It was like a heart-wrenching break-up. When she was around, every little thing seemed beautiful. All those moments of juvenile elation, her feel, her fragrance, and the new life that sprouted out of it all this romance seemed like it’d last forever. But now, it’s nothing but a forgotten dream.
All it took Little Johnny was four phrases; just four phrases and she was gone. That darned nursery rhyme!
“Rain, rain go away,
Come again another day;
Little Johnny wants to play
Rain, rain go away!”
And Laila never came back.
Bad bad Johnny;... Read→
If numbers were people, the most famous person would perhaps be the number three. Thinking about it for three seconds is enough to make one realize how ubiquitous it has become. The greatest of names, happenings and beliefs are all linked with this very number: The first Apollo’s mission to moon was crewed by three people, three is the count at which even the biggest of marathons start off, even the all reputed number, ‘one,’ decides to transform into the usage for THIRD person outside the number line. Our national flag is tri-coloured. Even... Read→
It’s not astonishing that ‘e’ is the most widely and frequently used letter in the English alphabet. Thanks to the internet, you can now e-mail an e-card to an e-friend or e-learn the e-commerce from an e-book! And if this doesn’t sound even remotely monotonous to one, then he/her must surely be one of those ‘Netizens’.
The portmanteau ‘Netizen’ (Net (the internet) + Citizen) itself, today, is not an unfamiliar word to many, for the number of internet users (especially among the college-goers), it is burgeoning at an unprecedented... Read→
If Chetan Bhagat were to pen (or rather, MS word) this article, he’d have probably done away with the introduction by shooting his Let-Me-Tell-You-What-This-Article-Is-Not-About disclaimers, which would go something like — “This article is not a Coming-of-Age story of a nubile enchantress, it’s NOT a story of (just) three idiots, it’s not the story of ‘The Two States’ and it’s not a story.”
It’s rather about the life of ventriloquists and puppets of today’s world. It’s about a lot more... Read→
What’s common between
Ugly Duckling and Ugly Betty?
It’s not just the misleading adjective
But the fact that they are pretty!
Had only the ugly duckling been ugly FOR REAL, either the show wouldn’t have been so popular or it’d have been famous for its first ever suicide-of-a-depressed-duck theme! And the closest Ugly Betty would’ve gotten to be a comedy show is by becoming a laughing stock if Betty (America Ferrara) wasn’t how she is in reality. The word ugly is just a demeanour; a camouflage. At the end of the... Read→
“Curiosity killed the cat.”
Yeah, but what difference does it make anyway? Those lucky souls are blessed with eight more lives! But life ain’t as generous with the guys as it is with the felines. More, there are enough unanswerable questions that can haunt them for more than nine lives without breaking a sweat. (Excluding the ones in the exam papers, that is.) So to know what’s happening all around, they invented television and internet; the telescope was invented to know what’s out there, and to know what’s IN there, they invented pornography.
Yes,... Read→
A country with over three-quarters of its population being young, on 26th January, 2010, turned 60 years as a YOUNG and sovereign nation. But what if the youth of this nation itself were a country? What if the ‘fundas’ of the young took the place of our fundamentals rights, and what if it was ‘for the young, by the young and to the young?’
How younger would have THAT 60 year-old sovereign nation been?
Right to Equality
“There’s always a cold war between the ‘front-benchers’ and the ‘back-benchers’ in our class,” says Srikanth... Read→
Consider a chilly night, a deserted bus stop and a confused person. (No, it’s not RGV’s new flick, for he has no idea of what horror in reality could be). There’s no sign of a bus even miles down the road. The cell phone’s battery is sunk in red. Then, this guy see a pair of lights approaching him. But it turns out to be the headlight of a septic tank cleaner. He thinks it cannot get worse. But he’s wrong. Just when he decides to call home, his cell phone buzzes and pops out a text which reads: “Life’s not a joyride of a merry-go-around,... Read→
Somewhere, an elated Manasa headed home, mentally celebrating the cash award she flinched in a Paper Presentation event. Elsewhere, a raddled Shivamani was dismantling his percussion set backstage after a decibel-defying performance. While JBIET’s principal shook hands with the chief guest in a concluding ceremony, a student reporter of CVR quickly scrolled through the jottings in his journal.
Wondering where’s the connection between the aforementioned incidents? All these random moments shared something in common, a common thread that... Read→
