Charu's Blog

Once upon a time, while browsing through a social media website, I read a quote which went something like this. You are responsible for your own happiness. I laughed at it, the way I did for most of the other so called inspirational quotes, and went on scrolling like any other day. It wasn’t until a few days ago that I understood the magnitude of this quote. Just seven little words, strung together to form a sentence so deep, so under appreciated, that someone who hasn't known real sadness, as well as real bliss, can never actually understand what this represents. More often than not, I've noticed, people try too hard to find happiness. And while doing so, the biggest mistake they tend to make is that they try to find happiness in other people, in others’ company. I myself have been guilty of the same. I've tried real hard to find happiness in others, for too long. Some recent series of events have made me learn the most important lesson of my life so far: I...

It began in the year 2013. December 2013, to be precise. After spending days brainwashing, and analyzing - looking at the pros and cons of an MBA - I finally decided to join a coaching institute to prepare for CAT, and hopefully become a successful manager some day. I joined the weekend batch of one of the leading coaching centres of India. Initially, I found managing my classes with my college quite tough, but eventually got a hang of it. My classes began with Quant (Number Systems) and Verbal (Vocabulary). The faculty was pretty great. I still feel that the only reason I secured a decent percentile is because of the teachers in my institute, especially in Quant. They tried to cover most of the syllabus in class, so I didn’t have much to cover at home. But I made it a point to go through my classwork again at home, since I felt that it was the only way to have the concepts at my fingertips. My classes went for about six months, till June 2014, after which I prepared by myself. In ...

Summers are here, and for those of us who are neither taking a vacation to some fairy tale land, nor indulging in any self help course or internship, this is the time to unwind and be at leisure, by simply staying at home, mainly trying to elude the scorching sun outside.  Now being a graduate and having a post graduate college of my preference in hand, I personally feel that I have earned myself this - not to exaggerate - imperative break. So as I sit at home sipping my coffee, having the air conditioner blast cool air at my face, with my laptop in front of me, I decide to watch a TV show called <insert title here>. I've deliberately omitted the title of the TV show in here, because let's face it, I'm a binge watcher. And before I realize, I'll be over with series number 1, and on to series number 2, 3, 4 and the summer would come to an end. So yes, I'm a vegetable, and I guiltlessly so. If you are a binge watcher too, you have an affinity towards TV ...

Foreword: This is the consequence of around 5 months of writer's block and merely one sleepless night. Sleepless, she lay on her bed, Carrying with herself the dread Of all the secrets the past holds Of all the mysteries the future unfolds. The walls close in on her, the air thins As she counts all her sins The list is long, she abdicates The somber hues clean all her slates.