I went to the Art of Living Ashram last evening. And no, this is not going to be one of those spiritual, self-realization of my inner self, etc article. This is going to be more of a recollection of a night spent clubbing.
The suspicions started rising when the friends who were taking me there changed [...]

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Hey all,
My first ever post here, in Bong Buzz… I requested Nipon to add me as a contributor in this blog, though I hate the word ‘Bong’. This word once again speaks about the cruel reality of our ‘globalized vanity’ (or should I say ‘meaningless Americana’?). A world where Punjabi has become ‘Khallu’, Malayali are [...]

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Both my sister and I always failed to understand what really failed dad when it came to computers! Why can’t he remember how to print an email and why does he have to ask every time? How incorrigible - we never stopped yelling at dad! Not until a doc in my medical college who is [...]

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Well, this post goes to not only the people, specifically Indians who are keen to get their match-box sized, sweet, lovely dream to have their own (3+1) sized hatchback in their attached-to-main-gate pump room sized garage and fulfill their (+/-) 500 km monthly hassled drive added with the weekend hangouts with earnest want of fuel economy and [...]

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The readers might find the heading a bit misleading because I intend to venture into an almost different domain, after starting very close to the personal arena, from that of the pertinent problem of ’sibling jealousy’.
From what I remember, I had been a fairly liberal minded kid and had never [...]

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Abhijit came home from school mid-day and announced he was never going back. No ammount of coaxing would make him spill out why. “Amaye marte marte merey phelo, tao ami school jabona,” he cried out defiantly. The volunteers at the NGO tried to teach him for a few months but he kept running away to [...]

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“Night come tenderly,
Black like me.”
~Langston Hughes
I teach two of Maya Di’s sons and on that account she struck up a conversation with me. She’s worried that her younger sons will turn out to be like her eldest- he is in jail for stabbing a man who refused to pay his mother for the sexual [...]

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