tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46304953259730499792024-02-07T07:46:54.803+05:30Each to Peach"I like to live always at the beginnings of life, not at their end...It amazed me that you felt that each time you write a story you gave away one of your dreams and you felt the poorer for it. But then you have not thought that this dream is planted in others, others begin to live it too, it is shared, it is the beginning of friendship and love."Black is backhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556722401546643398noreply@blogger.comBlogger199125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630495325973049979.post-54951295792307082372017-12-21T15:41:00.002+05:302017-12-21T15:41:30.379+05:30November's Song <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Black is backhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556722401546643398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630495325973049979.post-72945900850213934602017-09-14T17:25:00.002+05:302017-09-14T17:25:36.045+05:30Reflections - Fan Fiction - Doctor Who <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Falling face-down on the ground, the Doctor turned and saw no one else was around. He pulled himself straight up and turned left to the TARDIS door but couldn't open it. He flicked his fingers, used the key, knocked even, but nothing worked. The TARDIS was locked. He banged hard on the door. </div>
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This cannot be! </div>
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Something vibrated. He checked his pocket. A phone! Who put it in? He flicked it open and the blue screen flashed an unknown number. The voice on the other end bleeped: </div>
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"Doctor, you cannot leave me here! I am trapped!"</div>
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"Who is this?" </div>
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"I am, the TARDIS."</div>
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"What?"</div>
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"I am, the TARDIS." </div>
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"This better not be a joke," and as he said, he looked</div>
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up to his left and saw the motionless TARDIS, standing there like an ordinary</div>
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blue box.</div>
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"You have to come now, Doctor. Come back for me." </div>
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Click. </div>
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The line went dead.</div>
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The Doctor leapt on his feet and ran outside the lane. It was</div>
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beginning to be dark. He came out and saw the old country houses stacked</div>
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quietly. The light in the Essex countryside was dimming on the horizon, and he</div>
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wondered if day and night were moving somewhat faster. Something had definitely</div>
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changed. He checked the watch on his wrist and frowned. It was only 4pm. What</div>
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was going on?</div>
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Puzzled, the Doctor walked a few steps on the pavement, eyeing the</div>
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yellow arch of the first house, where a light from the first floor room shone</div>
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on the roof. Stopping, he rang the bell and after couple of rings, someone</div>
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appeared. It was a stockily-built bespectacled, tall man in his 50s. </div>
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"Who're you?"</div>
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"Uh, sorry to bother but something's wrong with my watch. I</div>
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just wanted to check the time."</div>
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"What? Hang on." The man went in, leaving the door</div>
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slightly ajar, and lightly using his fingers, the Doctor opened it further and</div>
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surveyed the hall where the man's back was still visible to him. Strange,</div>
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something wasn't right. </div>
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Within a few seconds, the guy returned.</div>
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"Funny, how time flies, eh? It's 6:30pm. And the sermon is at</div>
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7 and my wife is yet to return from her grocery shopping. And here I thought it</div>
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was just 4'o' clock when I woke up from my nap."</div>
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He grinned now, somewhat easily at the Doctor, whose forehead</div>
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crease and a stern frown did not dissipate.</div>
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"May I come in? I need to talk to you."</div>
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"Sure. But who're you?</div>
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"I am the Doctor."</div>
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"Doctor who?"</div>
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"Never mind. I'm just visiting."</div>
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<br /></div>
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With a reluctant pull, the door was opened further, and the Doctor</div>
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strode in and went inside what was a sparse living room, with few photographs</div>
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of the man, with a woman and a young child. And on top of the fireplace, was a</div>
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wooden clock. </div>
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<br /></div>
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"So, doctor, eh? You’re new here? What do you specialise in?"</div>
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"Ah! Everything."</div>
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The grin on the doctor's face finally appeared, ringing confusion</div>
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in the man's head, who now nearly regretted opening the door.</div>
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"Oh, no, no! I am not a thief. Put your mind at ease,</div>
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Mr..."</div>
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"Ambrose. You can call me Chris."</div>
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"Right then. Chris, we have a problem. The countryside and</div>
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everyone in it is in danger, imminent danger. I need you to get me a</div>
