tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17879926627152308372024-03-05T10:16:08.596+05:30Neverland Through My LensRitwik Goswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03235811652074195495noreply@blogger.comBlogger140125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787992662715230837.post-29534671999248973402014-06-24T21:41:00.005+05:302014-06-24T21:44:22.312+05:303rd June, 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ritwik Goswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03235811652074195495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787992662715230837.post-1787014935677206272014-06-24T21:40:00.000+05:302014-06-24T21:40:05.154+05:30In the Wilderness 4th June, 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Under the lazy January Sun,</div>
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The grass lush with winter dew,</div>
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Invited the melancholy straight</div>
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Out of my being, as I lay savoring</div>
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The delicate deliquescence around,</div>
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The tickle of the blades of grass,</div>
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And the sight of you,</div>
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Radiant under the illumination,</div>
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Half-asleep, half-distraught</div>
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At the lingering menace of </div>
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A relentless grasshopper,</div>
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Who seemed to appreciate </div>
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The kiss of your hair on its feet,</div>
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As much as I loved its caress,</div>
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On my cheeks, and face.</div>
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The festivals of light, the nights </div>
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Of endless applause, made known</div>
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By the indefatigable illumination,</div>
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Conjured by incessant fireworks,</div>
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Released from the ground, </div>
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And terminating in crescendo,</div>
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Inches above our selves,</div>
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And us in flight, of the relief</div>
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After years of strife, of love,</div>
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Of hallucinations that come</div>
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To mark youth and its many</div>
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Blind faiths, With the mild</div>
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Pungency of burning gunpowder</div>
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Igniting dreams that were to</div>
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Later need suppression, cruel.</div>
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It is dark now, has been aching</div>
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Eternally, this loneliness.</div>
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As I have been looking for you,</div>
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In this endless hollowness.</div>
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<strong>In this world, turned dark now,</strong></div>
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<strong>Baby, I look for you,</strong></div>
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<strong>In the wilderness.</strong></div>
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Ritwik Goswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03235811652074195495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787992662715230837.post-76933863902594634582014-06-24T21:39:00.000+05:302014-06-24T21:39:06.105+05:30FIFA WORLD CUP 2014. ALL UPDATES SO FAR.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>23rd June, 2014 </b><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">I shall have a personal bone to pick with anyone who denies that the Chilean team deserves to go far in this tournament. What beautiful (possession)-control. </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/netherlandsvschile" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#NetherlandsVsChile</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">In other news, Spain scores a 3-0 victory over Australia, with goals from Torres, and Juan Mata (along with one from Villa). Reminded me of the Mata-Torres camaraderie moments from their Chelsea days together. Only this time,both of them actually scored. </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/spainvsaustralia" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#SpainVsAustralia</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/selfdeprecatinghumor" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#SelfDeprecatingHumor</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"></span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/chelseafc" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#ChelseaFC</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/fifawc2014" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#FIFAWC2014</a><br /><br /><b>22nd June, 2014</b><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">1. It is time for Boateng Vs. Boateng</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/germanyvsghana" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#GermanyVsGhana</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/godeutschland" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#GODEUTSCHLAND</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">.</span><br />
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And that, ladies and gentlemen, is MIROSLAV KLOSE.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Two minutes in, and a goal!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/germanyvsghana" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#GermanyVsGhana</a><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br />3. What a great game of football. For a terribly ghastly first half, the second half more than made up, and how. Ghana, the underdogs, proved to be quite a scare for Germany, and at a point looked all set to win the game, albeit with quite a bit of pushing and shoving, and foul play, which was somehow ignored by the referee, until the yellow card for Sulley Ali Muntari at the last minute. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The appar</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">ent mistake on the German part was to bring Schweinsteiger and Klose on so late into the game, when it was too late for them to effectively deliver too well. Now, since they are both recovering from injuries, this strategy could work out well in the long run. Letting them rest in a non-crucial match such as this one could reap rich benefits from their presence in later, more crucial matches.<br /><br />Anyway, that's that. Germany still leads the group.<br /><br /><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/germanyvsghana" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">#GermanyVsGhana</a> <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/fifawc2014" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">#FIFAWC2014</a><br /><br /><b>21st June, 2014</b><br /><br />1. Remember, Carlos Queiroz was the assistant manager of Manchester United, circa 2008, when they won 1-0 aggregate over Barcelona in the Champions League semifinals(and eventually went on to defeat Chelsea in the finals).<br /><br />Are you still surprised that Iran(currently managed by the same Queiroz) has managed to keep Barcelona's poster-kid Messi-led Argentina goalless so far?<br /><br /><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/iranvsargentina" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">#IranVsArgentina</a> <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/goallesssofar" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">#Goallesssofar</a> <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/possibledraw" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">#PossibleDraw</a><br /><br />2. Very well played, Iran. But Argentina had the luck, as well as the Lion. Saved them from a very embarrassing draw.<br /><br />The last minute wonder reminded me of the Germany-Italy semifinal in the 2006 World Cup where 2 goals were scored by Italy by Del Piero and Grosso - one after the other in the extra-time, pushing Germany out of the cup, and Italy into the finals.<br /><br />This is the stuff World Cup Legends are made of.<br /><br /><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/carlosqueiroz" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">#CarlosQueiroz</a> <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/iranvsargentina" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">#IranVsArgentina</a> <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/messicre" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">#Messicre</a> <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/fifawc2014" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">#FIFAWC2014</a> <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/cupdates" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">#CUPdates</a></span><br />
