Words Stayin’ Alive

26/04/2018

Languages have a way of sneaking up on you. Give them some time, and in the worst case scenario you’d at least have your new favourite expletive.

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27/09/2018

Preaching cricket

The thing about stereotypes is that they are often true. And if you are to ask for one about India, even before Bollywood and the “fearless” traffic, I think of the ubiquitous love for cricket. And even though I can’t quite remember my first swing of the bat, I distinctly recall losing touch with the game when I went to university and altogether abandoning with my move here a few years ago. But I feel it’s coming back, and just in time as the World Cup is less than a year away.

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12/06/2018

Fish-food for thought

Imagine yourself on a boat, a raft actually, venturing out into the ocean, and picture that you arrive at a fork in your water-world path; one way the ocean seems to turn red, its crimson waters infested with blood-thirsty beasts, but the other way looks brilliant blue - peaceful, quiet and filled with unicorns, and certainly no risk to life. Which way would you go?

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26/03/2018

The Times They Are A Changin’

If you’re like me and your TV has been gathering dust for years, perhaps you too get a chunk of your news from the internet. And if you’ve been doing that for a while, maybe it’s also gotten to you for a variety of reasons. My inept grasp of the Dutch language requires me to depend on news-apps and social media, which broadcasters have fully embraced for their craft. Nearly all platforms are crawling with correspondents, and although it feels like there’s no escaping the bulletin, that’s not the most terrible thing. I think the greater issue is the content, or rather its concentration.

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15/02/2018

The audience is largely disinterested

Last October, the Nobel Prizes for 2017 were announced. I was visiting my family in India and like many others whose appreciation for science had snowballed through the course of grad school, I too was looking forward to the announcements and the discourse (read: Twitter war) that follows. At some point, I found myself at the dinner table babbling on about the prizes to an indifferent audience (read: mom).

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22/12/2017

Something familiar

Making a home away from home while longing to see one’s family is on the mind of every international student. We are troubled a lot, trying to seek out our niche while being somehow restrained by the past. We try having something - a picture, a book or something musical-like (cd's, band posters or a musical instrument) - with us that binds us to our folks. I have some trinkets as well but I never felt homesick the last two years, until it was almost time to go.

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