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Salaaaam India!: August 2008
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Friday, August 29, 2008. Four Sundays ago, as I sat in my new single room in the IIT Kanpur Girls Hostel, and as a whole world of possibilities for the next two years - new friends, new food, new teachers, new subjects - stretched out gloriously in front of me, I realised that I still felt alone. strangely and totally alone. But then I remembered. I have you guys! T-E-C-H-N-O-L-O-G-Y. If you ever forget that, I will come to wherever you are and beat the stuffing out of you. So there. But hey, hardcore ME...
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Salaaaam India!: January 2010
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Saturday, January 16, 2010. My first day of research. So there I was, standing inside the Nanotechnology lab, my thesis lab, for the first time, nervously twisting the strap of my bag and reliving my first day in kindergarten, a stranger amongst strangers then, and a stranger amongst strangers still. A lump of humanity among other lumps of humanity then, a girl. Would they give me credit for wearing floaters rather than sandals? Did I fit in? DrMondal looked at me for one long moment - sizing up the fact...
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Salaaaam India!: The Fallen
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Sunday, November 21, 2010. I am the morning star; the bringer of light. The fountainhead of all knowledge; keeper of the hallowed secret. I am the one, the creator of all,. Trust not the one who sits upon my throne. I am the fallen, robbed of my crown,. Betrayed by a jealous fiend, banished from my throne. Condemned to eternal hell, maligned by all. Felled from my glory - roaming, a friendless soul. Heed this, you pedlar of lies and misfortune. You megalomaniac who feigns omnipotence. Sleep baby Sleep .
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Salaaaam India!: April 2011
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Monday, April 25, 2011. Hey there. Let me ask you a question. Would you drive eight hours to see someone for 10 seconds? Okay, now let me modify that question. Would you drive eight hours to see someone for 10 seconds, if you could only see them from a distance of 15 feet? Would you still drive up and down? What if I additionally told you that the roads were hilly and tortuous, full of wily hairpin bends, and had ambulances on standby 24X7 as accidents were not infrequent? Tirupati is visited by well ove...
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Salaaaam India!: Wedding Bells!
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Friday, February 11, 2011. 8220;The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people daresay nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way.”. A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. It's true, everyone, I'm getting married! Who's the lucky guy, you ask? We have also been summarily informed that all this new-fangled nonsens...
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Salaaaam India!: January 2011
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Thursday, January 13, 2011. However, she did notice, rather worriedly, that one thing was missing. The frightening, vertigo-inducing fear that took hold of her every time a fight interrupted her relationships. The feeling of standing on the very brink of a cavernous chasm and wondering when the wind would blow her off the edge. She felt that angst and fear every single time, irrespective of how serious the tiff was. Where was it now? Was it absent because this relationship was for keeps? Sleep baby Sleep .
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Salaaaam India!: February 2011
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Monday, February 28, 2011. So much is riding on the next few minutes". Even if I don't get through, it doesn't change anything". Pooh I'll still be smart, funny, loved.". Yeah People love you for your shiny self. Hah". They like me cos I have potential - my mum said so". That's my girl, the eternally self-assured woman.". Of course you do. You have nightmares about what would happen if you stopped wearing high-heeled shoes.". Think about it. Do you remember how we got here? I have gone from being a failu...
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Salaaaam India!: September 2008
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Friday, September 19, 2008. 7200 seconds. One word. One cursory glance by the professor, after which it would be ignominiously consigned to the ever-growing heap of loose-leaf sheets in my room. Well, cursory glance it was, but every detail of the drawing was taken in, and then came the one word I'd least expected to hear: "Beautiful.". And that one word compensated for every one of the 7200 seconds it took me to draw it. Just like that. Sunday, September 14, 2008. 8211; Is it possible for one to transla...
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Salaaaam India!: Fragile
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Monday, February 28, 2011. So much is riding on the next few minutes". Even if I don't get through, it doesn't change anything". Pooh I'll still be smart, funny, loved.". Yeah People love you for your shiny self. Hah". They like me cos I have potential - my mum said so". That's my girl, the eternally self-assured woman.". Of course you do. You have nightmares about what would happen if you stopped wearing high-heeled shoes.". Think about it. Do you remember how we got here? I have gone from being a failu...
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Salaaaam India!: Thank you, Twitter!!
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Sunday, February 27, 2011. Thank you, Twitter! Me (on phone to the boyfriend): So from all the screaming in the corridor I deduce India won? It was a tie! Me (simultaneously): I finished The Finkler Question. Even more awkward silence). Me: Hey, I'll call ya back in 2 min. Promptly logs in to twitter and checks timeline). So, did you hear Shane Warne predicted a tie? The boyfriend: No kidding? Me: And Munaf's last over, huh? The boyfriend: I know! Smiles at both ends). Thank you, Twitter!