How I Stopped Thinking...

(How the heart never listens!) DISCLAIMER: This post is not in any way related to the movie of the same name. Also, pardon the weirdly spaced out lines, not my fault. As if Life wasn't difficult enough... Life is complete with problems and challenges every day. But it's a new kind of difficult when you suddenly realize that you are falling in love or the percentage of your brain mass which was allotted to your “crush” is now demanding a bigger quota. You know right then that this is so not what you want but you don't have control! The funniest part about falling in love with someone is that all of a sudden the small divide between your bastard heart and your poor brain turns into a full blown Civil War with all the powerful ones going the heart’s way while the brain has nothing left except pull the “thinking card”. The brain becomes the veritable Tony Stark seeing his close allies, the five senses, side with the heart's Captain America (*cough**Hydr

I loved my hometown, with all its flaws and imperfections which made you bitch about it, it still was the place where I spent 21 years of my life. So, when the time came for me to leave it and go to a new place, I was a bit skeptic, more so when I heard it was Kolkata…. The year was 2012, exactly four years ago when I had to choose between Kolkata & Pune. Like every guy who dreams of that “happening life” cliche, I had almost chosen Pune. But 2012 was also a year which taught me a lot of things, that too right in the first quarter, before the financial closing even happened. My mother's year long battle with cancer ended on 25th March, 2012 & cancer won. I had also got a confirmation for my Pune stint till then, but I decided to choose Kolkata, maybe it was my way of staying close to my father or some way of making a decision where I won, I don't know. The fact was, I chose to join Praxis Business School in Kolkata, and today, 4 years down the line, I can say tha