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I know that I always go to music for advice. And one seeks advice when one is puzzled, confused, temporarily pessimistic, or almost wants to give up. In my (not so) long life, being an only child with working parents and shifting schools, it’s hard to find someone who canContinue Reading

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Languages I know; fluently: 2 (Hindi and English), not so fluently: 3 (French, Marathi, Punjabi, in that order). Siblings: 0. Number of first cousins: 9 sisters and 4 brothers. Number of second cousins: infinite. Festivals I celebrate: 10.4 Festivals I want to celebrate: 19. Times I have been asked toContinue Reading

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For what reasons do people live? I have been searching inside my head, mostly in the form of unanswered questions. But I guess it all comes down to this. Now, I like to think that life does not have any purpose, you can just simply live! ​1. Food: I definitelyContinue Reading

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The morning after Diwali was always the longest. ​Diwali was usually in October, when the rains had decided to retreat from this terrifying land. This terrifying land, because the people couldn’t decide whether they wanted to be friends, or enemies. Whether they wanted to care about the land, or theirContinue Reading

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I was born in one city, brought up in another, and I think I will shift to a third. But I want to live in the fourth. Where is everyone, exactly? Where are we going, and where are we looking, and where are we breathing freely? I think in this messContinue Reading

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That you can still beat that topper academically, what’s-his-name-again? The-one-whose-mother-gloats-so-much-that-my-ears-bleed, and the-one-who-wears-oily-spectacles. Because you totally have the potential but haven’t used it. Yet. That one day they receive a call from the headmistress that you, wait for it… have heroically and magically and impossibly (and incredibly) saved a younger pupilContinue Reading

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These songs are not in any particular order, but they are definitely on repeat. 1. ‘Capsize’ by Frenship, Truce EP ‘Your silhouette is burned in my memory, Rubble left from the moment that you left me.’ 2. ‘Polaroid’ by Imagine Dragons, Smoke + Mirrors ‘Love’s a polaroid, oh, better inContinue Reading

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I wake up in the morning. Don’t let everything affect you. Wear a shield on your heart, and welcome only what you want to. ~my mother, with faded clothes and shining eyes. I sit before noon.  Don’t hide too much. Even if you are empty or full, you will stillContinue Reading

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I believe that What you give around, That little smile, when your heart would pound, That needful advice, desperately profound, That handshake, when you were second, with the one crowned, Doesn’t always come back, and gets lost in the town. Sometimes, it needs to be found. I believe that TheContinue Reading

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Dear Change, You paid me a big visit last year, when I shifted my school. You kept meeting often from there, as if trying to remind me that you would never die. That you would keep visiting me and have small rendezvous around the corner, for forever, until the dayContinue Reading