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Out in the Open (Part 1)
The grass shone submerged in sunlight. The park had been maintained well. It was a working day; offices and all educational institutions were open, thus there was an obvious silence because of the lack of people around. A pair of legs wearing black shoes ran over the grass and slowed down till coming to a…
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Bhaskar’s Adoration
With the heat of the summer touching 45 degrees, Bhaskar’s heart drowned in distress due to deep love. He would stand on his balcony in the evenings despite the hot winds and he would wake up early in the morning despite working late at night. He would look outside the window of his office at…
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From the Other World
The night was silent, as silent as nights in the cities can be. The sky had a layer of smog covering most of the stars. The moon was in a waning crescent. Something moved in the dark very quietly, there was no sound of steps, or brushing against the walls or anything else. The steps…
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Who decides time?
Do you know who started the concept of time?and from where has it evolved over? Welcome to thought ctrl and today we have all about the concept of Time! The first homo sapiens already walked the earth nearly 300 000 years ago. Yet, humans have barely been measuring 1% of that entire period. Historical records…
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Writers Fact 1
🎯Can you believe this because I cannot Well,Gertrude Stein (1874- 1946) was an American Novelist was known to learn the difference between Sentences and Paragraphs in writing by seeing the drinking pattern of her Dog. Curious right? Yes sometimes we just ignore these things and concentrate on things which give maximum productivity in just a…
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The Car of Dreams
In my country, buying a car is given a great deal of importance by a major part of the population, if not the most. It is not just associated with being luxurious possession but is also associated with progress, sometimes (or many) a progress which is hollow from within with a money that doesn’t exist…
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That Evening
Sunday evening arrived and ten years old Sohan sat sipping his hot chocolate. He was looking at the clock. It was 5:35 pm. Before 6 pm, his father would wake up from his Sunday evening nap. Sohan looked at his mother, Mrs Parnaik, who sat cutting vegetables. “Has father woken up?” asked Sohan Mrs Parnaik…
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The Return
It was 11:45 am, way past the office and school going time. Mrs Kansal walked home with a grocery bag. After her husband passed away, she thought very little of things which would allow her to be happy. Her daughter Vedika helped her through it. Vedika was a wonderful daughter and even her husband Daksh.…
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A Theft
The police constable, Adhiraj Chandrakar, stopped typing in the computer and looked up to find a man and a woman standing in front. Mr Chandrakar waited a few seconds for one of them to start speaking, but there were no words spoken, so he spoke, “Can you both speak?” “Yes,” said the girl Drishti, “my…
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The Happening of the Darkness
I wouldn’t say I am particularly scared of the darkness, but I won’t lie, I have a certain feeling of uneasiness when in it or around, especially if I am in the middle of watching or have just finished watching a horror movie. I am pretty good at dealing with it, thanks to all the…
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Simple life
A simple woman with lots of hope. But hope of what ? Of dreams that one day all her 6 children will be independent in both ways. In one way they will know how to cook and know their life saving skills and another way they will be independent financially and emotionally. Hi, Myself Niva…
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An invitation never to forget
From very childhood till today it was knowingly or unknowingly book reading habit was injected in us or rather we have developed the idea of reading books and I guess it was through the genes through the hereditary structure. Reading started for me with Regional language and then both English and our regional language. Today…
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The Could have been friend
What quality do you value most in a friend? Dilip was a good guy, maybe a bit too innocent for the world he was living in and he still continues to live the same. His life turned out really well with a good and most importantly ‘clever’ wife and a beautiful daughter. We are glad…
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The Work that wasn’t mine
What jobs have you had? A person like me usually understands things on his own, alone, left with own thoughts and understanding. That privacy with the thoughts is an invaluable thing which people quite often do not understand unless they have the same kind of requirement. So, the first time I went on my own…
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Drifting Through Time
Sometimes we cannot help but watch in wonder at the past or more likely at what feels like an entire lifetime which has gone by. Just the other day I went to get my pressure cooker repaired at a repair shop. The shop is managed by two guys around 30s and they are brothers.…
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Why Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Is More Important Than Intelligence Quotient?
Whatever begins in anger, ends in shame.” —- Benjamin Franklin In today’s corporate market it is very much required to understand the concept of emotional intelligence and Intelligence Quotient and which is needed in the present day. When you are in a job a balanced personality is a need but thinking each and everything through…
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Origin of Marriage
It is widely agreed that the origin of marriage dates well before recorded history, but the earliest recorded evidence of marriage ceremonies uniting one woman and one man dates from about 2350 B.C. in the Far East. Initially, marriage often involved multiple partners, usually female. Monogamy became the guiding principle for Western marriages sometime between…
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Melody queen
When melody queen Lata Mangeshkar, who passed away on Sunday, used to enter a studio for a recording, there was a ritual she’d follow. She’d take off her slippers, bow in a pranaam, seeking strength from the gods of music, and begin her piece. Aayega aane wala (Mahal, 1949): This is the watershed year when…
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Coca cola
Let us know the History of Coca cola. So On May 8, 1886, Dr. Pemberton sold the first glass of Coca-Cola at Jacobs’ Pharmacy in downtown Atlanta. Serving nine drinks per day in its first year, Coca-Cola was a new refreshment in its beginning. The product that has given the world its best-known taste was…
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Multitasking – The No 1 Reason Why People Are Unproductive!
” The average office worker now spends 40 percent of their work time wrongly believing they are “multitasking”–which means they are incurring all these costs for their attention and focus. In fact, uninterrupted time is becoming rare. One study found that most of us working in offices never get a whole hour uninterrupted on a…
Early Morning Memories 