Category: musings
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I have a few questions here people! The pooja thali for referenceimage – google First how I arrived at them. Today while the rakhi tying ceremony, I remembered a lot of things Aai used to tell me as a kid. Don’t slouch, bend neatly, rotate the supari (areca nut says wiki..how fancy) and gold ring…
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KT and I are childhood friends. We studied in the same primary school, in same class, also belonged to the same ‘group of friends’. After that despite living in the same city and chance meetings, we landed together at engineering college. We are radically different (?) personalities and when we had gotten over all these…
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Everything has a first. Even a working weekend. I had never ever worked on a saturday (at least on a payroll) before today. So was pretty excited to be in office sans anyone else and be myself. 😉I kept my cabin door open, played music without the earphones i.e. loud enough to be heard outside,…
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All through life we see that people who are slow in any given activity get punished. Of course, it’s subjective. If you write slowly, you never finish your exams in time and suffer from comparatively less marks, affecting your acads. If you talk slowly, people get bored easily. If you walk slowly, you always get…
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As I stare out of the window, listening to the rustle of the leaves, the nearby chirping of the queer looking bird, velocity of the first rain drops hitting the ground, I wonder.. I wonder if you wonder too. How strange strings pull people together and equally stranger strings make them drift apart. Why do…
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Post palace of illusions. Mahabharata is something that finds its way to you. Of course if you are born an Indian, its easier. One can say Mahabharata stories were typical bed time stories as kids. One grew up on the fodder of virtuous Pandavs, evil kauravs, cunning shakuni, danveer karna, mayavi Krishna. It was always…
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# The other day a friend who visited school recently, told me that some of the teachers were asking about me. I was so elated that day! It made me think about random school stuff which I still follow, like sitting straight i.e. not slouching, no matter what, maintaining a flexible body (our phys ed…
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The other day, brother came home pretty distraught. He had witnessed an accident. No one was hurt but what happened at the site was thought-worthy. An auto driver dashed an innova. The lanky auto driver pretty much shaken and in a fit of revenge parked his vehicle and got out. The innova back door opened and a very…
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On such days you wonder why people who are having it so easy, crib ?Of course, it looks easier as an outsider. It always will. God only knows if its really any easy for them or not.Or may be whats your difficult may be their very very tough, can’t handle scenario. May be their difficult…
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So today I was thinking, when Independence did happen, in India with all the historic preludes and struggles, what was the common man doing ? No, no it did not arise out of some deep philosophical quest for answers. Neither do I want to sound un-patriotic or raise fingers on anyone’s patriotic duty. I am…