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I am jubilant. I have stayed away from the newspaper for a week. The feeling of nausea due to overconsumption of information has finally ceased. I have even stayed away from the many news channels that crowd the first 50 channels of my television box. So what if the world is slipping deeper into recession and India is anticipating two events (IPL and the Elections) which will see expenditure of 0.6% of our GDP in just over a month? Not much can change within a week. At least nothing that has any influence on me. Why the sudden aversion from current affairs one may ask. I was preparing for a b-school interview. The array of questions that they can ask you is insane. And as a result, even if you consider yourself to be generally well-read, you are never as ‘aware’ as your interviewers are of the world around you, at least you don’t interpret things they way they do. Hence to try to raise the bar, I was reading like never before, reading topics which I would conveniently skip otherwise, ...
On my trip to Bangalore, I had gone out on a walk with my maternal grandfather, or Nana, as I lovingly call him. Most of the time he was feeling his way along the road. Feeling because he couldn't see. He developed Glaucoma a few years ago after a stroke and ever since his vision has kept degrading reaching a figure of 25% of normal this year. He was also not able to recognize the sound of approaching vehicles since he couldn't hear their engines rattle. He is deaf in one ear and partially deaf in the other. To illustrate, he would not know a truck is approaching him till it is around 10 feet away from him. Despite his health constraints, he has never missed his 5 KM morning walk in the past 23 years that I have known him. Of course, the walk I was on with him was not a morning walk since my morning happens a good four hours after his. It was just a stroll to the vegetable market. We reached a road crossing. It was a two way road with three lanes in each direction separated by ...
The air is dry Truth is a far cry Do you feel the prick on the skin? Why are you not hunting for truth within? Trees are shedding leaves There is someone who believes Is a leaf better dead than not alive? Is there a better meaning to your lives? Birds are migrating You men are struggling Isn't the world their playground? Why is it your battleground? The snow is sparkling white Your lives are blank How does the snow not stain? Why do you not feel another's pain? The winter season is here The search for reason is here Are you cold under the feeble sun? Did my heart unfold a story unsung?
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P.S Welcome back to the life of note-taking, class attendance and exams.
ALL THE BEST with everything :-)
And Belated Happy Birthday! (I wished you on Flickr, bah)
@Vishy..I can't tell you how much I am looking forward to it, though I have lost touch with studying.
@Pal..Yay!!
@sneha...You shd expect tht of me by nw.
@amit...thanks
@priya...Thank you. I have been vry busy to return to your blogs/albums but will soon once life returns back to normal.