tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10091830452742266032024-02-21T06:08:44.768+05:30The Dream CompassAll Sailors on board,
this be the promised land.Johnny Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987922023627786497noreply@blogger.comBlogger210125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009183045274226603.post-48437194350992536882013-09-11T21:24:00.000+05:302013-09-11T21:24:28.882+05:30Delirium<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have forgotten now, the scent of sunlight ever since I
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Each morning as I am catapulted from the chasm of my dreams,
I see the first rays of sunlight paint these filthy walls purple. My head is
still reeling from the visions of hell fire and annihilation, and suddenly those
eyes; cold, hard and peace less as they are, make my existence feel like a
peaceful pulsation. These windows, with shards of glass on their edges, let the
cold November wind intrude into this house that was never a home. Sundays are
the most painful for us. She had nowhere to go, and I had no one but her ever
since I was with her. </div>
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I have burnt my existence away, ever since I chanced upon
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She climbs out of bed, with a disgust that seems to me so immaculate.
I caress the side of the bed where she laid, the side that’s lucky to still
touch her skin, to still feel her breath, to still catch her tears. She
undresses with her back towards me. I see those scars on her back; it was the
skin that bled where her wings had grown and had ruthlessly been clipped out. I
longed to reach out and touch the indented piece of flesh, but those eyes;
those eyes flashed full on me all of a sudden, and I squirmed away with overwhelming
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My reality has slipped away from my fingers, ever since I
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She painted a door that led me to
a world, where the torture of love was blissfully sweet. All these years I have
known not of happiness, but of those emotions that you have no word for, but
know them only by the absence of something that you do; perfect calm, perfect
terror, and the existential reality of the non-existent.</div>
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My veracity has been ebbing away,
ever since I chanced upon those fateful eyes.</div>
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I still remember the first time
our fates entwined. She looked like a fallen angel from a land short of heaven,
as troubled as trouble could be. With lace not ribbons did she make, but she
made a snare to capture my existence and choke it till I believed it to be rightfully
hers. I heard church bells in the distance, and even the leafless trees seemed
to bend around her by the gravity of her mere being. And when those eyes, those
eyes that stabbed me for the worse gazed right into mine, I felt the hair on my
neck stand up in fear, like acetone on my skin. And as she placed her frigid
lips against mine, an odd sense of satisfaction seemed to seep in, and the
sense of belonging to anything else, any place else, and anyone other than her
seemed to vanish from my memory. I felt myself crumble under the strength of
her love. Collapse. I felt the brittle edges of my existence dissolve into hers.
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I forgot to live for myself, ever
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Now, many years later, her silence
is screaming for escape. But I realized that only when she left. I would've
realized that her screams became more apparent and louder as the times passed
by, or that the kisses stopped feeling frigid and felt like nothing at all, if she
hadn't consumed me whole. I lost all my judgment the day she clawed at my skin and
as she bit my lips in frenzy. Her love, if it was ever love, festered on ever
since then and has always fed off of my deplorable self as I slowly became a
bundle of despondency. </div>
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All sense of my anguish was lost
on her, ever since I chanced upon those fateful eyes.</div>
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Her skin has always been lifeless,
but to me has always felt like spring. Her kisses devoid of all passion, but to
me felt like nothing could have tasted better. Her eyes have always been cruel, her
iris transparent, her existence a lie, but to me, they’re an oculus to the only
world I belong to. And today, when she got out of bed, I decided not to look at
her since it angered her so much. I heard the satin slowly slip off her skin. I
heard her getting into that black lace dress that sounded so fragile, I’m
surprised every time she wears it, it doesn't tear. I heard her zip up her
dress, and walk away in those pencil heels that she hated. But then, I can
never be sure of what she loves and what she hates now.</div>
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Always have I known that I could
keep her, but never have her, ever since I chanced upon those fateful eyes.</div>
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In my consummation, I sit against
these windows with shards of glass that let in the cold November wind, into
this house that was never a home, and saw her walk away. I wanted to ask her
why she wasn't taking the car that day, but a voice within, that sounded oddly
familiar, seemed to tell me to let her walk away. </div>
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And years after I chanced upon
those fateful eyes, have I finally woken up from a dream, so strange and so
obscure. And the eerie sense of incompleteness that comes almost simultaneously
puts me at ease, like I’<a href="" name="_GoBack"></a>ve been snapped out of a lifelong
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Varun Bansalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190603206713485040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009183045274226603.post-36024428962251059572013-08-26T22:45:00.001+05:302013-08-26T22:45:13.960+05:30Music Review: Imagine Dragons<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I mean get over it already! So the first song I heard was, again, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9.8pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Calibri; mso-armenian-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-currency-font-family: Calibri; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Calibri; mso-default-font-family: Calibri; mso-greek-font-family: Calibri; mso-hebrew-font-family: Calibri; mso-latin-font-family: Calibri; mso-latinext-font-family: Calibri; mso-thai-font-family: Calibri;">Radioactive</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9.8pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Calibri; mso-armenian-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-currency-font-family: Calibri; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Calibri; mso-default-font-family: Calibri; mso-greek-font-family: Calibri; mso-hebrew-font-family: Calibri; mso-latin-font-family: Calibri; mso-latinext-font-family: Calibri; mso-thai-font-family: Calibri;">, which is undoubtedly the most popular track of their debut album (</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9.8pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Calibri; mso-armenian-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-currency-font-family: