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HALLUCINATIONS: November 2011
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Sunday, November 27, 2011. Tracking tales: A strange love story. Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;. And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle:. All of the sights of the hill and the plain, Fly as thick as driving rain;. And ever again, in the wink of an eye, Painted stations whistle by. Here is a child who clambers and scrambles, All by himself and gathering brambles;. The luxury of time. As we grow older we s...
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HALLUCINATIONS: Durga's Tale with a Twist
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013. Durga's Tale with a Twist. I was probably 4-5 years old when my father first narrated the story of the battle between Durga and Mahishasura. My father is a gifted and dramatic storyteller. He had to repeat this story every year and sometimes everyday during Navratri. He confesses to have fudged up the sequence to make it more interesting for me. The story I heard as a five year old, is the story I believe in till date. Unlike these days, Gods. So Durga was created. She had i...
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HALLUCINATIONS: August 2011
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Thursday, August 25, 2011. What is it with dreams? They can be so weird sometimes. The mind or whatever it is makes you see things you don't even think about or have just stopped thinking about. As soon as you shut your eyes and let go, it pulls out a smart one from the repository of memories it holds. So when someone says the usual, 'make your dreams come true' with lofted idealism, I take a step back and wonder, do I really want all those dreams to come true? While dwelling on this dream, nightmare par...
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HALLUCINATIONS: July 2012
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Sunday, July 1, 2012. The Magic of Ink. It was red and teal. My first ink-pen. Then it was the first step to growing up. Pencils were for kids. Twelve years later it’s not very different. I had a terrible hand-writing, so my teacher in Class IV would not let me use an ink-pen. The rest of my class, however had made the transition. Was out of question. We were perfect together. It set in my palms, like it was made to be there. I’d start all my exams with that pen. With it I managed to clear most...I was w...
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HALLUCINATIONS: April 2012
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Sunday, April 8, 2012. The Exclusive Time Zone. You live in a void, a time-zone an era that never existed. It's somewhere between today- tech-savvy, fast moving and yesterday- the time without this technology.". Putting it very-very simply. I know how to use a laptop/desktop/whatever-top, I write and send emails, check Facebook and all that jazz. Yet my emails are never what my letters used to be. Getting one, does not make me as happy as tearing open an envelope and reading a letter over and...I can typ...
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HALLUCINATIONS: September 2013
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Saturday, September 7, 2013. Take a break, smell the coffee and head to Coorg. City dwellers have this strange obsession of finding a new place to spend their holiday. Our day-to-day life is so full of hollow, seemingly busy activities that we panic when there’s nothing to do. Yet we know that at times not doing anything is what we need to do. From the window seat of my rickety bus, I first saw Coorg and eventually started feeling it. You can’t recover from that kind of beauty. It’s t...The flat, brown l...
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HALLUCINATIONS: March 2013
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Ideal,Real and Dialectics. For Hegel dialectics is the conflict between the ideal and real. This conflict, he says, leads to change. Conflict between ideal and real. Yes that is what it is. Ideal: riches and comfort. Real: bonded labour and stress. Change: in progress. Ideal and real. It takes ages to understand the difference between them. Most of the time we are so convinced that the ideal is real that reality lands a sucker punch right into your gut. Then you change. The Folk o...
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HALLUCINATIONS: October 2013
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013. It's a Human Right. From the long list of Human Rights there's one which always caught my attention. It's the right to rest from work and relax. Article 24 of the Universal Declaration. Probably says it a bit more formally, but the meaning does not change. As humans beings we have the right to leisure. When we actually exercise this right, we come-up with multiple excuses to justify it. Some of us work even when we are on vacation. We either feel guilty about taking a...Well,...
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HALLUCINATIONS: I’m a woman and I get to choose
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Sunday, February 24, 2013. I’m a woman and I get to choose. 8220;Wars are fought over a woman’s body.” That’s something our culture study professor explained to us sometime back. She was talking about gender issues, riots and war. The first casualty of man’s triumph in any combat is a woman’s body, she explained. Groped, raped, molested. That a lot of these comments come from men, does not mean that some women are not agreeing with them. I’m a feminist. and I like to call myself an. Society and biology, ...
