* Jan-11 prompt: If you become the richest person in the world, how would you contribute to the society
*Nag* Jan-12 prompt:
Describe a recent adventure / challenge that you went through with your kid(s) or any kid(s) for that matter. Any learnings you would like to share?
Prompt Jan-13: Am I allowing the fullness of who I am to be expressed?
Jan-14 prompt: What is the best way to "bribe" you into doing something you would not really want to do?
❤*Nag* Jan-15 prompt:
Sankranti is very nice Hindu festival - popular for flying kites and more importantly - an occasion to meet relatives & friends and say those lovely words -
"Take sweet, talk sweet and be sweet"
Did you yearn to say those words to someone/anyone special in your life? What do you remember from that experience? What was the reaction if you were lucky enough to say those words? When was it and why does that memory lingers on?
Go on, share your Sankranti sweet memories with all friends under the TamTree without inhibitions...
*Nim* Jan-18 prompt: After the weekend or any extended weekend, how do you look at the forthcoming Monday!!! Share your feelings on how you greet the next working day.
*Nag* Jan-19 prompt: Share your views & comments on motivating/ persuading young adults/teens. Elaborate on instances of what inspired or motivated you when you were young.
Jan-20 promt: What is the one trait you would like to see in the youngsters of the next generation?
Jan-21 prompt: Has there ever been a time when you ran across someone that you could
not imagine them being there. ( Like running into your doctor with her
kids at the grocery store). How did you handle it? Would you want to
change how you handled it?
❤*Chet* Jan-22 prompt: There is an old saying that "Love is BLIND". Do you agree or disagree? Comment. Modify the quote by changing the word BLIND. Explain the new quote.
*Nim* Jan-25 prompt: Trees and plants have been close to mankind, I believe from the very start of existence of human life
Every person looks at them and perceive their own thoughts
. Poets use them to convey moods and expressions like leaves withering or flowers blooming etc
. Many in the city look at them as pollution reducers, oxygen suppliers etc. from health point
. For many couples in love, it's like as if the romance increases beneath a tree or behind the trees!!! Just the thrill!! For some others its God. Arasa mara, bevina mara etc. What is your perception on this beautiful species on earth without which I believe we are all incomplete!!!
*Nag* Jan-26 Prompt:
From the perspective of your child/children's development, describe a recent incident where you helped them learn something(anything) NOT directly related to their academics or schooling. Feel free to share a picture or two that reflect anything that your child / children created with your guidance or learnt from you - NOT directly related to their academics / schooling.
Jan-27 prompt: Have you ever wished to be the other gender? Write about why and what prompted this wish.
Jan-28 prompt: Who is the oldest person you have learned something from? The youngest?
?*Veda* Jan-29 prompt: Love is not love which alters when it finds alterations. What is your opinion frns?
2015-December
Dec-01 prompt: Write a character sketch of someone who makes you laugh.
Dec-03 prompt: What is a fear that you had and that you overcame?
Dec-04 prompt: Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up - Camille Paglia. Share your thoughts on this.
Dec-07 prompt: How do you handle telemarketing calls?
Dec-08 prompt: What role does randomness play in your life. Are we at time
victims of randomness for no apparent reason?
Dec-10 prompt: Thinking about your life, what experiences have you had that enable you to share understanding with someone also going through a similar thing?
❤Dec-11 prompt: While what we want is love fulfilled, what we actually feel most deeply about is love frustrated. Do you agree? Your thoughts on how romantic love can turn into fulfilling and lasting love.
Dec-15 prompt: The year is drawing to a close. What are some of the best memories for you from this year?
Dec-16 prompt: How do couples manage to stay connected long term and make the relationship a fulfilling one.
Dec-17 Prompt: There is a saying that a cat is never on the right side of a closed door. How would that apply to your life?
❤*Nim* Dec-18 Prompt: What do you think about love beyond marriage? For eg. In the movie, I don't remember Shah Rukh n rani are each married. But necessarily there is no love in this relationship. But when they meet each other, they fall in love. But such things are not acceptable in Indian society. What is your opinion on this? Will you condemn such things or accept? I was just intrigued how our generation thinks of these relations? Remember we are all old school!!!!
*Nim* Dec-21 prompt:Looking back at your lives, what do you think about your lives lived thus far.Are you satisfied with what you have done or achieved till now. Do you regret anything? Although YOLO is very true, given a chance to live once again, what would you do?