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<b>19th- 20th June, 2014</b><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">And we witnessed Suarez flushing England down the sewer,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/cupdates" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#CUPdates</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/fifawc2014" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#FIFAWC2014</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/southamericansupremacy" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#SouthAmericanSupremacy</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"></span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/theyalsolegalizedweed" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#Theyalsolegalizedweed</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/worldcupofthedarkhorses" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#WorldCupOfTheDarkHorses</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"></span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/almostnamesakewin" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#AlmostNamesakeWIN</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/lettinghisclubnationdown" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#LettingHisClubNationDown</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">1.Go Chile. </span><i class="_4-k1 img sp_1L2r5uNm0DV sx_a88bc7" style="background-color: white; background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/y5/r/spAcfMfpPL-.png); background-position: -119px -866px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; color: #37404e; display: inline-block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 16px; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: -3px; width: 16px;"></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/worldcupoftheunderdogs" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#WorldCupOfTheUnderdogs</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/chilevsspain" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#ChileVsSpain</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">2. The Andes rise much higher than the Pyrenees. If you know what I mean?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/worldcupoftheunderdogs" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#WorldCupOfTheUnderdogs</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/chilevsspain" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#ChileVsSpain</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/chileandefense" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#ChileanDefense</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"></span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/johnnyherrera" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#JohnnyHerrera</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">3.Not like I particularly enjoy rubbing salt on other people's wounds, and I hate being an asshole, but Spain, this was payback for 29th June 2008 and 7th July, 2010. HA HA.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Sincerely, </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">a fan of the </span><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=104045402964420" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Germany-National-Football-Team/104045402964420" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">Germany National Football Team</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/spainvschile" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#SpainVsChile</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/worldcupoftheunderdogs" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#WorldCupOfTheUnderdogs</a><br />
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<span class="userContent"><span style="color: #37404e; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">6. <a aria-haspopup="true" aria-owns="js_6" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=249113725102662" href="https://www.facebook.com/es.muellert.wieder" id="js_7" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">Thomas Müller</a><span style="font-size: 14px;">. Well done. Very very well done. </span><i class="_4-k1 img sp_1L2r5uNm0DV sx_a88bc7" style="background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/y5/r/spAcfMfpPL-.png); background-position: -119px -866px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; display: inline-block; font-size: 14px; height: 16px; vertical-align: -3px; width: 16px;"></i><br style="font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-size: 14px;" /><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/hattrick" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">#Hattrick</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/germanyvsportugal" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">#GermanyVsPortugal</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/fifawc2014" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">#FIFAWC2014</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/failronaldofail" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">#FailRonaldoFail</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="userContent"><span style="line-height: 20px;">7. </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The fatal error on the Portuguese side was to have invested too much faith and hero-worshipping into their singular "Best Player of the Year". Let him take all the penalty kicks, keep him at the centre, basically, just be subservient to his glory. Look, how that turns out. Hah. Germany, what a classy win!</span><br style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Brilliant, brilliant day for the German nation. Schumacher first, and now this. Yay!</span><br style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/germanyvsportugal" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#GermanyVsPortugal</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/fifawc2014" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">#FIFAWC2014</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> #4-0</span><br /><b>14th June, 2014</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.38;">Personally, I was hoping for a six-goal-difference win for Netherlands. But, 5-1 was good enough. For now. </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/fifawc2014" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.38; text-decoration: none;">#FIFAWC2014</a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.38;"> </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/spainvsholland" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.38; text-decoration: none;">#spainvsholland</a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.38;"> </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/rvp" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.38; text-decoration: none;">#RVP</a></div>
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Ritwik Goswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03235811652074195495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787992662715230837.post-66998462498866268202014-06-24T21:36:00.002+05:302014-06-24T21:36:21.024+05:30Buiya Goes To XLRI 15th June, 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ritwik Goswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03235811652074195495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787992662715230837.post-43355755190347324772014-06-24T21:22:00.002+05:302014-06-24T21:22:31.158+05:30Yaadein, toh aise yaad aate hain (28th May 2014)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong>बगल में ठहरा एक अंधेरे मकान में </strong></div>
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<strong>एक बूढ़े इंसान के मुर्झाते साये में</strong></div>
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<strong>खेलते दो बच्चों के किल्काडियों को सुन</strong></div>
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<strong>दादाजी के शॉल की खुशबू, या फिर</strong></div>
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<strong>छज्जे पर नींबू-शरबत पीने के वह</strong></div>
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<strong>सांझे का ढलता सूरज याद आता है, </strong></div>
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<strong>यादें तो ऐसे याद आते है… </strong></div>
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<strong>किसी नये दोस्त के आवाज़ के सिलवटों में</strong></div>
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<strong>तीसरी क्लास का बेंच वाला साथी,</strong></div>
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<strong>और restaurant में नज़दीक के टेबल पर बैठा </strong></div>
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<strong>वह प्यार याद आता है, और रंगीन </strong></div>
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<strong>एक शाम की मदमस्त जवानी में </strong></div>
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<strong>एक birthday के शाम का शोरगुल, माँ की आवाज़,</strong></div>
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<strong>और तालियाँ भी याद आते है… </strong></div>
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<strong>Hostel के सीढ़ियों से छत पे चढ़ते वक़्त,</strong></div>
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<strong>एक पेड़ के झलक से, बचपन के आम का पेड़,</strong></div>
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<strong>उसपे चढ़ना, और फिर गिरना याद आता है,</strong></div>
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<strong>और नशे में डूबे वीरान रातों में,</strong></div>
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<strong>पुराने गीतों के Youtube-y मुदाख़िलात से,</strong></div>
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<strong>एक अर्से की भूली हुई, यादों के किसी गुमराह</strong></div>
