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How long can you keep hatred in your heart? A kindergarten teacher had decided to let her class play a game. The teacher told each child in the class to bring along a plastic bag containing a few potatoes. Each potato will be given the name of a person that the child hates. So the number of potatoes that a child will put in his/her plastic bag will depend on the number of people he/she hates. So when the day came, every child brought some potatoes with the name of the people he/she hated. Some had 2 potatoes, some 3 while some up to 5 potatoes. The teacher then told the children to carry the potatoes in the plastic bag with them wherever they go for 1 week. Days after days passed, and the children started to complain due to the unpleasant smell let out by the rotten potatoes. Besides, those having 5 potatoes also had to carry heavier bags. After 1 week, the children were relieved because the game had finally ended. The teacher asked: “How did you feel while carrying the potatoes...

Did you see the Geminid meteor showers happened a while ago?    This meteor shower occurs every year as the Earth passes through debris left from the asteroid while orbiting the sun. As soon as the debris from the asteroids comes in contact with the Earth’s atmosphere, they cause a flare and produce arcs of bright light across the sky. In case you missed them this time, do not worry. These showers are most likely to occur every year during December the same time when the planet passes through a trail of debris left behind by the asteroid 3200 Phaethon. Okay, okay! Enough of the scientific jargon. This mail isn’t about astronomy, but writing, specifically writing poetry with stars and the moon in them. Stars and moon have been among the most common elements to hog limelight (or should I say starlight?) in the poetic imagination. Their sight inspires awe, and poetry is perhaps the only medium to do justice to how they make you feel. Being accessible to everyone alike, t...

EXULANSIS 1 When I woke up, there was light in the room. I remember the last time I looked at the clock. It showed the time as 4:30 am, I was awake for a long time after that. I don’t really know the time when I  went to sleep… I tried recollecting the events of the previous night. I played the game 2 twice last night. No luck… no luck till now 8:30 am I live close to where I work, it’ll take me hardly 10 minutes to reach my office, even if I slack off, I can reach the office way before my shift begins. So waking up at 8:30 is no big deal. My shift begins at 9:00 am, so I went to take a shower, skipped breakfast, as usual. I reached my office, which is a software company which develops algorithms for medical diagnosis and other imaging technologies. I get a hefty salary and a yearly vacation abroad, the perks of being the ideal son and student… I went straight into my cubicle. No one to wish me a good day or even smile at me. I’m used to this now. Working like a r...

                                                            Blank Tape It was my first video party. My group of friends had been trying to get me to go to one for a long time, but I was never too good with crowds. On this particular evening, I had run out of excuses for why I couldn’t make it and found myself being dragged along. I couldn’t think of a worse way to spend my night than in a crowded room filled a bunch of strangers watching whatever garbage they could come up with, but there I was. As we approached the old dilapidated apartment building on the other side of town, I could feel a knot tightening in my stomach and I was already beginning to plan my exit strategy. The idea of a video party was that you were supposed to bring a videotape of something strange you had found and a big group of people would get together and watch...

                            A Quiet Song I was so young at the time that I wasn’t able to understand what was happening. My Dad woke me up in the middle of the night to take me to the hospital, but I had always hated the hospital and cried the whole way. Usually, he hated it when I cried, but on that night, he stayed silent as he stared out at the empty road ahead of him. For some reason, that only made me want to cry louder. As we parked outside the tall grey building, I refused to get out of the car, but my Dad picked me up and carried me inside. His fingers dug into my skin to keep me from squirming and I tried to tell him that he was hurting me, but as I looked up at his face I realized that he had been crying too. We made our way through steel elevators and white hallways. It felt like we were walking through some kind of alien world. Finally, we stopped outside the door of one of the rooms. My Dad put me ...

A Room Full of Silence Throughout my life, I thought that I knew what loneliness was. I imagined loneliness as a sort of craving for human contact much like what you would get for a cold glass of whiskey after a long and brutal day at the office. It wasn’t until the day that I buried my Wife, and the silent wait spent sitting in the driver’s seat after saying goodbye to her for the last time, that I truly understood what loneliness was. It was not a craving, but the most painful hunger for something that you could never taste again, so instead the hunger eats away at you until there’s nothing left. There wasn’t anything in the whole world could satisfy it: only her. I returned back to our home—my home—in absolute silence. I paced through the rooms which still carried her scent and laid on the bed we shared together. I continued to lay there for hours and waited for something to happen. Her voice still echoed in my mind as I replayed hundreds of little conversations that never s...

                   A Letter to my best friend To, My Bestie !! I want to take the time to tell you how very important you are in my life. It's hard sometimes to say these things in person, even to a best friend, so I'm writing you this letter to say it for me. My friend, you are the most significant person in my life right now.  You are my dearest friend, the one person I can be open and honest with, the person who knows me better then I know myself. When I'm with you, I can be myself, with no pretense, and I'm accepted and loved completely for who I am. There are no surprises with you; I know who you are, and you know who I am, and we are able to love one another completely. We are not always able to spend as much time together as we'd like to, But jab ham ek saath hote hain, to aisa lgta hai ki ham kabhi alag hi nhi huye the. Being with you makes me laugh, and it gives me a safe place to cry....

Ritu Ka Pyar   2 nd  Edition Last edition m abhi tk padha ki  Ashish, Ritu ka dil 4 sal pahle dukkha kr yad shahar se kafi dur chla gya tha. Aur Ritu is 4 sal ki yado m ek event company khol deti hai pr shadi na kr pai thi… Uski friend Priyank ki shadi m use ashish mila tha………..ab aage ki story... Gulab dekha aur mushkura diya. Us char sal m Ritu ke bal kandho tk a gye the aur uski aankhon m kajal ne apni jagah bna li thi. JO kabhi apna pallu sambhal nhi pati thi aaj wo shadi m tamtamati hui high hil ki shandil pahne huye chal rhi thi but uska gussa abhi tk waisa hi tha. Delhi se yaha tk na jane kitni bar socha tha ki jab Ritu mere samne hogi to kya kahegi. Mujhe yad shahar nhi jana tha. But Ritu ki dost Priyanka ne bulaya tha aur na jata to Priyanka bhi naraj ho jati… Ritu apne ghr wapas a jati hai aur sochne lgti hai ki Ashish ke liye ye sab aasan tha vo mujhe bde aram se bhula diya. Tabhi door well bajti hai aur Ritu darwaja kholti hai aur samne As...

 Hi dosto ..aaj main ek  adhure pyar ki story  btla raha hu yu to  sabhi pyar krte hai ....sab ka apna ek crush hota hai ...aise hi Ritu ka bhi crush tha ek ..... Sunday ka din tha aur star event valentine ka holiday tha Ritu is star event ke pyar se  wo apne pure office ko sja rhi thi but kaha wo red white balloon ...uski zindagi  m.. 7 sal se wo  apne office sjate  a rhi hai. Yu to red balloon, flower  dushro ke pyar ko milane ke ya milne ke liye hota hai but kaha Ritu ke nashib m tha ye sab, jo dil m tha wo bahut pahle hi dil 💔thod ke chla ja chuka tha ; usi 4 sal ke  tute dil se star event janma tha  aur apna ek hissa us 4 sal ko Ritu ne dba ke ...bahot aage bd gyi thi.. are aaj saman ko hta bhi de bitiya ..maa apne hatho m chay ka pyala liye a rhi thi.....Ritu is week tu dushro ka pyar sajati rhi hai ...tu apna bhi to soch kuch...Rit...