While we were still learning and unlearning about friendships and relationships, a sudden, new-age relationship emerged, which I’d like to call as Absentee Relationship – this again has a varied degree of customization among people.
Category: Society
Righting wrongs with personal policies
Although I am not a fast learner when it comes to matters of life, what I have learned from this book is, it’s important to define personal policies. I already have one. This article is about winding my way to define the second one.
Friendships when you’re an adult…
I was a very popular person when I was younger and delighted in making friends. In hindsight, I realize that my friendships were my world and frankly a much too important part of my identity.
My right is your right
We have found a new profession of defining how an intelligent person should think, how a sensible person should speak, or how a self-aware person should look. If my personal choices and actions differ from yours then I am not good enough because the benchmark has been set.
Defining my ‘not available’ moments
Learning this, with the help of angry people, has been my biggest quest in recent years. They are too many in number. In fact, I was one of them few years ago—not too violent but I knew my temper wasn’t pleasing either.
Where the mind is without fear…
Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore wrote Where the mind is without fear after the partition of Bengal, at the time when talks of declaring India as an independent nation were happening. This poem described his idea of a new India, an awakened one.
Cities that have shaped me: Barrackpore
I wish I could take each of them and show them around like I have experienced everything till now. But I have a feeling they wouldn’t have liked that. They are happy with what they have.
The faceless sadist
“Hello! You there?”, suddenly a voice queried. It derailed me from the train of thoughts I was in. For a moment, I thought who could that be, who would want to look for a soulless body?
Hello, world!
New beginnings must always be recognized! This is what I had on my mind for a long time. This is what I wanted to have by my name. Here’s me trying to build it step by step, post by post, and most importantly from moments to stories.
Sometimes you make choices, sometimes choices make you!
The more I meet people, I understand, there truly are two types of people—the realists and the hopeless romantics. The realists tend to take correct steps all through their life, they settle down, and live happily ever after. The hopeless romantics go with the flow, they are not bound to anyone or anything, and are never fully satisfied.
Moments to Stories 