Reflections

So this book by William Dalrymple came to my rescue when I was desperately looking for a book to read, to hold the hard bound cover in my hand, smell the familiar fragrance of old paper, and revel in the beauty of the printed word as it stares at you from the book with that smile that invites you to just delve into reading the book! So yes, I was basically “book starved” and this book satiated the hunger for a worthwhile reading experience. The words just flow in the book and you don’t have to try too hard to read them. It’s almost like swimming downstream in a slow paced river. You just “go with the flow”, which I think is very essential for a Travelogue such as this one. The book takes the reader through stories of nine different Indians, who encompass in themselves a world of their own. The stories have the underlined theme of spirituality in the country and the various ways in which Indians try to achieve the much desired “enlightenment”. So, I am not going to talk about a...

Here is a collection of the links of some of my articles published by youthkiawaaz.com, an online forum with which I have been working as an intern for quite some time! Mentorship: Celebrating People for Who They Are! Plagiarism: Challenging the Concept Understanding the Agnostic Viewpoint Badnaam Munni, Jawaan Shiela and Poor India College Fests: The fun. The turbulence Model United Nations: LOLing Moments! Suddenly, Last Winter NREGA: Bright Future Prospects? Censorship on the Internet: Some key players and Perils The state of 5 Rivers in Turmoil P.S. Some of these, you might have already read on my Blog! :) P.P.S. Thank you YKA for an amazing experience! :D

“So you believe in God, eh?” “Uhh…umm…Yes…No…umm…I don’t know!” But, what I do know is that I don’t know who is God. Or, what is God. Perhaps It is a belief that justifies our existence and the occurrence of every event.   Perhaps, a concept that our super-human ancestors cooked up so that they could weave innumerable stories around it about hell and heaven and morals and ethics. Perhaps He is a super-human Himself who controls each of our actions like a puppeteer would do. And, why exactly am I using “Him”? “He” could just be a “She” or perhaps just an “It”. I choose not to discriminate and shall use “It” for any further reference. So, we have never seen It. But, we had occurrences which are mysterious to us. And, so we think It is there. Where? We don’t know! To avoid any hurt to people’s sentiments that I may cause by my rhetoric statements, I shall now only present My Agnostic Viewpoint: I think and choose to believe that t is really just about Faith. Faith in something, any...