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The Weight That Quietly Shapes Us
I have come to believe that every person who creates something meaningful carries within them a deep and inexhaustible reservoir of emotional pain. Not always the dramatic kind. More often, it is the kind that grows quietly, over years. Pain shaped in childhood, in homes where love existed but arrived unevenly, or where silence spoke Continue reading
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A Day That Left Me Quiet
Yesterday was a very sad day—one that left my heart strangely quiet, as if the world had dimmed by a shade. I lost the professor because of whom I am in the field of taxonomy today. He was Prof. Kamal Choudhury, a teacher whose belief in me shaped the direction of my life. It’s hard Continue reading
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The Beauty of Stitched Hearts
Perhaps perfect hearts are not the ones that look flawless, but the ones that have been broken and mended with care. Scars, after all, are silent stories—stories of love, loss, and resilience. Every stitch in a heart tells of a moment when someone chose to give love freely, without calculating the cost or expecting anything Continue reading
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The Risk Called Love
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”— Paulo Coelho, Brida Love — that word we speak so often, and yet, barely understand. Paulo Coelho once said that love makes us better. It stirs something deep Continue reading
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Larger Than Life
The massive number of people who have turned up to pay their last tributes to Zubeen Garg has left many outside Assam puzzled. They wonder: Why does he receive such an outpouring of love? How could one individual command such devotion, even after his departure? Among those confused voices, a few have unfortunately turned toxic—using Continue reading
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A Personal Loss: Remembering Zubeen Garg
In 2011, when Steve Jobs passed away, I couldn’t sleep the whole night. His life and work had inspired me so deeply that his death felt like a personal loss, even though I had never met him. Now, with the news of Zubeen Garg’s passing, I find myself feeling the same way. Restless, shaken, carrying Continue reading
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That Point Where You Give Up
A few years ago, I took a group of undergrad students to explore a cave as part of their excursion trip. There were 26 students in total, 20 of them girls, accompanied by their teachers—who, interestingly, had once been my own undergrad mentors. The cave was damp and dimly lit, its passages just narrow enough Continue reading
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We’re All Escapists: And That’s Exactly the Problem
What’s the purpose of life? To chase dreams or to seek bliss? Maybe both. Maybe they’re the same. As Mark Zuckerberg once said, when asked about his work hours—“Define work. I just play.” When you follow your dream with sincerity, life can indeed feel like play. But does that mean life is without tragedy? Not Continue reading
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The Broken Windows
There’s a theory from criminology that has surprising relevance in our everyday lives—especially the way we think. It’s called the Broken Windows Theory. Proposed by James Q. Wilson and George Kelling, the theory states that if one broken window in a building is left unrepaired, it sends a message: no one cares. And that message Continue reading
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Prisoner of the Past: What Elephants Teach Us About Ourselves
What makes humans and elephants so alike? It’s not our strength, nor our social structures—though both species are known for those. It’s something subtler, more psychological: the ability to remember. Let’s step into the world of elephant ethology for a moment. When a baby elephant is born, it experiences something rather unexpected. Before it even Continue reading
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