Tag: observations
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May’ 24

there are times when I clench my fist so hard, my long lost wrist pain from a football injury makes a glorious comeback. May has been like that. Weird analogy I know but it has been a weird month. One insane high which pretty much everyone saw it coming that no fake news could be…
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Platform Ticket
Some dialogue writer wrote “Life is a race.” And then Chetan Bhagat somehow won the successful loser race. But it is a race against what exactly? Everyday I feel the race to finish is against multiple things. Towards peace? Towards freedoms? Towards victory. What after that? One more race, and then one more after which…
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I scream Chemistry
I was waiting outside this new CornDawg place, Z has been meaning to checkout for a while. Z was stuck in the whirlpool of the Saturday traffic so I was loitering around the lanes of Koramangala only to settle myself on my scooter to see mashed potato (Maltese breed) dogs, my current favourites according to…
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Hammock
Aren’t hammocks funny? Very unbalanced, you feel you will fall down. But also very comfy, still scary, makes you less weary? I have decided to sew mine now. Slowly though, not steadily. Nothing is steady these days, a teddy in hand to soak ew why type things would be nice. But I don’t want to…
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Blue Pencilled Hopes
I bunked work. I mean not really, I did what is now known as the Rohit version of bunking work according to the lovely people I work with. I start working 6 hours before I have to actually log in. This is possible only if the work for the day can be schedule and doesn’t…
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Kwiz Diaries
I remember asking AM once, what do I do when someone already has the question in place and probably an information that everyone would know? He chuckled and said then you better it and continued to do and went back to sipping his chai. Setting questions were fun but my god I realise I am…
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January’ 24
On January 01, at 12:03AM after shouting Happy New Year at a pub space which I was fooled into thinking would be cheap, I sat down at tried three plates of different desserts for the next 15 minutes. There were no resolutions like any other year, it’s like the forever wala promises that will break.…
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Contradictions, Confusion, Confidence

The edited version of this piece has been published on the blog run by The Students’ Outpost. You can read it here. The first draft of this piece was written in December 2019 right after the Citizenship Amendment Bill became an act. I later wanted to turn this a multimedia piece for my journalism portfolio…