Watch, Read, Listen
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परीक्षा, पिसाब र प्लानिंग
केही दिन अघिको मेरो अर्थशास्त्र विषयको स्नातकोत्तरको दोस्रो सेमेस्टरको अन्तिम परीक्षाको दिन एउटा सामान्य बनाइएको घटनाको अर्को एपिसोड देख्न पाएँ। एकजना परीक्षार्थी आफ्नो सीटबाट उठेर ग्यालरी शैलीको परीक्षा हलको भर्याङ ओर्लिन थाले। पर्यवेक्षकले, “कता जान लाग्या?” भनेर अलि कडा स्वरमै सोध्नु भयो। “ट्वाइलेट”, परीक्षार्थी साथीले भने। “दुई घण्टा पछि पाइदैन”, कुनै ठुलै अपराध रोक्न लागेको…
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Ode to Lovers
This is an ode to loversLovers who create stormThe people for whomRebellion is the norm Making the world as we knowLike birds making their nestPenning words out of their soulTaking bullets on their chest Scientists, mathematicians, BuddhasRebels who usurp the crownMusicians, painters, discoverersAre all lovers deep down The people who createAll music, painting, and danceThe…
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What Art & Creativity Means To Me
इक शहंशाह ने दौलत का सहारा ले करहम ग़रीबों की मोहब्बत का उड़ाया है मज़ाक़ – साहिर लुधियानवी These lines by Sahir are from his poem ताज-महल. Often the Taj Mahal is unanimously considered as the “symbol of love” but this poem offers a different, and somewhat rebellious, perspective about the same monument. This is…
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Reflecting Back At Pulchowk Campus
“As little as you want to write when you’re happy, that’s how much you have to write when you’re miserable”, quotes Brian Bloom in movie ‘5 to 7’. Today is November 17, 2018, exactly four years since our first day in college. I am almost miserable. The college is over. The fabulous four years have…
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Taller Stronger Sharper
“Taller, stronger, sharper”, No, this is not a Horlicks promotion. These are the three qualities a guy doesn’t want his girlfriend or future wife to have. And there is “older” too. But guys, you are not at fault for this, the society is; and evolution as well, to some extent. Look around, you will find…
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सच कर दो
आज सुबह देखा जो ख़्वाबसच कर दोख़्वाब में वो हुस्न-ए-महताबसच कर दोहुस्न-ए-महताब से मुलाकातसच कर दोमुलाक़ात में हुई जो बातसच कर दोबातों से पैदा हुए जज़्बातसच कर दोजज्बातों ने थामा मेरा हाथसच कर दोहाथों में हाथ वाला यह ख़्वाबसच कर दो
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Staying Postive?
“Stay positive!”They sayI doubtI lookAt the most fundamental unitAn atomContains three kinds of particlesPositive, neutral, and negativePositivity is at the centreHeavy, tight and denseSettled, in stagnationNegativity is lighterFreer and slickNegativity has gotAll the magic tricks
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Chocolate
In a world fond of ‘chocolate flavoured’I happen to be chocolate coloured Chocolate flavour isAmong the favouritesIn the world of human foodChocolate colour whereasOn human skinSuffers the wrathOf unequal humanhood 9
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Nothing New To Say
I have nothing new to sayI am just trying to say thingsIn my way Same old stories of love and despairOf self-destructions beyond repair There’s nothing I can writeWhich has previously not been written aboutAnd that sometimes scares meDo I have originality?What does that even mean?Why tell the same story again and again?With similar characters,…
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A Night at the Hospital
The time was 3 pm. “Your body is burning up” panicked Ankit’s Nani, his mom’s mother. Ankit had just arrived at home 2 hours before his school’s usual closing time. He looked pale and was dripping with sweat when he slumped on the bed almost like a lifeless seal in the room. “Where is the thermometer?”,…