Orange

Today is 30th April, the most important day in Netherlands. Its the birthday of mother of the present queen. Its called the Queen’s Day.
When the street is taken over by pedestrians
When beer flows like water
When people just have fun and totally freak out
When the necklines go deeper
When the streets are packed with people
When [...]

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Prashna (Questions)

The climax quote by Inspector Subas Anasphure in the Marathi movie, “Dombivli Fast“. Simple yet hard hitting.
Jya prasnanchi uttara milat nahi
Tya prasnanch phuli maraycha ani phude jayacha
Jey prasnancha…tech mansancha
Maan modun jagtana ekane jar maan var keli
Tar tee maan adhi khali dabaychi
Tarihee nahi namla….tar zameenela lavaychi
Tithunahee var yenyasathi [...]

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Athvanitli Gaani - 1

At one time, I had a huge collection of songs rather MP3 collected dedicatedly and painstakingly over a number of years. Some were just for the heck of being on my computer. I guess it went with the popular music trend at that time. Songs forgotten and never heard. I lost many of the song [...]

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Dahavi Pha (2002)

Human beings always like to categorize, segregate other people in a particular group or category. It is always US against THEM. This groupism can be based on religion, region, sex, caste and many more categories. Its always those Bengalis, Marathis, Tamils, Europeans, Muslims, Americans, Indians, Dalits, Brahmins, Nerds, Yuppies, blacks, whites, brown and a number [...]

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What Do You Think?

We had the weekly assembly on Tuesday in our school. The principal of our school gave us a small speech in the big school hall. It was more about pep talk and telling about morality, about how to be good and about god. In short it was basically about how to be a good boy [...]

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Bole Toh!

I observe a girl from my office who is always roaming around. She is either going out or coming back from somewhere and I wonder when she works. Its not that she is attending any meeting because she is seen smoking on the street. I have lost count the number of times she goes out [...]

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Small Packages

A Short Story
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She sat on the last seat of the minibus looking out with glee. Her young mind of 11 years was trying to get as much information as the bus chugged along the highway. She wore that white shirt and black skirt washed and ironed. She had one more in the small bag she [...]

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Settling down!

A few thoughts

I hate the word settled or settling down especially terming marriage as settled. Whenever I hear that word, I imagine a small pond, a very dirty pond with lots of muck on the water, a lot of flies flying around with moss around the pond and stinking like anything. On this quite water, [...]

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Abhi, Pak Gaye Yaar!

As the D-Day arrived near for Aishwarya and Abhishek, the news channels go overboard to report the preparation, the guest and whatever they can find of the wedding. The secrecy sorrounding the wedding isn’t helping much as the news channel tries desperately to find tit-bits about the wedding. They go on interviewing anybody even remotely [...]

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Sleeping Duty

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t sleep for long hours. I sleep at an average of 6-7 hours. It is just that I have an irregular sleeping pattern. Normally on weekdays, I sleep from 12:00-12:30 AM to 7:00 AM and During weekend, I can sleep at 4:00 AM and get up at 11:00 AM-12:00 noon. [...]

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