learning and growing

So the fourth month of the year 2017 bids a goodbye today. The month has been eventful with new ventures, new learning, new disappointments, new expectations and good news. This month will not leave me in the coming month for sometime, I guess. But time will not cease to exist and therefore to stop would lead to my physical and spiritual exhaustion. Anyway. North Kolkata has been an amazing teacher in many, many ways. Till date it has never missed to show me strange, nice and heartbreaking sights. One can be amazed to see the religious nature of the people here. They pray to God with a devotion I have rarely encountered in the past. It is soothing to the senses. When I feel lonely I sometimes go to the nearby Ramakrishna Mission, which remains open to all from 5pm. They start their prayers at around 6.30 and it is heart warming to listen to them. I feel light and good. On second thoughts, it would be good to discover God.

It is not the first time that juniors have come to me to ask, 'What is love?' ,and I have either remained silent or have just smiled. And more sorry I am for people who have too much faith in this word. From now on anyone who would come to me with this silly question will have to answer me instead as to what life is? A question, far more important if you really want to know. What makes it more difficult for me to answer such a question is the mere fact that I am a Literature student and how can I even try to define Love when I have seen and known so many kinds and types and I know what the kids and juniors are looking for but alas I don't have an answer for the common place boy-girl love. I don't want to sound irrational to people who can't agree with my concept of unconventional love. It is strange that most poeople think that to believe in something superiorly different is to accept and practice it. The reason that most people shirk away from going beyond, is beca...

So it is time to go back to the city that push me to my limits. My short stay at home was worth it for it paved the way for my much needed break. Things have changed in my hometown Durgapur. To start with, Muchipara- one of the bus stations in Durgapur, where passengers are expected to empty their seats and get down, has changed tremendously with all its new infrastructure and since this was my visit to Durgapur after three and a half months, I surely could not locate the place properly. It all seemed so alien to me that I made up my mind to get down at City Centre. But then thankfully I could locate from quite a distance, my father's Scooty and fortunately I got down in the needed place. Well Durgapur is losing it's greenery with all the new useless buildings popping up almost everywhere your eyes can lead you to. The heat here has become strange and probably more intense. Why I say strange is because it is too hot and it becomes difficult to stare anywhere in the broad daylig...

It was just one of those days when you were being quoted by your students and friends alike. A small impact made and hence a reason to rejoice. Rejoice- the nation rejoiced when Jio, the telecom company stirred the entire nation with it's new summer surprise offer on 31st March at midnight. But with the sudden withdrawal of the surprise offer as per the TRAI regulations the rejoicing came to an end and as per gossips Tata Docomo and Vodafone, are to shut down by the end of this year. Why do I care so much? Your guess is right. I am an over enthusiastic Jio user and a wise Vodafone customer. So much to worry about! The schedule is packed and tight with a lot of small and big changes that apparently is helping me become mature. Teaching seniors, reading my stuffs and handling a suffocating environment with too many insecure and pretentious people around, throws a huge challenge but it also saves my life from becoming mundane. Not that I always rejoice it. Neither do I rejoice the fac...