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Old Loves

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An odd assortment of English, kesudas and golden showers Agatha Christie once said, ‘Nothing like boredom to make you write.’ It is true. As I write this, I am sitting in the library with my books open in front of me and I, for the life of me, cannot make myself study Hamlet and his sad tale. Like every normal teenager, I turned to surfing the net and suddenly remembered that I have a blog. Here I am, writing on said blog, hoping to make this an awesome entry. English is a funny language. The plural of foot is feet and not foots and the plural of goose is geese and not gooses . All through school and until quite recently, I, like many others, had just accepted this funny quality of the English language and simply followed the rules. English is a wonky tongue, I told myself. But now, for one hour on most days, I get to understand English and the what’s and why’s of the language. Yes, English is a wonky language but now I get to have my mind blown by why it is so wonky. You know, i
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Time travelling, Doraemon and the Sublime Beauty of July

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Time! Aren't you just a daydream! Had I been writing in the pen-paper mode, I would have had a whole mess of crumpled paper balls around me, on the floor. I have a bunch of ‘untitled document’-s with paragraphs of varying lengths in my google docs- a testimony of the number of times I have attempted to talk about time travel. See, the thing is, ever since I read this book called ‘Before the Coffee Gets Cold’ I have been thinking about time travel. I have been wanting to talk about time travel and about the fact that the book is lovely even though it is translated from Japanese. The universe is telling me to write about it, at this point, because wherever I look, time travel is all I see! I must say, for a race without any superpowers, we do fantasize about it too much. Take something as basic as the cartoon ‘Doraemon’. Tell me, what normal, Doraemon-watching kid hasn’t ever dreamt of having a walking-talking robot who is your ultimate panacea? I suppose, feeling annoyed at Nobita a
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JUNE THUNDER

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New books, unromantic rains and some other stuff What do you think this blog post is going to be about? Rains in the month of June? Probably. However, since the title has the word ‘June’ in it, I can assure you that this will be something related to the month of June. In hindsight, I could have pretended to be a wonderful author and whipped up something totally unexpected and swooned you but hey! Who am I kidding? The last time I wrote something half decent was a very long time ago and that’s kind of why I am here talking to you through this blog. Here I am, wiping the metaphorical dust and cobwebs off my blog page and writing something entirely new. At the moment, I hope this newfound motivation of mine stays and I successfully keep my blog from gathering dust again. (Fingers crossed!) If you're thinking, ‘Krishna, stop. You haven't written for a long time and you’re procrastinating by simply rambling.’, I won’t keep you waiting any longer and dive right in. As promised, I wil
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The Environment and Climate Change

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  The Doomsday Clock has been set to ‘100 seconds to midnight’ this year. It is a wake-up call for world leaders to rise and save humanity from a total apocalypse. Climate change is real and it is evident, now more than ever. The present condition of the earth is extremely shameful. As intelligent creations of nature, we humans have done a shoddy job of looking after the environment. As a species, we have managed to consistently impinge Mother Earth, the consequences of which are clearly visible now. A wise man once said, ‘We have not inherited the earth from our forefathers; we have borrowed it from our children.’ Anthropogenic climate disruption is the cause of all mishaps happening today. If we do not respond to the planet’s cries for help, it won’t be long before civilization crumbles. Each action of ours affects the environment directly or indirectly. As people living in cities, we do not feel the change directly, but in the blink of a geological eye, glaciers, forests, rivers a
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Rhythm

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  A stray, brown dog sniffs the footpath in front of a house. It sniffs around, looking for food. It is time for it to eat and is just waiting to find a stray morsel. A young boy stands at the window of the house. As he eats a biscuit, he puts his forearms outside the railings of the window. In 2 bites, the biscuit disappears. He seems to be looking out at the oblivious dog but in reality, his mind is somewhere far away, travelling faster than light. The mind is a beautiful thing, one that defies all laws of space and time and transcends all limitations man has ever faced. It's almost like using Doraemon's Any-Way Door, a ship sailing on the wind of wishes.  The sky is an orangish-purple hue, with the sun almost gone. The hot-cold February air blows into the window, ruffling the young boy's hair. A draught of cold air gushes in and disrupts the boy's chain of thought. Suddenly, as if remembering important matters that need his attention, he closes the window and draws t
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BTS: 7 Koreans who're changing Globalization

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      One Direction disbanded and left everyone heartbroken. Although there are a lot of Directioners who pine the absence of the band, a lot of fans took the broken shards of their heart and hooked it on to something new: BTS. In a world where being ‘lit’ meant watching Friends and reading popular books written in English, it was actually astonishing to see how people vibed to something in a completely foreign language. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it is impossible to not know BTS. You are either a fan or are one of those people who dislike them. If you’re an adult, you have inevitably come across at least one teen with bright purple hair who listens to ‘strange Korean music’. In spite of everything, if you have magically managed to evade this entire kpop sensation that’s taking over the world, let’s back up a bit and know BTS. In 2013, a group of 7 Korean nobodies debuted with the song ‘ No More Dream ’. Belonging to a failing company, these 7 dudes had no hopes of
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ARE WE PREPARED FOR DISASTERS?

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  India is a country that is geographically rich and has great topographical variety. We are blessed with the seas on three sides, the Himalayas in the north along with numerous forests and rivers. While we benefit from all of them, there are also some threats that these resources pose. Natural hazards are some unpredictable, unfavourable changes taking place in nature that causes mass destruction. With development in technology, we have gotten better at foreseeing and mitigating them. With time, the IMD and the disaster management force of India have become more and more experienced due to which we are able to soften the blow of disasters. It is not true that India’s preparedness for mitigation of natural disasters is weak even with technology. Cyclones have become an annual occurrence in the Bay of Bengal. With their powerful instruments, the IMD is able to predict the disastrous waves and inform people beforehand. This valuable information enables the government to bring their peopl
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