The Moonstruck Mystique...

We all from school times knew what a solar eclipse meant and also scientifically why it occured. But nowadays a day of an eclipse is just like any other. Nobody believes in not eating or not going out in the sun during an eclipse. Today was supposedly the longest solar eclipse of the millenium. We went to the terrace of the Physics Department and watched the mighty sun trying to hide behind the moon for more than an hour. Too bad it was only partial this time. There were quite a lot of enthusiasts out there; faculty, scholars, students, family and children. We saw the eclipse through aluminium sheets, X-ray films, the image through a convex lens and holes pricked on a cardboard box. Then we were told that the rays that escaped between the leaves of trees also looked curved like what was left of the sun. Then Saf and I kept taking pictures of it. If we were at home or elsewhere everyone would have ignored us for being crazy but here at the IIT and particularly at the Physics Depa...

A trai n jou rney alone. 11pm. Lights switched off. All asleep. The cool breeze and moonlit sky keep me company. Listening to some stirring music and gazing at the da rkn ess outside, the romantic in me awakens. A million thoughts fill my mind... I pick up my pe n and for the lack of plain paper, I begin scribbling on my ticket. Instead of switching on lights, I choose to use the light from my phone. I am crazy, aren't I? We went for a family dinner at a restaurant with Ghazal nite a fortnight back. I wrote out a few favourites of the family that they sang beautifully for us. Once the main course was over, he got up from his seat next to mine and went up to the singer and said something. Just as I began wondering, puzzled, the singer smiled at me and began singing 'Abhi na jaao chodkar.. ' my most favourite song from the old Dev Anand starrer 'Hum Dono'. I couldn't but stop blushing. He kept his eyes fixed on mine, took his seat and whispered in my ears. A...

The other day I bumped into a girl who falls in the category between that of friends and acquaintances. I smiled and wished her a very good morning. She replied with a bigger smile and said.. 'I really like the way you wear your hair these days.' I, obviously happy at her remark, said 'Thank you' most gracefully when she added, 'Its much much better than before.'