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compass." </div>
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"You're saying? Whatever you said, okay, right." </div>
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Eagerly nodding, the Doctor, now entirely in control, sent Chris</div>
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upstairs, to his son's room.</div>
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"Right then," rubbing his palms, the Doctor went to the</div>
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windows, and saw the light had brightened, like it was noon.</div>
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"No, you're not getting away with this."</div>
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"Uh, doctor?"</div>
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"Yes! Thank you, Chris. Put it down. Let me take a</div>
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look."</div>
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The compass was on the table, and the Doctor bent closer, screwing</div>
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his eyes as the compass touched his nose. After few seconds, the needle jumped</div>
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from south west to south east and then north and then northwest.</div>
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<br /></div>
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There was vibration in the Doctor's pocket.</div>
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<br /></div>
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"Hello?"</div>
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"Help me, Doctor."</div>
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"Who're you? Where are you?"</div>
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"I am, the TARDIS. I am in Essex. I am..."</div>
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the voice at the other end went on to give the address of the adjoining lane</div>
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where the Doctor had last seen his blue box.</div>
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"How do I find you?"</div>
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"The key, Doctor. Use it."</div>
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Click.</div>
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Meanwhile, Chris was trying to plug the telephone wire back into</div>
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the handset and still couldn't get a dial tone.</div>
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"What's wrong with my phone, Doctor?"</div>
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"Nothing's going to work until the earth's magnetic field is</div>
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restored. Phone lines, internet, everything is down. Come with me."</div>
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"Where?"</div>
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"To the TARDIS! Where everything started."</div>
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"Huh? But my wife will be home soon, doctor. And how will she</div>
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find me?"</div>
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The Doctor gave no heed and walked on, and Ambrose ran after him.</div>
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Back at the lane, the two men were outside the blue box. The</div>
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Doctor went around it, circling slow and tapping each door, putting his ear to</div>
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any sounds from inside. Nothing. Frowning, he bent low, and noticed something.</div>
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The TARDIS had moved. The damp patch on the earth where it must have stood, had left</div>
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an impression.</div>
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“Hmm. I think this will prove to be tougher than I thought. Right, then! Chris! Give me the compass!”</div>
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Utterly in daze, Chris Ambrose, kept his eyes fixed on the TARDIS, wondering if all the science in the world was mysteriously wrapped inside this police box. Or, this man who called himself the doctor, was half-mad. </div>
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But the sun in the sky was pinching his senses. 6:30pm! And such bright light, in this weather? He gave a little shiver.</div>
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Meanwhile, the Doctor surveyed the damp patch with his screwdriver. There were tiny, glistening crystals that appeared, and he knelt on the ground to sniff those.</div>
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“Aah! This is a sample of the Judoons! But I am not in Judoonia until next summer for their annual cultural laugh fest, how is the TARDIS carrying souvenirs of crystals from there?” Rubbing his chin, the Doctor put the compass on top of the crystals and the needle pointed north. After a few seconds, nothing moved. Still, North.</div>
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“Chris! Do you have a car?”</div>
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“What? Yes, I do. But,why?”</div>
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“Let’s go. Questions later!”</div>
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Within two minutes, the yellow sedan was racing North and after half an hour, the compass needle shifted from North to north west. The light in the skies started to dim again.</div>
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“No, no! Let’s keep going, Chris. The gravitational waves are changing swiftly. Drive faster!</div>
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After another twenty minutes, they came in front of a large space ship, suspended in the middle of the road, and an army of rhinocerid humanoids stood guarding it from all around.</div>
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“Judoons! My old friends!” The doctor sprang from the car and the entire Judoon flank turned to meet his eyes.</div>
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“I can’t say how pleased I am to see you all, but this is an emergency. There’s a gravitational interference with the earth’s magnetic shield and everything’s topsy-turvy and no matter how much we quibble over what’s to come, soon we will have tsunamis and forest fires because of dramatic shifts in the climate because of quick-changing positions of the sun. Of course, my TARDIS is locked but we need to get everything under control and I’ve just the right thing for you!” He held up his hand, and in it, was a compass. </div>
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One of the Judoons came forward and stood close to the Doctor.</div>
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“It’s the Doctor. Let him through.”</div>
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“Right. Chris, I need you to come with me.”</div>
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Swallowing his breath and trying to blink, Chris stood unmoved.</div>
