E-108 r baranday

23 r bhorta hoe i gelo..ki bol??

baire konkone batash...

kuashar alo,

taar i moddhe jana mukh r ajana muhurto gulo bheshe ashey....

Na baba!!!

dilli'r sheeth bole kotha - 'thanda lege jabey'

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Feathers...

The valley to the right was soaked in clouds. The helpless pigeon watched their motion with a strong urge to control it from his dingy hole, as that would probably give him a feel that he hadn't lost it all. Last year, after his home was destroyed by a sudden storm, he gazed at the red bricks looking to carve out a niche for himself. After a year long hard work, the pigeon was proud of itself to have four walls of its own. Long before he actually realized, one of the walls was too weak to stand the test of time and he was rendered homeless again. The flight to this hilly abode was more of an escape. Here too, the clouds were ready for a spoilsport. The clouds meandered through the valley to coalesce in between the slopes. He just wished that their latent tears be shed to relieve the heaviness within.

A lady walked up to the hole. He turned skeptical as he was nowadays very unsure about what to expect out of life. the lady could have simply taken no notice of the pigeon but she took extra care to be just a companion - nothing beyond on either side. She probable never knew how much of the above he ever needed!! This would certainly be one of his most cherished memories. The ominous nimbus gave way to cottony cirrus, the moon lent a silvery glow to the slopes and the discordant music struck happy notes. The pigeon was ready for a mid air frolic. Gabul went to bed.

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Copycats :P

It's something all of us have noticed at some moment or the other, and most of us have commented on..boys in their late teens sporting a Dhoni hairstyle, or girls going gaga over long coats attempting to double up as Naina in KHNH...people flocking to the same destinations for their hard-earned holidays, most boys choosing blue as their favorite color..so on and so forth...

Well, the other day I was stuck by a curious incident that might be treated as an analogue to the above cases..but the time, place and moment seemed so far removed from the ones stated previously..that it took me a while to develop the connection..It was in the middle of a computer aided English proficiency test (which am not going to name here, but I'm sure most readers can correctly guess!). There was this part of the test that had a speaking section wherein we had to respond to the question by talking into a microphone. About an odd score of us were seated in the same room, and it was soon obvious that it was a real hassle trying to listen to our own voices above the din of our neighbor's. Nevertheless, we tried to resolve the quandary in the most obvious way, namely, by increasing the volume of our voices. Soon, everyone in the room was replicating it and before long, a virtual cacophony ensued! :)

So much for herd mentality...