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Bakul’s Curiosity
In the year 2000, Mr Brar was the owner of a photo studio in a small village. It was beautiful with cream-coloured walls and photographs of different kinds hung over them within frames of different colours, patterns and materials. The wall highlighting lights added a warm hue to the walls. About 60-65% of the studio…
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Why the understanding?
What’s something most people don’t understand? There is a lot that people don’t understand and it differs from person to person, like the other day when I was travelling in a bus and the gentleman sitting next to me was talking on the phone. Now, there is nothing wrong about talking on the phone, the…
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When the technology came
How has technology changed your job? Although it was not some elaborate plan from childhood like many apparently have, I ended up having a career in the field of writing and editing. When I was small, computers were there, but pen and paper were still enjoying their days of prominence. As a child I…
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That Unique Spark
What’s a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had? In several movies and books there are characters whose abilities and skills make them a superhero or perhaps a very good agent of a high-profile spy organisation or simply exceptional. Many of us whether we openly accept it or not at some point…
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Plight of Overthinking
Oh! The job pressureOh! The household chores Oh! The unfinished task Oh! The futureOh! THE PAST Oh! The present Everything seems so complex and entangled with extreme pressure. But why do you think that’s a continuous process like the most disturbing waves of the sea or river? The wave which takes away treasured memories and…
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Where life happened
Nidhi had not seen her parents for a long time. She had some memories of them but they were lacking in clarity and were rather glimpses of sight and feeling. Nidhi was six years old, when her parents took her to her paternal grandparent’s house during the summer vacation and then they left her there.…
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The Accident
Dilip sat with a remote in hand. The television was showing some western movie Dilip had no interest in. There were no OTT platforms at this point and one had to choice their viewing among what the broadcasters had scheduled to show that day and sometimes people just grew tired of changing the channels. This…
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How was your relationship with your grandparents?
Grandparents and grandchildren’s relationship is the most beautiful and sweetest relationship ever. Here the beauty is we both are children, one has experienced the world and grown old and one is growing and somewhere they connect through the words of simplicity.My grandparents were very special to me. Every grandmother has that cosy super fine aroma…
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Traveling long
You’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, car, or bike? “Cross-country trips are amazing. My uncle had been on one, he has been everywhere. He has promised me take me on a cross-country trip one day” Indira was our neighbour and Indira’s uncle did not take her on that trip he promised. The…
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The Thoughts of Wrong Kind
What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings? The one particular unparalleled characteristic which makes us humans is our ability to have and experience a variety of feelings. All these feelings are essential in one way or another, but only when a certain amount of control is exercised over them. Losing yourself to…
The memories that stay with us and the ones we create…
Early Morning Memories 