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We are all broken

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We are all broken. It's true, we all are. At times a little chipped and at others smashed with only hope and superglue to save us. We all have that secret side which is weak, scared, bruised and imprisoned. We all know that, no matter how hard we try to pretend to be normal, we are insane in our own sweet little ways. We all are wildflowers, yet we tend to be rose, all proper and sober. We have thousands of voices whisphering in our heads all the time. We fall silently and rise up secretly. We pretend to be happy but we are crazy and foolish, absurd and weird, ridiculous in our own ways beyond imagination. We are all humans with numerous flaws and countless imperfections but we are the one who have within them the gift of magic. Crunching numbers, scribbling drawings, blabbering words,  reading the atrocious, dancing the craziest, singing the broken songs, precisely make us human. We cry ourselves to sleep for the fact we are weird and insane but have we ever re

STRUGGLE: A KEY OF LIFE

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Struggle, because nothing worth having comes easy. It’s the struggle that makes us appreciate the beauty of an achievement, pride in a possession. Because things are not easy, they never were, they never will be. Each one of us is struggling, though with vivid variations. A five month old struggles to get that blanket off his  feet, which his mother laid on him to protect him from the cold; a five year old struggles to have several chocolates in a single day, a fifteen year old struggles to score and a fifty year old struggles to not struggle. So the question is, ‘Why should one struggle?’ Some of us will get the answer after this short story... Once upon a time a son complained to his mother  that his  life was miserable and that he didn’t know how he was going to make it. He was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved, another one soon followed. His  mother  took him  to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and place

That Saturday

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"Not everything will go as we expect in our life. This is why we need to drop expectations, and go with the flow of life." Life is all about planning. That's what most of us think. Have we not been involved in making plans from the very first day? Plans for the way our life must head forward and many things to 'live happily ever after' story. Just imagine how boring will be life if we know everything about how things will turn out even before experiencing them. However things don't go always as we planned them to! Life is unpredictable. It often puts you in circumstances that we have never thought of. And then, the unfulfilled plans and expectations from life leave us disappointed. But, have we ever realised that it is often the 'unplanned' things in life that bring the real fun? Let's see it through our story. The story of US- the five : Anirban, Surajit, Rashmi, Priya and I. 4th, March 2017 An usual Saturday with an unusual weat

Do I belong here??

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On an especially tiring Thursday evening on the way home, while I was walking silently towards auto stand under the sky lit with a crescent moon, I suddenly noticed the aroma of cardamom-ginger tea drifting towards me. It was both surprising and weird. What here is supposed to smell like tea? Curious, I began searching for source and soon discovered that nested in the corner of the street was a small dirty stall that sold the much-hyped ‘Ela-chi Chai’. The scent didn't bothered me much. It felt too out of place in that setting. “Oh, you simplistic piece of beauty, you don't belong here. You belong to cups in the homes of lonely hearts who have won and lost. You belong to the 2 am desk of a writer who is tired to organize his thoughts. You belong to the blank head of a helpless student how he'll get through next semester alive. You belong to the dark evenings of memories and nostalgia. You belong to stained tables and unending conversation of friends. But however h