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“CHRIS! Snap out of it else they will kill you. Come forward.”</div>
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“Who is this? Is he an alien?”</div>
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“No, he’s a friend. He’s harmless. Let him through.”</div>
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After scanning Ambrose, the Judoon general marked an ‘X’ sign on his palm and moved aside.</div>
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Stepping on a ladder suspended from the ship, the Doctor and his companion climbed up. Inside, the metal shield gave way to a long brightly-lit corridor. </div>
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At the end of the corridor, the Doctor turned right and went in a large circular space, where another rhinocerid humanoid stood facing the two. He had a red mark on his chest.</div>
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“Captain! So good to see you! But we’ve got business and before you give orders to shoot everyone down in Essex, as I so believe you are here to do,” the Doctor paused, while the Captain grunted, “I have proof the human race isn’t to be blamed in the least.” The Doctor and the Captain stood eye to eye. </div>
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“We got a signal that humans were sending a space ship to Judoon to destroy and we traced the signal here. We have come here to investigate.”</div>
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“Of course! And the reason your team hasn’t moved ahead is because there is no trace of the signal anymore. And I know why. The last time we met, Captain, was when a part of the earth was stolen and transported here but it all turned out to be fine at the end because of an alien misunderstanding. I’m afraid we’re seeing a similar pattern emerge where humans have willy-nilly been dragged into an inter-galactic mess. And I’m here to put an end to it. But first, I want my TARDIS back. I believe your team has some clues where I might find it.”</div>
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“We do not possess alien technology in our midst. Everything was scanned when we landed and nothing was taken,” the Captain professed. </div>
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“Does he mean the blue box? Are there two?”</div>
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“Ah, Chris! I’d nearly forgotten you. Yes, what you saw is a genius model replica of the original TARDIS. And that is why it didn’t open. What I do want to know is how the soul of the TARDIS got reactivated. Last time I checked, it was in a woman but securely went back into wires when I fixed it. Now, Captain, if you can shed some light or crystals on this, I’d be delighted. And then, of course, we can set this whole thing straight. ”</div>
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The Judoon Captain handed a 12-inch tablet to the Doctor, and used his thumb scan to open it. On it, was a recorded video message.</div>
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“You have 24 hours to vacate Judoonia. If not, we will exterminate,” a familiar voice cracked from the background, but on the screen was nothing except a blue box.</div>
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“This is worse than I thought. Clearly, the Dalek voice has been used to superimpose on a static image of the TARDIS. The Daleks aren’t behind this, believe me. I demand Captain that my TARDIS be returned to me and whoever is behind this, will be caught. Hurry up, Captain! If you want to clear up this mess, you need to listen to what I am saying. Watch this.”</div>
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The Doctor pulled out the compass and put in the Captain’s palm. The needle kept pointing at North. </div>
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“We need to move North. All of us. I was expecting a friendly force the moment this whole thing started. I knew the TARDIS was a replica because it didn’t make a knocking sound. You see, even though the TARDIS has an impenetrable wall, it gives a knocking sound similar to a wooden door. And the reverberation of the knock is always due to matter. The replica, with crystals of Judoon somewhat generously all around it, was inside the outer space medium and did not produce sound. But the trick or the genius of the TARDIS is, it has matter no matter if it is in outer space!”</div>
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“My second worry was obviously the position of the sun. There was less light and much too soon there was too much light, and as I mentioned we must not quibble, we need to go after whoever is behind this, which is why I insist that I get my TARDIS before I do anything. Do you follow Captain? Thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt and generously supplying me with a replica to keep me in the dark. You need not investigate the TARDIS anymore but hand it to me. The phone call was a warning from someone in your contingent, was it not? If you have my records, then I believe I have another request to make. Please let me meet with Martha too now that I’ve proved to be of use to you. I know you asked her to pull this trick, but the Judoons are such a straight-laced race, why go through this trouble at all? It’s very unlike all of you. Unless you’re all a bunch of replicas, which I doubt very much to be the case. But no matter, we have someone mediating between your planet and us, and that is why the earth’s future is in our hands. Now, Captain, are we going to move on my request? Yes?”</div>
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Moment later, the door from the right opened, and Martha appeared. She raced towards the Doctor. And behind her, the TARDIS appeared too.</div>
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“Doctor! I am so glad you’re safe! Been a long time,” Martha grinned.</div>
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“Now Captain, you and I both know I’ve much to thank you for but why go after the humans? Who or what put a catapult on the alien planet that has now come in this galaxy and brought the Judoons with it?”</div>
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“We never replaced your TARDIS. We never called you. We traced the signal and picked up the TARDIS. We knew the humans could be responsible for this and we saw the TARDIS and traced your human companion from our records of a previous meeting. What is this compass you’ve given me?”</div>
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“We need to go North and quickly, Captain. A headlong embrace with trouble is what I would love right now.”</div>
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Marching orders given, the Judoon flank assembled back onto the ship and holding the compass, the Doctor, along with the Captain, Martha, and a wide-eyed Chris, directed the space ship to the trouble that lay in the North. </div>
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Piercing the earth’s gravitational field, they flew Northward and entered a starless space where a jolt shook the ship and everyone in it stumbled to the floor.</div>
