Individuality

I step out during the lunch break, and watch a sea of similarly dressed people. The drawl of How are you’s is the same, the smiles equally plastic and the clipped accents all competing to sound like the other. I wonder if I will remember or recognize any of these human machines after an interlude. … Continue reading Individuality

Collaboration

I enjoy peeling a poem or story for deeper, concealed layers. Peeping through a hole into another’s personal space would normally leave me cold. But this step in reading a literary piece, opens up new vistas -- those which neither me nor the writer had imagined before. It is collaboration, a combined search without ever … Continue reading Collaboration

Rants

I have more than one rant: 1. Intellectual Ivory Towers Three segments of the population show unusual solidarity – power-hungry, wealth-grabbers and the corrupt. The good people live in their own ivory towers of excellence and so-called self-sufficiency and never bother about coming together to reform the system. The fear of failure is high, and … Continue reading Rants

Barriers

When I saw it, I couldn’t believe my eyes.  It was all true. I had returned from Ahmedabad, after completing my premium IIT-IIM education, with a plum job offer in hand. This is the same garden, where Ritu and I had played our childhood games. It was unofficially official between the families that we would … Continue reading Barriers