*Nag* Dec-22 prompt: How are we preparing our Children to cope, thrive & succeed in the developing environment?
The context is your own experience (through the learnings v/s real life) & what you foresee as the key challenges & opportunities they will be facing in their life-time.
Dec-23 prompt: What is a small gift that you have received, either by someone whose identity you did not know, or by someone returning from a foreign country?
Dec-24 prompt: Write about a time when you realized how important encouragement from others was to you.
❤*Vij* Dec-25 prompt: Do we need Love in life? If so, why Love is sacrifice? You can take reference of Hum dil de chuke Sanam, Silsila.. Where L is shown as sacrifice for morality or ethics..and L is glorified! If not sacrificed, it is called immoral../selfish Love. Please share your comments on that.
*Nim* Dec-28 prompt: The recent session in parliament on reducing the juvenile age for punishment from 18 to 16. What is your opinion on this? Will this help? What can be done to help young girls and women from all kinds of atrocities like what happened to Nirbhaya?
*Nag* Dec-29 prompt: With the year end around in a couple of days - a time for new resolutions for many. What's running high on your mind this year - as a potential New Year (2016) resolution?
Dec-30 prompt: What is your favorite art project done by a child?
Dec-31 prompt: What is the oldest thing you now possess? How did you come to have it? What does it mean to you?
2015-November
Nov-02 prompt: So often we make assumptions about people and pigeonhole them. What is your experience? Do you do that and do your assumptions hold true mostly? Or do you challenge your assumptions once in a while?
Nov-03 prompt: What does common sense mean to you? Does it depend on age, education? Any examples of individuals that you have come across displaying great common sense?
Nov-04 prompt: Nov-04 prompt: We all know about the story of Belling the Cat. It was a lesson in our Kannada textbook in one of the classes...who will bell the car?..well what this is about is that whenever we come up with a solution for a problem, the solution must be practical...Now tell us what 'being pragmatic' means to you?
Nov-05 prompt: What things in life according to you are worth repeating?
?Nov-06 prompt: Goethe said, "If I love you, what business is it of yours?". What do you think he means? Does one sided love count?
Nov-09 prompt: I really appreciate myself for...?
Nov-10 prompt: What are your thoughts on creattive writing?
❤Nov-13 prompt: Recently I was reading a book, a collection of stories, by Kamala Das(Poet, Novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist, 1934-2009). A statement by Kamala on the blurb of the book caught my attention. It goes like this-
"I feel a woman is most attractive when she surrenders to her man. She is incomplete without a man." Do you agree, disagree, or not sure about this? :-)
Nov-16 prompt: What are your thoughts about rituals? Do you think they might have been relevant only during a particular time in the past? Or do you think they are imp to preserve the sanctity of particular occasions for the future generations?
Nov-17 prompt: How have you come to believe what you believe? Have you simply accepted what your elders passed on to you? Or do you just accept what the majority does?
Nov-18 prompt: Today's topic is Contentment.:-) Are you satisfied with what you have at present ( home, car, belongings), and could you live without ever upgrading in the future?
Nov-19 prompt: The word 'sarcasm' comes from the Greek sarkasmos, meaning to sneer at or taunt. In this age of political correctness, sincerity and so on we are losing devices like sarcasm. Isnt sarcasm a refreshing way to express an unwelcome observation? It is also usually a family thing. Sarcasm is never a part of the conversations in some families. Share your thoughts on this.
❤Nov-20 prompt: In love which is more painful? Unattained, unrequited love...or the one that is lost?
Nov-23 prompt: We all have or at least come across varieties of obsessions...in ourselves or others. Sometimes harmless ones too. On silence maybe. Or neatness. Or timelinesss....Lots of things. Share your thoughts on the nature of obsession. Is it good? bad? How to handle it? Any particular one that you grapple with?
Nov-24 prompt: What is your favorite room in your home and why?
Nov-25 prompt: It has been defined as a law that you must give to receive. Some
even say you must give WHAT you want to receive it. Write about your
experiences with this principle, and how it works for you.
Nov-26 prompt: What are some of the qualities that you look for in a friend?
❤Nov-27 prompt: Is love rally the triumph of imagination over intelligence (as someone said)? Or is it possible to love someone with the full application of our faculty of reason?
Nov 30- prompt: What does social learning mean to you? Share about how we can learn from others?
