I think our college campus looks most beautiful in the early mornings and close to dusk. It is the time when nature is most alive as human beings slowly trickle in and out of the college grounds in small numbers. The music of nature embellishes the silence without any noise to disturb it. I love such moments even though I have experienced it only a couple of times. As an admirer of solitude and silence, I feel most free and alive when there is more of nature than people arou

Is it possible to love someone who is absolutely so different from you? To go back to them even when their words at times cause you pain as well as joy in the blink of an eye? That was how Mary Roy was for Arundhati Roy, and how the latter was for me as well. It is hilarious how the differences in our viewpoints and opinions start from the coverpage of the book itself! My grimace at the picture of her smoking in her book cover was as real as my admiration of her. But neither

It is interesting to note how we give emotional and symbolic meanings to the things around us. How we store or associate certain feelings or memories in or within material objects, so you can experience it all over again at a later period through them. What you associate those feelings with need not be objects; it could also be some activity. For instance, I am sure that every one of us has different rituals which we do after returning home after a long time away. It could b