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“We’re close! Faster!” </div>
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A large vacuum pulled the space ship into a funnel and within few seconds, everything went quiet. The Judoons readied their arms but the Doctor and Martha raced to the door and the Captain turned around.</div>
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“No one moves! Not until you hear my command!” </div>
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“Brilliant!” The doctor loosened his collar a bit, and rushed to the nearest bush to smell it. It was just like earth.</div>
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“So replicas within replicas. Captain! Walk with me. And give me the compass! Interestingly, I am glad you’ve given up the vowels, can’t say I’m glad enough because the Queen’s English generally catches up with the best of us.”</div>
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Martha interjected: “Doctor, what is this place? Where are we going?” </div>
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“We’ll soon find out or,” stopping where they stood, the Doctor said, “They’ll find us.” </div>
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Five Daleks stood on the pathway and quick with the unstoppable hand movement, the Doctor used his screwdriver to cut open a tree bark that fell on their heads. But mysteriously, the Daleks disappeared in thin air. So did the tree. </div>
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“We’re amidst dangerous mirror sensors. I think we will soon lose ground and fall into space if we don’t watch out. Keep close.”</div>
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A woman appeared from thin air with a large screwdriver in her hand.</div>
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“Welcome Doctor. We’ve been expecting you. So far, you’ve done well. We weren’t sure if you would follow. Thanks for bringing the Judoonia platoon. We’re from Aspara. It’s a planet that went undetected for thousands of years, because we always became replicas of the known planets just when someone came close to detecting us. But someone eventually did and we lost our people. We are only some of us who’re left. Homeless, with a space ship, we came in between the earth and the sun and tried to send a message to earthlings but got no response! We knew the Judoons took every threat seriously and we went through their archives and were surprised to see earth had got in touch and so had you. That technology was never a problem, imitation is what we do best. We had planned to let the Judoons let loose on earth so they would destroy it and we could take over. Judoons have not known to annex new places and this was our opportunity for a new home. But, as always, you interfered and we thought we could mislead you. But now, you have got to die, Doctor! We need a home!” </div>
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“Okay, alright, thank you for the cheerful introduction. May I also take a moment to remind you that when you became the ham in the interstellar sandwich the earth lost its tools of communication. Hang on before you pull that gigantic screwdriver on me. Can I inspect it? Okay, no need to point it at me. All along I thought Asparians were mythical creatures meant for stories recited to children of Gallifrey but you’ve been a pleasant surprise so far. Do you have a name though or do I call you First Lady of Mirror Land?”</div>
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“Enough, Doctor!” The woman opened a fiery red streak of laser and ducking in time, the Doctor landed on his feet, his screwdriver rolling into the hedges, which kept disappearing even as he went hurtling off the road.</div>
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Martha leapt towards the screwdriver and pressed hard, aiming at the alien. But the laser went straight through her and she reappeared behind the Doctor. The Judoon Captain had meanwhile pressed the X mark on his chest and the platoon came running forward and rained laser on the alien. Five more appeared and the fighting went on for few minutes until a cry was heard.</div>
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“We surrender!”</div>
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Back on earth, Chris reached home and saw his wife in the kitchen, preparing supper. </div>
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“Hey darling! I’ve missed you so much!”</div>
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“You drinking in the day, darling? It’s only 6’o’clock. Why do you look as if you’re seeing me after a lifetime?”</div>
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Love! For those short sentences and the long ones with curves. Sensuality. It's exhilarating to experience someone's yearning and it tugs at memories, some familiar, some forgotten. The cold knots untie themselves when you meet the narrative you've craved. He takes away the noise of feeling, and probes the silence.<br />
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It's not often that I let myself be hooked to a book on love and I refuse to use a pseudonym that can only snatch and tear away at the meaning, with each connotation and implied sense. I want the core, and I want it now. His language has the intensity of something that is most often fleeting. That which is inescapable, honest, and brutal yet silenced. He wins my heart. I normally, hate to use terms indicating victory or anything grand because it undercuts the fragility and indicates unwarranted strength. But, I've found this emotion in literature to be a challenge, and shied away from stories that had love somewhere lurking because of fear that it may have been dealt with frivolously.<br />
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The gaze of a young narrator feverishly desiring a friend, whose neck crevice is all that tells us about his passion, is utterly bereft of any trace of sadness. It's that intensity, and I was compelled to look for anything similar that I've read in other books (English/Hindi) but I couldn't recall, maybe Browning and Marquez. And unlike me, it's unhurried. There's cadence, rhythm, like a lingering note from Thomas Newman's music. They are tinged with longing, yearning, and he's a master at that.<br />
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The matter-of-factly tone to talk about something annoyingly depressive, such as a girl watching a couple from a distance, the man's fingers, and her incapability of expression, is charged with the author's restraint. Annoyingly so. You want to know more, and somewhere you feel he's letting you crave. He's a tease.<br />