Calibri; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Calibri; mso-default-font-family: Calibri; mso-greek-font-family: Calibri; mso-hebrew-font-family: Calibri; mso-latin-font-family: Calibri; mso-latinext-font-family: Calibri; mso-thai-font-family: Calibri;">Night Visions</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9.8pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Calibri; mso-armenian-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-currency-font-family: Calibri; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Calibri; mso-default-font-family: Calibri; mso-greek-font-family: Calibri; mso-hebrew-font-family: Calibri; mso-latin-font-family: Calibri; mso-latinext-font-family: Calibri; mso-thai-font-family: Calibri;">). But I wouldn’t call it that. Two more tracks into this album and you’ll find more fascinating music you may not have heard in a long time. Somehow this group has produced a new thrillingly ‘percussive’ form of stadium anthem-ish music which I’m sure I have never heard before. The energy is amazing and the vocals (Dan Reynolds) especially, just add to the album’s raw emotional instability. 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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12528248366255904680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009183045274226603.post-32117025617031390952013-08-03T02:08:00.000+05:302013-08-03T02:08:32.084+05:30Book Review - And The Mountains Echoed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Johnny Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987922023627786497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009183045274226603.post-32454549985658091012013-06-29T01:06:00.000+05:302013-06-29T01:06:27.666+05:30Blackhole<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The answer to life is nowhere to be seen, <br />
Sailing in an old scotch bottle, <br />
The answer is lost in the pacific.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">All directions show no promise; <br />
None shows the path to true happiness.<br />
I hear, I listen, I even try to see, <br />
But the words that fumble from my mouth, <br />
Are still melancholic and shear,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">People try to guide me to wisdom;<br />
They try to show me light.<br />
My questions are bigger, beyond the natural,<br />
My questions are beyond the heaven and the hell, <br />
They have a mind of their own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The answers I begged for make me feel weak and low,<br />
These are not the words you tell a sailor,<br />
Who is yet to start the engine of his Titanic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">These words consume everything you once felt or will ever feel,<br />
They take you to a different dimension,<br />
Where real is unreal,<br />
Where real is surreal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I hope I could not have heard it,<br />
I hope somebody had stopped me,<br />
But as I waited for that somebody to appear,<br />
My answers presented to me an alternate reality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Now I want to go back to the place I come from.<br />
I want to forget everything,<br />
My questions, their answers, their significance, their depth, everything.<br />
I want to be that child I once was,<br />
Not the child who yells without any vocal chords.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I try to be my past self.<br />
I try to rewind to restart.<br />
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Those question do not stop the haunt,<br />
They chase me again almost taking control,<br />
I fight with might with all the energy I can muster,<br />And I am winning those daily battles.<br />
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.1999pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Calibri; mso-armenian-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-currency-font-family: Calibri; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Calibri; mso-default-font-family: Calibri; mso-greek-font-family: Calibri; mso-hebrew-font-family: Calibri; mso-latin-font-family: Calibri; mso-latinext-font-family: Calibri; mso-thai-font-family: Calibri;">"Where do I want to go?" you have no answer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.1999pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Calibri; mso-armenian-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-currency-font-family: Calibri; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Calibri; mso-default-font-family: Calibri; mso-greek-font-family: Calibri; mso-hebrew-font-family: Calibri; mso-latin-font-family: Calibri; mso-latinext-font-family: Calibri; mso-thai-font-family: Calibri;">You can see your face, but just<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.1999pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Calibri; mso-armenian-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-currency-font-family: Calibri; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Calibri; mso-default-font-family: Calibri; mso-greek-font-family: Calibri; mso-hebrew-font-family: Calibri; mso-latin-font-family: Calibri; mso-latinext-font-family: Calibri; mso-thai-font-family: Calibri;">A plethora of colors all around you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.1999pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Calibri; mso-armenian-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-currency-font-family: Calibri; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Calibri; mso-default-font-family: Calibri; mso-greek-font-family: Calibri; mso-hebrew-font-family: Calibri; mso-latin-font-family: Calibri; mso-latinext-font-family: Calibri; mso-thai-font-family: Calibri;">"Who am I?" you have no answer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.1999pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Calibri; mso-armenian-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-currency-font-family: Calibri; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Calibri; mso-default-font-family: Calibri; mso-greek-font-family: Calibri; mso-hebrew-font-family: Calibri; mso-latin-font-family: Calibri; mso-latinext-font-family: Calibri; mso-thai-font-family: Calibri;">Everything is blurry now, you realize you're weeping<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.1999pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Calibri; mso-armenian-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-currency-font-family: Calibri; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Calibri; mso-default-font-family: Calibri; mso-greek-font-family: Calibri; mso-hebrew-font-family: Calibri; mso-latin-font-family: Calibri; mso-latinext-font-family: Calibri; mso-thai-font-family: Calibri;">In too deep, so lost, so hopeless<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.1999pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Calibri; mso-armenian-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-currency-font-family: Calibri; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Calibri; mso-default-font-family: Calibri; mso-greek-font-family: Calibri; mso-hebrew-font-family: Calibri; mso-latin-font-family: Calibri; mso-latinext-font-family: Calibri; mso-thai-font-family: Calibri;">You let it all out, the