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<strong>कोने में बसी लोड़ियाँ याद आते है,</strong></div>
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<strong>हाँ, यादें ऐसे ही याद आते है… </strong> </div>
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<strong>Kisi anjaan sheher ki koi gumnaam gali ke</strong></div>
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<strong>Bagal mein thehra ek andhere makaan mein</strong></div>
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<strong>Ek boodhe insaan ke murjhaate saaye mein</strong></div>
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<strong>Khelte do bachchon ke kilkaariyon ko sun,</strong></div>
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<strong>Dadaji ke shawl ki khushboo, yaa toh phir,</strong></div>
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<strong>Chhajje par nimboo sharbat peene ke woh</strong></div>
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<strong>Saanjhe ka dhalta sooraj yaad aata hai..</strong></div>
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<strong>Yaadein toh aise yaad aate hai.</strong></div>
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<strong>Kisi naye dost ke awaaz ke silvaton mein</strong></div>
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<strong>Teesri class ka bench waala saathi,</strong></div>
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<strong>Aur restaurant ke nazdeek ke table par baitha</strong></div>
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<strong>Ajnabee ke aankhon mein, gyarhvi ka</strong></div>
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<strong>Woh pyaar yaad aata hai, Aur rangeen </strong></div>
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<strong>Kisi shaam ki madmast jawaani mein,</strong></div>
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<strong>Ek birthday ke shaam ka shorgul, maa ki awaaz,</strong></div>
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<strong>Aur taaliyan bhi yaad aate hai. </strong></div>
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<strong>Hostel ke seedhiyon se chhat pe chadhte waqt </strong></div>
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<strong>Ek pedh ke jhalak se, bachpan ke aam ka pedh,</strong></div>
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<strong>Usspe chadhna, aur phir girna yaad aata hai,</strong></div>
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<strong>Aur nashe mein doobe viraan raaton mein,</strong></div>
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<strong>Puraane geeton ke Youtube-y mudakhilat se</strong></div>
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<strong>Ek arsey ki bhooli huwi, yaadon ki kisi gumrah</strong></div>
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<strong>Kone mein basi loriyan yaad aati hai.</strong></div>
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<strong>Haan, yaadein aise hi yaad aate hai. </strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">How easy it is to dream, when one is young, isn't it? To conjure up colorful worlds of reckless abandon, while sitting in classrooms as the teacher drones on about some irrelevant Mathematical theorem? The possibilities seem endless, the best years are all up ahead. Everything seems believable; success actually seems achievable. Nobel Prizes to the Bookers, Oscars to the Grammys, everything, we're</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> taught to believe, is as likely to become ours as the next person's. The best relationships as well as the severest heartbreaks are yet to come, the first bank accounts yet to be opened, the promise of the first kiss lingers on the horizon, or rather, on the opposite end of the classroom, where the attractive batchmate sits, looking equally lost. The driving licences, the college-years, the many parties, the voting rights - everything is impending.<br /><br />And then suddenly, you're a grown up, and the best of all the years have passed you by ! Now, every dream has to be carefully weighed out with scales of realism. The economy is shrinking, the jobs are like bad jokes life played with you, and forget being a millionaire at twenty-five, you're hardly making enough to pay your rents. The clogged drainage in the bathroom doesn't get automatically cleaned out by the domestic help- you have to pick up the semi-eaten morsels out of the kitchen sink with your own hands. The parents are growing old, and now look at you with quiet eyes, that never for once reveal their desire to be taken care of, for fear of damaging your dreams, of impairing your wings. The stench of eternal mediocrity, that you could easily ignore before, now seems to be your constant, albeit unwanted, companion, someone you are now realizing you need to make peace with. The bills keep piling up, the finances need to be kept tab of. You drive, not out of adventure, but out of necessity, and your votes are capable of only bringing douchebags to power, for they seem to be the only options. The first relationship, and many more after that, whizzed past you before you even knew what was happening. The many wrong turns you took, the mean words you said, the many hearts you broke, and the many people who broke yours, linger on as haunting blemishes on the life you were dreaming to build solely out of coruscating successes, and universal acclaim and love.<br /><br />~ C'est la vie ~</span></div>
Ritwik Goswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03235811652074195495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787992662715230837.post-33846189122666721452014-05-17T07:26:00.002+05:302014-05-17T07:45:29.940+05:30FilmSchool And Such...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Last night, I revisited my old blog after quite a while. And after an even longer sabbatical, did I get down to reading the other blogs linked to mine. Those that were started by, and used to, some time back, narrate the stories of the lives of those who I used to then call friends. Time dented some of these friendships, and as between boats that drift away amidst a gale, or sometimes even at calm sea, their voices do not reach me any more today, and neither does mine, them. Funnily, I discovered, most of these blogs too have since turned silent. The tales they had begun to sow have remained unfinished, only half-narrated. It is as if a tempest drowned their voices, like their beings got lost along the way, never to be found again. Making my way from one abandoned blog to the other felt like walking into a cemetery - very quiet, very distant and reeking of buried-and-long dead hopes and unheard-and-oft-forgotten stories. The whole experience also rendered stark the loneliness, the chasm created in my life due to the departure of these people - most of whom, at some time or the other, were cardinal to my happiness, much akin to the loneliness, the sense of loss, that typically plagues a visitor at a cemetery.</div>
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There was a time in my life, post-school, when I was a spoiled-little-kid. I woke up when I pleased, slept when I wished to, and there was no upper-ceiling on the pocket money, thus making way for countless fine dining experiences, and hanging out at up market eateries and cafeterias, gorging on endless desserts- all at the most expensive eateries around the city. The air-conditioning in my room would be on all day and through every night. The situation intensified when, after my life altering accident, my parents started keeping no stones unturned to keep me out of depression's way. In addition to the previous liberties, suddenly, I had become the priority behind every policy implemented at home, Looking back in retrospect, I probably let them dote on me as much as they did because in my head, the justification was clear. I was dealing with paralyses and crippling handicaps at the age of twenty, so I let their attention and energies fuel my sustenance. "The parents' child is back from the dead, it is their <em>duty</em> to indulge the child"- I probably felt. Food kept me happy, the calories kept piling on, and when I left home last August, I was a ginormous seventy six kilos.</div>
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The first thing that staying away from home took away from me, was my sense of entitlement, the feeling that if, at home, I got adrak-wali-chai at six every evening, or if my wardrobe magically replenished itself with clean clothes, it was because of my right to such things. If before moving out of home, someone had told me that I wouldn't have, at one point of time, a bed to sleep on for close to two months, I would have probably never even gone ahead with the move. Shortly after I moved to film-school in Pune, however, for two months, I shared a two-bedded room with six other men. There, not only was there no air-conditioning, I just had a mattress to myself , to sleep on, on one 8ft*4ft area of floor space. The bathroom had to be shared with all the other inhabitants of the room as well, and my idea of "personal space" that I grew up guarding, defending and nurturing, was suddenly decimated. The funny part, however, was, none of it hurt my self-confessed gigantic ego. None of it felt insulting or beneath- me. It all felt normal, almost a part of growing up. If I was dealing with the presence of six other men in my immediate vicinity all the time, I realized, so were they. I was just as much of an intrusion into their space, as they were in mine. Frankly, even the inconvenience wasn't as bad as I would've imagined it to be, had the situation been described to the old-and-spoilt-me. I had suddenly been yanked out of the cozy bedroom of my protected upbringing, and into the front yard of my adulthood. Today, with every hour of laundry that I do, or every cup of coffee that I make, or every time I have to sweep the bathroom floor, I am grateful for the years of comfort that was afforded to me, throughout my growing up years, by the folks back home. However, at sixty six kilos today, I am also grateful for the coming-into-my-own that staying alone has intimated to me.</div>
