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Enjoy the Self Quarantine!

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Not realizing that it will soon become mandatory for all, I started my self-quarantine journey way back in November 2018. I got my special leave from work approved. Back then, it was not for protecting myself from a pathogen but it was for my perceived fear of losing myself to the chaos of an unproductive yet dead busy work-life. And while I was happy that I was getting to relax and getting all the time i wanted to pursue things I love, I was equally apprehensive about this new arrangement that I had asked for myself. I didnt have to go to office suddenly after 10 years of constant to and fro between home and office and I didnt have a position to myself to make me feel important and influential. I didnt even have an active network with whom I interacted everyday outside home. I dont know if one has noted it, but I believe going out of home gives us an inflated sense of importance. We get ready, dress-up and prepare ourselves to go out, and therefore it makes us perceive ourselves su...
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A meeting

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Yesterday, I met an old friend from school who is settled in London now. Such are the perks of living in Delhi. There is a pattern to our interactions which goes in a way that after 2004, our interactions have been mostly once in two years. The last time we met in our hometown according to him was to bring me ‘ivory sheets’ in 2004; I studied advertising at graduation. Well, when I was in the process of choosing, qualifying and taking admission in this course from apparently the best college in the capital of the state of Bihar, I had to batten down the hatches. Obviously no? Which parent of the 2000s would have understood and approved of Advertising as a subject to study? It was a long battle which I eventually won with the only consolation for my father that ‘She is studying in the best college of the city’ and never wanting to spell any further details. Yesterday was almost like rediscovering a ‘me’ that I had buried in oblivion. The juvenile days of class 8-10 were recalle...
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