Musings of my day-to-day life

“Let me return to my home town entombed in grass as in a warm and high sea” – Giorgio Bassani. My home neither has a warm grass cover nor is blessed by the high sea. It lies in the dusty heartland of Chhattisgarh. It’s a featureless land, with no tourist attraction, no mountain but yes, a geographically insignificant river does flow (as in you won’t find it in geography books). If you were to come with me thinking that I would show you some majestic waterfall or a park or garden, you are mistaken. I would end up taking you to nearby market area with lot of eateries. But nevertheless, it’s my home; it’s where I get to chat with my mom over a hot cup of tea. It’s where I cherish “elderly” conversations with my papa when he returns home from office, and it’s the place where I get to see the old family albums. I love it not for the geography, but for its people. It reminds me who I am and who I was. Sometimes I thin At home with kanha :) k everything has changed back home, but...

The year 2013 as such is not really going great and still one week is left to complete it. So lets share some of the good things i have written for a college, in which unfortunately i can't apply because i will be missing the deadlines. Anyway, so here goes the question. Suppose you had to choose three people—people alive now or people from another era—to travel with you on a cross-country automobile trip. Who would you choose and why? What would you hope to learn from them? (Think carefully about the company you want on those long stretches through Nebraska or Kansas.)    “Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine”. The above line inspires me and is said by one of the greatest inventors of 19 th century – Nikola Tesla and he would be the first person, I would pick for taking with me to a cross country road trip. Mr. Tesla was ...