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Residential college,in a strange city, is a funny place to be in. While you stay on campus, and acquaint yourselves with all the other residents of the campus, the non-necessity of venturing out of the campus retains your unfamiliarity with the city around you. Soon, the campus becomes an island, of known faces, and familiar idiosyncracies, amidst a wide sea, or city, of strangers. Film school, in this regard, is pretty similar to the small neighborhood- towns I have chiefly spent my childhood in. The Institute has a Central Lane, just like all of those towns would. If you took a stroll down that lane, especially in the lazy hours of early evening, you were likely to, at some point of time or the other, meet most of the residents of the town. Same is the case here. If on a late Sunday evening, I take two walks up and down the road that is the Spinal Cord to the Institute, I do invariably, end up meeting, or passing by, most of the residents of the campus, including the dogs.</div>
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Ritwik Goswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03235811652074195495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787992662715230837.post-31750444830355855282014-03-04T01:19:00.003+05:302014-03-04T01:19:29.556+05:30Gumraah<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Khabar hai ki, jisko humne ek arsey se</div>
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Bade dhyan se dekha tha,</div>
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Woh jo galiyon se guzar kar,</div>
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Raat ke siyaah aasmaan ko</div>
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Shawl ki tarah odhkar,</div>
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Bade hi naazuk kadmon se,</div>
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Humaare muhalle ko aata tha,</div>
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Woh jo tanha aa kar,</div>
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Khwabon ko jagaa kar,</div>
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Humaare angon ko sulagata tha...</div>
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...Woh aaj, humse naraaz,</div>
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Kahiin chhupkar baitha hai,</div>
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Humaari adhoori kahaani ko</div>
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Bin muqammal chhod,</div>
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Humaara woh chaaNd aaj</div>
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Gumrah ban baitha hai.</div>
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बड़े ध्यान से देखा था,</div>
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वह जो गलियों से गुज़र कर,</div>
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रात के सियाह आसमान को</div>
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शॉल की तरह ओढ़ कर,</div>
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बड़े ही नाज़ुक क़दमों से </div>
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हमारे मोहल्ले को आता था,</div>
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वह जो तनहा आ कर,</div>
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ख्वाबों को जगा कर,</div>
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हमारे अंगों को सुलगाता था... </div>
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...वह आज, हमसे नाराज़,</div>
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कहीं छुप कर बैठा है, </div>
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हमारी अधूरी कहानी को</div>
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बिन-मुक़म्मल छोड़,</div>
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हमारा वह चाँद आज गुमराह बन बैठा है ॥ </div>
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Ritwik Goswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03235811652074195495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787992662715230837.post-4270928839510727252014-03-04T01:18:00.002+05:302014-03-04T01:18:35.573+05:30Kyon?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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मैंने अगर आपसे<strong> तब</strong> पूछा होता की,</div>
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आपकी ख़ामोशी का लिबास पहने</div>
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किस ज़माने का ग़म छुपा बैठा है?</div>
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आप के आँखों कि नमी से,</div>
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किस अर्से का तक़ल्लुफ़ बयान होता है?</div>
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आप के होंठों के थड़थड़ाहट में ,</div>
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किस पेहलू में छुपाए धड़कनों का साज़ है</div>
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तो शायद अपने </div>
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खामोश ज़ुबान से,</div>
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नम आँखों,</div>
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और थड़थडाते होंठों से</div>
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आपने कोई तो जवाब दे दिया होता … </div>
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मेरे ना पूछने में</div>
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इतनी भी कैसी चुभन थी</div>
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कि आपने दुनिया से ही</div>
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रिश्ता तोड़ दिया?</div>
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Ritwik Goswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03235811652074195495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787992662715230837.post-20002894131800169102014-03-04T01:17:00.001+05:302014-03-04T01:17:36.237+05:30There Are Places I (Shall) Remember... 4th February 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Making my way through a chilly February night, past the familiar sights of Ring Road, of Safdarjung Enclave, of Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, and JNU, when I entered my room in Vasant Kunj tonight, I was hit by a feeling of loss, stronger than I had been expecting. Everything lay exactly the way I had left them about a month and a half back. Within seconds, my life of half a year came back to me. The partly-unmade bed, the quilts and bed sheets lying lumped together- as if comforting and protecting each other from the cold- all my clothes strewn around the room, the dried up bathroom floor, the Queen poster above my bed, the green lights - given to me on Diwali by someone who had warmed November up by his presence - garlanding the television on the wall, the Vodafone Internet modem I used for Internet connectivity here, the multiple empty Hot Chocolate, Nescafe and Nutella containers that I never bothered to throw away, the jute bag bearing the World Health Organisation logo- given to me by an uncle when I arrived to stay here, in August- one that I had hung behind the front door and never got around to dislodging from there even once since then, the books on Advertising- a course that had brought me to Delhi, a blue scarf that I had managed to procure out of one of my closest friends at IIMC- my Karol Bagh auntie- that I would also wear in class with my pairs of jeans and shirts(with the Bangalore Uncle, Mr. Chaithanya commenting - "very surprisingly, you do manage to pull this weird ensemble off as well"), the empty Ballantine's bottle and glass reminiscent of one particularly wild night around Diwali - all of this lying around, just as I had, running late and rushing to catch a train to Calcutta, left them - brought back so many memories...</div>
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...Memories of my first time away from home, my first time staying alone, completely by myself, like an adult, with no one to take care of me, or to pester me. Unlike most people, who graduate from home to hostel, to finally living alone, my first tryst with independence was marked by the complete, stark "alone-ness"(and I do NOT mean loneliness) that this place offered to me. I slept when I pleased, I woke up as I wished(though, usually, in time for college), I went up to the terrace with some food when I so desired, made myself as many cups of coffee as would keep me happy(having learnt how to make coffee here itself), climbed over the gate when I got too late in coming back at night, kept wondering what the warning sign asking one to be wary of "Non Ionized Radiation" meant. I danced by myself to the music played at the parties at the farmhouse next door and ordered countless meals from Hawkers and AFC's kitchen, and watched countless episodes of Harvey Specter's squabbles with Louis Litt, and bonding with Mike...This room saw love materialize, saw several varieties of despair as I desperately tried to figure a person out, gradually understanding him and accepting him for what he is. This room was for when my best friends trooped in to surprise me on a day I had overslept and missed college, found the door open, and found me lying on my bed, half-naked, and woke me up to a torrent of laughter.</div>