anger, frustration, despair,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.1999pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Calibri; mso-armenian-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-currency-font-family: Calibri; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Calibri; mso-default-font-family: Calibri; mso-greek-font-family: Calibri; mso-hebrew-font-family: Calibri; mso-latin-font-family: Calibri; mso-latinext-font-family: Calibri; mso-thai-font-family: Calibri;">Overwhelmed by the melancholy of it all<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.1999pt; language: en-US; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Calibri; mso-armenian-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-currency-font-family: Calibri; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Calibri; mso-default-font-family: Calibri; mso-greek-font-family: Calibri; mso-hebrew-font-family: Calibri; mso-latin-font-family: Calibri; mso-latinext-font-family: Calibri; mso-thai-font-family: Calibri;">"What have I done?", you have no answer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Johnny Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987922023627786497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009183045274226603.post-84032042462830871512013-05-30T01:57:00.000+05:302013-05-30T01:57:21.560+05:30The One Night Stance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Johnny Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987922023627786497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009183045274226603.post-32091076652238393622013-05-14T12:18:00.000+05:302013-05-14T12:18:03.354+05:30The Sinner's Act<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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But you still couldn't feel<br />
No matter how many times you fell<br />
But you still couldn't heal<br />
No matter how many times you woke up<br />
To the music of the gale apart,<br />
As the children plunged their knives<br />
Right in the middle of your heart<br />
To believe in a fairy tale is a child's dream<br />
For the poison rain in which you once played<br />
I strip the soul off its chaste innocence<br />
And the body burns in which the shadow once laid<br />
Tell me would you rise just to be buried inside?<br />
Tell me would you run away just to win a fight?<br />
Your life is free from every fair frontier<br />
It's all over in a matter of your eternal plight<br />
Don't you remember the time when life went free?<br />
The birth of you and the death of me<br />
The children are back with their hands full<br />
And the blizzard is knocking on your door<br />
Tell me would you cry to never feel?<br />
Or kill yourself only to never heal?<br />
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- Harshil Bhardwaj<br />
2nd Year, Meta<br />
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Johnny Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987922023627786497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009183045274226603.post-25604743651967731422013-05-12T14:33:00.000+05:302013-05-12T14:33:44.535+05:30Special Theory of Relative Cannibalism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Statutory Warning: The views expressed in this article may
be unsuitable for the holier-than-thou, self righteous people with low self
esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. Also if you are a
10 pointer, this article is not for you. It may be relevant for some low level
backlog chap but since you are above all that, why don’t you go to library and
borrow some books, a**hole (you know the word)</div>
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Of all the violinists considered smart, Einstein was the
silliest. For his obsession with relativity had such a profound trickle down
effect on our policy makers that they decided to stuff relativity in every possible
way they can in our education system, thus turning a perfectly functional,
cordial classroom into a $#!thole of cynicism, an every man for himself (or,
for that hot girl sitting ahead ) zone. But then, who am I kidding. Hot girls
and engineering almost seem like an oxymoron (Being in an oestrogen starved
branch makes matters worse). On seconds thoughts, ranting on about hot girls,
or rather the lack of them, in a technical college has become such a cliché and
since there will always be those thick headed, android 2.1 using orthodox who
just can’t suppress their urge to employ a cliché, so I happily leave that topic
to them. Soon after falling in this deep sinkhole of higher studies, I
uncovered some pretty depressing facts about my beloved college and all of
those problems had something to do, in one way or the other, with this concept
of relativity which those nonchalant policy makers have such inhumanly embodied
in our curriculum (again, screw you Einstein!).If those incompetent old clowns
can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country. And yet, are still
voted back to power because of idiots like you (yes, you!). And our college
complements that by putting up an atrocious attendance system and by keeping an
obscure curriculum, with that redundant train engine and helicopter being an
apt symbolism of this obscurity. Legend has it that the Air Force helicopter
once landed for a minor repair work and it couldn't fly back. Ever again. True
story!</div>
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Now, allow me to commit sacrilege on the 10 commandments of
our sacred CGPA system in which you get an opport<a href="" name="_GoBack"></a>unity to
get screwed with your pants on, by a bunch of no life 10 and 9 pointers over
and over and over and over and over again (sounds cruel? well, it is). But a
few 9 pointers might come in handy for copying assignments from. And the most
intelligent decision taken by the authorities (and perhaps the only) is to let
4 photocopy shops open in the PEC market so that the time wasted in
photocopying assignments can be considerably reduced. And boy, how much I love
assignment deadlines! I almost have a fetish for the jet like sound they make
as they fly by. But if you are a 9 pointer (and most likely you are not), then
after some time of good intention-ed assignment sharing, you start feeling like
an open source software (a prostitute everyone uses but no one pays).</div>
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And speaking of grades, getting wasted the night before
exams just because of an inconsequential binge dare won’t help your case
either. But ‘Dare’ is the one word that makes the ego levels reach the zenith
and makes you drink like a fish and smoke like a chimney. ‘No, I am a pussy’ should be your reply
because the prospects of a possible one more year of going through that same
hell (i.e. year back) don’t seem too appealing. Besides, smoking kills. And if
you’re killed, you have lost a very important part of your life. But I know for
sure people will continue doing that and the legacy will go on, even though it
may seem nonsensical in hindsight. Because, perhaps, making sense is too
mainstream (note to self: stop using clichés, you moron!). That one guy defying
the mass cut, that one girl submitting assignments on time, it’s because of
teacher’s pets like you (again, you!) that the entire class suffers for four
consecutive years. If only we could remain unite. <i>You are not special. You are not a beautiful or rare gemstone. You are
the same decaying organic matter as everything else.</i> So let us shun our
differences and stop fighting over petty issues such as grades and placements.
