Abimanyu

I have tried my hands at a short story. Please bear with me if I have made any mistakes!      "26, November 26!". I had a shock of my life when she uttered that. How was it possible? Can it really be true or some wicked mind was at play in the background? This is going to haunt me. Oh, wait, I forgot to introduce myself. I am Damodar, aged 25, an average student. I am a normal guy. If I am walking in a crowd, 90% chances are that you wouldn't find me remarkable. So what had shocked me? Let me tell you my side of the story. I was into my second year in engineering when the story begins. I had no interest in studies, primarily because I was forced into it in the first place. I was more interested in the culinary sciences. But my parents would have none of it. So, engineering happened. I had cleared the first year of my engineering remarkably well, considering my lack of interest.      There was a girl in my class whom I was interested in. Vidya! ...

We all have a friend in our group who can crack jokes at will and keep everyone in good spirits. When I say jokes, the ones which irritate others in the name of a ‘joke’ don’t really make the cut! I have one such friend. He studied with me in college and was my roommate in my final year. The last benches in the class were our haunting spots. Listening to lectures in the class was mostly a hobby; Hardly done regularly! Our chosen field didn’t particularly interest us, mainly because we did not choose it in the first place. Somebody else did the choosing for us!             Let me tell you about this friend of mine. He is mostly cool. It is not easy to ruffle him up easily. Most of the guys would try and feel it rebound on them. It was difficult to get on top of him. In one incident, we were having quite a laugh in of the lectures without doing the assigned work. The teacher walked up to our bench and asked my friend to do...

It has been a long time since I posted in my blog. This post is about the eco-volunteering I rendered along with my classmates on behalf of OSAI, a NGO, at Velliangiri near Coimbatore. We did the work for 10 hours non-stop and I have used a narration from my point of view. I have split each hour as a separate topic for greater impact and coverage. OSAI - NGO & Volunteering I had just confirmed with the head of OSAI, an NGO, for volunteering work on 7th of March. Mr. Kalidasan conveyed to us that the work would concern the inspection of plastics carried by the travelers to Velliangiri. The full details were not clear to us. Daniel, the foreign exchange student, offered to come and he along with few others took the bus to Esha Centre near Velliangiri. Shivarathiri in Coimbatore is usually associated with a multitude of people traveling the mountain stretch in Velliangiri. People come from afar to climb the mountain on the auspicious day. People congregating in such large num...