The Public Diary

On a random get-together, sitting in an eating joint and waiting for the food, a friend brings up the question “Do you think that company really matters?” Of course, company matters; the goodwill of the company and its profit scale affects your salary package. Plus the better the company, the better are the facilities and the better the work environment they provide to you.  Bullshit.  I was actually talking about companionship and the group of people you hang out with. Just as I was about to give my opinion, which was in the affirmative, of course; the other two friends promptly said “No, we don’t think so. How can someone else affect you, your habits and the decisions you take?” I so wanted to say otherwise but I don’t know why I didn’t. But here is my chance (After all, this is the space where I say whatever I actually want to say.) How does one become a chain smoker or a drug addict? Where does it actually start from? From the first cigarette which their...

I almost wrote 1/4th of the blog post which I actually intended to publish this time. But I got too excited after reading some article in a newspaper. (Intimate me, if you want to read that article, if only my scrap box allowed me to let my hands over it by the time you ask me to read it.) So what was the topic that I created so much hype about? It was about the ongoing board exams. The writer had written about the unnecessary fuss created around such exams. I remember when I used to be a kid and my sibling got promoted into the board classes, the dialogue which would echo in our home was let her study it’s her board exams. I used to think what it is so different to be in a board class appearing for board exams. I appeared for board exams in 8th class for the first time and luckily y centre for giving exams was the school in which I studied just the last year. (I had migrated my school in 8th class only and my centre was my ex-school.) So I felt like being at home not feeli...