What difference does it make whether I die now or forty years later? The final destination is the same. You see, actually, the thing is not that. The thing is, we live in a place that teaches you to fear death, just like it teaches you to fear anything unknown. It teaches you that while …
Category: Views and Observations
Losing the Point
I keep getting dragged back again and again, to the gaping, absolute brevity of this life. A fleeting moment. Transient as a shooting star. Wish before it fades. And so little time to spend here. I cannot feel secure and sedentary in this situation. It’s here now, gone tomorrow. And so all the little problems, …
The Truth
The truth isn’t that I’m a West Bengal Board student studying in a reputed South Kolkata school. The truth isn’t that half-yearly question-papers are very tough, but if you practise enough, you’ll pull through. The truth isn’t that political readers have gone crazy in this country. The truth isn’t that meat is getting costlier everyday. …
Problems
Okay, life’s not easy. You’re probably hearing that for the thousandth time (I’ve said it before, too), but every time life’s not easy, it manages it in a new way. Life’s not easy on your second birthday ‘coz you keep leaking things in your diaper and your mamma forgets to change it. Life’s not easy …
MMR
My Life Science teacher (I did not persist in the pursuit of that subject long enough to turn it into pure, serious biology) once told me that the study of making a good advertisement is essentially the art of telling a lie very well. Well, most of the times it’s true, that the company has …