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I can't help but recall, after the decision to not put up with family here in Delhi, and the subsequent four days of house hunting to disappointing results, when I first set my eyes on this room, it had been love at first sight. The decision had been made then and there, and I had moved in a couple of days later. Today, on my last night here, as I try to soak in as much of this ambience, of this room, as possible, I am reminded of one cardinal truth about life. People attach a lot of importance to staying in touch with each other. This, they believe, would help them stay in touch with their past. Yet, for all the clinging on to other people that we do, as we tread through life, we forget that our past was necessarily made up of, besides the people, the places and the times we lived in - how the flowers smelled that day, how strongly the sun shone, and how much dust flickered through the sunlight pouring in through the ventilators. And thus, though the people live on( at least for a while), the times we lived in die, and with them, so does our past - never to be brought back to life, exactly similarly, even with all the people involved.</div>
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Ritwik Goswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03235811652074195495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787992662715230837.post-17939833238279811482013-12-22T05:54:00.001+05:302013-12-22T05:54:31.419+05:30For the Love of Delhi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When I returned to Delhi in June of this year, I had old memories of the city coloring my vision, just as much as the anticipation of a new life. It took me a little bit of convincing myself to learn to be objective about the city, and not let my past seep into my present or (what was going to be) the future, in any way, positive or negative. I was, after all, making a much required escape from my home town, after feelings of claustrophobia and an over familiar terrain, along with sudden estrangement from a majority of people I had held dear, had begun to take over my being, after six years in the city. I needed out, and I was getting a way out, and I needed to make the best out of it.</div>
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Cities are like people. They greet and interact with different people differently, leading to a variety of opinions being formed about them by outsiders. Some are more universally loved, like New York, others are more frequently dissed, like New Delhi. Speaking of New Delhi, most outsiders complain of the unfriendliness, primarily. They say that the men are boastful, obnoxious and lustful, and the women are loud and snobbish. The dominant popular opinion is that the city is unsafe, it is dishonest, arrogant and non-inclusive. They speak of the ridiculous amount of power held by some, who could go around making everybody else's life a living hell. Even with a nod acknowledging that some of those things are certainly true, to an extent, I say, one needs to look beyond the obvious, and acknowledge the ways in which the city is worth celebrating.</div>
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Delhi, to me, is a beautiful city. The roads are wide and clean(er than the rest of the Indian cities). There is no offence to the olfactory senses like what one has to suffer in Kolkata or Mumbai. The roads, at least in South Delhi, are clean, and the metro, is almost sparkling(despite the commuter-load). There is almost as much beauty in the chaos of the North, as the order in the South, with the resplendent lanes of Chandni Chowk, and the maddening chatter of KamlaNagar. Also, the people of Delhi <em>look</em> splendidly beautiful. It is not just the tall, fair version of Punjabi beauty one would normally associate with the city I speak about though. Sure, the dazzling dames and the bewitching boys are a treat to the senses, but strangely enough, even the average auto-rickshaw driver or the old man travelling in the metro- they all look beautiful, going about their life, with indomitable energy and spirit- something that Delhi seems to infuse into everyone.</div>
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Again, how can you ignore the contradictory charm the city possesses? The city is as new as the pomp and parties of Sainik Farms and the extravagance of DLF Emporio, as it is rooted and timeless in the magnificence of the Qutab Minar, or the endless lushness of Lodhi Gardens. It is as much grandeur as the bungalows of Vasant Vihar as the comfort in the close-knit community-lives of Janakpuri. There is as much power concentrated around Lutyens' Delhi, as there is hopelessness and discontent at Savda Ghevra.</div>
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The Delhi I once knew was the city of someone very close to me. The city I know today, is the city that is mine. Yes, I am an outsider, as I have been to every city I have ever been in, but if I feel at home anywhere apart from around Ballygunge in Calcutta, it is in Delhi. Not even for a day after returning did I feel even slightly out-of-place, it was almost like I was assimilated right in. From the upbeat euphoria at Safdarjung Enclave to the eventual quiet seclusion at Vasant Kunj, the city made me fall in love, over and over again.</div>
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For me Delhi has been therapeutic. It has been the auto journeys to and from college, where I see the city pass by, bustling, and indifferent to my existence - making me feel secure in being a stranger to everyone around me - the kind of security that typifies every individual, who like me, is perpetually on the run. However, the people I got to know in college, at the same time, make me feel as much at home, as a stable, sane, secure individual appreciates feeling- therein exemplifying another contraction.</div>
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Delhi for me has been the evenings at SDA Market, the lunches at JNU, the Diwali at Lajpat Nagar, the Metro rides to and from Connaught Place, the maddening crowd of Rajiv Chowk, the evening walks at Barakhamba Road, the getting drunk at Hauz Khas Village and the getting stoned at Gurgaon(not really Delhi, but you get the gist). It has been the best friend suggesting Al Bake shawarmas, it has been Aunty momos at Amar Colony with somebody very close to my heart, it has been North Campus and Mezban with the little pixie, and the evening coffees with Karol-Bagh-ki-Auntyji. It has been two jokers from Noida- one exasperating, and one entertaining, one girl who loves Emraan Hashmi too much, one unclejee from Bangalore, one girl who advised me to stop running from my past, a South Delhi bimbo, a theatre actor, a girl with who face-to-face Hi's were too mainstream, a perpetual-tourist, this Himachali who became my husband, among many, many others. I have met people from Bombay, and Lucknow, and Dubai, and Pune - representing some of the regions that influence the culture of the city- a condensation of people from all over India. In that, Delhi is to India what the USA is to the World- a colony of outsiders, with a culture formed out of links to everywhere. Delhi to me is as much the Banoffee Pies and Mississippi mudpies at the Big Chill Cafe, as the evening chai at the National Institute of Immunology, or the cheap Chinese from Hawker's at Vasant Kunj. It is as much the photography walks at Hauz Khas as the food hunting at Sarojini Nagar. It is as much the heat of June as the chill of December ,as much the Luchi Mangsho at Chittaranjan Park, as the Malleshwaram Cross Dosa at Carnatic Cafe, as much the Diwali lights at Khan Market as the creepy darkness at Lado Sarai... and I could go on and on.</div>
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It is December, it is winter - my favorite time of the year. The city is deliciously cold, and there is a poignant fog that looms over the city in the mornings. The nights are noticeably colder, and sometimes, here in Vasant Kunj, it becomes a little difficult to even venture outside of the room with just one sweater on. There is absolute joy in basking in the winter sun on the terrace, and even in lying all cosy and comfortable, underneath the blankets, cuddling up with oneself.</div>
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With a possible move to Pune on the cards, I do not know how much longer I have in this city, or how frequently I shall get to visit, either. Delhi has given me too much to treasure, too much to love, and too many fond memories to look back at. It has been integrated into my system- an even more indelible part than before. I am departing for a while, tomorrow, with a heavy heart. But, I shall be back. I do not know exactly when, but I know, it shall be soon. And no matter where I go, this city, with all its lights, and scenery, and people, and color, and love and madness, shall travel with me, a fragment of my mind, a faction of my soul, a follicle of my heart.</div>
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So, before you judge Delhi, or hate it without having been introduced to the place properly, based on what everyone says, give the city a chance. Rapes and scams might keep happening here, but from what I have seen, love and longing for more happens more often.</div>
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Ritwik Goswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03235811652074195495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787992662715230837.post-34424000316292551702013-12-22T05:51:00.004+05:302013-12-22T05:51:53.712+05:30Love, Love Me Do.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Lennon to my Ono,</div>
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Baez to my Dylan,</div>
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Hughes to my Plath,</div>
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Gauri to my Khan,</div>
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Heathcliff to my Kathy,</div>
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O'Hara to my Butler,</div>
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Johnny to my June,</div>
