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Can it be the new world?

An annual vacation was long due and almost left out in 2019 due to the busy schedule. The frequent visits planned to hometown also hit a pause as exams closed in. The travel group had zeroed in on an all terrain Malaysian trip covering the jungles to beaches to cities to hamlets by April end post. This was after a long deliberation which got us all exhausted. The MBA exam dates were pushed from then to unknown as university had its own battle. As the Malaysian trip was getting closer, out of nowhere the university declared that the exam will be conducted in Sikkim in the university campus. Finally a travel to Sikkim via Bagdogra and Siliguri to Rangpo was inevitable and saw me staying in university hostel and living the real student life once again. While no sanitizers were available anywhere throughout my journey, I had stocked enough considering that villain who was troubling some neighboring countries by then. The lazy me had scheduled single exam a day to enjoy the exams, g...

Finally 2020, Nation's Appraisal meeting - Part I

From time eternal India had been a trading post and resource rich country. There had been always wealth getting exchanged and the fortunes changed on our green shores. In current world when India finally reaches Abdul Kalam's 2020, where do we stand other than all the political gimmicks that we see now? Are we really heading to the intolerance that once Amir Khan tried to warn us with? Are we concentrating on the right issues and engagements? Or as someone said, we are a beauty in the middle of all the chaos?  As the trade stories narrates us in various forums, we had been a fast paced society from the BC to AD. There had been in-numerous changes to the landscape of life while the tectonic plates are busy crashing and pushing the eurosian plates, we have went ahead with our lives unaware of the geography beneath where we stand. While this point seems irrelevant at the point to all the readers, we need to be wary of the unawareness to the world around us while we worr...