Let’s be united for once and make this world a happier place. Or maybe, smoke
weed, get high and give the same number of #*%&s as the number of d**ks in
Justin Bieber's pants. Amen.</div>
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The crow moaned, a black cat waltzed by,</div>
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That night I woke up, bathed in sweat,<br />
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To escape this all, I sought religion,</div>
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Seconds became months, months became years,</div>
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Enlightenment beckoned from the distance</div>
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Nightmares and black cats ceased their existence,</div>
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I knew it well.</div>
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Johnny Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987922023627786497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009183045274226603.post-75250533019077675562013-05-07T01:43:00.000+05:302013-05-07T01:43:01.653+05:30The Happy Boy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background: white;">And pockets filled with all things pretty.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">With a heart full of joy,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">And a barrel of happy juices.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">He trots through hills and valleys alike.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">With the gaze of a tomahawk, stares around.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Looking for the distant Shiela placed,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Amongst yellow blooms and toxic ravines.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">He plans his entrance with tedious detail.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">The happy boy glances, drops of sunshine.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">A cool breeze she feels, her bosom.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">He watches her, her moves. How he watches her!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">With songs of love, of tragedy, and life.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Percussion, strings and notes unheard.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">With a funny twang and a perpetual bang.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">He enters tip-toeing into her sphere.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">His charm, and his heavenly pleasure,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Putting at rest the world and her defenses.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">With a touch, a smile and a wink,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">He puts her world in a joyous topsy turvy.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">For the happy boy places his seed deep within;</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">A seed wrapped in myriads of packets of
happiness.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">With his conquest made, and a life changed,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">The happy boy trots on to hills and valleys
alike.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white;">-Avneet Hira,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;">General</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white;"> Secretary, SAASC (2012-2013)</span></span></div>
Johnny Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987922023627786497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009183045274226603.post-71708099024209371472013-05-03T00:41:00.000+05:302013-05-07T01:49:58.575+05:30L.A.S.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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you. You love them, hate them, like them, dislike them, or maybe the existence
is just a part of your regular life, but it still fills a part in the life you
live. The existence of all the people in one’s life defines an individual. We
know that. We all know that. What we don’t know, or maybe just don’t care
enough about, is that the absence of an individual can affect one’s life in a
greater possible way, compared to any other thing in the world. We all love, we
all live, and well, we all kill, but never do we think about our actions as
right or wrong, or good or bad. We never think what impact we can have on
someone, or what impact others can have on us. The impact is just a mere
significance, or the instant attraction towards a person, not necessarily in a
sexual manner, but the way in which one becomes a fan, a follower. And that’s
probably the best thing to do in this life, to be that person, who becomes an
idol, or maybe just a person to look up to.
To be someone who matters. To be someone who does the work. To be
someone who will always be remembered, and kept in mind, even if keeping in
sight is no more an option. We all will define our lives, but influencing
someone else’s will be the better thing to do. To live is easy, but to live a
life is tough. It’ll be a tough experience to laugh, to be sad, to be happy, or
to be mad, the correct way, at the correct time, with all the right people, but
it’ll be all that matters.</div>
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err is human, and that is all that we must know. Knowing and expecting beyond
our capacity is what does not happen. One never knows when the time will end,
or when there will be a new start, as there is too little time to worry about
such things, as life is what it is, and we all live through it. It’ll happen to
you when you’re busy pouring yourself a glass of scotch, and thinking what it
would be like, if it would have been different. It could have been better, or
worse, or maybe just the same, and the significance might just have changed.
And even if it would have been different, one day it would have come to an end,
just like everything does and everything will. But one thing that will still
stay when there’s no skin, will be the impact, and the significance. The fact
that you loved, or you hated. The fact that you lived for all of it. And here I
sit today with my drink, thinking, how different it would have been, if some
would still have been there. How would it have affected me? And I wait, for all
of it, for my share of it, for me to matter, and for me to exist.</div>
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Johnny Bananashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987922023627786497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009183045274226603.post-18881807824911596512013-03-04T22:38:00.000+05:302013-03-04T22:44:26.660+05:30Everything is right<br />
A dog can see all around him only in black and white, whereas, a bee can see thousands of colours.<br />
It is an interesting observation that the world around us is the same, but everybody sees and experiences it differently. So, do you experience the world right, or do I see it right? What is the right way to live?<br />
To a certain degree, people analyse day to day affairs with respect to a certain set of rules. These sets of rules might be defined by an individual himself, or they could be adapted from religion, plenty of stuff to choose from..<br />
Now see, the problem is that on a planet full of 7 billion people, with every guy having a different set of rules/views on life, these views often tend to clash. Say for example, the Hindu-Muslim clash in our country and many more around the world on smaller and larger scales. This is because of the common understanding that in the case of two opposing arguments, only one is correct and the other is commended to oblivion.<br />
<b>THIS NEED NOT BE!!!</b><br />
<br />
<i>Allow me to recollect an ancient Jain story..</i><br />
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<b>The Four Blind Men</b> </blockquote>
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In a small village lived four blind men. They were told about an exotic animal that was going to be brought to the village; the elephant. None of them had ever seen or heard about an elephant before, so they decided to go find out what an elephant was really like.When taken to the elephant, visual inspection was obviously not possible. So they began touching and feeling the elephant to get a mental picture of the animal. The man who was standing near the legs of the elephant commented that the animal seemed like some sort of pillar. The person near the trunk inferred that it was some sort of snake. The man holding the tail imagined it to be somewhat similar to a dog or a donkey. The fourth man examined the belly of the elephant and declared it to be a blob of meat. Even months after the elephant went,the four blind men quarrelled about the shape and size of the elephant, and took this dispute to their graves.</blockquote>
The point to be realised here is that none of them were wrong, each one of them was correct in their own perspectives. <b>But all of them missed the bigger picture</b>, and also lost their friendship in the process. This is exactly what is happening in today's world. Everybody seems to have developed a certain understanding of the world, and will valiantly defend it in case of any arising contradictions, without realising that both of them might be correct, at the same time.<br />
All I'm trying to say is that after listening to all this, if you still think that your viewpoint is correct, then you have every right to think so; but if you say that your views are right and mine are wrong, then no body in this world would be more wrong than you.And this is how everything and everyone is right; ' wrong-ness' is in declaring other people to be wrong.<br />
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-'Maharaja' SP<br />
(2nd year, Mechanical)Priyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04466123018157713023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009183045274226603.post-6013563953788974642013-03-04T21:25:00.003+05:302013-03-04T21:25:47.202+05:30Food Review: Viva Mexico! (Sector 10, right above “shots”)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US">So my friends told me that there is this
really amazing and decently priced Mexican food joint just 5 minutes from
college. Who dare stop me from going there now? <br />
A narrow staircase in the market of sector 10 led to the extremely brightly
colored ambiance. But that didn't matter because it completely gelled with the
mood. And what mood is that you may ask? Loving life, carefree and listening to
Mexican songs of which you understand nothing but still enjoy it kind of a mood.