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I've known myself to be a colossal bungler of conversations. It's not a newly-acquired skill or trying to be that much more relatable but it's just something essentially missing in my head. Common sense, is what my gut says, and I've never really doubted it. From being casually funny to being an in-house embarrassment, my personality is a combination of most features a clown might die to have. Last night, our boss's place, I dropped a measly tomato piece next to his carefully placed plant and a fork eerily close to someone's shoes. When you do these things, you must always ask yourself - do I belong here? Try and quietly move to the other room before someone even notices the lettuce at their feet. Or, when you happen to tell people what others have named them. Strike that. Don't do that. It's not welcome. Back in mid-2000s, people may not have noticed with too much smoke in the room, but now you're probably earning more than you should and someone's bound to call you out. Or put it on the social media, but you're not in U.S. and in India, half of us are busy taking selfies anyway. Yes, you don't do much of that too unless you know how to crop your colleagues from photobombing pics with "Wtf are these two up to?" looks. You also don't, may I emphasise, tell your colleague's girlfriend that he skipped work to bring her to the party or tell her that he made her sit next to you in case there was a food accident waiting to happen. You don't mess with people's relationships. You take it easy and take a rain check for office parties. <br />
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Black is backhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556722401546643398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630495325973049979.post-70888949319572737902015-10-12T21:40:00.001+05:302015-10-12T21:40:52.123+05:30NightI am a bit removed at this hour<div>The roads are awry, turning dark</div><div>I am not sure if it's me or a ghost </div><div>whether i walk further or don't </div><div>My lament dies with this post</div><div><br></div>Black is backhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556722401546643398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630495325973049979.post-32737308940991809732015-09-27T13:09:00.001+05:302015-09-27T13:09:25.681+05:30LifewithIIH<div style="text-indent: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 1em;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We are not now that strength which in old days </span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 1em;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; </span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 1em;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One equal temper of heroic hearts, </span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 1em;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will </span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 1em;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." Tennyson </span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 1em;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 1em;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 1em;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5rZ9XuZWCJAwmdZMaJF-S_jxUG8lkSbGs_DS597VOuBD5rZt1sKT3ekQHO9C6dgFFSkiMJl3CwxtzeNrIp0rR_cOXooDjsdA50hb65-jJUHC_B4n7Nis7_MGZ3lUoCZv0oDu_sQqIrR_N/s640/blogger-image-196995875.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5rZ9XuZWCJAwmdZMaJF-S_jxUG8lkSbGs_DS597VOuBD5rZt1sKT3ekQHO9C6dgFFSkiMJl3CwxtzeNrIp0rR_cOXooDjsdA50hb65-jJUHC_B4n7Nis7_MGZ3lUoCZv0oDu_sQqIrR_N/s640/blogger-image-196995875.jpg"></a></div>Black is backhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556722401546643398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630495325973049979.post-85743272047048569742015-09-24T22:31:00.001+05:302015-09-28T10:32:36.273+05:30The "slowdown" girl - Idiopathic "idiotic" intracranial hypertension<div>It couldn't have happened at a better time. I was half-prepared to deal with crises of such magnitude that would perhaps shake my sanity. It isn't exaggerated prose but simple truth.</div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Some time spent reading about the problem on the Internet, the diagnosis and treatment, over and over again and I am left with nothing. Idiopathic or unknown cause is perhaps unknown cure too. </span></div><div><br></div>What has happened over the last few weeks, can be summarised in one word - headaches. In a better mood, I could have tried something indicative but nothing else would be able to capture the banality of it.<div><br></div><div> When I sit up, with the blindfolds on, I want to feel something, even though the pain cannot be wished away. Except the pain, anything. <br><div><br><div>What I have learnt in this phase, is that you cannot force the hand of time. It crawls, slithers and is a soulless beast, and nothing I do, can make it turn either way. Filling the unforgiving minute, as Kipling wrote, I can't seem to run to fill the distance. </div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div>What's amusing is that wearing <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">blindfolds and sipping tea, I feel none of those zen thoughts that usually can strike someone. Instead, it is a mechanical exercise. You just sit, and wait. You finish your tea, put away the tray and lie down. And nothing. </span></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Losing weight </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">That's been a problem unto itself. How does a doctor expect that someone who is grappling with hours of headaches, fight off the disorder with exercises? It is laughable but frustrating. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">They put you on pills and forget to tell you about side effects. They say you cannot be trusted with surgery because of low pressure headaches.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Still searching for answers. </span></div>Black is backhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556722401546643398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630495325973049979.post-87479101021870276542015-08-06T09:51:00.000+05:302015-08-06T09:51:02.546+05:30Meditation Day 1 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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Let me tell you something about pain. It is something one often finds at the end of series of wrong turns and moves. Once it makes that entry jab into your life, you're required to endure, fight and unlock a vast ocean of patience. Sometimes, pain can be a test of your ability to remain calm and sometimes, the ability to maneuver varied situations. It is also a disturbing reminder that you need to change.<br />
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Now, recognising the need for change itself is a painful task. It's arriving at an understanding that you've taken the wrong turn, you need to alter course. It means several things and the most important of those is that it means you're strong enough to make those necessary changes. <br />
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Light now restricts itself<br />
To the top half of trees; <br />
The angled sun<br />
Slants honey-coloured rays<br />
That lessen to the ground<br />
As we bike through<br />
The corridor of Palm Drive<br />
We two<br />
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Have reached a safety the years<br />
Can claim to have created:<br />
Unconsumated, therefore<br />
Unjaded, unsated.<br />
Picnic, movie, ice-cream; <br />
Talk; to clear my head<br />
Hot buttered rum - coffee for you; <br />
And so not to bed<br />
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And so we have set the question<br />
Aside, gently.<br />
Were we to become lovers<br />
Where would our best friends be? <br />
