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Thoughts from Kasi

June 15, 2016 Filed Under: Personal

Last week I went to Varanasi and Gaya on a pilgrimage. Few thoughts from the trip.

Of the 10 people in the compartment, all of them are into their cell phones. No one looking out of the window or reading a magazine. No wonder I did not see a book cart on the platform.

One passenger started a philosophical discourse not bothered if he has an audience or not. Some people start talking assuming other people want to listen. They never think otherwise. Thank god for earphones.

Another, thought, if he can survive in this world, can’t I find a corner?

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Last week I completed 4 years of blogging. I was surprised I stuck along for so long. The doubts that plagued me when I started are the same that plague me today. Biggest of them being – ‘does it matter?’ Sometime back, I showed a friend, a blog post before I published it, to get his perspective and he simply said, ‘its good. Post it if it makes you feel better’ what he left unsaid was, ‘who cares’.

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Lessons

April 19, 2016 Filed Under: Personal

Experience shapes life. We are who we are, not just because of what we can do, but also of what we cannot do and the lessons we learnt along the way. The lessons we learn colour the glasses with which we see the world. Though we wouldn’t have chosen those circumstances if it were upto us, it is only through them we would’ve learnt some lessons that serves us today. Some lessons that I learnt the hard way but have been useful to me:

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I love Stationery

February 5, 2016 Filed Under: Personal

At the end of every summer vacation, two weeks before the school started, my father & I would go to school to get a list of notebooks that I would need for the coming year. Our school canteen which also housed the bookshop sold premium Lepakshi Nandi notebooks. But, well, they were ‘premium’. So, I would sit on the scooter with my dad and goto this place called Chatta bazaar, a wholesale market in Hyderabad, where books could be bought for cheap. These books were cheap indeed, both in price and quality. I was not happy. Not because of the price. But, that they never emanated the scent I associated with a new notebook.

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New Look

January 24, 2016 Filed Under: Personal

With the new year coming-in with its inescapable optimism, I decided to change the look of the blog. It had been same over the last two years and I was looking forward to a fresh look. Being an introvert, I had natural inclination towards minimal blog design with lots of white space & good typography. In the first year, when I had not yet purchased my domain and setup my own hosting, I even used the ‘Manifest‘ theme for its simplicity.

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