Talisman of the white pearl

Author : NG      Blog : Yellow Agony      Date : 5/21/2013 7:39:00 AM

'Today evening Christy, my hair stylist, noticed a strange looking ring in my the little finger of right hand and asked me about it.She was really amused when I told her that the white stone in the ring, now flatter than a flat brick, during its days of glory used to be a huge white round pearl. And that my family got me to wear it hoping that it'd crease out my temper.  She asked if it worked and while I answered in affirmative, deep down I knew I wasn't sure. I needed to think(...)'

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Why I think so much

Author : NG      Blog : Yellow Agony      Date : 5/11/2013 10:09:00 PM

'It has taken a lot of courage on my part to write this post. Please continue only if you promise not to be judgmental or pitiful.I've always felt that there is something wrong with my head - that either I'm mildly bipolar or I suffer from some sort of depression. I've often imagined my future self to develop some sort of schizophrenia. But I could never figure out what my real problem was. Or whether if I had a problem or not.That was until last week. I now think that(...)'

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Death

Author : NG      Blog : Yellow Agony      Date : 5/8/2013 6:48:00 AM

'Someone I knew, a classmate of mine, a sort of friend, he isn't alive anymore. He died last week. My friends tell me that he committed a suicided. They tell me it was a sad love story gone bad.I was very disturbed for a couple of days. He was not very different from me. He must have had aspirations and ambitions like I do. His parents must have been so excited about his life.  And all of a sudden, after twenty some years of existence, he is no more.Death is such a difficult con(...)'

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Hindi Poems - Part 1

Author : NG      Blog : Yellow Agony      Date : 5/5/2013 9:37:00 PM

'My small town schooling taught me a lot of things, some useful and some less useful. But one thing that I'm so thankful for it to have instilled in me is an admiration, understanding and above all, a love for Hindi poems.  I saw a thread on Quora about favorite Hindi poems and I realized I have never compiled a list of my favorite poems. This is an impulsive effort to compile my favorite lines from Hindi poetry, though I'm sure I'm missing out on most of the good stuff.--------(...)'

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Why Brooklyn is called Brooklyn

Author : NG      Blog : Yellow Agony      Date : 4/27/2013 6:48:00 AM

'For those wondering, title of this post has no connection to the post. But I've a theory about Brooklyn. Let's get that out of the way first. It must have lot of brooks and so at some time would have been called Brookland, which later got transfigured into Brooklyn.I've been reading/thinking too much and writing/speaking too less so I MUST write today. This, I've done before - for next fifteen minutes, I'd write whatever comes to my mind.There is a saying in Hindi that I read in my (...)'

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Happiness

Author : NG      Blog : Yellow Agony      Date : 4/25/2013 6:15:00 AM

'Happiness is an inescapable fate, not a pursuit.'

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Tangled Up in Blue

Author : NG      Blog : Yellow Agony      Date : 4/3/2013 8:13:00 AM

'We at Quora had yet another impromptu get together this last weekend. When my colleague, the host of the get together, was giving me a little tour of her beautiful house, I noticed a shelf full of crockery.  She told me that it was all antique designer crockery that she had been collecting for few years now. I saw plates from 70s and bowls from 60s. A pepper mill from 40s, some fancy pyrex plates from when they still made them.  All these things carefully preserved in thei(...)'

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First six months in USA

Author : NG      Blog : Yellow Agony      Date : 3/25/2013 7:48:00 AM

'This is a rather disoriented post with non-linear (bad) narration. Beware!To put it succinctly, though it was tough in the beginning, I've adjusted here really well now.In the beginning I had to go through a shit load of paper work -social security, bank account, insurance, house rent, car, car insurance, driver license and lot of other things. You get the picture. Doing everything wasn't that bad actually. The worst part was managing all important documents carefully - and I d(...)'

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The Oath of Vayuputras

Author : NG      Blog : Yellow Agony      Date : 3/17/2013 9:32:00 AM

'Last paragraph of The Shiva Trilogy:Today, we know the inherited tale of that war as one of the world's greatest epics: The Mahabharat. If the Lord Neelkanth allows it, the unadulterated story of that terrible war shall also be told one day.I am already excited in anticipation of Amish's rendition of my favorite epic. Amish is a genius. I just finished reading The Oath of Vayuputras, the mammoth third and final volume of The Shiva Trilogy. It took me 23 hours to finish (includi(...)'

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Misery on wheels

Author : NG      Blog : Yellow Agony      Date : 3/12/2013 9:33:00 PM

'Something interesting happened last night. Some of us were driving in my car to surprise a friend by wishing him at the midnight of his birthday. It was around 11:30 PM, we had driven around 20 miles and were 20 miles away from his home steadily treading on an eerie and silent freeway when a tire of my car went flat! This would not have been a problem if we had a spare tire, which as you might have guessed wasn't there! Yes, title of this post is a misnomer. It was misery because we(...)'

