Street warrior
“No pets allowed!” were the first words we heard from the landlady when we moved to a new house. We already had Splash with us. So, with a sad heart, we gave him away to a family friend. The very next day a white dog sat down before our house wagging its tail. He looked […]
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Who would have thought
I have never tried my hand at flying kites but have always enjoyed the sight of a kite flying from a distance. Colourful kites flying against white clouds that stretch across the blue sky used to leave a breezy feel. When a kite got stuck in our terrace, I hurt my thumb and index finger […]
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Nosy, but nice
As my eyes roved over the home page of my Facebook account, I sensed someone staring at it over my shoulder. I didn’t need to turn back to know that it was my little brother. He always did that. Being an older brother, I have always envied my friends who were younger siblings or the […]
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Trash the test!
There was an announcement from the government that there would be a common entrance exam for all students. This came as a shock for some and joy for others. The shock obviously came from IIT alumni and well-wishers of our nation, and joy from those hundreds of students who easily get more than 1100 in […]
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It’s still a fight
I am a physically challenged girl and have been disabled since birth. I have completed my Masters in Mass Communication at the Women’s Christian College in Chennai. I now work as a Copy Writer in an ad agency. All this would not have been possible without my initial education. However, getting into a school proved […]
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Relentless effort
T.S.KARTHIK
I had a chat with my newspaper delivery boy Rajesh, who had come to collect his monthly bill. After checking my calendar, on which I had marked “no paper” on a particular date, I told him that I hadn’t received the paper on that one day. In turn, he told me that on that day […]
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Little cricketers
My routine for sometime now has been waking up really early, waving my parents off to work, and hurrying back to lock the door and sulking away the morning hours in the unbearably hot sun. But this is by no stretch a precaution against the loose robbers who loved taking a walk in the quiet […]
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Surviving India
I have heard a lot about Indians living abroad and the culture shock they get upon visiting India after a couple of years. All of a sudden, they feel that anything and everything in India is topsy turvy. I had the opportunity to see and feel the change in perspective about India during the recent […]
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Ready, set…go!
Here are three things that every college student should do…
e-mail for networking
Many college students assume networking is for established professionals. They couldn’t be more wrong. Your leisure time in college can be spent effectively to expand your network. You don’t have to go around attending events and conferences, or even have to be an extrovert. […]
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In weakness lies strength…
I was one of those common people who believed in the stereotyped theory about life that one human is superior to another, until I met this old man wearing rags, with wrinkles that shrank his features, sitting on the road side. “Just another poor old man asking for alms,” I thought. When I walked closer […]
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