Category: Life, Humans and Emotions
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You Are Not Lonely.You Are Just Bad at Being Alone.
Akela hoon, magar tanha nahin,Khud ki sohbat mein mila woh, jo duniya mein kahi nahin. I am alone, but not lonely — in my own company, I found what the world could not give me. There is a WhatsApp group for everything now. Family. Office. Colony. Old school friends. And yet, somewhere between the good morning…
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EMI Bhara, Sapne Adhoore: A Middle-Class Midlife Story
हासिल-ए-जिंदगी हसरतों के सिवा कुछ भी नहीं, हासिल-ए-जिंदगी हसरतों के सिवा कुछ भी नहीं। ये मिला नहीं, वो किया नहीं, यूं हुआ नहीं, वो रहा नहीं। (The sum of a life? Nothing but unfulfilled wishes. This wasn’t found. That wasn’t done. This didn’t happen. That didn’t stay.) Nobody warned you. Or maybe they did, and…
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The Lost Art of Boredom: Lessons from Generational TV Viewing
I remember those Sunday mornings when the whole family would sit around the TV. Incense smell everywhere, streets quiet because everyone was waiting for Mahabharat to start. We were all cross legged on the floor, just watching that one screen. If the picture got fuzzy, someone ran up to the roof to fix the antenna.…
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Beyond Textbook
A 12-year-old takes his own life because a parent refused to buy a new mobile phone. An 8-year-old dives into a swimming pool and saves a grown man from drowning. When we read these headlines, we have to ask: Who is to blame, and who takes the credit? Is it the parents? The society? The…