learning and growing

What I miss most about my childhood days?Well all the games that i used to play as a child.There is a nearby field in our colony,and that serves as a playground as well.The authorities have named it Paschimanchal.As a kid,my friends and I used to regularly visit this favourite spot and it was our daily routine to come out from our houses at five in the evening and then attack the playground.The playground slip used to be our first destination and the game that we used to play there was named as 'toy train' by us.You will get the idea-imagine each of us position and sit behind each other such that each of us stood to represent one compartment of a train and there always used to be five or seven of us sitting one,after the other as compartments and when we were all well convinced that it was time for the train to go,the first person used to slip down and wait till the others came down after him,one after the other and hit one from behind,but that used to be fun with no intention...

I hate the auto-correct option in my cell phone,it just make things go wrong and thanks Madhulina for pointing this out.I believe i cannot blame anyone for this,not even the auto-correct option,because i should always revise and then publish my posts.I have made the necessary corrections in my previous post.Yesterday night i was missing my college and i was thinking to myself,how would that be if we all get back to college and that too at night-how would that be if we were made to listen to lectures at night?Or maybe engage ourselves into some on the moment serious activity or activities.Then my mind went back to Kolkata again,but then i stopped myself from thinking too much about it because the city awaits.At home things are so different.I have so many things to do,yet at times find myself with nothing practically.That day one of the many articles in the newspaper spoke about Kerala and the recent degradation of this state,keeping in view the recent rape case of a law student and i ju...

How do you know that you have finished reading a good book?Because the book has won a Man Booker Prize award or a Pulitzer prize or something as vague as the word 'connecting'.Readers connect with characters and to incidents in the book and ultimately come to the climax-'This book is so me!'I will tell you my experience.I finished reading some eleven books this last one month and right after I finished reading Coetzee's Disgrace,I immediately knew,that I have read a great book.Yes,Yes it did win a Booker Prize,but then so,so many books receive one every year,but this book is beyond my imagination.To appreciate the book,one can interpret it from the protagonist's perspective-David Lurie,or from his daughter's-Lucy Lurie(as I did),or from both the perspectives.I don't want to say what this book is about,one can always Google it,but I will convey my readers of what made me feel that I am lucky enough to have read this book.To me,I shall say the story is fem...

Who says English is easy?I honestly did not know how to pronounce Freud-it was confusing,until one day one of my schoolmates corrected me,indirectly and since then I know that I need to pronounce it as FROYED and not FREEEEEUD.Lets take an easy example-COW;a person not knowing the English alphabets may pronounce it as CO,because the W in itself is a two syllabic word(if we consider it's spelling),so people can be mistaken and they can pronounce it as Co and then W but it's real pronunciation is CAUU.Another simple example can be the word MORE.Judged from the spelling,it should sound as MOR-E,with a clear emphasis on E,but in English we don't do that because the E becomes silent.The same goes for the word LATE because we don't pronounce it as LATE-E.Confusion persists in the pronounciation of A as well.It becomes difficult for us to contemplate if we should pronounce A as we normally do,when we follow the English alphabetical chart or should we pronounce it as Aaaaa.So w...

What do we need to learn from the western civilization?I will just give a hint.A few days back, on my way home from my friend's house,I saw an auto halt at a place nearby and then there was this American(as far as I could judge from his accent),who stepped out from the auto,gave the driver the money,and said him 'Thank You,Sir'.A thing which we Indians hardly do,is'nt it?The driver can be a bad man,can be a good man,maybe he is also uneducated but 'thank you' and 'sir' are words that are widely acknowledged even in the uneducated groups.The man must have felt so happy by those kind words.And there is indeed so much to thank for,after all he helped the foreigner to reach home safely.Yes,we need to learn what the word 'humble' stands for?I recognize what it is to be helped by a stranger in an alien land.I have also noticed few other things like these foreigners,when they come to stay in our country,they respect our country more than we do,like for ...