Category: My Story

Chapter 9: Got The Wings – My College Days

Chapter 9: Got The Wings – My College Days

To me, the biggest miracle is to play with life without allowing life to play with us.  If one can go through life untouched, that’s the greatest miracle anyone can achieve. Miracles don’t happen with everyone as every event that is happening around us influences us in a certain way and most of us will [...]

January 4, 2012 | 3 Comments More
Chapter 8: Smiling after a slap in the face

Chapter 8: Smiling after a slap in the face

In the last chapter, I spoke about how smile can set everything straight, but it was not always right. For instance, imagine smiling after a slap in the face, then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. It is easier said than done. During this phase of my life, I tried to be as [...]

December 26, 2011 | 5 Comments More
Chapter 7: Smile is a Curve that sets everything straight

Chapter 7: Smile is a Curve that sets everything straight

I used to fear everyone who is elder to me or those who are dominant, I used to see some part of my father in them. I used to look at everything around me in a negative way, I always had the feeling that the whole nature was designed to ruin my life and spoil [...]

December 7, 2010 | 11 Comments More
Chapter 6: A Breath of Fresh Air

Chapter 6: A Breath of Fresh Air

A positive title for a change . Even in Chennai and with my parents life seemed good for a while as I was put in a new school (New Prince) and significantly in a school where my mother did not work, so at the end of the day I alone, became responsible for the things [...]

December 7, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Chapter 5: Getting in to Adolescence

Chapter 5: Getting in to Adolescence

A new school and a new life all over again. My mother changed her school, so I too was forced to change. Prince Matriculation Hr. Sec. School in Nanganallur, one of the most renowned schools around Nanganallur and Madipakkam. From a school with few rooms and less competitive people, all of a sudden I was [...]

March 30, 2010 | 3 Comments More
Chapter 4: Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid

Chapter 4: Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid

The school in which I studied was closed before the year completed, the Principal of that school using his influence pulled in a bigger school to start a new school and to take up all the students. Thus a new school was opened in Nanganallur by the name of Besant L.V.R. This period is very [...]

March 4, 2010 | 2 Comments More
Chapter 3: “All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever.”

Chapter 3: “All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever.”

Like the title says.. the bad things continued and I don’t want to dwell too much about those bad things. We moved to a new location in Chennai (Nanganallur). This move helped me a bit, as my parents will not say ‘no’ if I go to a temple and Nanganallur had quite a few Shiva [...]

February 28, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Chapter 2: Age of Darkness

Chapter 2: Age of Darkness

I was brought to Chennai, and my mother did the trick again, this time she gave birth to a baby girl and left her in her mothers place when she was 4 months old. Meanwhile, my father’s career nosedived and he went from bad to worse. After completing an MA with good grades, he ended [...]

December 8, 2009 | 2 Comments More
Chapter 1: Birth of a Cursed Soul

Chapter 1: Birth of a Cursed Soul

There are no modules in life for beginners: right away we will always be asked to deal with what is most difficult. Over a period of time, we get accustomed to the vagaries of life and over a period of time, learn to live with it (might be with a grudge). I never had any [...]

December 5, 2009 | 6 Comments More