"I woke up early yesterday and saw the sunrise. It made me feel insignificant.All my past regrets and future worries seemed minuscule as compared to nature’s grand design.A feeling of calmness descended when I felt that I am a part of something bigger than myself. I woke up early today and saw the sunrise.I did …

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I shall refer to the protagonist as “he” for if I assign a name you shall conjure up a mental image of his personality and mannerisms while my description of his state is independent of this visual imagery. Still if you need a placeholder, visualise a man in his late 20s tired from the banalities of life. …

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It has happened with me a couple of times now. It is something which sends shudders down my spine whenever it happens. I had gone to meet a friend on her birthday. I found a parking space after a while in the parking lot and parked my car. An old, poor lady knocked on my …

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It's a Monday evening. You are lying down with your phone in your hand and reading this. You've been mindlessly scrolling your social media apps for hours and stumbled upon a link somewhere that brought you here. The weekend was fun. The office today was okay too. Nothing eventful happened. You have work lined up …

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It happens every Friday night. I come back home from work, have dinner with family and then relax. And then it dawns on me that what I had been waiting for the entire week has finally arrived - the illusive weekend. There are goals to accomplish, list of things to buy (whether in a physical …

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Storytelling is an art form. The ability to convey a series of events in a coherent manner so that the receiver derives some sort of meaning from it. Now, in traditional terms, stories have been used in oral or verbal formats to propagate an idea or a belief. Stories told to children have a 'moral' …

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Everyone has an opinion. People have opinions about opinions. They think their opinion is more valid than those of others. We all believe that no one can feel the same way as us, for our experiences and world view is different, maybe we have undergone more turmoils which has made us wiser. But at the …

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I recently started commuting to office by car. Driving on Delhi roads makes you a different person. Initially it was all fine, later I started observing the things that make driving a bad experience. I realized that buses and autos are too slow and if they overtake you and stay in your lane, you get …

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Theatre as an art form is slowly receding. In this blogpost I share my experiences with theatre while at MICA and how I think it is a platform that helps to express oneself.