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Marie to my Pierre,</div>
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Aditya to my Geet,</div>
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Portia to my Ellen,</div>
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Rachel to my Ross,</div>
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Jesse to my Celine,</div>
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Clementine to my Joel,</div>
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Wall-E to my Eve,</div>
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Homer to my Marge... </div>
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....You, You make me believe.</div>
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Ritwik Goswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03235811652074195495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787992662715230837.post-61973778301200148342013-04-01T21:48:00.001+05:302013-04-01T21:48:39.661+05:30Generation Hex<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 17.98611068725586px;">The problem with our generation, I think, stems considerably from the fact that we all are constantly seeking so much attention. All of us, busy complaining all the time. About how that relationship didn’t work. Or how that friend wronged us. Or how the job sucks, there is not enough pay to match our potential. Or how the iPhone keeps hanging and the Wifi keeps failing. In line with Andy Warhol’s </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 17.98611068725586px;">prediction, everyone keeps demanding their “15 minutes of fame”, and every day, at that. Absolutely no one is content in being the ‘Mister Cellophane’ – the invisible, inconsequential personage. The very fact that I am sharing this update on a social networking site right now delivers pretty much the same message. The problem, however, doesn’t stem only from this exponential increase in the demand for attention. It stems more from the fact that, while we keep asking for the limelight to be thrust upon us, most of us are so attention-deficit. Most of us have so little time for others. To listen to the stories of others’ struggles, to celebrate their victories in ways other than ‘Like’-ing their status updates, to tell them we are there, should they need us. In short, most of us do not have the resources to supply to others what we demand for ourselves- attention. In a market, where everyone is a consumer, and no one a producer, it is only economically rational that there shall be a breakdown of market machinery, because demand is exponentially higher than supply, and thus, the worth of the commodity destroys every price-barrier. And thus, this constant clash of interests. The constant bickering and nitpicking and lower levels of Gross Economical Happiness. The tragedy? For once, there seems to be no economical solution.</span></div>
Ritwik Goswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03235811652074195495noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787992662715230837.post-78487129155034585302012-09-14T04:26:00.001+05:302012-09-14T04:31:56.228+05:30Story Of A Boy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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He went to school,</div>
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And wore green socks,</div>
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And played in the rains,</div>
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Chasing grasshoppers,</div>
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Crying for candies,</div>
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And his parents loved him,</div>
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And they loved each other,</div>
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(Kissed each other everyday),</div>
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And his brother loved him,</div>
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And his new bike,</div>
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And his teachers,</div>
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Maybe even they loved him,</div>
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And he loved the music from</div>
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The bagpipes in the mornings,</div>
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And Crickets in the evenings,</div>
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And his mother sang him</div>
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To sleep, every night,</div>
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So there he was, with his</div>
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Toys, and Peace, and Love</div>
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And Hope.</div>
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And then he grew up,</div>
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He still went to school,</div>
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And he wore blue trousers,</div>
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And he played in the rains,</div>
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Chasing the schoolgirls,</div>
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Crying for a cigarette,</div>
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And his parents loved him,</div>
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Tho' they knew not,</div>
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Of the cigarettes,</div>
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(And they no longer kissed</div>
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Each other everyday),</div>
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His brother had, the past year,</div>
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Crashed his car, and died.</div>
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And the schoolgirls loved him,</div>
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The teachers just seemed tired.</div>
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But he still loved the bagpipes,</div>
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But even more now, the guitar,</div>
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Which he was learning to</div>
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Play, and his mother,</div>
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Didn't sing to him each night,</div>
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Only she cried a lot,</div>
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So he hoped to make her happy,</div>
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And become a doctor,</div>
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So he had lost his toys</div>
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But he had his Love, and his Hope,</div>
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But a little less Peace.</div>
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And then he went to College,</div>
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Studying History,</div>
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(MedSchool was tough to crack)</div>
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Studying about Tea Parties in</div>
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Boston, and about Mandela</div>
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And Gandhi, about Peace</div>
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And Love, and War(s)</div>
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And he wore skinny jeans,</div>
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He still loved the rains,</div>
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Although barely ever did he</div>
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Play when it did rain,</div>
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And over the telephone,</div>
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His father did say he loved him,</div>
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And his mother, well, she </div>
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Couldn't really speak,</div>
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And they never kissed anymore,</div>
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Because she was there no more,</div>
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The professors had no time,</div>
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To love their students,</div>
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But he loved his guitar,</div>
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And he played it in the evenings,</div>
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And he loved the girl,</div>
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Who would play the violin,</div>
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Who he had met first,</div>
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In the Friday music lesson,</div>
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And he loved the weed,</div>
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And the psychedelia,</div>
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And he loved to kiss her</div>
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Under the star-lit sky,</div>
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So there was a lot less</div>
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Love, a lot less Hope,</div>
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And certainly a lot less Peace.</div>
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And then the next winter,</div>