You do not wish, nor I<br />
To risk again<br />
This savoured light for noon's<br />
High joy or pain.<br />
Black is backhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556722401546643398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630495325973049979.post-30398500360052892015-07-20T13:48:00.002+05:302015-07-20T13:48:21.893+05:30The Unprotected Life BY DONALD ANTRIM<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-unprotected-life<br />
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"I write because writing is the hardest work I’ve ever done. It is slow and painstaking and frustrating. I do not begin with an idea or a theme, and I don’t make outlines. I don’t have a plan for the ending or, usually, for the next page or the next line. Even short pieces might take shape over years. Everything that I have ever seen, done, or felt, had, shared, or lost, is in play, and the word of the day is, on most days, confusion." Black is backhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556722401546643398noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630495325973049979.post-25469597557650834802015-06-27T16:30:00.002+05:302015-06-27T16:30:14.527+05:30"I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You" ~ Colin Hay<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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I drink good coffee every morning<br />
Comes from a place that's far away<br />
And when I'm done I feel like talking<br />
Without you here there is less to say<br />
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Don't want you thinking I'm unhappy<br />
What is closer to the truth<br />
If I lived till I was a hundred and two<br />
I just don't think I'll ever get over you<br />
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No longer moved to drink strong whiskey<br />
I shook the hand of time and I knew<br />
That if I lived till I could no longer climb my stairs<br />
I just don't think I'll ever get over you<br />
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A face that dances and it haunts me<br />
With laughter still ringin' in my ears<br />
I still find pieces of your presence here<br />
even, even after all these years<br />
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I don't want you thinkin' that I don't get asked to dinner<br />
Cuz I'm here to say that I sometimes do<br />
And even though I may seem to feel a touch of love<br />
I just don't think I'll ever get over you<br />
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If I lived till I was a hundred and two<br />
I just don't think I'll ever get over you<br />
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Black is backhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556722401546643398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630495325973049979.post-12013964373405327292015-06-19T17:59:00.001+05:302015-06-19T17:59:52.451+05:30Black Sea<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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by Mark Strand<br />
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One clear night while the others slept, I climbed<br />
the stairs to the roof of the house and under a sky<br />
strewn with stars I gazed at the sea, at the spread of it,<br />
the rolling crests of it raked by the wind, becoming<br />
like bits of lace tossed in the air. I stood in the long,<br />
whispering night, waiting for something, a sign, the approach<br />
of a distant light, and I imagined you coming closer,<br />
the dark waves of your hair mingling with the sea,<br />
and the dark became desire, and desire the arriving light.<br />
The nearness, the momentary warmth of you as I stood<br />
on that lonely height watching the slow swells of the sea<br />
break on the shore and turn briefly into glass and disappear . . .<br />
Why did I believe you would come out of nowhere? Why with all<br />
that the world offers would you come only because I was here?Black is backhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556722401546643398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630495325973049979.post-68722993421283274482015-05-29T13:41:00.001+05:302015-05-29T13:41:38.933+05:30SOS - Save our Sandwich or What Happens When Colleagues Learn Skills for Hostile Situations<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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Day 1<br />
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So we begin at 8am, that's where the story really fleshes itself out, with little help from the narrator. If you look around, you'll see faces, some deeply expectant, some made heavy from sleep, while the rest in a corner, gleefully watching. We'll come to the corner later. There's<br />
a heavy set man, with lips and ears protruding, and his eyelids are wide open, as if inviting combat. Some may say that he's got it right - that it is, after all, a hostile training camp. His noisy coughs punctuate the silences, as screeching door handles provide a grinding chorus. And then, we begin.<br />
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The trainers, shipped from England, are ready with tools, kits, and video clips to demonstrate life skills in dangerous situations. The expectant ones are ready with pens and notebooks, the sleepy ones shuffle in their seats, trying to angle their arses to doze off again. The ones in the corner, well, remain where they are - exercising their peripheral vision to look around.<br />
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So the first trainer, starts off with a dizzying list of things that people need to watch out for - lot of it common sense. But as they get drawn in, the room begins to carry a worn look, as people suddenly realise with rapt attention that their lives have been missing lists, medical kits and tragically, some fitness. The trainer seems to catch the aura and he begins to further unleash darker stories about people being kidnapped and perhaps even dying. The coughs continue, and papers rustle with breathtaking speed, necks jerk downwards and in the corner, a man intently gazes into oblivion, fantasising about, er, a sandwich.<br />
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He imagines flattened meat, slapped on bread with fresh vegetables and as he reaches out with his hands, a ball point pen rolls off on the floor.<br />
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Okay, all of you! The trainer announces a short breakfast and the herd makes a noisy exit, and the world returns as a fuller, sated place once again.<br />
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12:55pm<br />
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By now, everyone is struggling to balance their burps with etiquette and the medic calls out for a volunteer. All eyes dart on the floor, and the wily trainer, picks out the most sleepy from the lot and puts him flat on the floor.<br />
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While the irony is on, our man in the corner, now fully comfortable in the cosy air conditioned room, finds himself slipping, going down, easy, and there finally. Sleep comes quickly and before the person next to him has point number 5 scribbled on his notebook from the power point, a light whirring noise, like a motor, jars him.<br />
