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To What End
An autumn morning was making its presence felt. Just outside the monsoon forest cover was a small lake, that had been bigger than its present size. But time hadn’t been much supportive, it brought in those who made less of what was in abundance. At the edge of the lake stood a fairly expensive dark…
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What’s the Difference?
Do you believe in karma? Depending on what you focus upon, this is a beautiful world with living beings of many kinds. When you think and imagine it, a scene untouched, undisturbed, unjudged, uncorrupted, it can go on being the most peaceful thing one could rest their eyes upon. We have moved ahead with our…
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Otherworldly
It was an evening of another day of the world continuing on in its motion. It was a busy market road, people walking by being aware of other people and vehicles passing. The shopkeepers were busy attending to customers. A person was talking to his known another waiting for hers. Mr Bhat walked amidst the…
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Caring for what matters
How do you make time for self-care? Self-care is something very essential. The concept and importance of self-care is something that was very clear in the generation of my grandparents, I look at those old photographs and I can see it right there, at the same age, much more fit and healthy looking, more content,…
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Meet Oswal
If you could pick any fictional animal to be your lifelong companion (like a Pokémon or fantasy pet), what would it be? All the cartoons we have seen mostly had a fictional animal or sometimes more than one animal and these animals made the cartoon more interesting and fun. Still remember how we all the…
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Villains are Interesting
Have you ever liked a villain more than the hero? Who and why? Heroes and villains, one of the most popular existences in stories. In the real world these are but abstract terms. Although I am yet to hear someone actually being called a villain, but I have heard people being called heroes, while some…
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Putting it Back
What’s the best advice you’d give to someone younger than you? When I was in college, first year, one day I was idling around roaming in the neighbourhood with one of my friends, Bhavya. Much younger than me, still in high school. We both had skipped our educational institutions that day. Well actually it was…
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The Unavoidable Change
“Have you seen the clear sky?” “I see it every day, why?” “I mean have you actually seen it, observed its beauty, noticed its vastness, linked it to life and imagined the possibility?” Darika looked at her bedridden grandmother who was still looking outside the window. Mrs Chauhan was in her late eighties. A fever…
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Adding Words
If your pet could talk, what would be the first thing it says? That thing that people say to each other, when they have spent some good years together, something about knowing what the other is thinking without any actual words spoken. This is something we form with many other living beings as well and…
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When the Smile Returned
The doors of the cupboard were open. This was one of those cupboards which wasn’t opened much and was mostly used for storage. Something kept on the upper compartment fell and Mr Shastri stepped back rubbing his head, while the box itself fell down on the floor. Mrs Shastri came to look at what had…
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What wasn’t told
What’s something you do completely differently from how you were raised? In most households, when children are raised, there is a lot of genuine love, care and a vague perception of a bright future that might be ahead. Today there are many parents who encourage their children to find their own paths in life. There…
The memories that stay with us and the ones we create…
