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After constantly remaining at 78 kg for more than 4 years, I joined MBA course where I crossed 90 kg for the first time in my life. My friends were worried and showed that often. I was rechristened – Ball. This was the best my friends could do to show their concern. There is always a scapegoat that you find for the things that you don’t want to take credit (discredit) of. For my obesity, my scapegoat was my inheritance. I always blamed the inflated state of my physique to the fatter side my family. I also thought that God was unfair to me; that when I exercised (which was minimal by the way!), the effects were slow to show on my body, however, when I ate, the result was overly evident. There is some reality in the above statements and my blames were not altogether incorrect or unreasonable. I WAS born in a “healthy” family and continued the legacy. However, now that the legacy has gone just a few extra steps ahead, I think I need to “deal” with it. When your parents weigh less than...

I have a confession to make. To my father and my mother. Every time I have felt horrible, depressed, sad, betrayed, hopeless, frustrated, scared, unloved or over-worked, I am reminded of you both. I call you, message you, remember you and want to be with you. All the discussions we had, all the delicious dishes that you prepared, all the gifts that I received, all the comfort that I get run through my memory. I get sentimental and emotional, and long for your embrace. I am reminded of all the responsibilities that I have as a son, and I even feel the need to fulfill them. And then it happens. I get comfortable. Situation starts looking fine again. Hope comes in, fear moves out, growth takes place of frustration, friends are all around, love gets kinder and the Work-hours reduce. I yearn for fun and “meaning” of my life. It is OK to let go of a few responsibilities especially those related to you both. I start spicing up my life. I start taking you for granted. I forget to call y...

Strange where motivation comes from! While a friend of mine did a 'Project - 365' which meant one photo a day for a whole year, I thought why not start small, with one picture a day for 26 days starting with 26 alphabets of the English language!! This project was long pending. I was not getting right/appropriate words which matched the photos. I started anyways. Around 4 months back I bought my camera. Started clicking and posting on FB. As is the case with every novice photographer, I too started seeing lines and angles everywhere. There was not one thing that was not clickable. The world became more beautiful and colorful. I became more attentive. Anything under the sun was a prospective subject for me. I took numerous photographs in a short span. I was lucky that a few of them were nice and interesting also. Excess of anything is bad. Guess I forgot to apply that formula on my photography. This was a good example of the law of diminishing marginal utility. A time came wh...

After all it’s not a car, that it could get stolen in 60 seconds – hence 60 minutes. My room-mate’s birthday was on Friday. He invited one of his friends along with who came another ‘friend’. By the time they came, I was, ahem, high on spirits. Ages since C 2 H 5 OH has had such an effect on me. Sadly for the ‘friend’, that was the day! While I can’t recall completely, but with whatever I do, I was doing something which I don’t usually do. I was loud, dancing like crazies, inviting everyone on the dance floor and hitting blatantly on the ‘friend’. The first three I have done occasionally, but the last one – well! With whatever little memories of the night are present, I remember that I danced all around her. I guess I was using my extremely animated facial expressions which were a cause of extreme laughter all around and a cause of extreme anxiety for my room-mate. I also remember that another of my friend was trying to keep me away from her, but to his utter failure. I believe s...

For all those born in 80's ! We are the last generation that learnt to play in the street, we are the first who've played video games, see cartoons in color and went to amusement parks. We were the last to record songs of the radio on cassettes and we are the pioneers of walkmans and chatrooms... We Learned how to program the VCR before anyone else, play with the Atari, Super...... Nintendo and believed that the Internet would be a free world all on a 56kbit modem Traveled in cars without seat belts or air-bags & lived without cell phones. Rode our bicycles down the road without brakes. We never had phones but still kept in touch. We did not have Play stations, 99 television stations, flat screens, surround sound, mp3s, iPods, computers and broadband... but nevertheless we had a GREAT Time #Copied

I have read all the Chetan Bhagat novels and if one of my friends is to be believed, it’s a case of Yin-Yang, dark and light; what I have gained in photographic taste, I've lost in literary taste. In the literary circle, he has been criticized and condemned on various aspects: poor grammar, redundant sentence formation, recurring thoughts and artless language; not to mention lack of imagination and no LOTR-like detailing. His books are not works of literature by any means and 5 books down, the quality of work is still the same. He survives only on economy of scale and his cheap publicity gimmicks are pathetic. With a risk of being labeled as ‘lesser’ reader, I wish to put my thoughts on CB’s writing. All you big readers, I am sorry to say that I like reading his books. I enjoy them and even relate to the protagonist often. I like that I don’t have to think much while reading his books nor do I have to go back to the dictionary to understand what the words mean. I often feel for th...

Everyone has a view. I too have it. Everyone has a view about things they don’t know about. I am no different. I have views about Anna Hazare and the Lokpal Bill even though I haven’t really followed the proceedings. I tried reading newspaper, but was thoroughly bored after a few lines, which too were mostly incomprehensible for me. I still have a view about Lokpal bill because it is present on Twitter, Facebook and the roads. I am supporting the Lokpal Bill. Of course I don’t know zilch about what is inside (Law has been my weakest area in academics in addition to Compensation, Training & Development and PMS). Why I support it is because I feel a revolution has arrived and no one has remained untouched. While people don’t know about the technical details, they think that it will bring a change – a positive one – in the Indian Politics and life in general. Why I support this bill is because it has forced lot of people to think – to think that things can be changed for good, to thi...