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He wore black cardigans</div>
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To college, Black matching the</div>
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Darkness in his mind,</div>
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And the dark and unusual</div>
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Rains of December,</div>
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And his father rarely called him</div>
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To say he loved him,</div>
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So he cried a lot, because</div>
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There was no Love to be found,</div>
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Neither was there any Peace,</div>
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There were drugs,</div>
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Lots of hallucinogens,</div>
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And there was the Darkness,</div>
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Looming large over the corridors</div>
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And the stairways,</div>
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Loneliness lining every corner,</div>
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And every tree, and every</div>
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Alley and Hallway,</div>
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Ever since he had</div>
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Caught sight of her with</div>
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The other boy.</div>
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So there were music lessons</div>
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On Fridays, tho he never went.</div>
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There were still Crickets</div>
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In the Evenings, tho no more </div>
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Love, or Hope, or Peace.</div>
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And then graduation,</div>
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Out of college, which he might</div>
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Have attended, but now he</div>
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Wore blue long-ish robes,</div>
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As did all the other</div>
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Inmates at the rehabiliation.</div>
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She had come by once,</div>
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With chocolates in her purse,</div>
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And pity in her eyes,</div>
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Which he might have noticed,</div>
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If he wasn't trying to bite</div>
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His fingers off his hands.</div>
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His father would have come too,</div>
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But he had had a stroke,</div>
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And was now paralyzed,</div>
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And restricted to bed, and</div>
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A world of bedsores, and</div>
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Imminent Death,</div>
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So now no one loved him,</div>
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And he loved no one,</div>
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Not History, neither medicine,</div>
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And sometimes,</div>
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He would try to sing</div>
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Himself to sleep, but</div>
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All he could manage to do</div>
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Was cry a few more </div>
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Drops of the toxic tears,</div>
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And where was the Love?</div>
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And where was the Hope?</div>
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And where was the Peace?</div>
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Now all of those things,</div>
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Were silver-lined memories,</div>
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Of the songs his mother sang</div>
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To him, when he went to school</div>
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And wore green socks.. </div>
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Ritwik Goswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03235811652074195495noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787992662715230837.post-2567851764613277132012-07-16T20:22:00.000+05:302012-07-16T20:22:05.322+05:30Of Farewells and Monkemons<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well, it is nothing new for me, really. Change town, change school, change friends, change everything. And just when the new structure stabilizes forming a roof above my head, the bricks near the base are pulled out only to have me witness the complete crumbling and falling apart of that which had begun to feel like home to me. Move on, this chapter is over, find a new home, write a new chapter, life goes on.</div>
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This is the end of another chapter. Once again, it is all too difficult to give up, and even the thought in itself is haunting. Everything is happening at such a pace, that the inevitability of all these changes and the irreversibility of the consequences is hardly sinking in now. The support system around me has begun to give way, brick by brick, and I must prepare myself for yet another fall.</div>
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You guys know for me you guys exist in every little by-lane, every dingy nukkad, every shopping mall, every movie theatre, every restaurant, every festival, every experience in this city. And to survive the city, without you all, is going to be *some* task.</div>
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I don't know how to round this off. You all know who you are. I am selfish. And I'm not willing to let go. I will miss you all. :( </div>
</div>Ritwik Goswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03235811652074195495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787992662715230837.post-83229140362286615132012-05-21T01:35:00.005+05:302012-05-21T01:36:30.403+05:30Ten Things I Love About You<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I love how you gently tap one of your feet on its side while sleeping.</div>
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And sometimes, while trying to fall asleep.</div>
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I love how you, in a bus, keep your phone inside your bag for safekeeping,</div>
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Yet your wallet, out of your pocket, does peep.</div>
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I love how you, without discernment, nibble on every piece of midnight junk,</div>
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That inside your ever-dismaying refrigerator, you find.</div>
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I love how you emote out every single spoken word that forms a song,</div>
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While singing it out, out of tune, yet I want to hit ‘rewind’.</div>
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I love that childlike innocence in your huge eyes, even more so when</div>
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They widen, at the prospect of a new mischief,</div>
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I love it when you hug me tight, when the darkness around the edges</div>
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Of your bed is still lighter(in shade) than your inner grief.</div>
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I love how long your hair grows, how absolutely dense, cascading down</div>
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The contours of your face, briefly shading your eyes.</div>
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I love the lost look on your face, when you dream of the elusive love,</div>
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When it rains new vigor and new ecstasy from the skies.</div>
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I love how gentle and meek and kind and well-behaved and concerned</div>
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You are about your friends, of who you have a lot.</div>
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But above all, I love how much you love me above them all,</div>
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Know that I too, love you timeless, You’re my sole immortal thought.</div>
