Me and my mind in conversation...

बात कुछ घंटों पहले की हो या कुछ सालों की उसे गुज़रा कल ही कहते हैं वो याद कुछ घड़ी भर की हो या एक अरसा जुड़ा हो उस याद से उसे बीते पल ही कहते हैं जुदा हुए कुछ लोग हों , या कुछ टूटी उमीदें बाकी सिर्फ यादें ही बचती हैं यादों में खो जाते हैं अक्सर हम और ज़िन्दगी बदली हुई सी लगती है कुछ आँखों में चमक लाती हैं कुछ चेहरे पे मुस्कुराहट और कुछ बस नम आँखों का एहसास छोड़ जाती हैं कुछ होठों को यूँ अचानक कुछ कह देने के लिए खुला छोड़ जाती हैं और कुछ घंटों तक चुप रहने का बहाना दे जाती हैं ये मन बस यादों में जाने के बहाने ढूंढता है भागती दौड़ती ज़िन्दगी को यु अचानक रोक कर मीलों पीछे भेज देता है कोई आवाज़ , कुछ शब्द , कोई तस्वीर , या फिर बस कागज़ का एक फटा हुआ सा पन्ना ही ज़िन्दगी के रेडियो का स्टेशन बदल देता है “कुछ कहा था उसने मुझसे , काश मैं भी कुछ कह देता ” “क्यों मैं चल दिया वहाँ से , काश खुद को रोक...

We interact with a lot of people every day. Sometimes, we might irritate them. Sometimes we might even infuriate them. Do all of them react the same way, always? Well, not really. They may react. They may not react. They may react then. They may react later. They may smile. They may frown. They may even get angry, or might just walk away expressionlessly. But do those smiles or frowns really express the feelings within. Well, may or may not be. This varies with people, with situations. I have observed a varied set of immediate and delayed responses by various people, to situations where, I believe, one could get irritated or annoyed. Here is a list of categories I could classify people into, and objects I found them analogous to. 1. The Black Boxes : This, I believe, is the best breed of people one could come across. Like physical black boxes that absorb all light that falls on them, these people can bear anything you do to them. They are the most forgiving ones of the lot. They ...

Picked this up from another site... amazing.. "When watching Slumdog Millionaire, there was one thing a lot of people did not understand. In the movie the kids who were from the slums became tour guides and took white people around on tours. Everyone had the same question, how did these kids know English. If they are from the slums how can they pick up one of the most difficult languages in the world? Well here is a video of a kid from the slums who also happens to be selling peacock feathers and check out how many languages he knows. This video was a big hit a few years ago and they just found this kid again in his teenage year and he is still doing the same thing. Check out these clips."

On the way to Tirumala from Tirupati, we saw idols of various incarnations of Lord Vishnu. W were able to recognise a few, the rest we could not. so i called up my Dad to find out the names of all of Vishnu's incarnations in the right sequence. My dad told me not just the names but also the logic behind the sequence in which all these incarnations occured. 1. A fish, Matsya , a creature that lived in water. 2. A tortoise, Kashyap, a creature that lived both in water and on land. 3. A Pig, varaha, a creature living only on land. 4. Narasimha, a creature that was half animal, half human. 5. Vamana, the first completely human avatar. So the evolution happened from a creature living in water to a human. after this there were 4 incarnations, all humans 6. Parasu Rama 7 . Rama 8 . Krishna 9. Buddha The last one which is yet to come is Kalki.

It was lunch as usual when I overheard a conversation between Polo and Upasana about a possible trip to Tirupati. The idea of a trip itself was exciting, irrespective of the destination. I was pretty jobless with no classes at all for a few days. So I interfered in the conversation and passed the message to our broadcasting channel, namely, Miss Shikha Jain. Soon i get a list of interested people, and in a couple of days I booked the railway tickets. "But!" said Naveen, "Takloo (dats my nickname for my last hair style), where are the Darshan Tickets???" I didnt even know we got those tickets from Chennai, and that it was tough to get them. Just a day before we were supposed to leave, we went to the TTD (Tirupati Tirumala Devasthanam ) centre only to find that no tickets were available for 7th Feb, the day we had planned to reach the temple. Disappointed, we came back home, and thought about re planning the trip, but Mr. Aanand and Naveen suddenly find out from s...

Diwali brought a welcome break for me after a hectic 4th term here at Great Lakes. But since we had only 3 days before the next term began, I thought of saving some money by not going back home, and going to Bangalore and celebrate Diwali with cousins instead. Well, there is definitely something with me and Bangalore. Around the same time last year, when i was supposed to go to Bangalore for my cousin's engagement, i reached the station well in time, sans my luggage. This was because i got late at work and had to ask ma and pa at the last moment to get my luggage to the station. They did make it, just a couple of minutes after the train's scheduled departure time, but luckily, thanks the the ever so "punctual" Indian Railways and the relay between me,ma-pa and my cousins PK&DK, i got my luggage. This time around... the story was similar. Only this time I myself made it a little late to the station and Indian railways wanted to prove a point this time which meant I...