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Scene 1: It’s 2 a.m. A 20-something, bespeckled young man’s hunched over his computer, eyes glazed and heavy (with the sleep he’s deprived himself of). The phone rings and he immediately gets up, running from his room to another, where his cell’s getting charged. A brief verbal exchange (yup…ok…nope…bye) with a colleague later, he almost falls asleep. A sudden jolt wakes him, and he’s back to where he was, in front of the computer, working. Illustration: Kuldip Dhiman
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campaign for a national pledge festival and a book called My Call for guidance. Behind both lies the brain and ten years of effort of a man from Orissa named Biraja Mahapatra. Why do we need a national pledge or a festival when we have already two national festivals — Independence Day and Republic Day, you may ask. But before coming to that, we wanted to know how the idea germinated. And the answer we got is a problem so many non-Hindi speaking people face, when they come to live in the North.
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HE was not a writer, not even a poet to start with. But the day one 11-year-old girl looked up to him and gave him an innocent smile, Arun Syal turned into a poet and years later, a novelist. We do not know what happened about the poem he wrote on the girl he called
Muskan, as for his novel Whispers from the Mountains it is for all of us to read. The lead character of course is the girl who left an impact on his life through
her smile. Photo by Manoj
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youth speak
WHAT unites or divides the students on the campus? Nah, not samosas at huts, rajma chawal at Stu-C, sohni kudis or gabhru munde! It’s the annual campus festivals that bring the student fraternity together to give their best and compete with and outdo each other. 
WOMEN, whose children have either flown the coop or are in boarding school, can create a financial upheaval. The bitter/ better halves went off for golf, leaving Charu and me to our own devilish devices. We first hit Expressions and bought some woolen clothes for the winter of 2009. The blurbs said “50% off” but the prices were over the top for most items. It takes suckers like us to make “Sales” succeed. Shopaholics can convince themselves of the worth of anything!
