Thought Overflow

It’s my third day back in XLRI. The weather gadget in my sidebar says that it’s 38°C outside, but I think it’s very likely that it’s hotter than that. Here inside my room, though, it’s definitely quite a few degrees cooler. I’m sitting in a straight-back, albeit moderately comfortable chair, listening to music pour out [...]

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I’ve been in Mumbai for about a month, roughly, and I’ve already been to two plays here, both at the Tata Auditorium at NCPA, Nariman Point. The first one, attended a couple of weeks ago, was the Lillette Dybey-directed Love on the Brink, a comedy about romance and the circle of life. It was roughly [...]

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I’m spending my summer in a not very well maintained room at one of the boys’ hostels at Wilson College, South Bombay. There is no mess where we get dinner, so all of us go out for dinner to restaurants close by, balancing between expensive and budget places. The former are generally characterised by being [...]

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The following was written on April 7. I couldn’t post it before because I had no access to the internet. I have now been in Mumbai for about 4 days. I write this post from the office, on my second day of work. These initial days, I expect, are going to be a bit light [...]

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It’s been about 9 days since I last posted something on my blog. The reason is that the last few days have seen me go to hell and back because of the INSANE* amount of workload and the piled up submissions. Starting tomorrow, I have my end-term exams. Basically, this means I’ll be busy. Which [...]

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So I recently bought a second-hand motorcycle from a senior at a wonderfully knocked-down price. It’s perfect because though I’ve learnt how to ride, I don’t have much practice. An old bike is really perfect since if I fall off or something, a few scratches and dents would probably give the bike more personality than [...]

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It’s getting hotter day by day. One of these days, I’m going to have to start taking a shower with cold water again. If that alone is not strong enough proof of the fact that summer is just around the bend, consider this. What word do you most strongly associate with “summer afternoons”? Lazy. Everybody [...]

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Life and I more than occasionally share a hate-hate relationship. I’ve often said that life is a female dog. Really, though, it’s a roller-coaster ride with a crazed loon on drugs at the controls. Every once in a while, life surprises you by sending you a hell of a day, and I mean that in [...]

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A couple of days back, I wrote about the annoyances of being a writer. I highlighted the frustration of not capturing an idea while you can and then losing out on a chance to write something breath-taking. But like everything in life, it has a flip-side. Being able to write well is something I’m extremely [...]

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Go climb a terrace somewhere, when it’s dark, and look up at the sky and scream my lungs out at the sky, just for fun, just to know that I can. Then I want to lie under the stars, on a comfortable mattress, listening to music, turned off from life and everything else. Not be [...]

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