I have always held a grudge against growing up. The peter pan belief is so much more comfortable. All of a sudden I am this Post Graduate student and it seems I need to grow up in a spurt. Like I was asleep all of this while - stunted in a good way, lost in a right-out-of-adolescence phase and someone woke me up only for me to find  that years have ( Read more... )

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This post, unlike my most posts, has been written in different sittings. A part of me likes that I keep coming back to this post, adding some more to it. A part of me is pretty distressed, am I losing spontaneity?

I am writing in the eerie hours after quite a while and it truly feels like coming back home. The usual preoccupation is comfortably ( Read more... )

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On the "International Women's Day" I have just one wish, the women's reservation bill should NOT be passed and abandoned forever.

If my words are less on the genteel protest, read more from Lopa Mudra -> Here

Update: INC puts Bill on hold. Yay, yay!

Every once in a while I let my hair down and paint mushy pictures. ;) Last year I was on a mush spree around the valentine's day because of several writing contests. But, this year with the incentives missing, I gave the mush season a miss too.

To those, whom I might shock with the mush that is going to sweep this post, you can read some of the ( Read more... )

You can take the girl out of the school but you can't take out the All Girls Convent School out of the Girl.  :)

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The end and the beginning [yes, in the same order] are contorted myths. The concept of infinity [and eternity if you will] is beguiling, very. Sometimes it is comforting to see it as an assortment of infinite elements [moments] - the countless yet with definite end points. Sometimes as endless, the end approaching the beginning in a continuum.

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In the past few weeks I received quite a few nudges and this post is *dedicated* to all of them. So, all those who might find the post worthless, I was urged to post something and hence this. :P
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It amazes me how often we seek shelter in past glories. I was going through an old classmate's blog about school and felt mildly amused.
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I close my eyes

And it’s a lost horizon

With open skies -

Brilliant blues

Streaked with whites;

I could chase the breeze

Or just float by;

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