Kho gaye hum kahaan. A song that reaches your heart directly, tickles you and makes you sing the whole lyrics in sync with your life. Kho gaye hum kahaan. A song voiced by my two favorite singers in the world. Prateek Kuhad and Jasleen Royal. PK has been my favorite before he became popular across the circles. I remember one cold night in Hyderabad when I was really missing home and the girl whom I was dating had called it off for reasons best known to her. I plugged in my ear phones and created a Prateek Kuhad playlist and played it on repeat and snuggled myself to sleep with those songs.
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I am watching the re run of The Big Bang Theory on Amazon Prime. Season 9 Episode 11. The guys are about to book the tickets for the new Star Wars movie. I guess it is the same star wars movie we saw back in 2015. It was and still is the only star wars movie I have ever seen and the only movie I ever got to see with you. Anyway. What I am trying to say is that the episode reminded me of you.
Hello Long Distance (Former) Co-intern,
It is the 6th week of my most amazing internship. However, I must admit that as the weeks are passing by, the work is getting dull and redundant. I guess it’s leading to brain drain and there is a very specific reason behind it. And it’s the office environment. Every single office where I have previously interned has had this system of appreciating your work when you have done good work and I used to get works from multiple people thus, praise from multiple people too. But this time it has been just one; the programme manager, who gives me work and praises and acknowledges my work. Not that I really crave for it but it actually motivates me. I don’t know and can’t say how it works with others. This I found most encouraging when I came to intern in Delhi for the first time in December 2017 with Newslaundry. Particularly, it was Atul sir who always had words of praise for me and meeting and learning from Meghnad, Aakash, Madhu Trehan and Abhinandan was a great experience. Not forgetting the fabulous Manisha who had then just started hosting a new show Newsance. The show was conceptualised when I was interning with them. It was my last week there if I am not wrong and I am so proud of the fact that they very enthusiastically worked on it and point out all the nuisance in the news and show the mockery of news that is cast by Zee, ABP, India Today and the great Times Now and Republic (of Rhetoric) TV. The Prime Minister Dated: 26th May, 2018
7, Lok Kalyan Marg Delhi, India Subject: Regarding the pains of a student, a citizen of the country Sir Many achievements have been made in India as a democracy by the citizens as well as politicians, and hence let me take this opportunity to congratulate you on the fourth anniversary of your Prime Minister-ship, or should quote you and say “Prime Servant-ship”. Let me also congratulate you on taking the very first decisions since becoming the Prime Minister of this great democracy, that was to rename Race Course Road to Lok Kalyan Marg. We almost became a superpower by that move. Let me also congratulate the nation that made a chai-wala as its Pradhan Sevak. I am sorry, however, to differ from the people of your party and my fellow Indians when they consider this as your achievement, I consider this as the striking feature of this beautiful democracy and the great constitution that our founding fathers gave to us. It’s been four years. Four years is quite a long time. In these four years you have lost 10 seats in Lok Sabha and your government, our government, has passed bills in less than half an hour without discussion. People call it efficiency; I call it lack of skills and qualification. To be very honest, this was bound to happen the moment we elected an uneducated, unlearned, immoral set of ‘representatives’ to the Parliament. Four years is quite a long time indeed. The nation goes into elections next year. However, I still remember the historic day 4 years ago, when you won your party the elections decimating the congress to a mind numbing (for the dynasts) 44, very clearly. You had come up to the stage saying “ache din aa gaye”. I would like to admit that I was your supporter (and not of the party) till the moment you said this phrase. “Achhe din’ was a concept, an idea, a mini-anifesto that you gave to the people, which the people looked up to in the form of a hope, a hope for a better nation, a hope of a developed country, a hope to get past all the scams and a corruption free India and it was all these promises among many others, which I thought, which we thought that comprised the achhe din. However, when you said “ache din aa gaye” the moment you won, it was clear to me (and I believe, to many others) that your promise of “achhe din” was a scam and a manipulative strategic and deceitful election ‘jumla. How could ache din arrive, after all, when you hadn’t even joined the office and taken oath as the Prime Minister. No sir, it wasn’t ache din for us. It was ache din for you, for your election ambitions were, at last, fulfilled. Achhe din had arrived for you and your party and hence, on that day, you had said “ache din aa gaye”. . . . . . . . . . . . . Hence, I kindly urge you to be as efficient as possible in the rest of your tenure as Prime Minister. Maybe look after education as your predecessors did. After all, PM Vajpayee would never have wanted the level of education to go down like this. His Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan is a witness to that. Thanking You A Youth A Citizen Toshan Note: the hidden content shall be published at a later stage. Maybe when I recieve a reply from the Prime Minister. Hey
Shit! You're sleeping. I'm sorry, I didn't realize. I got confused. You rarely speak nowadays and it worries me. You live alone in a community full of adolescent humans and yet.... Although maybe you're right when you call them inhumans. I've seen them, and I've seen you and maybe I can draw some conclusions similar to yours. Since you've been here, a couple of years now, I have known every bit of your schedule, your work, your characteristics, most of all, your emotions. Although, at this point of time, I am at a loss. I can't understand what's going on with you and it pains me. For the mere reason that you don't speak anymore. You've fallen silent. Why? What happened? Hey kid!
I don't know how much you appreciate me in your life but I want you to know that I'm really going through a bad phase in life. And there's no one, literally no one but you with whom I can share all this and yet I don't know if I should. I don't want you to feel burdened. Even after the therapy, my life has been filled with.... All the ups and downs... And I don't know what to do. I'm not able to think straight. Many a times I feel I'm thinking too much or digging too deep and all that shit. Hey!
I saw this post on instagram. You know how one liners are trending these days? It was one of the post that said “Tell her she is beautiful before someone else does”. And I pictured you. But why did I picture you of all people? I have told you you are beautiful. I have told the same to a couple of girls before you, in the same sense. Why then, you came out to be the one whom I imagined absent mindedly and not them? Late Dr. Avul Pakir Jainlubdeen Abdul Kalam
Sir, May I take the privilege to call you professor? I myself don’t know myself why do I direct this letter to you Professor; neither do I know why I had the urge to call you ‘Professor’. The reason for the former may be because I don’t know if there’s a messenger with you who has told you that the country you loved, cherished, for whom you had a vision, whose future you wanted to be a very bright and inspiring one, has failed you. As for the latter, I believe that I call you professor because there hardly are left any good teachers left in the education system, more, in my university, whose foundation stone was laid none other than yourself. I can see your name as I walk past the stone which engraves your name at the entrance of the academic block of the university. India's democracy has never been so weak. The three pillars of democracy have fallen down. Will the Constitution hold up? Would the Pradhan Sevak be able to save the integrity of the Constitution of India? Would the President of India, the stamp man, be the shining star who would save the beautiful constellation? Would the Chief Justice of India listen to his colleagues and adhere to the principles of natural justice?
To the one wrapped around me,
I can't count the nights and the days we have shared together. The number of times you were wrapped around me as I slept on my bed. When I was sick, when I was depressed, when I was unwilling to cry yet the pillow was wet, the 15 months of moving on period from a love of 59 months. |
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