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The Primordial Cycle

Author : NG      Blog : Yellow Agony      Date : 3/6/2013 7:21:00 AM

'This cycle is not new, I know it little too well.Discussion starts with something mundane, like the next big startup idea or the origin of the notion of society. One thing leads to another until we're talking about the meaning of life. That leads to evolution which further paves way for formation of universe. A little physics sprinkled here and there along with some buzzwords - singularity, entropy reversal, information transmission and we cross into the familiar territory of cosmol(...)'

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Believers

Author : NG      Blog : Yellow Agony      Date : 3/2/2013 10:38:00 AM

'Believers, they gonna believe man. Ain't nuthin' you can do 'bout this thang.People believe in all sorts of things - conspiracy theories, college gossip, horoscopes,  existence of God,  homeopathy, election manifestos. Some even believe in this glorified new thing called Science, in fact almost exclusively. I've always been confused to be one of the latter type by the most people I know. They think that since I'm smart with Maths and Science, I must be a sceptic non-believ(...)'

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Valentine's 2013

Author : NG      Blog : Yellow Agony      Date : 2/20/2013 6:55:00 AM

'This was my second best valentine day in last few years, only after that of last year.No, I din't have anyone to take to a flashy Italian dinner or an open air movie theater screening a classic black and white romantic movie. I din't even have someone to share a chocolate with and certainly no one gave me a red greeting card with my name written using golden green sparkles. I went to office, did some work, came back, watched some prison break on Netflix, ate a little and went to bed(...)'

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Boyzone

Author : NG      Blog : Yellow Agony      Date : 2/11/2013 7:25:00 AM

'I am done playing a boy. I want to feel strong and responsible, like my dad. I want to be the person who can drive when everyone in the car is sleeping. I want to be the person who listens more and speaks less but speaks solid. I want to be the person who knows how to balance between being a miser and an extravagant. I want to be the person who doesn't get tired ever - mentally or physically.I am done playing a boy, now I want to be a man. '

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Need to grow up

Author : NG      Blog : Yellow Agony      Date : 1/26/2013 2:53:00 PM

'One of these days I'd need to grow up and realize that though I'm still 22, I work and I am not in college anymore. And that I should be more diligent about my behavior and interaction, both in and out of work. Specially at parties.Until then, N+1 vodka shots for N people, always. '

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Differential Engine : Names

Author : NG      Blog : Yellow Agony      Date : 1/24/2013 5:09:00 AM

'This post is the first of a new series called Differential Engine that I'm starting from today. These posts will talk about some stark differences between India and US as I come across themEveryone knows that I've always been fascinated by names, their sounds and their meanings. I've observed one huge difference between Indian and American names. Indian first names are words from language with a definite meaning. Nikhil for example is a proper Hindi word which means - the universe, (...)'

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Pattern Reinforcement

Author : NG      Blog : Yellow Agony      Date : 1/20/2013 8:59:00 AM

'A weird thing has been happening with me for some days. When I'm alone I experience a compulsive urge to meet people.  However, when I do meet people, I feel lost. I don't feel like belonging to the group. I don't feel like sticking up with most conversations. My mind starts wandering like a local vagabond. While people are discussing best party beaches in town, I'm thinking about random things and people. A phrase from an old Hindi song, an image from Popeye, a sound(...)'

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From Bhiwani to Silicone Valley - Part 2

Author : NG      Blog : Yellow Agony      Date : 1/14/2013 4:25:00 AM

'This article was published in an e-magazine called Drishtikone on October 5, 2012. I just never got around to publish it on Yellow Agony. You can read part 1 here. After a mild visa hustle, I finally leave for USA tomorrow on an Airbus. This post is a feeble attempt to pen down all the complex things happening in my life and my brain since I decided to go to US.During those months when mom was trying to pack for me all things ‘I’ – from a pressure cooker to packets of Indian sp(...)'

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Something Like A Short Story

Author : NG      Blog : Yellow Agony      Date : 1/13/2013 3:48:00 AM

'Brute:  I won't ask If I should buy you a drink or if you'd like a dance and I definitely won't ask how's it going. I sense very many unwanted creepy men have already tried all that, presumably without much success. My sixth senses tell me that I've to try something inordinately fresh and intelligent to borrow your attention even for a split second.Jesse: Be my guest.Brute: But how can I be your guest - I don't know your address. Or phone number.Jesse: Lame.Brute: Oh you'r(...)'

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6YNT..

Author : NG      Blog : Yellow Agony      Date : 1/5/2013 9:41:00 AM

'Number plates for my new car arrived today and so I now own the car legally. Holding fresh number plates in hand - that's quiet a feeling, I must tell you.  The number itself isn't very cool but I can live with it.As it turned out, tonight I din't have anyone with me to celebrate the moment, so I decided to celebrate it with those people who just patiently listen to everything I've on my mind and never expect anything in return - y'all blog readers. '

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