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A Fresh Narrative
Vipul wiped off the sweat from his forehead. His handkerchief had served its purpose well. The Sun was showing no mercy today. The afternoon heat had left the streets less populated. Vipul was returning from an interview and was walking to the nearest metro train station. A gust of hot wind with dust appeared around…
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A Knock in the Darkness
Darkness had spread, not completely though. The moon outside sent a sliver of light which entered the room, but it lacked the intensity to overcome the darkness present within the walls. A match was struck and the wick of a candle became alive with a small dancing flame around it. Dhithi took a moment to…
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Streamlined
Describe a risk you took that you do not regret. Naveen sat on his study table. He had been asked ‘sternly’ to sit and focus on his studies and hence a school textbook laid open in front of him. However, the content of the page was veiled by the thoughts in Naveen’s mind and he…
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Folks and their choices
How do you unwind after a demanding day? Exhaustion and tiring day requires bliss and that bliss is different for different people… In a world of millions of people every person is different in their wishes, demands and life situations are different… Hence … Hence a demanding day requires something which rightly fits in that…
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Unexpected Learning
Describe a random encounter with a stranger that stuck out positively to you. A random story can have a permanent long lingering effect if we think about it too often to forget about it.. That’s life.. Mr Bose is 56 year old man.. few years left for his retirement from the government office.. The mundane…
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Choice
Describe a decision you made in the past that helped you learn or grow. Imagine you have been locked in a room along with 10 other children of your age and asked that you can only move out with the help of your intellectual abilities. That’s life ! There are decisions in life which sometimes…
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Treasure of World
What place in the world do you never want to visit? Why? Where thought meet the intellect and intellect meets the ability to do things or perform tasks. World is huge and there are so much of beauty somewhere it is green lustrous forest and somewhere it is yellow desert! The coliseum to explicit beauty…
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Voyage
Describe a positive thing a family member has done for you. An action becomes a habit when it’s done repeatedly and a habit becomes a lifestyle when we cannot seperate from that particular action at any cost. Our family is such..the intriguing feeling to be a part of the family is a blessing and from…
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Future
Where do you see yourself in 10 years? 10 years from now is a pretty long time and so much more. 10 years is a lot to change a person’s mentality, psychology and most importantly the overall personality..when we know life is all about opportunities being to us and how we shape and react to…
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Subsist
What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness? Even the fragile thoughts can be glued with happiness. Even the joy can be poured with happiness. Happiness is a feeling which is solely purely and beautifully our own. Our own preserved emotions. What makes us happy is subjective..some people are happy for materialistic world and…
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Journey and experience
Describe something you learned in high school. When the life gives you good opportunity..grab it! Sona. Sona was reading a story and this line grabbed her attention. Yes, indeed not everyone gets an opportunity. Not everyone wants an opportunity and not everyone knows how to utilise the opportunity in the best possible way. So when…
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Disparate
What’s the most fun way to exercise? It was a Tuesday evening. The roads were busy. Most people were returning home after having spent the majority of the daytime within the four walls of their office. Vehicles stopped to drop people at their destinations, while some others did to take people towards theirs. There was…
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Fruitful
What job would you do for free? Jay stood on the terrace. In his hand was a new digital camera, which was in a sealed box three hours ago. Jay stood looking for a subject. He couldn’t focus in school the whole day, the excitement was just too powerful for him to focus on anything…
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Unfading
How have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic? I was a student in the higher class of my school life. Dreams and ambitions I had many and I thought I could do it all. I tried my best. I had started to mature late for boys of my age. I…
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Hilarity
The walls, the ceiling, the tube light, the table, the chair, the books on the table and even the open page of one of the books, everything is reflecting shades of black and white. Then? Read the Blog to know more
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Immersing
What is your favorite type of weather? I was standing by the river. It was 5:30 am. The day was slowly beginning with the approaching light in the sky. It was my last day in this city. I was going back home. I would come back, but not before a whole year. Hence, I was…
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Fleeting
The sunlight had appeared after three days of absence. Previously, rain had kept people mesmerised with falling temperature, after what could be called a period of unbearably humid weather. At around 2 pm, I was sitting at a table and enjoying a delicious lunch at a family function. A tent had been placed to not…
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Strength and Story
Who was your most influential teacher? Why? ”When I grow up I will become a teacher. ” Shrot yelled suddenly soon after she returned from the school. Her mom asked while helping her to have the lunch . Before knowing what she said let me introduce you to Shrot. Shrot is a girl who stays…
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A Lost Possession
What do you wish you could do more every day? Every day is a new day and every day comes with new aspirations and thought. Today through the story of Renuka let us know what she would want to wish she could have more everyday.. The sky was clearer than ever … The road, streets…
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Amulet
Our lives are influenced by several elements. Our thought, wit, hard work and determination usually prepare the outcomes that we come to experience. That is what we quite fairly like to believe; after all, these are very much within the boundaries of our control. On their basis we plan and validate our lives and actions.…
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A Message of End
Mr Desai stared at the visiting card. He adjusted his specs, his brows strained. This later part of life had not been very good for his vision.. it can be said that it had aged along with the rest of his existence. Read more to know ….
