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Do you miss a window?

Why there are no such windows now? May be because there are no such walls.My both grandfather house have such windows. This space was not just to sit and view outside but to play , chat , eat and everything in between.

Unbroken

They tried to bury me under the weight,I turned the dirt into a door and a gate.Every word that cut, every lie they said,I wore them like armor and moved ahead.I fell to my knees but I learned to stand,Took every scar and built with my hands.What was meant to break me only made me stronger,They wanted me shattered. But I lasted longer.

Why Immensa Book Club ?

I pick up my phone to check the time, but put it down say 22 minutes later. I had laughed twice, maybe, learnt nothing (usually), and still did not know what the time is.If you are reading this and smiling, then you have done it too.We keep saying the kids these days can't focus. Have you looked at us? The kids at least are honest about it. We adults have a list of genuine excuses to justify it, o...

Double Slit, Two Selves

Most of us have heard of the double slit experiment.As a refresher, here it is - You fire electrons, one at a time, at a plate with two slits cut into it. Behind the plate is a screen. Common sense says each electron goes through one slit or the other (its a particle), and you should end up with two bands on the screen. Like spray paint through two open windows.That is NOT what you get. You get ma...

Morning glory

When Love Has Secrets, How Well Do We Really Know the Person We Love? — The Almost Perfect Wife by A

We often imagine that the most dangerous secrets in a relationship are the ones someone tells us.Perhaps they aren’t.Perhaps the more dangerous ones are the secrets someone successfully keeps from us.That thought stayed with me while reading Anubha Gupta’s The Almost Perfect Wife. Because beneath the murder mystery, the twists and the ancestral house in Mashobra, this is really a story about somet...

The Comeback

(part 1 of 4)AbandonedLeft on the street with no guide or map,I picked myself up and closed the gap.They said I was done, said I’d fall and break,I built from the ashes for my own sake.Storms tried to pull me under the tide,I learned to swim with the hurt inside.Scars on my back, but fire in my crown,They left me to sink. But I did not drown.part 1 of 4stay tuned to this channel for the rest.

The One With Dragon Warrior : Po Ping

As a podcaster I get asked by many celebs to be intereviewed. But this week we decided we ll reach out to our favourite (fictional) hero. And the choice was just one.Easy - Po Ping !!! The Dragon Warrior. The panda who eats too much and somehow keeps saving his village, and China.And since I've met him and had lovely chat about our lives, family, I decided to do the sensible thing — put two mics o...

Dear Zahira, With Love by Sachin NG — Sameer Gudhate on Love, Loss and the Human Cost of Partition

When a Border Separates Two People, What Exactly Does It Fail to Separate?Some love stories are about two people trying to find each other.Dear Zahira, With Love by Sachin NG is about something more difficult: two people trying to remain connected when history has decided they belong on opposite sides of a border.That distinction stayed with me.Because we often talk about Partition through numbers...

I have a machine

I have a machine that writes for meIt writes code and proseIt writes social media postsI have friends who like these postsI want more likesSo I crank this machine upIt is prolific at this settingIt doesn’t need me anymoreIt writes by itself, this marvelIt sounds a little strangeBut it is ok, who will noticeI keep postingI keep getting likesThe writing is stranger than beforeNo one noticesLikes kee...