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As soon as you enter you encounter a very customer friendly food presentation
which would remind you of subway but the only difference being it’s not just
raw veggies! The chicken Quesadillas are definitely a must have. The cheese
melts in your mouth without suppressing the flavor of chicken. I guess the veg
Quesadillas are also good but being a hardcore non vegetarian, I never tried
them. In case you thought that this was all the place had to offer, you’re
wrong. If you’re nice enough and lucky they might just let you wear the
sombreros to “enhance the Mexican experience” or so the manager said. <br />
People who have average eating habits could easily get their stomach filled in
Rs.<a href="" name="_GoBack"></a> 200. A major downer for me was the burrito, it tasted
like rajmah chawal wrapped in a roti. Maybe I don’t know what burritos taste
like, but if this is the answer, I am never having burritos in my life ever
again. All in all if you can’t decide what to eat in the 1 hour break of
college, try out this place. In most cases, it won’t disappoint you. </span></div>
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It all amuses us. The fact, that we are where we are, or the
place where we could have been. It is all a second life we think about all the
time. The love, the pain, the speech, all would have been different. It’s a
very complicated feeling to explain. But is it right to think about all that
could have been there? Should we, not rather think about how we are right now,
the place where we live, and the place we would eventually. Why do we feel
something which has already happened is more important, and needs to be given a
thought, when we can very well sit down, and think about more important things
in life? <br />
We complicate things, we complicate relationships, we complicate feelings, only
because of our complicated thoughts. Life plays with us, in so many different
ways, that we can’t understand the difference between the hopeless reality, and friction less virtual world. But do we
live enough in whatever we do? We have our moments of happiness, and our
moments of remorse. We might lose ourselves, and we might gain what one had
never thought. Does every step to our future matter, and must affect us in a
manner we can or cannot deal with? Does the ideal reality have to be achieved
by each individual to have our human needs and desires satisfied?<br />
But there are external methods and ways
to satisfy the needs. We have our precious little soldiers of death,
multiplying our capacities, but killing our desires, and our existence. We need
them sometime, only to realize later that it might not have been necessary, and
we might just have been able to deal without it. We might have been able to
make a better person out of ourselves. Life does not always rewind, at least
not for what we have lived to see. We might think of ourselves as rebels, and
make our own Hell’s Kitchen, but the truth does not lie there. We have our
loveless desires to take care of, whether it is known or not. Whether we accept
it or not. The future might be petrifying, but just thinking about how it might
affect us in a good or a bad manner,
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009183045274226603.post-31978227438157733182012-11-06T19:08:00.001+05:302012-11-06T19:08:54.153+05:30DON'T KILL ME OR KILL ME MOM<br />
Don’t kill me mom,<br />
Before I open my eyes<br />
With my going away,<br />
A part of you too dies…<br />
<br />
Don’t kill me mom,<br />
What wrong have I done?<br />
That I don’t get to watch the moving tides,<br />
The beautiful moon, the colourful sun...<br />
<br />
Don’t kill me mom,<br />
I’ll make you proud<br />
Explore the deep seas, reach<br />
The sky, stand apart from the crowd.<br />
<br />
Don’t kill me mom,<br />
Shouldn’t I be the one to decide?<br />
To live or not, I can but<br />
Plead to you from deep inside.<br />
<br />
Or kill me mom,<br />
Rather than making me work<br />
At an age when I ought to be playing<br />
Instead of bearing a painful jerk...<br />
<br />
Or kill me mom,<br />
I don’t want to walk through streets<br />
At nights, when alone, feared<br />
To be raped by those merciless beast.<br />
<br />
Or kill me mom,<br />
For money, I don’t want to be beaten<br />
By my own man, when we are two bod-ies,<br />
But one soul, only in written.<br />
<br />
Or kill me mom,<br />
Isn’t it better to die?<br />
Before being born, rather than<br />
Bearing everyday a 100 deaths’ cry.<br />
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-Sajal Sehgal, 2nd year<br />
Priyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04466123018157713023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009183045274226603.post-33612530396452449072012-10-29T16:25:00.000+05:302012-10-29T16:25:35.890+05:30Music review- Foo Fighters <br />
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<b><i><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">FOO FIGHTERS – WASTING
LIGHT (2011)</span></u></i></b></h2>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPVJoC1D-H8d33XRcsJPfQEkfAq3EAH2V_0_ldazwmfD5vJy4ir8ZUhIeddSCIpkoB2Ob9bErMsaKhE52kDIGQOkuWCnZIjn9cfJUH_1uhtDRtCpBxFpT9QwQZQOwpvIrI1GG6C8-GkpGC/s1600/Foo+Fighters.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPVJoC1D-H8d33XRcsJPfQEkfAq3EAH2V_0_ldazwmfD5vJy4ir8ZUhIeddSCIpkoB2Ob9bErMsaKhE52kDIGQOkuWCnZIjn9cfJUH_1uhtDRtCpBxFpT9QwQZQOwpvIrI1GG6C8-GkpGC/s320/Foo+Fighters.jpg" width="320" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Not only is Dave Grohl, Foo Fighter's founder/frontman/guitarist,
committed to never let rock die, his post-grunge band's seventh effort since
1994 is unapologetically a classic act in virtually every way. The Foo Fighters
have avoided their fancy studio lodgings for this album, opting instead to
record the entire album in Grohl's garage! The result is a no-nonsense
collection of raw, roaring, straight-up rock tune paired with lyrics that are
often as impenetrable as Grohl's snarling vocals and ferocious guitar riffs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Burning Bridges:</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">
Hyper Energetic<i> </i>with the echo of
Grohl’s intro chant of “These are my famous last words” and you know that
you’re in for one hell of ride.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Rope</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">: S</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">tarts with echo coated clattered
guitars before crashing into mahogany-rich cymbals. In short, kickass vocals;
kickass riff and kickass drums!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">White Limo:</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Album’s heaviest track, where Dave Grohl’s screaming vocals
bang through most of it. The lyrics are majorly distorted and this itself adds
to the garage-recorded-thrash-metal feel to this song. However this seems
overdone at times and the endless screaming and growling becomes tiresome and (one might even say) irritating by the end of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><i>Arlandria</i> </b>and <b><i>These Days</i></b> are tough, unstable
energy ballads in their own melancholic spirit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Walk:
</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This song is what will make your time
spent on listening to this 47-minute album worthwhile. Y</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ou can almost feel yourself ‘million
miles away’ and this is clearly the best 4 minutes of music to come out this
album.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After "<b>Wasting Light</b>", it’s safe to say that anyone who compares Foo
Fighters with Nirvana has either never heard them or has been too busy immortalizing
Nirvana to hear them. And yes! Dave Grohl is not just ‘the drummer from
Nirvana’. He is <i>the</i> Dave Grohl -
founder, lead vocalist and guitarist of Foo Fighters!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: #441500; color: #ffeedd; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Other Songs of the
Album: <i>Dear Rosemary, Back & Forth,
Miss the Misery, I Should’ve Known, Matter of Time<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></div>
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</v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Best of Foo Fighters: <i>Walk, Rope, The Pretender (</i></span></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace),
Best of You (In Your Honor), All This Time (One by One).<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">-Harshil Bhardwaj</span></div>
Priyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04466123018157713023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009183045274226603.post-6220222315757726682012-10-29T16:11:00.002+05:302012-10-29T16:11:55.707+05:30The Cliff<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">And as he leaped off the cliff, all sense
of fear seemed to evade him. Instead, after the initial few seconds, a sense of
calmness seemed to overcome him. Adjusting himself against the rush of the wind,
he seemed to realize an almost universal truth. He realized that at the age of
