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Heart vs Mind

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I was photographing a lady cuddling her young child. She had the smile of someone content with everything around her. She was sitting on a footpath, probably in her early twenties, had matted hair, had half of her saree draped around the child’s back, the child trying to grab her thin waist trying to hold still. As the child tugged at her waist, I noticed that her clothes were giving way. No one around her cared. Had it been a wealthier girl, people would have been drooling all over her. Did money make so much of a difference? It suddenly started raining and as I tried to rush around trying to find a place to shove my DSLR and the only working lens that I had into my bag, I noticed I was grabbing thin air. I almost caught myself falling out of bed but that dream left a profound impression on my mind. As I stood beneath the shower fighting water pellets being fired at me, my already worked-out heart popped out of my body, advised my body to have fun for a while and went out all by i...
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Voice of my nation!

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“Look at those statistics. They speak volumes about the man. More than 40 centuries, an average close to 45”, they said. He never heard it. He just batted. “The crowd’s going delirious. The Australian crowds have been particularly supportive of him. India down by two and out walks Sachin Tendulkar”, the commentators said. He just batted. “I’ve seen God. He bats at number 4 for India”, Matthew Hayden said. He just batted. As I, a mere software engineer try to digest the fact that the man whom I grew up watching retires, I realized that he has done more to this country than offer us the sheer pleasure of watching him and being able to claim him as one of our own. The first instance I felt a resemblance to hype was when he scored the most ODI centuries. After that there have been a plethora of records broken, new mountains climbed and nearly unsurpassable records set up. While the whole world looks at him and says he is up there, with the best batsmen of all generations, I look a...
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Jatayu!

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I was the eagle flying in the sky, Searching with passion for the catch of the day! Was it to be a slithering cobra or a rat sly? Who was it to be that my claws yearned to slay!! Till you chanced to come upon my life, A seemingly innocent sparrow waiting for help! I offered you help and my support, As we developed a really wonderful rapport. We spent endless hours talking about bond and relation, You made me feel you would kill my healthy strife, You set my dreams in motion! You encouraged me to pick the snake that zigzagged across the farm, Assuring me that it would do me no harm. As I flew down to pick my feed, You encouraged me to go quicker; it made me believe I was strong! I lost my sense and to my friends - I paid no heed! Little did I know that you'd leave me to a sorrow that would last so long! As I clutched the snake in my claws, I realized it was a trap for someone else and I was the one at loss. I pulled and gasped; but to no avail. I looked up an...
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Cycle Of Love

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Before you start reading this shit, if you are a guy, skip this part in italics. If you are a girl, please understand that though I'm a failure in this intricate art of love (well, am I?), I have a great respect for women. Mother Teresa, Indira Gandhi and Katrina Kaif all demand equal attention from me (Katrina just a little bit more equal, though). Please read what follows in the lightest of your moods, and certainly not if you've fought with your boyfriend. This crap has been started in the worst of moods to let myself out of a little frustration I was in. So, please don't bother increasing it for me if you happen to find this demeaning. All that follows is completely fictional and drawn from so many anecdotes of different people. So, if it has a reference to your life, it is purely coincidental and has come up in my mind at that moment. Thanks for telling me that part. :P Bored! What do you do? Fall in love. Straight forward, ain't it? But, how? Get your lazy bum...
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