The absconding:
‘Someone suggested I read Chetan Bhagat today. The horror!’
This resulted in a ‘debate’ about Bhagat’s worth, including the classic ‘I think Chetan is the first writer across the nation to break free of various ‘classes and categories’ and learning what is it that made him do so should be the moment of epiphany for all of us.’ (Sorry, H!)
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‘Dear incompetent person, Try, if you can, to explain to me how ‘da’ can successful replace ‘the’?’
Yes, that should have been ‘successfully.’
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‘I feel terrible for all the desperate MCC students googling ‘Draupadi’ and/or ‘Lakshmi Kannan’ and reaching my blog. There’s all of one sentence about that non-poem. And really, googling ‘draupadi by lakshmi kannan summary’? You want the summary of a poem? You shameful creature. No wonder you whine about low marks in English.’
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‘Last night I found myself reluctantly moving to the guest room as my fan had stopped working. I couldn’t sleep because I heard what sounded like babies being dismembered, abused in every way possible. Later I discovered that those were cats mating.’
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L: Is there a church nearby? Me: Hmm, no. L: I can hear church music. Me: Oh, that’s just my brother’s heavy metal playlist. L: Oh. Wait. Are you sure? Because they sound like Tamil hyms. Me: I’m pretty sure that’s German.
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‘Here are some writers I no longer wish to read: Virginia Woolf, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, DH Lawrence (his prose), Elfriede Jelinek, James Joyce, Mahasweta Devi, Salman Rushdie, Shashi Deshpande, AS Byatt, John Irving, Jerome K Jerome, Jhumpa Lahiri, Toni Morrison, Vikram Seth, John Steinbeck.’
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‘Letters come in droves. Today I received the most incredible letter (or should I say ‘letters’?) from my friend, Jonathan Lu. It includes a business card, a piece of shiny chocolate wrapper and what I think is a bus or metro ticket — and then there’s the actual writing and the illustrations. I shall keep the content o…f the letters secret, but you may know that all of it — envelope included — is very cool.’
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‘My niece and nephew: “We want tombstones.” Me: “Huh?” They: “The chocolate tombstones.” Me: “Oh! Toblerone!”‘
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‘Question: can cytoplasm come out of a cell wall? (This is not a joke question.)’
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‘I have decided that all children must read Richmal Crompton. Else, they are lost to evil forces.’
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‘Dear someone, please save me from the Kieslowskis of this world.’
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‘I got a new nose pin and a new ear piercing — both bright blue. This is how one deals with grief and horrible cloudless skies.’
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‘Contrary to popular belief, one exclamation mark functions just as well as multiple exclamation marks. In fact, it often also indicates the writer’s intellectual refinement in a world of crude and wanton punctuation usage.’
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[Aditi Machado] has inhaled so much unfortunate cologne that it would probably show up on a tox screen. (When did smelling like a human being go out of fashion?)
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All in all, the application picked the right set of status messages. It’s funny how things I said in half-jest, mock-horror and other unserious tones of voice are, in a serious way, representative of what I’ve been up to this year and who I’ve been. Just saying, FB status messages have their worth… They should be moments of epiphany for us all.
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[...] it, make it, do it, makes us; harder, better, faster, stronger. Btw, Aditi had some really nice things to say. Now you know that this post is actually her idea and I must say ‘thanks, Aditi’ for [...]
‘Question: can cytoplasm come out of a cell wall? (This is not a joke question.)’
What’s the story behind this
Oh, I was checking out a metaphor for a poem I was writing.
I feel like getting off and jumping on the well and laugh till I drown off!
and what was that >> [Aditi Machado] has inhaled so much unfortunate cologne that it would probably show up on a tox screen. (When did smelling like a human being go out of fashion?)???/?
hello ma’am ! I am one such desperate MCC student who was trying to look up “Draupadi”…
… i was quite amused when i saw that you mentioned such a thing on your blog. My name is Ishita , 2nd year EMS … I am aditi singh’s younger sister… if you remember she was in PYEE … your batch i think .. passed out in 2009. 
.. anyway so my teacher is Mary ma’am, she wanted me to speak a little on this poem in class and give the background to the class… Could you help me a bit ? 
… by the way, love your blog ! 
I almost didn’t approve this comment — don’t call me ma’am! I’m your sister’s age, as you say.
I won’t be much good with the background. You’ll have to go to the Mahabharatha for that. Besides, you should do your own homework.
okay then … wont call you that , lol , really sorry
… just wanted you to know that i analysed that poem by myself finally and did the presentation next day in class… mary maam really liked it… was quite thrilled, 
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phew !