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</div>Ritwik Goswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03235811652074195495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787992662715230837.post-50007284786304286712012-02-09T02:26:00.002+05:302012-02-09T02:26:54.264+05:30LolWUT?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Somebody residing on the International Date Line has visited my blog.<br /><br />My dead blog seriously just became cooler.<br /><br />Yo! Phoren Guy. Gracias!</div>Ritwik Goswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03235811652074195495noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787992662715230837.post-54111457709547471692012-02-01T03:53:00.000+05:302012-02-01T03:59:57.039+05:30Daydreamers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here I am, still sitting alone, still staring at the empty pages, reading between the non-existent lines trying to make sense of all of this, this entire life. Tried to get everything right, didn't I? But nothing, nothing <i>ever </i>works out, nothing <i>eve</i>r adds up.<br />
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I'm just so tired of everything slipping out of my fingers every time. Of having to check myself whether I made a mistake or not. Whether I'm making everyone feel good or not. Not for once does anyone ever stop to ask me whether <i>I</i> am doing okay or not. Whether I am comfortable or happy. Never.<br />
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I'm just tired of putting up with so much of everyone's garbage for the moment. Maybe it <i>is </i>time to let go, once and for all. For too long have I refused to feel like the victim, the absolute victim. But the darkness around the edges of the bed suggests maybe, <i>just maybe</i> I really am one.<br />
[And yes, there's a reason why this is not up on the secret blog].<br />
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Oh, MoodCourtesy:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=girXRxJRdu4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=girXRxJRdu4</a><br />
<br /></div>Ritwik Goswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03235811652074195495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787992662715230837.post-78532124018376371732012-01-26T03:44:00.001+05:302013-11-14T02:49:59.237+05:30Love Ballad to Oneself - Demise, Rebirth And Everything Encased Within<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Probably, you see, a distant poetry,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Coming to life,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Approaching you,<o:p></o:p></div>
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And then passing by,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Leaving your peace <o:p></o:p></div>
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Destroyed,<o:p></o:p></div>
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With its lyrical promiscuity.</div>
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In the grays of the sky, <br />
And the cracks lining the glass<br />
On the window-panes,<br />
You see how<br />
Dispensable<br />
You are, and have always been.<br />
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For you expected an ode<br />
To be sung for you,<br />
You expected the winds<br />
To carry away your loneliness<br />
And bring home to you,<br />
A permanent sense</div>
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Of belonging.<br />
You expected remembrance,<br />
And you expected warmth.<br />
But the skies are gray,<br />
The glass is cracked,<br />
And life is cold.<br />
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Colder than their eyes,<br />
When they looked away.<br />
Colder than the January<br />
That renders you older,<br />
Every time.<br />
Renders you even closer<br />
To the demise of hope.<br />
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I speak of you,<br />
And sing for you,<br />
For I want you to know,<br />
You are a part of me,<br />
And I am a part of you.<br />
This, a tale of rebirth,<br />
This, a tale of Life, Death, And Everything<br />
In Between.<br />
There has been a summer, and a winter <br />
Contained within Then and Now.<br />
And as we inch towards another summer,<br />
I know you secretly wonder,<br />
Why I don’t smile anymore.<br />
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Everyday since Then,<br />
Everyday since you left,<br />
I have wished for the smile to return.<br />
I have tried.<br />
I have prayed.<br />
But the erosion of my smile,<br />
That your departure caused,<br />
Now seems permanent.<br />
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Yes, Now, I am happier.<br />
My smile is gone, but I am saner.<br />
I wish You could live<br />
This sanity too.<br />
I wish You could smile<br />
My smile,<br />
And yours,<br />
In the reassuring glow<br />
Of my happiness.</div>
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Ritwik Goswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03235811652074195495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787992662715230837.post-8617215270932485822011-12-31T16:00:00.001+05:302012-02-01T03:58:38.150+05:302011 - Remembering Them<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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And this is for remembering all those that we lost in 2011.
From those in Japan, to those in Sikkim, the victims of AMRI, and illegal
liquor close home, those in Christchurch, Mumbai Bombings, those in Libya, all
the casualties in the 'Arab Spring', to all those close to us that we lost- the
brother, the mother, the friend, the uncle, the son, the father, the
grandparents, the lover, the wife, the daughter, the acquaintance; and also all
those stars of eternal glory - the actors, singers, entrepreneurs, sports
stars. You shall all be remembered. </div>
</div>Ritwik Goswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03235811652074195495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787992662715230837.post-76353772509159363252011-12-30T04:14:00.002+05:302012-02-01T03:58:09.218+05:302011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
You can go to sleep crying and with a broken heart, You can
wake up one morning to find yourself ugly and disfigured. You can break down
every moment of everyday, You can see yourself transform into a huge burden of
uselessness, You can curse yourself for being stupid, You can lose friends and
their affection and never be able to figure out why they left you, you can
torture yourself to give up on who you loved, but you can never STOP LOVING
yourself, or give up on yourself. And there will always be some wonderful
people around you to get you through life. This is what 2011 taught me. :)</div>Ritwik Goswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03235811652074195495noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787992662715230837.post-51031818997585818762011-11-20T05:33:00.001+05:302011-11-20T05:34:35.801+05:30It Is The Sky I Sing To<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It’s the Sky I sing to, and the Sky I sing for.<br />
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You should know this. Today, I am no longer afraid of what people might have to
say. If you had waited around for a while longer, you would have fought off
your fears as well. Only today, I have a fear far more labyrinthine than the
one I could have ever weaved when you were with me. A fear that hints at
loneliness, at helplessness, at being stranded without a soul to relate with.
You were clever in not having stayed back to face these fears. You were cruel
to have left me to fight them all by myself.<br />
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I have never revealed your secret to your world. Neither to mine. You lured the
only ones that knew of your truth over to your side. I had sensed you would try
the same with me, and you did. Only, I resisted. Not because I didn’t want my
colors to help paint your portrait, not because I didn’t want my soul coalesce
into your absence, but because I have to answer to people. I have to live for
other people.<br />
<br />
You also owed answers to other people. You needed to finish painting the beauty
of our world. If only you weren’t in such a hurry.<br />
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And now, in dark nights, when I sit alone munching at cookies, you have no
right to come and disturb me, to massacre my mental sanctity and peace, the way
you do. You have no right to use the estuaries of thought to seek entry into
the ocean of my mind, at times when I’m least expecting you to. On Christmas
nights, suffocated under thick layers of fog and loneliness, I expect you to
call out my name. And every August, every drop of rainfall on my skin reminds
me of your fingers teasing me, my face, my hands and limbs. <br />
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Today, I can’t sing into a stupid looking telephone, expecting your warm voice
at the other end. I do not seek to sing Summer songs or midnight lullabies or
Birthday couplets to you through the phone. Instead, it is the Sky I sing to,
praying to it to ferry my melody over to you, wherever you are. And who would
know it better than you, that it is the Sky I sing for.</div>
</div>Ritwik Goswamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03235811652074195495noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787992662715230837.post-67351486483174479902011-10-23T10:49:00.001+05:302011-12-31T13:52:47.697+05:30In Another Morning - II<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
And in another morning, the sun also rises,<br />
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Over Libya, where new hopes are born,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Over America, with which disappointment, is torn,<o:p></o:p></div>
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and Over Calcutta, where nothing ever changes,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Except the occasional government.</div>
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