56 having accomplished what he wanted and having given the most of what he
could, he really had no regret in dying.
He realized that instead of being unable to contribute positively
anymore to the world, is it not better to snuff one’s self out? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The fall really was unlike anything he had
ever expected. He had gone skydiving but this was so much more different; so
much more raw. This fall, unlike his countless others seemed to have a sense of
purpose and fulfillment. There wasn't going to be any parachute that would snap
open and slow him down. This time he would fall, faster and faster until only a
smear of him would be left on the unforgiving rocks below. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Still he remained calm. There was no
flashing of his life in front of his eyes or anything of that sort. He felt
nothing but a strange tranquility. He actually enjoyed this one final
experience, the wind howling in his ears, the saliva whipped away from his
mouth and with the wind hammering at his eyes too hard for him to open them, he
barely saw the rocks approaching. And just as everything went dark, he smiled.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">-Varun Balaji, 1st year</span></div>
Priyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04466123018157713023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009183045274226603.post-21610309839420291652012-10-15T20:07:00.000+05:302012-10-15T20:07:39.199+05:30Nowhere to go<div class="MsoNormal">
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His life is filled with unmatched freedom, wants it no other
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Armed with his polythene bag, he grinds for his daily bread</div>
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Scrounges for plastic bottles, in every shape and size he can
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Spends everything he has, says no reason to save</div>
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It will be stolen anyway, let me live my royal way<a href="" name="_GoBack"></a></div>
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He hides from me under the platform stairs, whitener fluid
in hand</div>
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Sniffing it all day, it feels being back in his mother's lap</div>
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He was six; his uncle brought him to this town he did not
know</div>
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Six more years have passed; the life promised is still
unknown</div>
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He has no future, just as he has had no past</div>
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Still he lives with fervor, with hopes that just forever
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-Pranav Kapoor, 1st year</div>
Priyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04466123018157713023noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009183045274226603.post-38534210814721017512012-10-09T22:46:00.000+05:302012-10-09T22:46:31.352+05:30In the name of survival, we thrust<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I live
here, but here is not where I belong,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">The path deserted and the journey
long.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Behold life around me tight, and I
wince in pain.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">The smiles are marked, for tears
merge with rain.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I sleep with my dreams; dread the
moon a tonne,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Wake up to my mares, I fall in love
with the Sun.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Pages that are blank, everything do
they reveal,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">When the thoughts burn, injuries come
to heal.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I want a way out, part of me stays,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Two-faced I am, half of me slays.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">My May begins in March, dies in
August.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">The other half – blood, love and
lust.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Follow my instincts? Unlikely I am to
please,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Toe the line? Too low to appease.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Considerations do adhere, evil does
thrive,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I don’t belong here, that is why I
must survive.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Gearing up my back, readying my
fists,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Battling rains, and clearing mists.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I question my methods, the Sword I
trust,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Come what may, turning them</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">to dust.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">In the name of survival, I thrust.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">In the name of survival, I trust.</span><a href="" name="_GoBack"></a></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">-Shirish Sharma, 1st year</span></div>
Priyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04466123018157713023noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009183045274226603.post-48741956846449170942012-10-08T23:56:00.000+05:302012-10-08T23:56:11.010+05:30Please kiss me goodbye<h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">I’m tired of waiting,</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">It does me no good;</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">I’m all ready for hiring</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">I’m way above the hood.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">I’ve come out after a long
time,</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Please let me leave;</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Your wishes are no longer
mine</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Space between us has
cleaved.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">You can be unfaithful now</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">You can do anything you
want;</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Just because you still bow</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">I’m still not yours for
grant.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">It’s your choice to stay</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">But I’d rather you don’t;</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">I want you far, far away</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Leave you a choice? No, I
won’t.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Please kiss me goodbye</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">It’s the easiest thing;</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">No need for drama, no need
to cry</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Walk away, for I’m not
waiting.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">-Kanika, 3rd year</span></div>
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Priyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04466123018157713023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009183045274226603.post-77597357003872762732012-10-06T11:07:00.000+05:302012-10-06T11:07:07.042+05:30A pleasant surprise<h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
sun only rose to pierce through my eyes. I woke up, reluctantly, with a feeling
of anxiety, a familiar feeling I had two years back. Was I heading
towards another rat race? The question was at the back of my mind throughout
that week. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
perception of mine came from the two years I spent in those cramped up
coaching classes, surrounded by fat specs and swollen
eyes .Struggling to feed their brains with what seemed to me
like useless knowledge with no practical application. Obviously there wasn’t a
room for socializing. Not a surprise, I expected the same from
college.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
anxiety gave way to laziness. "Come quick, you don’t even want to
miss a single minute of that orientation!" screamed my mom -<i> she
had no idea. </i>I threw myself at the back seat of the car as we started
off towards the much celebrated "PEC".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Another
frightening thought came to my mind on our way. I wasn’t going to stay at home;
I was going to live in a cubicle now. Loneliness scared me the most Most of my past two years were spent in a
minimally socializing routine , but <a href="" name="_GoBack"></a>there were always
parents and grandparents - not even them anymore .I wasn’t used to being alone
before the 11th grade , I am a defence kid !. I am sure it wasn’t
just me getting all these jitters. The very foundation of the education system
