Musing

What fraction of time does it require for once-a-stranger person to be a daily fixture in your life?  You are doing fine with your life and feel all happy on yourself until some people strike your life without announcement. After their arrival, you strangely share the courtesy of your happiness with them- sometimes, the half and at times, hand them more. You are bearing a great deal of tragedy with yourself as relying on other people for your happiness and giving them the authority to bring about whirl in your emotions is no insurance to you. Because, these 'significant others' that you have given the power to, often take you for granted. And oh dear, the rest, we've all experienced, haven't we?  Well, that's the thing about people. Just like the unannounced entrances, the exit is no different. Their unexpected goodbyes, and sometimes, the goodbyes untold yet giving the aura of unwillingness to stay and not even finding it necessary to try and clear the things out h...

I was in the mid of reading Thirteen Reasons Why , whose story revolves around a seventeen-year-old girl named Hannah Baker, who commits suicide because of betrayal and bullies when coincidentally, a news link popped up on my mobile screen claiming the death of a known actor whom I personally adored: Sushant Singh Rajput. I was shocked initially but thought a moment later that this could be a false news as the media was getting a bit 'infodemic' lately and in the past, there had been alleged death rumors of various renowned figures which eventually came out to be untrue. I so very wished the news link to be a clickbait and nervously opened the link, only to discover that the actor had indeed committed a suicide. I had known Sushant as an actor since my early age, from the time when he used to play as Manav Deshmukh alongside Ankita Lokhande who carried out the role of Archana on a popular TV serial Pavitra Rishta that used to stream on Zee TV. After spending a considerable tim...