I was in Mysore for more than 20 years and then came that excruciating call of growing up- ‘what next?’ Moved out for MBA. The stretch of road traveled for the new destination was 760 kms- Hyderabad. The idea of “home away from home” has always made me laugh at its ridiculousness. Moreover, wasn’t the […]

The environment is pretty cool & calm ,everyone hops & walks happily in the corridors,on the streets & at PMCs(“piya milan chowks” as they call it). The discussions, arguments,gossips, charchaas, kharchaas all happen without much of an ado. It all starts to rattle when the exam schedule is out. All of a sudden the lanes […]

“Another drink sir?”-asked the waitress to d guy next to me. I was sitting there as always watching my Sunday match. High pitch music, Cheering & noise dont really bother me too much. For a while I’m feeling numb–something changed in me,something sinister.Suddenly I saw Him. Nervously sipping through his Drink, with eyes wandering everywhere […]

One dingy room. One table. Three chairs. Two potent against one warrior. One for the interrogator (External)…who decides your fate…all d six months u slogged…an she’ll take just 5 minutes to rate u on it. One for the terrorizer (Internal)…The internal provides the background information which will degrade all your self respect…if u have any […]

The following is a mail sent by a 20-year old guy to his 20-year old love. Currently, he is studying in Chennai (mathematics undergraduate), lives in Calcutta, and his girlfriend is in Delhi (studying engineering at Amity University) (Prerna is a friend in her college). They haven’t seen each other in a year, and often […]

We all have an attachment to the place where we are from, we are proud of it and we should be. We miss the place and the people when we are not there. So, I am a Gujarati and I am proud of that. Not because of one or two reasons, but many of them. […]

The recently concluded phase 7 general elections in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh has seen a marginal increase in polling percentage from 69% in 2009 to around 73%. While it is good to notice the increase in overall polling pattern, what bothers is the decrease in polling in Hyderabad from 59 percentage in 2009 to […]

It was a weekend drive towards J.P Nagar and I was sitting in the car at a traffic signal at the Silk Board junction. The traffic lights were red , we were in no hurry and the day was Saturday with much less traffic on the road at around 7:15 in the evening unlike the […]

I have never been an extraordinary achiever, someone who excels at everything he does. I have been very mediocre person, failing at each and every point I could have failed. Always followed the traditional path everyone followed around me, did HSC with Science, prepared for IIT, landed in a Deemed Engineering college(Where education means Business),Got […]

Mumbai: A City of Dreams as some may call it. For many others, it’s a city where time runs faster than any other place in the country, where race to survival starts early in the morning with the first blink of your eyes and doesn’t take a halt until late in the night. Your ambitions […]