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The Fading Presence
I lifted the cup of tea from the table, and enjoyed a slow sip. The cup had left a ring of water on the transparent cover of the wooden table. I used the index finger of my unoccupied hand to break the border of the ring… extending a trail of water outwards as my finger…
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A Life that Lives
This was the end. It couldn’t be done. The problem was out of the realm of Harish’s abilities for now Then..? Read to know more!
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Open the Gates
Here we are standing at the yellow iron gates of a society. A narrow road begins at the gates and it spreads all across the society, connecting everyone’s house with path to the seemingly outside world. Within most societies, one may find a distinct culture which develops over the time and this society had one…
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Cherished Connection
With time flown wide I strong and being an almost middle aged woman I have seen.. I have seen nature and a conflict between man .. man and nature.. I have seen the sense of pride when one has all built by himself or herself.. the inner pride probably.. not to boost or not to…
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Riding Through
The bus stopped at a red light. Rajiv glanced at his watch. Approximately half an hour from now, he will get down at his stop and then he will catch another bus which will take him to the bus stop which was at what he calls a “young man’s walking distance from his home”. But…
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The Family Picture
The clock sounded its chiming music. It was 8 am. Dhruv was ready for office; he was ready before his usual time today. A terrible dream had broken his sleep two and a half hours earlier than when the alarm of his smartphone did. Dhruv made use of this extra time to start his morning…
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Time of the Years Gone
It had been some time since the morning had made its arrival. It was out there everywhere. It had even managed to creep in through the side edges of the curtained window. Mr Anand was a bit late to welcome it today though. The sleep had not delayed his wake, it was rather his very…
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Leap of Thought
Tell us about your favorite pair of shoes, and where they’ve taken you. The counting began and all the children ran and rushed in different directions. Some in groups, some alone, some quietly followed behind others. Everyone was looking for a spot to hide, after all the game of hide and seek had commenced. Amol…
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It shall Remain
Share one of the best gifts you’ve ever received. The tents had been placed, the chairs were arranged, the lights and pedestal fans were connected. The children were running around and the adults were reminiscing in talks of the past, happenings of the present and the glimpses of a perceived future. The marriage was a…
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Good Morning
The morning ritual. How do you start your morning ritual with? The teacher asked the class … You know the morning decides the day and the day decides the evening and the evening the night. It’s a cycle. All the children of the class started to raise their hand slowly few and some of them…
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A Wish he cannot forget
I came back home Tired and exhausted. My wife gives me cup of tea Which I eat in a minute’s joy. The dark sky paved a pathway towards our dark and mysterious mode of communication. We were not talking. Nothing much just something very trivial like not receiving the call in time. We were doing…
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The Coin is Spinning
The coin was still spinning on the table. Although it had lost some of its vigour from when it had been spun, yet it was still not it’s time to stop. But it did later… but sooner than what I had perceived. I looked out the open but netted window. The sunlight had almost disappeared.…
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The firsts
Resham. Resham is 2.5 year girl who completes her home education and her parents decides her to admit in the nearest kindergarten school. The primary thought of how she will react to the atmosphere of the school gave them worry.. oh! She haven’t stepped out of the house for any education! How she will react……
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Timeout
Do you need a break? From what? The big clock on the wall was silent. The second hand moved without making any sound. But those who have heard the sound of a second hand moving, on rare occasions they find it difficult to make peace with knowing it had somehow suddenly disappeared not only from…
