in mute box - i voice

The first piece of information that we received about the mindless attacks were over the phone, a little beyond 10:30pm on Wednesday. That was when the first among us in the hostel got a call from a concerned brother, to find out if everything was fine.If she and her friends were safe? Then the speculations started, what could have happened? By the time we got out to access some live news the internet was down. The intensity of the so called blast was sinking in, when one among us actually got the right information; it was not only a blast but mindless firing and a possible hostage situation. The death tolls had not been announced but several were injured, we were told. Frantic calls to parents and loved ones confirming that we were safe were all made. Overcoming the initial pangs of selfishness, retribution set in. The full impact hit me the next morning. I woke up to a call from my cousin; my uncle and aunt were concerned, they ordered me not to step out. I hung up wondering what i...

I was back home doing my data collection for my research. I started to watch Grey’s Anatomy, expecting it to be more like Scrubs, it was not!! It's based on medicine!! I think the common thread ends there.When I did come back to the hostel, where there is one TV in the DH (dining hall) for almost 500 students, there was no question of watching TV. What is the internet for? Its, a saviour!!! If not for the movies and songs on the net... We would all be in a mental institute or even a criminal asylum. Thankfully we are not and therefore... the sanity... (Or so I think!!). Found a link to watch the episodes online... now I know what happens in the current season too. So, why the eagerness to watch the show? Some dumb, crappy show that is not even funny!! Well, I think it is more to do with a story, the end. To find the end. The same reason that one reads a thriller novel or any story. When it ends it ends. Does it really? The end according to V V of The Great Indian Novel is arb...