A New Beginning

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Well, I had my last post published six months ago and in the 2nd last post I just claimed to be back with a promise of regular updates. Poor me!! So this time no promises.

Actually, I was thinking of closing this blog down as I was too busy writing for my other blog which is based on my thinking of the norms of society or something like that. But later I remembered the fact that this one was the first blog I created and posted into & also the first one to earn a 1000 hits. Then I took pity on it and the story or rather the blog continues...
A blog on my daily life. Now I am not a celebrity that people would be interested in my life nor do I have a very interesting life that you all would love to read about. So why write about them and waste the Internet space? I also have a lots of diaries to write them. To be very honest, even I ran out of ideas of what to write about. Forgive me for the realization coming so late.
As for now, I want to make a fresh start, a new go, another try. However I won't delete my previous posts as they show us all my first go at blogging and I am also too sentimental about them. Hope you all like it this time and start following my blog rather than just visiting it. Lets see how it goes.

Child Marriage still exists...

As I was going out to my college last week in a public bus, I saw a woman or rather a girl, with quite an innocent face, traversing on the footpath. I am a very bad estimator of age of people but still if I am not entirely wrong she must have been a 15 or 16 years old and not more than that. And, I was really shocked to see that she had vermilion powder on her temple just like the way the Hindu married women wear it. I really couldn't believe my eyes and craned my neck to get a second look.

Here was I, a nineteen years old, going to college and planning to study till the age of twenty seven maybe and there was this girl who had been married off just at the age of sixteen making her stop her studies and putting a full stop to her dreams. Well, I accept, that maybe she might have had no big dreams and she was not even a good student but I couldn't understand why did her family marry her off. Child Labour, though banned, is still in wide practice in India. So they could have just put her to some work and she could have supported herself. It's not that that marrying a man would keep her off from earning money. Then why the marriage?

Child marriage is a concept which I have witnessed only in a television soap and in some films. I always believed that it was an ancient tradition practiced during the time of our grand parents and in the present day it is seen only in remote villages of Rajasthan and Bihar probably. But on seeing this girl I was stunned to see a victim of child marriage right in a metropolitan city, Kolkata. On discussing the issue with some intellectuals I got to know that the practice exists in full extent in the slum areas of all the metropolitan cities, leave alone the villages. And a bit of search in the Internet gave me the exact figures which really made be retaliate from the monitor and gape in awe. Here was a problem, a pest of the society, and we didn't even know it was so outspread.

Christmas!!

Semester exams are over and its christmas time now. Had been out with friends yesterday, i.e., on christmas eve and went to the National Library, the Alipore Zoo, and then to Park Street. In the mean time we also enjoyed a plate of biriyani and chilli chicken at the Saima resturant at Rabindra Sadan. At Park Street, we went to the Park Street Cemetary where weren't allowed inside the Park Street Cemetary just because we were 10 minutes late. We then started to roam about here and there and got interviewed by Tara News on a lot of interesting topics. Will post some pictures in my next post. By the way its christmas over here now and so i would like to wish all my readers a very merry christmas! :)

Back again!

Haven't posted in this blog for such a long time....
But now I am back with a promise of regular updates.
Since my last post, a lot of changes have taken place in my life, some of which are quite major and are capable of shaping my future. I am passed my class XII exams, got into an engineering college through wbjee and i am studying there at present.
More updates later!

Journey again!!

Hardly has a week or two has passed since my journey to Durgapur and
here i am travelling again. In train now, on my way towards Puri. It
feels so good to travel so frequently!

Journey!!!

On my way to durgapur for aieee. The fun for the trip is more than the tension of the exam.

Confusion

Well my isc exams are over by now and my competitive exams are going
to start soon. And the preparation for this exams has put me in a
trouble. I am getting quite confused about what to study these days
and to prepare for exactly for which exam. Sometimes i study this and
sometimes that, sometimes studying chapters of class xi and sometimes
that of class xii. And in the whole process, as i realised today, i am
studying nothing but only staring at my books. I just don't know where
i will land up when the results of this exams will be declared. So all
my readers please pray for me at least once so that i can at least
show my face to the world.