in India is <i>rat race and stampede. It compels many to be isolated
socially and, of course, depression.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
orientation was over and all that I had expected earlier was, thankfully,
contradicted. It wasn’t about academics, cgpa, the competitive world, etc. It
was actually refreshing. The clubs and societies actually existed, even better,
they are not all technical and after interacting with the crowd, the anxiety,
as if magically, vanished. Hostel wasn’t going to be lonely, that's
for sure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sure
it is too soon to judge the entire college life in two days but now I know
it's definitely not a coaching institute. I now have gathered
enough courage to carry on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now
I know what I have to look forward to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> -Tarun, 1st year</span></span></h3>
Priyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04466123018157713023noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009183045274226603.post-53738444310411280902012-10-01T23:18:00.000+05:302012-10-01T23:18:51.844+05:30Perfect Flaw<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">She sits in the corner </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">She sometimes does cry in her sleep </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">She waits for the night to fall </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">But no one seems to see </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Differs in her ways of love </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">They don't let her smile again </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">She sings in the silent dark </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">To walk her through restrain </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">She won't give a sigh out </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">She won't let you see the tears </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Lost into exasperations </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Their joy is all she fears </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">The way they look </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Down at her chest </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Smile and giggle </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">As yearns in disgust </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">She waits for eyes to pass away </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">As she looks down her ground starts to sway
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">She wants a pleasant dream in the day </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">But she fears to sleep after what all they
say </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Loud though she has always been </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">For what all our eyes have seen </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">She reaches the depths inside of her </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Which lets a bleeding sigh usher </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">She needs no pills. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Yet she loves the high </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">It gives her </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">What they all deny </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">She pleases their eye </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">For what they want to look </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">But complains is all </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">That she ever took </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So she runs away </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To a place she might find </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">To change what </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She left behind </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Someday she waits to wake and see </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">How beautiful inside she might be </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">She waits for someone to make her believe </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">For her the world he would leave </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">So she sits in the corner again </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Stares into the darkness, eyes start to
rain </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">But she won't break </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">She will fight them off </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">She won't stop </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">She knows what it'll take </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">She's heard them tell </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">She's heard them yell </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">She's taken the weight </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">What they compel </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">What she waits to know </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">What she waits to find </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To find silence </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Deep in her mind </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Though not sure </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">After what she saw </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">But what she doesn’t know </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">She's a perfect flaw.<a href="" name="_GoBack"></a></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">-Chaitanya Narula, 2nd year</span></div>
Priyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04466123018157713023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009183045274226603.post-76985508439177956872012-09-25T22:24:00.002+05:302012-09-25T22:26:17.157+05:30Strings<h3>
</h3>
<h3>
<span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">He had lost everything. Everything that ever mattered to him. His purpose in life had suddenly vanished. He stood </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">beneath the foggy dark skies as the rain camouflaged his tears. He looked down upon her cold motionless body </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">waiting for her to wake up from her ceaseless sleep. He looked at the wrecked red sedan his wife was driving that </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">day but it didn't matter. She stayed still. Motionless. Stable. Beautiful. It was a ghastly accident. We will have the </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">surveillance footage of every vehicle running by on the Western Express Highway. Some drunken car drive smashed </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">her car and ran away. I’m really sorry for your loss, Mr. Arun. He was told. She was dead and it wasn’t her fault. A </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">lump in his throat threatened to suffocate him. Their plan had been quite simple: to be together for the rest of their </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">lives. But it had happened. That day destiny had covetously changed its mind. Thoughts of their memories together </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">clouded his mind leaving out a tiny little corner in his brain. He thought of that man who had snatched away the happiness </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">of his life. A man he had never met and who he would probably never meet. But a man who had changed his life </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">forever. A man he would hate for the rest of his life. Sometimes life doesn't go as planned, son. But you’ve got to deal with it and move on. I did too. His neighbor, Col. Nayar, consoled him.</span></h3>
<h3>