2015-October
Oct-05 prompt: Describe the changes you notice in your hometown as compared to your memories of it from your childhood.
Oct-07 prompt: Physics? or Philosophy?
Oct-08 prompt: Happiness is...
❤Oct-09 prompt: Nietche said- "Love is a state where we see things widely different from what thry are". Comment.
Oct-15 prompt: Writers are in news these days. What is your view on writers? Or they relevant? Do you believe that artists and writers are conscience keepers of a nation?
Oct-15 prompt: Writers are in news these days. What is your view on writers? Or they relevant? Do you believe that artists and writers are conscience keepers of a nation?
❤Oct-16 prompt: Your thoughts on this quote? Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story. - Daphne du Maurier
Oct-19 prompt: Is innocense a virtue? Is it overrated?
Oct-20 prompt: Write about your concept of failure. Is it possible to fail, or is it just a chance to learn and grow?
Oct-21 prompt: A chinese proverb says Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. What have you learned recently?
Oct-26 prompt: There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. -Learned Hand, jurist (1872-1961). Write about any instance when literal interpretation lead to faulty understanding.
Oct-27 prompt: Well, there are so many things around us that can make us cynical. The broken roads, the uncleared garbage, the pollution, rising crime rates, the growing intolerance among people, non-performing bureaucrats and politicians, and so on... Do you see a silver lining anywhere? How do you keep cynicism at bay?
Oct-29 prompt: I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.- Naomi Judd (American country music singer). The statement appears so relevant even today. Do you think we need to introspect? Or is it wiser to just be happy with whatever we are involved in and let the past and the future be damned? :-)
2015-September
Sep-06 prompt: Use a metaphor to describe your life. (There was a old kannada film song by SPB that started as What's life?..you could sreal your answer from there. .bit make it petsonal for yourself)
Sep-07 prompt: Write about something that you have come to really understand by reflection.
Sep-08 prompt: Write about any of your memory/memories associated with the rain.
Sep-09 prompt: Continue writing with this- Last night I...
Sep-10 prompt: Continue writing with this- The pure joy of...
❤Sep-11 prompt: Share a couple of lines from a song, or a poem, or a quote on love, that you came across recently that caught your attention...
Sep-12 prompt: Write about your favorite weekend activities.
Sep-13 prompt: Write about any historical event that you recall vividly.
Sep-14 prompt: Sharaavana has just ended. There has not been much rain this year...Share about what you daydream about when you are sitting by the window and looking at the rain fall...Folks abroad can share about watching the fallen leaves if that is what you are seeing...??
Sep-16 prompt: "No man is an island." Expand/expound on this proverb.
❤Sep-18 prompt: Is love a choice? ??
Sep-21 prompt: What are your thoughts on ageing? Is it just a state of mind? Do our family and cultural background unconsciously influence our feelings, beliefs and attitudes about getting old?
Sep-22 prompt: Write about routines (yours or in general). Are they a comfort? or are they monotonous?
Sep-23 prompt: How much of your life has been focused on attaining perfection in something? Do you believe it is possible to attain perfection? What have you attained perfection in? Generally what is your view about perfectionism itself...
Sep-24 prompt: What do you do repeatedly?
❤Sep-25 prompt: Is love an ideal that is beyond the ordinary everyday life? Can everyday parlance be employed to create beautiful poetry? Cite some instances of poetry that effectively employs the vocabulary from daily life to create memorable lines.
Sep-28 prompt: Write about your thoughts on parenting. What has changed from our parents' time to now?
Sep-29 prompt: Have you at any time before resolved to get fitter and then abandoned the idea? If so, what was the reason? What is your regimen to stay fit and heart healthy?
Sep-30 prompt: Share your thoughts about how it takes everyone to make our lives comfortable.
2015-August
Aug-01: When was the last time Nature gave you a hint?
Aug 02- What is the one song/ poem that touched you recently?
Aug-03: What are your pricey pleasures?
Aug-04 Prompt: What kinds of plants do you like?
Aug-05: What is your favorite year? what made it so?
Aug-07 Prompt: Think back to when you were young, and you imagined what the
world would be like when you had grown up. How similar and or different
is today's world to what you imagined?
Prompt 08-Aug: Write about a crazy thing you have done with a friend or a relativeWhat is the craziest thing you have done with a friend??