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Turning around, he spots our man, who is now sporting a zen like aura, which makes him look no less than a Munch painting (no, not Scream), if you will. The harmony soon breaks when a sharp elbow pokes into our man's dreamless paradise.<br />
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4:30pm<br />
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The day has trundled along, with reams of white cloth spread on the floor, fake broken bones crying for relief and fake blood doing the rounds. As gory real-life incidents play out on screen, the mood resembles a tragedy, with people forgetting about medicine, and contemplating suicide.<br />
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Our man in the corner, who has now downed four cups of tea, and smoked an equal number of cigarettes, pledges to himself that he will conquer humanity's troubles by er, volunteering? No, no, he shrugs off the thought as soon it is about to perch on his head. Like a victor approaching an open arena, he broadens his shoulders, looks around and pledges one percent of his salary to the animal NGO, which had last week sent him letters to save donkeys suffering in brick factories of Nepal.<br />
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All right, everyone! See you tomorrow! The trainer's booming voice brings the curtains down.<br />
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Black is backhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556722401546643398noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630495325973049979.post-8386840894895055222013-12-10T14:43:00.001+05:302013-12-10T14:44:39.193+05:30anger<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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Ultimately, you don't want to be seen spewing words in a fit of rage. Isn't that something <i>Godfather</i> taught us? Isn't that what every monk teaches too, ironically. However, words come easy at a time when things have rather cooled off and not boiled and brimmed over, scalding all those who touch us. <br />
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It's during such moments that we must (me, in this case) just let it all pass, even if that means not talking to anyone for we might just step on the gas and speed away to our own personal disaster. It is rather rich to just sit back and condemn those who do so. My message to those who are camping at the edge, is to just pull yourself away from it all, and not be tempted to think backwards. The reason simply being that under acidic conditions, the solution is red.Black is backhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556722401546643398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630495325973049979.post-84023307203283301542013-11-14T16:32:00.000+05:302013-11-14T16:32:54.833+05:30Tea leaves<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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I might be boringly straight(forward), but then there was a time when I was endearingly confused, and of course, much lighter. The lightness sometimes shifts to the head.<br />
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Black is backhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556722401546643398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630495325973049979.post-19244507932074809832013-10-15T16:31:00.002+05:302013-10-15T16:31:37.001+05:30Anais Nin. From http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/03/anais-nin-on-emotion-and-writing/<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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I like to live always at the beginnings of life, not at their end. We all lose some of our faith under the oppression of mad leaders, insane history, pathologic cruelties of daily life. I am by nature always beginning and believing and so I find your company more fruitful than that of, say, Edmund Wilson, who asserts his opinions, beliefs, and knowledge as the ultimate verity. Older people fall into rigid patterns. Curiosity, risk, exploration are forgotten by them. You have not yet discovered that you have a lot to give, and that the more you give the more riches you will find in yourself. It amazed me that you felt that each time you write a story you gave away one of your dreams and you felt the poorer for it. But then you have not thought that this dream is planted in others, others begin to live it too, it is shared, it is the beginning of friendship and love.<br />
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You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing. Permit yourself to flow and overflow, allow for the rise in temperature, all the expansions and intensifications. Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. If it seems to you that I move in a world of certitudes, you, par contre, must benefit from the great privilege of youth, which is that you move in a world of mysteries. But both must be ruled by faith.Black is backhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556722401546643398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630495325973049979.post-48540800058778347622013-10-14T09:16:00.000+05:302013-10-14T09:16:29.506+05:30Back to my Blog: Yoga<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><br />
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There's something about Yoga that is immensely piercing. It can dig a route through a thick layer of ignorance of the body. It somehow breaks a pattern of how you look at yourself each day. After few sessions of Yoga, I can already feel something's changing. It's the mind. Each day, there's a sense of 'new' that your body feels, something I've only started feeling now. The zen factor I am yet to comprehend, but so far so good.<br />
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The idea of healthy has only brought out the worst in me in the past. Always the one to run away from greens, after much bruising have I realised the importance of staying earnest to a course of exercise. Of course, Yoga has been more than exercise, it's been a revelation. I can go on hammering this thing into my subconscious that I should continue doing this for several more years until I won't be able to reach higher with my toes.<br />
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I hope the mornings are always like these: full of calm.<br />
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Black is backhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556722401546643398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630495325973049979.post-82896137225983592852013-10-11T19:10:00.002+05:302013-10-11T19:10:55.502+05:30Hello back to my blog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's been a while since I wrote and that sentence makes me feel incredibly old. It's been a while since I was married too, and that itself has been a huge change and a turnaround in life. The very process has taught me many things, which life does not give you time to write about. Those memories are re-lived over endless cups of chai and staring outside the window or in conversations with friends.
But, marriage is also healing. But, none of that right now. I am kind of 'healing' and that's still work in progress.