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Ecospace
Write about your first computer. The bedsheet was picked from its upper edge and straightened between two hands. It was a beautiful light red coloured sheet with touch of yellow and orange at several places. What occupied the bedsheet was a big elephant looking upfront. The elephant had no colour of its own, it was…
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A Summerly Memory
What are your favorite sports to watch and play? Follow me. We are high above the ground and we fly forward. The summer sky is clear and bright. If temperature could be felt through words then I would say it is uncomfortably hot. Not that I could feel it under the rush of adrenaline. Where…
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Each Village Story
January is coming to an end and with January we assume that the bitter chilly cold will be in a controlling state. Well today and let us know how little Mohan who be the bundle of joy for the entire village. How? Let us know in the story. Mohan, the nine year old boy of…
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Effulgent
“Have you seen a firefly?” “When I was about your age, I saw them during summers and late springs.” “Where did you see them?” “They were appeared around the neighbourhood during late evenings as the night started to fall. One could see them right in this park back then.” “I saw them in a video.…
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Falling in🍁
What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time? A wide stretch of green field. The grass was fresh, the breeze was soothing, the view was pleasant and the mind was calm. The subdued sunlight made the view more comforting to the eyes. The young man stood against the wind. The wind tousled through…
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Identify
From the very childhood a child is made to learn a lot atleast in a Bengali culturally strong household where along with education hobbies plays an important role. Creativity plays an important and crucial role in every child.. everyone learns how to draw, sing a song and dance a bit and recite a poem.. it’s…
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Solemnize
The clock struck 8pm and it was almost the time for dinner. It was the time to heat the foods, and starting to do some arrangements for the same. In this cold weather it always feels a extreme heavy task as winter makes us less energetic and lazy. The woman of the house went straight…
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Where hides the colour?
Eyes opened to the breeze of the spring. The head slowly lifted up the table. Hands raised to rub off the remainanent of the temporary sleep which was now in the past. The mountain remained partially coloured. The source of colour was nowhere to be seen. The eyes dived into the box of crayons. All…
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Calls of Belongingness
I was enjoying a cup of black tea. My dear mother or my wife time its preparation every day with the time of my arrival home from work. It is not something I have asked them to do for me, but they do it nonetheless. The cup contains not just tea but also the love…
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Aromatic and Memorable Winter
It was 2080, In one lovely afternoon…. winter with the time of sweets, patali gur (Gur is jaggery in Bengali) and aroma of authentic saak (Green leafy vegetables in Bengali) it’s the time of making pithe and payesh. Bengali household tales. This winter was special not just of prime sweet culture but also the only…
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Suave Emotions
What’s the coolest thing you’ve ever found (and kept)? One spoonful of instant coffee, half a spoon of white granulated sugar, and then some warm double-toned milk; I added them to a cup and stirred with a spoon for the coffee to take its form. I usually do this when I feel like having a…
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Sweetness of perfection is a Myth
Will the mango tree give fruits again? Everytime we committ a mistake, we question about our existence Our thinking our mindfulness everything But we forget after giving good fruits the mango tree suffers from insect bite, thunder and storm and public cutting and crafting of trees. The mango tree gives fruit still. We make mistakes.…
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Special Guest ! By Anuran Chatterji
I glance at the watch, I glance at the door, outside the window was well for the faintest shadow or sound of my dear special guest. I go through the libraries of fond memories that wouldn’t have been, had it not been for my special guest. We laughed, we ate, we talked of the world,…