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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…
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What I collected

Do you have any collections? We have our attachments and hobbies in life. They keep life lovable and interesting to live through. Now one of the most commonly practiced hobbies is making collections. Some people like to do it secretly, others want people to know about it, while some do it unknowingly as well. …
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What Might Remain

What is the legacy you want to leave behind? Legacy, a term which has many associated emotions, dreams, hopes, ambitions and even selfishness associated with itself. In a way I feel that the thought of legacy is a little inclined towards a certain luxury for many people out there who are struggling to hold their…
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The Cold Blend

How do you feel about cold weather? Just the day before, the temperature crossed 40°C and the weather application said that it felt like 50°C and I wished I didn’t read the ‘felt’ part, because since then I actually started feeling it. The worst part about this kind of weather is that it will test…
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What could have broken

Have you ever broken a bone? One morning a few years ago, I carefully took my motor bike down the slanting ramp, without starting it and once down I pushed the self-start button for the bike to start but it wouldn’t. I made a few more failed attempts before giving up. My car had barely…
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Blue Brain Project

Do you know about the Blue Brain project? Here it is On 1 July 2005, the Brain Mind Institute and IBM launched the Blue Brain Project1. The Blue Brain Project is a Swiss brain research initiative that aims to create a digital reconstruction of the mouse brain. The Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland.…
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The first Metro line
Metro systems across the world have been in operation since the late 1800s and transport millions of commuters across cities every day. The London Underground is the oldest metro system in the world, with services operating from 1890. The UK’s London Underground was originally opened in 1863 for locomotive trains. In 1890, it became the…
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The Calm

It was late at night. Mr Kakati kept his hand on the steering wheel as he drove his car maintaining speed between 60-65. His wife and his daughter were with him. They were returning from dinner, a gathering of college friends of Mr Kakati. Mr Kakati was a very calm and patient man; he meditated…
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The Gift Shop

Mr Chabra’s gift shop was very popular back in the day. It was the first modern styled gift shop in my neighbourhood. When I went there as a child for the first time, it was a completely different world. The variety of toys there would make any child want to stay there forever. The shops…
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The Fruitful Experience

List your top 5 favorite fruits. The thing about fruits is that they are usually our favourite food on the healthier side when we actually start making sense of eating as our past miniature self. They are sweet and require a bit less convincing as compared to veggies. Ask my mother who had to run…