<span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">Col. Nayar was a pleasant old man. He was a widower and lived alone. He came back to his apartment and </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">thought about Arun. Poor kid. A fleeting thought. He had a family once. A small happy family. A beautiful wife and </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">loving son. All that he could have ever asked for. But then, as they say, the gods of heaven grew jealous. First he lost </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">his wife to cancer and then his son ran away to avoid joining the army and never came back. Not that he had forced </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">his son to join the armed forces. I don’t think I’m good enough, dad. I’m sorry. His son had written in the letter. He </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">rose up from his chair and made tea for himself. There was no end to his days and nights. And none of the rooms in </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">the apartment gave him any solace; just the unwelcoming silence as he stared at every piece of furniture his wife or </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">his son had ever touched. Just as he took his first sip, the doorbell rang. He got up and took an urgent walk to see </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">who it was. It was Rehaan, the pension guy. Col. Nayar greeted him with a familiar smile. It was Rehaan’s monthly </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">job to deliver the pension to Col. Nayar. They rarely talked but exchanged hollow greetings everytime they met. </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">Rehaan was one of the few contacts that Col. Nayar had with the outside world. He took the small package, signed </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">the record sheet and closed the door. A long day ahead. Another fleeting thought.</span></h3>
<h3>
<span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">Everyone loved Rehaan. He looked average with a medium five foot eight frame with an unkempt mop of hair </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">on his head and a small patch of beard on his chin. He used to live near the shopping complex area with his best </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">friend, Charlie, whom he had known since they were kids. Rehaan had worked for the GNB bank for over two years </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">now. His boss was proud of him and had promised him a promotion within the next few months. But things were </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">not right. As he entered his house, the familiar feeling of guilt started obliterating his conscience. The house was </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">empty and Charlie was still not home. He knew he had been a terrible friend and a dreadful human being. And </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">somehow it all was linked to the girl named Avni. He’d met her a few months back during Charlie’s birthday party. </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">And even though he knew she was Charlie’s girlfriend, he was unwillingly attracted to her. Fate took a treacherous </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">turn and they ended up falling for each other. The day came when they could not keep it a secret and so one day </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">they confessed to Charlie. And that was the day Rehaan last saw his friend. All that he remembered was the huge </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">fight and Charlie storming out in his car with a legitimate rage. Now that he was gone, Rehaan had nobody. Not even </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">Avni. All he wanted to do was to apologize to his best friend about his brainless judgement. If only they could. </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">Rehaan snapped back to reality. He was still alone. He walked to the balcony and saw a bunch of kids playing in the </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">nearby playground. He thought more about the things he regretted doing in life. All the things. People he had lost. </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">Relationships he had lost. And most importantly, a brother he had lost. Forever.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">Charlie was mad. Incensed and Fuming. He felt cheated. Lying on his death-bed in the hospital, all the rights and wrongs he had committed flashed before his eyes. All the times when he did some things he shouldn't have done. And the times when he refused to do the things he should've done. It had been quite a few months when he </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">was informed that he had terminal stage lung cancer. Even the chemo-therapy did not work on him. He could see </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">everything. They say that when you’re about to die, that is the only time when the memories buried deep in the </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">untapped parts of your brain surface up. And that was happening. He remembered the time when he talked to his </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">high school crush and felt embarrassed when something absurd came out of his mouth; the time when he became </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">friends with Rehaan; the time when he swore in front of the teacher; the time he met and fell in love with Avni. </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">Avni. He was absolutely crazy about her. And then he remembered some more. The time when Rehaan and Avni </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">ditched him. He’d felt so feeble and weak. Ditched by his best friend and discarded by the love of his life, he felt </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">heartbroken. Miserable and dejected. And that is when it all started. The drugs, the alcohol and the depression. He </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. He remembered the times when Rehaan and </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">he used to swear to God that they would never let a girl come in the way of their friendship. But she did. And </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">everything got wrecked. And then he thought about the accident. The night when he was utterly wasted and was </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">still driving on the Western Express Highway. He could hazily see a red sedan coming on his way but he lost his </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">control. He could count every breath as his car smashed the red sedan brutally. He woke up from the shock minutes </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">later, got out of his car and dragged himself to the dead woman lying inside. His senses started to feel numb and the </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">feeling of guilt swallowed him. He collected himself and ran back to his car and vanished into thin air far away from </span><span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">the scene.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal;">-Harshil Bhardwaj, 2nd year</span></h3>
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Priyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04466123018157713023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009183045274226603.post-19841574363992076352012-09-20T22:06:00.001+05:302012-09-20T22:08:14.004+05:30Love in disguise<span style="font-weight: normal;">An infinite sky, billions of
people, still a myriad of emotions for that one person who doesn’t even care!
Our heart flies aimlessly like a kite, rising high in the sky, looking for its
destination. Still our mind wanders from place to place for a glimpse of that
person we barely know. Is it the dimples in his cheeks or stars in his eyes or
that soft curl of hair that gently touches his brow that is so charming? Those
awkward cum awesome moments of sheer thrill when our heart simply forgets to
beat and there is a rush of adrenaline like never before. The feeling of
walking on the clouds with the wind whizzing past and humming sweet notes
gently into our ears. This feeling, if nothing more than the after effects of a
hangover is equally intoxicating.</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">But is this what is love? Is he
the knight in shining armor ready to rescue his damsel in distress?</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">I believe love is a feeling much
above all this. It is when we share our little secrets with a friend and we
fight for him. It is when we get mad at him and still forgive him after
everything that happened. Sometimes in the hustle bustle of daily life we tend
to miss that one person who is always by our side. That one person who laughs
at us every time we do something stupid.That one person who’ll do anything just
to cheer us up when sad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">He silently hides in the veil of
friendship as our guardian angel. He so wishes to be our lover but what if he
ends up losing a wonderful friend. So, caught up in this spiral of love and
friendship, there he stands silently wishing that for once we could see through
his eyes and feel the same way as he does. True Love is not selfish and it is
not about getting the person we love. It’s the feeling that no matter what goes
wrong in life, that person will still be beside us. No matter how many
beautiful faces or charming people we come across everyday, it is the momentary
joy of having a brief glimpse of that person that provides warmth to our soul
just as the Winter Sun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">-Ravleen Chawla, 2nd year</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><br />
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