Aug-09: Our thoughts create our reality.Comment.
Aug-10 prompt: Prompt: What was the best business card or
appointment card you have ever received?
Aug-11 Prompt: What skills do you have that are typically not associated with your gender? ( changing tires, fashion advice, etc)
Aug-12 Prompt: Where would you like to be a "fly on the wall"?
Aug-13 prompt: What was latest playful thing you have done with a group of
people? How playful are you?
Aug-14 Prompt: What animal/pet have you been closest to in your life? Write something about it.
Aug-15 prompt: Write about a movie that you enjoyed that was not a kannada, hindi or englsh movie. Any indian regional movie or a world movie.
Aug-16 prompt: What is the one comment or phrase that sets you off? Write about it.
Aug-17 prompt: What or who if not present would cause you to have a rough night
sleeping?😊
Aug-19 prompt: Write about a memory you have in connection with Nagara Panchami.
Aug-20 prompt: what thoughts come to your mind with the word 'river'?
❤Aug-21 prompt: Is love a verb or a noun according to you?
Aug-22 prompt: Write about any celebrities that you have run into, or interacted with?
Aug-23 prompt: Write about the most recent time when someone has done a good deed for you.
Aug-24 prompt: When was the last oops you said?
Aug-25 prompt: Do you have like/likes that others typically may not have? Write about it. For example, I dont like sunny days..i get a headache :-). I rather like rainy/stormy days.
Aug-26 prompt:
Given all the health information that is out there, do you eat healthy? Do you follow what other's tell you, or do you just do what you want?
Aug-27prompt: The movie Manjhi:The Mountain Man is based on the man from a village in Bihar who carved a road through a mountain so that his village could have better access. This he did after his wife died due to the unavilability of quick medical help. What other feats of guts and detemination come to your mind. Real or fictional.
❤Aug-28 prompt: In love, one and one are one.- Jean-Paul Sartre.
Do you agree with Sartre, is love the blending into one, or not? What have you experienced that leads you to that belief?
Aug-29 prompt: Do you believe that you are enough? Write about it.
Aug-30 prompt: Write about a time you thought you were not going to make it......
Aug-31 prompt: What really gets my goat is?
2015-July
Jul-07 What is you favorite way to wear yourself out?
Jul-08 Describe your reaction to the best sunset or sunrise you have ever seen
Jul-09. Write from this prompt: "If I had known then what I know now..
Jul-10 Men are taught to apologize for their weakness, women for their strengths" Lois Wyse Considering the quote above, is it true for you, or not? What makes it true or not for you?
11-Jul: How important are ancestors to your day to day life? Which ancestor is most important to you?
Jul-12 What does meal time mean to you beyond the chance to eat a meal?..
July-13 What is your first memory of Ice Cream? Try and capture in as much
detail as possible that experience.W experience.
July-17 What was the last movie you fell in love with?
Jul-18 How do you respond when someone asks about your spiritual beliefs?
July-19 My childhood neighborhood...
July-20: Describe your reaction to the best sunset or sunrise you have ever seen.
July-22: Who was a mentor for you while growing up? Write about your relationship.
July-23; Do you think we as humans really just want to hear what we think reflected by the person we are talking to? Do we seek agreement with our ideas, and avoid diagreements? What is your take on the issue?
July-24: Are you a person who fills up available spaces with stuff, or one who works to create open spaces without stuff in them?
July-26 What had you laughing recently?
July-27 prompt: Would you take your family to live in Africa with a nomadic tribe for a week? If yes, describe what you expect the experience to be like.
July-29 prompt: The best protection in life is connection. Do you agree. How are you connected?
July-30 prompt: Write about a fictional character of your opposite gender, from a movie or a novel that left a strong impression on you.
July-31 prompt: What are some of the changes in practices/processes that technology has brought in in your life? Is there something you want to share that you do now only because of technology?
3 comments:
Srinath,
Ondondu propmpt brings back all those days feelings we exchanged answers and had fun ..imagine thus link after few years..it will be so big page...it's good u saved the name of the person with the prompt..
This is fantastic, Srinath!! Had never imagined that decades after our college, we would all be discussing so many different facets of life and sharing our thoughts and memories. Truly remarkable!!!
Srinath, We had a great time replying to those prompts!! And so many beautiful thoughts were shared as replies to those prompts. I thoroughly enjoyed.
-Nagraj
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