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Roaming the unnamed streets of the Old Town,
gazing up the mossy walls,
I knew my words were coated
with the moss of falsity.
Roaming the unnamed streets of the Old Town,
looking down the slimy gutters,
I knew my soul stank and was
full of filth.
Roaming the unnamed streets of the Old Town,
breathing in the air heavy,
I knew my sins were [...]
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Tags: Old Town, Religion, Heresy, Temptation, Worldly, Sins, Redemption, Hope
I was fortunate enough to go to a school which had English as the medium of communication. In those days, schools were less in number and most of them imparted education in vernacular languages. As I grew up during my schooling days I realised how much pain and struggle my parents had undertaken to put [...]
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Tags: Authors, Bhubaneshwar, Childhood, Dash Benhur, Education, English, English Course, Growing up, Library, Literature, NCERT, Schooldays, Schooling, Schools, Text books
Not wanting to return to an empty house, I spend most of my time at the workplace. Once a week, I spend almost 24 hours staight in the office … I come on a Friday and leave on a Saturday. In between, I do a lot of things apart from the obligatorial gorging, guzzling and [...]
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Tags: AC, Attempt at Humor, Childhood, Exaggerated Exaggeration, Exaggeration, Family, House, Summer sweat
Stop… Rewind… Play… Shit!
‘The reason I don’t go to many places and try not to meet many people is that I don’t want to feel sorry later. I’d come out of a place quite happy and cheerful having met so many people with who I’d a good time. But then I’d go over the entire episode, rewind and [...]
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Tags: Parties, Recluse, Regrets
Amid other things…
‘But what could you possibly write about?’, asked The Dude (not to be confused with The Big Lebowski guy). ‘You were out there all day and now that it’s too late, you’ll go home and probably sleep off. So are you going to write about the outing?’
‘I don’t know. Maybe I’ll write something about Closing [...]
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Tags: Don 2, Hasan Jahangir, Hawa Hawa, Jeet Upendra
The Group
“Don’t you really like to be in the centre of it all…? All eyes fixed on you? Sort of a hero?”
“Well, you don’t believe me, do you?”
“Not really… come on, who wouldn’t like to be the focus of all eyes?”
“You know, I’d never been the centre of our group. If one were to make a movie of [...]
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My story??
“As a skinny school going boy, I had found out that life could be so cruel at times. It could be a real torture just going on living. One would get late on the most important of school days like the Teacher’s Day or something similar, the barbarian teacher would just be present on the [...]
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Over here, I found out two new varieties of dosa. I mean, they were always there, but I hadn’t yet come across them, till this morning. These two varieties are called the Set Dosa and the Cut Dosa. There’s not much difference between the two, the reason which makes me question the prudence of having [...]
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Hung by the Hangman!
In the last 2 years I spent studying whatever I was destined to study (err… was I really studying?), I would spend more time in front of my computer than over the pages of an open book. It was not so much so as the love of computers, I never was interested much in computers, as [...]
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Gone are the days when one read about the amazing win of the slow and steady turtle over the quick and inconsistent hare. Back then, we would marvel at the splendid luck of the turtle which in our opinion made him the eventual winner. If the story was trying to instill a sense of steadiness [...]
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