I went over few of the older posts, and I realised there is lots I have said and lots which I no longer say to anyone now. It is kind of disquieting at first. Nothing very literary or very liberating either, you may say.
Have I changed? That's a question with possibly a hundred answers and none of those on my fingertips as of now. I am a better person for some, a bit lethal for more than I was before. I have some untied threads from the past, like everybody else. And, there's no shame in admitting some of the wrongs still come to mind once in a while. Just the wrongs though, not the good bits. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPRIdLr-6xE-J1xGQzwANngvmGSFk7DypKLI0ZvUyvzh8VYUoOwr2DudL3WR5LhBKyZzxachgfCueLHTiyCa1FtCIQ9Q20fIY4Bu56F6RwqvgP95GunqSSovuP1NWHf3osroMc6aWYJjs2/s1600/b75b2128-0ca3-11e3-9a80-22000aa5108a-large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPRIdLr-6xE-J1xGQzwANngvmGSFk7DypKLI0ZvUyvzh8VYUoOwr2DudL3WR5LhBKyZzxachgfCueLHTiyCa1FtCIQ9Q20fIY4Bu56F6RwqvgP95GunqSSovuP1NWHf3osroMc6aWYJjs2/s320/b75b2128-0ca3-11e3-9a80-22000aa5108a-large.jpg" /></a></div>
Travel has been immensely healing, and I cannot begin to talk about how much my companion has added bigger quotient of happiness by being with me on those trips. I have held his hand only to feel happiness come back in spurts and that's as soppy as I have ever been. Like I said, possibly a hundred answers and maybe this is one.Black is backhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556722401546643398noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630495325973049979.post-77505485731981134352013-06-11T16:54:00.001+05:302013-06-11T16:55:35.348+05:30Kate's the one to watch - The Reader (old post)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In an attempt to preserve it for selfish reasons.. http://www.mouthshut.com/review/The-Reader-review-rtsmqtpprm
What does a woman do, in times of losing her sense of balance, and security? She succumbs to fate dictated by others.
The story of The Reader makes you uncomfortable. The romance makes you writhe because never have I seen raw power of the body move in harmony with the senses of the mind. That’s The Reader’s victory. A lone woman, a young boy go on to have a romance that leaves scars behind. The young lad never really grows out of it, though his sense of understanding the woman grows with time.
The movie, like a few others, lingers on your mind long after you’ve moved out of the theatre and gone home. It stays with you, and makes you ask questions about human relationships. Kate’s longing for an identity is subtly played out in silence and the boy’s sudden break into adulthood through her, destroys not only his innocence, also his sensitivity to love another.
Without a dramatic play out of the two lives, the story links the pain of the two. One is longing to know herself better through innocence, and the other, becomes jaded in adoloscence.Black is backhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556722401546643398noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630495325973049979.post-77752896339476758132013-05-27T14:15:00.000+05:302013-05-27T14:15:04.887+05:30Jalsaghar and a house that speaks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A fine movie with a house that's got more soul than its occupants. Imagine being walked into a house that in all it's finery appears lonely. There's debauchery and decadence, and almost a sense of tragedy lurking in the corners. As if an expensive structure has an apologetic look engulfing it. The technical brilliance of the film consumes you. With each faltering step of the protagonist, the house responds by almost losing a limb. The downfall is gradual, and the crumbling is in sync. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7B3msiBgaUgrt6uAupMS-bTObLm5HIMncd6mnsp4YGhACXaWndGV2FuXoCv0tX9xbQbwP2ZIbrAe9RIOa0u6uBZZfbuwQFINX6D-FgSR3_B0HVdn4k373_-VwEOqtt3FoIwI3-VcSulfo/s1600/jalsaghar+decay.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7B3msiBgaUgrt6uAupMS-bTObLm5HIMncd6mnsp4YGhACXaWndGV2FuXoCv0tX9xbQbwP2ZIbrAe9RIOa0u6uBZZfbuwQFINX6D-FgSR3_B0HVdn4k373_-VwEOqtt3FoIwI3-VcSulfo/s320/jalsaghar+decay.jpg" /></a>Black is backhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556722401546643398noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630495325973049979.post-32927992341142626772013-05-27T13:53:00.000+05:302013-05-27T13:53:00.257+05:30Some reasons to love Chidiyakhana<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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1) the plot
there's something very forthcoming about the story itself, something that comes at you breaking all aspects of time. This could've been today
barring some of the technical stuff of register and tropes. The plot leaps at you
2) dialogues
the opening scene
is full of satire and foreboding
brilliant
you don't understand it until the plot's moved on
3) the setting
it's just fantastical, the people who occupy chidiyakhana and their 'master' the judge
who's preoccupied with the idea of retribution and is forced into a game of cat and mouse. And even as a lot of Feluda stories are concerned with judges keen on washing off guilt or possible mistakes, this one's absolutely bizarre. Black is backhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556722401546643398noreply@blogger.com0