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A hesitation for new startPalpitations in the heartDetermination being wavyDisappointment seems heavyIdeas and questionsTurmoils and confusionsHeadache and chest tighteningBreathlessness in the makingUnraveling the knotsFiguring out the plotsThe hardest part of it allAccepting broken pieces of the whole.
मोड़ जो देखा था उसपे मुड़ जाते हम,तो नजाने कहाँ तक पहुँच पाते हम।If I had turned at that bend I saw,Who knows how far I would have reached.- Javed Akhtar, Gully BoyIt was late at night. I was lying in my bed, sobbing. My wife, 7 months pregnant, was consoling me. I had decided to shut down my startup of 3 years that day. We were expecting. I had to become serious and find myself a job. I had found...
She said she forgave me. Then she locked the door.She was excited the whole day and the whole week. Next day was the Saturday I promised I would take her out on. I wondered how to talk to her regarding the unexpected change of deadlines at the office today. As night fell, I mustered up the courage and explained it all with a heartfelt sorry. She was kind enough to accept the changes and smiled at ...
The map was accurate until we followed it.Day 19. I started with morning walk as usual and yoga, while gym training was scheduled in the evening after work. That day I stayed back at the office. Just to drive her back. To see that smile for one last time!
Every family has a room no one enters.The dinner is set on the table. He, his wife, his son, his mother, all serving themselves chapati and curry on their plates. They talked about bills, neighbours, relatives, college fees, gas cylinder prices etc, but not about her. His daughter who ran away. They never did.
Books that can and do alter your modes of thinking and the state of your mental well being. For the better.Fire on the Ganges speaks to the life of the Doms - the low caste untouchables of Varanasi who are the keepers of the holy flame. If you want think we live in a post caste world, please consider checking in with reality and read this. And this one transports you to quantum land. Its not an ea...
There’s a very specific kind of silence that happens during an outage.Not the peaceful kind.The heavy kind.Pipelines jammed. Builds failing. Deployments blocked. Every engineer slowly realizing that nothing new was shipping until someone figured this out.The root cause sounded almost stupid for the scale of damage it caused.It all started way before and I was at my desk.Near my desk, both the SRE ...
Reposting something I wrote 18 years ago. Funny how one can see more when they know less. It's raining.The streets are empty, except for the occasional cow running for shelter and a car going by, honking continuously in spite of an empty road. Another car pulls in the driveway of a nearby building. While it is backing up,the red taillight and the blinking yellow side indicator are giving momentary...
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