Chilly Insights

Hello everyone, it’s been a long break but now we are back and from now on there will be no break. So let’s get on a ride. The very first post of this blog was written during a train journey, now another post takes birth from another of my train journeys. I would have liked to call it an extraordinary journey on the basis of the lessons it taught me if I didn’t have to stand on one leg without any support all the time. However, don’t judge it too soon, it is not a sad story. Travelling in an overcrowded train is a plightful task but sometimes it happens to have all the components needed to make your journey awesome. It seemed as if I was surrounded by a horde of vegan zombies who had a slight tempering of human emotions in them. These types of journeys show us how our daily social conditioning suppresses our basic human instincts, but only rarely succeeds in killing them; that even our kindness is biased due to the social code of conduct we are supposed to follow as a part o...

Train journeys are awesome as long as I own a window seat. Breeze brushing my face, creating microscopic tornadoes in my messy hair. It gives a complete Bollywood touch. It’s a perfect place and time to write my experiences of yesterday.    It was a partly cloudy day, windy occasionally, perfect for shopping. My friend and I were returning to the hostel after having spent a good lot of time in D-Mart buying stuff. We called a taxi although it was strictly against our natural tendency of covering distances on foot but the stuff was too heavy for us to carry. We placed out butt in the taxi seat and our eyes on the meter. The driver seemed to be damn busy on phone calls and with each call we were worrying about the fare. And I was quite angry with the driver. But something highly unexpected took place.    Finally, when the driver seemed to have temporarily dealt with all his calls, he wiped his eyes with his sleeve, and said, “ladka hua hai, namaskar”. I could ...