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My Craziness: Ink Pens

Ever since my childhood I have always had something for pens . A beautiful pen would always make me feel write correct. Though it might feel bit absurd, rather abnormal that, until and unless I am not comfortable with the pen, I can’t write. I virtually give the shopkeeper a night mere whenever I am in hunt for a new pen. I don’t know if it is my obsession or sheer association that I am always concerned about the pens I have and seldom I lend them to anyone. Though I have used numerous pens as of yet; here I meant to say that I have used various verities of pen, but one type has always been my favorite and I feel most of the true lovers of writing too feel the same, it is the ink based pens . I stated using pen in Class IV, that is about 8 years back, and the happiness I got using my first ink pen on my copy was something very different. The first pen I used was a Chinese ink pen used by my mother in late 1970’s (This marks the influence of Chinese goods in India so long bac...

What should a NE Student do to avoid Discrimination

Every time any incident of discrimination against the people from the North East occurs in any part of the country, the net is flocked with massages of condemnation and protest.  People take out protest rallies, burn candles or participate in sit-in-demonstrations. But every time after some of such hype, people forget everything and again such discrimination continues. So in the end what actually happens is that family of the victim remains deprived of justice and puts the life of another innocent NE’ian in danger. So until we go for something more than just protest and rallies, we will not be able to get what we actually want. It would be very unorthodox and illogical if I speak of violence against violence, yet in some corner in my mind I feel that this is right, but abiding by the social norms, I will not talk of this. Instead I will write of some of the things which every student from North-East should abide by when ever go out of the region to study: 1. N...