One of the greatest fears one can have is to be a stranger to someone or a place, that was once very close to you. Often in our lives, we cross paths with so many places and people, that for a period they become an integral part of our lives. While some remain with us forever, others are as good as strangers.   We often walk into places knowing it’s temporary, yet when we move out, pain engulfs us knowing that things will never be the same again.   One of the biggest fallacies in our 20s is that we often claim a space, area or city to be our own. As a university student, your life revolves around the campus and everything in and around the campus becomes the comfort zone that we reside in. Every second person is a familiar face, and your sense of belonging is rooted around them. But just in a matter of few years, everything changes, and the most known place of yours becomes as good as the new city which you moved in, completely unknown. (This of course is not true for ever...

A chaotic life deserves a peaceful weekend. Beaches have always been sign of peace for me, so has been the sea. The sound of the sea waves hitting the shore and the shrill wind brings calmness into you, which possibly cannot be defined in any language. Mumbai is hectic, at least my college is. After 8 hours of classes and insane number of readings, sometimes you just wish to escape into some place where you can at least hear yourself. The fascination towards sea further exaggerates your desire to look for the inner peace, which is important for you remain sane. But in the cosmopolitan Bombay, do you have any place where you can find peace and the sea together? I am new here. I had no idea, until this friend of mine informed me about Aksa Beach. A small and calm beach some 14 kms from Malad. And there I was exploring life, on this calm beach. The following Photo Story narrates the tale of life.     Peace and the beach When you are kid, you are just car...

Taking up a job while still being in college was not an easy task, but it was rewarding. The decision to drop out of medical coaching to peruse a career in the field of Journalism in itself was a big decision. We hail from a land where changing streams from Science to Humanities no considered nothing more than incapability of the student. And my act gave all my acquaintances every reason to laugh at me or my family. Never the less, it took quite some time for me to gather guts and take up the course. Getting into Delhi University was one daunting task considering the number of seats involved and the level of competition. But a popular saying goes that once you get into the University, life becomes what you call a chilling experience. The boldest decision which I took till date was probably the Medical drop out one, but here I am writing about another decision, taking during the end of first year of college life, which I believe was equally difficult.     The f...

The dynamics of leading a life has definitely changed overtime. Today, we focus more on being pretentious rather than being someone who we actually are. “You are not an asshole, but you are trying so hard to be one”. For those of who have watched 'The Social Network', they know that this line is a very integral part of the entire movie. But very few of us can actually co-relate to the core meaning associated with this fancy sounding urban metaphorical line. As a young average middle class student in Delhi you come across various class of students here. The issue with any middle class guy is that he can mingle very well with all section of the crowd. Be it the most rural population or the elite mall savvy crowd. He can blend with just anyone. You can pretend to be someone who is sophisticated as clock dial but at the same time you can be clear as crystal. But what happens with this is that you lose out with an original you, and you tend to become someone who you actuall...

Defying that mask which you wear everyday before you go out of your home is really difficult. Many a times people tend to take you very differently, though in actual life things are way to different. The generation today is used to lead multiple different roles, all under the shadow of a mask. You have a social mask, a social media mask, a pretentious flirty mask and so many other masks. But at the end of the day, when you come back home, you shed your ego and mask, and get back into your real self. You realize how much fake you are and how much people can misinterpret you. “What you see me Is just a fake me A me stuck in morass Sinking with the weight of a lie” A Fake Me The issue with wearing a mask everyday is that you forget your self and people tend to think that you are someone else. For someone who is ever jolly might me shocking for others to realize that he has a sentiment inside it. There is defense mechanism through which many make fun of themselves to b...

I was in class VII, when I first came across the word ‘flirting’. (This apparently proves my weakness in vocabulary). Anyways, it was my friend Jyotirmoy who was talking about him flirting with a girl. As usual, an innocent me, asked, “ এই flirting মানে কি? ” Which apparently meant, ‘What does flirting mean? What an apt description he gave, he said, it is an act of conveying someone that you love him/her verbally, though you hold no feelings for him/her by heart. Mind it, class VII we were, and we were already discussing how to fake love. That was good old 7 years back, in a phase of time, where at least love was not merely a matter of one night stand. Over the time, Jyotirmoy did excel in the art of flirting on screen, no wonder, he is yet to score a girl, but he has surely excelled. This is an art, an art probably all of the cool dude modern guys surely have good hands on. But what I am more concerned about is actually described in the last part of the last line of th...

Just before ripping this page of my diary, I thought of filling it up with some words that could probably signify the internal turmoil inside me. At times, when you feel suffocated of you misfortunes and some misdeeds, which actually shouldn’t be classified as such; but owing to the circumstances, at point where others consider you lucky, though you are not, you have this feeling which I go through at this point of time. The ambiguity in the definition of being happy and satisfied has probably made this world a lot difficult to live in. Owing to the feeling of jealousness, people do make nasty remarks, and trust me, it hurts. Just because you long to be better and them, and you do, doesn’t make it fair enough reason to be offended. The inheritance of a good family blood doesn’t make a criterion necessary enough to be successful. If you remain fool enough and believe that your family is of superior quality, then you are mistaken my friend. But of course there is a differenc...

The title might suggest that the post is about some adventurous traveler, who roams the world in a four wheeler exploring thousands of kilometers. Indeed, he travels thousands of kilometers, probably 36000 km a month, yet he is not adventurous traveler, and probably we would never imagine our lives to be like his. Life on the Wheels Meet Mr. Ram Kumar , the coach attendant of the Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express . Mr. Kumar, with just 4 holidays a month, travels all the way from New Delhi to Dibrugarh via Guwahati serving passengers and back. Again the same day he leaves for Jammu with another fleet of passengers and the cycle goes on. Four holidays is just like nothing, a resident of Bihar, it takes him 2 days to reach home from Delhi and unlike the so called posh Rajdhani where he serves; he boards a general sleeper class compartment to get back. Yet, he wears a badge saying ‘Serving with a smile’ and severs to every new face which he meets in his journey without any compla...

We Indians are very fond of getting ‘ Jealous ’, and I suppose almost everyone in the country, in fact subcontinent grows this innate feeling Jealousness, that ultimately leads to their growth or downfall. The last two words of the second line explain the whole story, a bit of jealousness is always healthy for competition, but excess might throw you out of the league.    An important fact about being jealous is that, we usually generate the feeling to someone very close to us. Close in the sense that someone who is nearest to competition with us. No wonder, how advancement Germany makes, we don’t care, but if Pakistan moves a step ahead of us we get utterly jealous. We don’t care if some X’s son clears IIT, the moment your neighbors son achieves the same feat you start cooking your son in a pressure cooker. In fact, if you have noticed in a class, sometimes the topper is quite free and friendly with the lowest ranker of the class, but with the second rank, he might ...

'Mokaterinian', this word was used in a Bollywood Movie called Sahib, Biwi Aur Gangstar; and believe me what a deep meaning the word conveys. People now a days are more of a Profit seeking animal rather than a social animal. They tend to stay with you, only if they feel they would actually be befitted by you.  The fact is 18 years of my life, I believed that being inferior to others simply helps you to get along well with them. People always enjoy being on top of others. And specially the Indians, we always like to dominate others, just because I suppose we were ruled upon by the British for about 200 years. But I have tried to be a neutral one. I wanted to maintain a rapport with almost everyone I knew, and as for that I have always initiated in maintaining a healthy relationship with them. But there is a threshold limit of everything. You can actually wait and tolerate their behavior for quite sometime, but if they fail to respond,...