Answer this! During those school years, haven’t there been times when you must have thought, “I just can’t wait to leave school and get out into the world!”? The world – A place you believed everything would just fall into place and life would blossom like that fresh rose in your garden. Have you never […]
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Love or not?
“WOMAN COMMITS SUICIDE AFTER TIFF WITH HUSBAND” The headlines jar from the paper as I walk past the newspaper stand in Delhi. Normally I would not give it a second look because these days such news are the only stuff the media is concerned about. And as each year progresses, the more atrocious the crimes […]
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The ‘ACCENT’
What is an “accent”? Is it restricted to a particular group of persons? Or is it only for those whose mother tongue is something other than English? What do people actually mean when they say, “I knew you were from there. You have an accent.” !!! In linguistics, an accent is a manner of pronunciation […]
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A blogger’ bane
Word pad open in front of you, hands ready to type away to glory. A thousand thoughts flitting across your mind. You want to pen it all down but it just teases you and runs away. You end up staring at this blank screen. Staring..and staring.. and staring!!! Writer’s block! Any bloggers sob story.. Wikipedia […]
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The Rowdy Dove
There is a very angry and rowdy pigeon that visits our shuttle court every morning. It pecks away at all the food it can find and doesn’t even allow another bird to come near. We’ve named it the “Rowdy Dove”. I was observing it the other day was shocked to see Rowdy Dove chasing the […]
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