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  The Universal Friend  We assume that the person with the loudest laugh in the room, the one whose phone never stops buzzing, and the one who can strike up a conversation with a total stranger is the person with the fullest heart. But there is a specific kind of loneliness that only an extrovert understands. It is the feeling of being a " universal friend " someone who belongs to everyone, and therefore, belongs to no one. Being highly social is often like being a mirror; it involves reflecting the energy of the people around you, making them feel seen, heard, and valued. It means being the " real friend " to dozens of people, the one they call when they need a spark of joy or a shoulder to cry on. These people show up, they build the memories, and they bridge the gaps between others. But the problem with being a mirror is that when the room goes dark and everyone leaves, the mirror is just an empty surface. There is a quiet ache in being an "empty soul" ...

THE STORY I LIVE  स्रोत  Hidden deep inside this blog is a phase I don’t deny but no longer promote. A series inspired by a stranger and powered entirely by unchecked emotions and late-night imagination. If you’re unaware of it, congratulations. You’ve been spared. I’m not suggesting a revisit either. Consider yourself lucky to meet the upgraded version of this writer, less impulsive, more grounded, and finally respecting emotional expenses. And for those who do know… guys & girlies, you deserve appreciation from my side. You trusted me, stayed, read my thoughts when they were messier than my browser tabs. You can officially help me review my writing skills now because you’ve seen the evolution, not just the final edit. Now that we’ve cleared that up, let me properly introduce myself. Hey, I’m Ladli. The one who overthinks before talking, over imagines before sleeping, and over expresses because silence never felt like my thing. I’m not a bad person, just not the shudh-san...

Detour   Life's way of rerouting you We’ve all heard it growing up – “Life Is the Best Teacher” and honestly, it is. But not the kind that smiles sweetly, pats your back, and says “Good try.” Life is the teacher who throws you straight into the practical exam first and hands you the textbook later – just to make sure the lesson burns enough to stay in your memory. It gives you heartbreak before teaching you self-worth . It gives you failure before teaching you strategy . It gives you delays before teaching you patience . And if you still don’t get it? It shrugs and says, “Okay, let’s repeat that level… but this time with more emotional damage.” You don’t actually learn a lesson just because you went through it. You only learn when you’re ready to accept it. You can know what’s right, repeat affirmations, read 10 self-help books, but still keep running into the same wall again and again – until one random Tuesday it finally clicks. And that’s when the magic happens. The same thin...

Nirashraya Hostels are strange creatures. They pretend to be just buildings, but really, they’re living diaries filled with thousands of overlapping stories — some loud enough to wake the floor, others buried so deep even the walls pretend they didn’t hear them. Everyone talks about the “fun” — the midnight Maggi runs, the gossip marathons, the festivals that feel like home away from home. And yes, that part exists. But there’s also another chapter no one volunteers to read aloud: the chapter where the walls close in, and you can’t tell if it’s the lack of space or the lack of warmth that’s suffocating you. Roommates? Ah, that’s a lottery you never signed up for but still have to play every single day. Some people win — they get sisters, partners-in-crime, midnight therapists. And then there are… the others. The “polite nod and nothing else” category. Mine? Let’s just say we could live in parallel universes and still talk exactly the same amount we do now — which is zero. You learn qui...

 It's not just a thread, it’s Tom chasing Jerry  not to catch, but to keep him safe from the world’s bigger cats. rakhi isn’t about rituals, it’s a quiet pact made louder with every shared secret, every side-eye across the room, every fight that ends with “okay, but don’t tell mom.” sometimes it’s blood. most times, it’s not. sometimes it’s that one friend who became family when they stood between you and heartbreak, like a firewall of soft threats and unmatched loyalty. this bond? it doesn’t need a surname, just shared laughter, a few bruises healed in silence, and the unspoken oath: i got you, always. it’s protection— in passwords, in prayers, in presence. be it physically standing tall, or spiritually standing by. may this rakhi season plant love in the soil of every stubborn heart grow it wild, grow it real. happy rakhi. to the threads, the hearts, and the people who tie them together in ways the world still doesn’t understand.

  Sākhyam You know what’s funny? We spend years thinking that friendship is about hanging out during breaks, tagging each other in memes, remembering birthdays, and sitting next to each other in class. We often picture a friend as someone from our age group, someone who shares our vibe, our college, our batch, or maybe even just our favorite songs. But life—thankfully—is far more poetic than that. As I grew up, I realized that friendship isn’t confined to shared lunchboxes or selfie folders. It’s not limited to who knows your current crush or who texts you "reached home?" after a hangout. A real friend doesn’t always laugh at your jokes but they understand your silences. They don’t just say, “I’m here,”—they stay when everyone else walks away. Friendship is not a tag; it’s a presence. A presence that believes in you when you don’t. That disagrees with you, corrects you, but still stands by your side. That doesn’t fuel your ego but nourishes your growth. Sometimes, your truest...

 Mondays With Meaning  Oh, it’s Monday . Tilak on forehead, mantra on tongue, you walk barefoot to temples, chanting names of the one called Pashupati Nath, Lord of all creatures, right? All creatures… except the one on your plate, of course. Tomorrow the same lips that whispered prayers will now sip gravy made of screams. The same hands that folded before a deity will scroll through menus with roasted bones. Devotion on weekends. Dissection on weekdays. What a divine balance. You fast during Shravan, skip meat for a month like it buys you a lifetime of innocence. But what happens when the calendar flips? Is your compassion date-bound? No, no, don’t worry. You don’t kill them yourself. You only fund the massacre while someone else becomes your butcher proxy. You didn’t hold the knife, but the blood still clings to your hunger. Oh, you call it “ just food ”? Strange… I call it a funeral. And let me guess, you love animals too.  Shares reels of puppies, you cry when a stree...

More Than What I Post I often find myself tangled in this strange web of emotions where my heart says don’t make new connections, but my soul, ever so soft, ends up weaving new threads anyway. I become the " best of friends " to people I never even planned to speak to. It’s not out of need or selfishness — NO. I don’t keep them for favors. I keep them because I fear the guilt of letting go, the whisper of “ wasn’t that wrong of you? ” echoing within me. Because the more hands you hold, the more hearts you promise not to break. And I? I make promises without knowing I did. At times, I adore this nature of mine, the one that blooms like spring in everyone’s garden. But when winter strikes and I find myself alone, the cold feels unforgiving. It's not a loud kind of loneliness, it's the silence that screams the most. I’m not desperate for company. I find peace in solitude too. But sometimes, I wish someone would just sit beside me, not to talk, not to solve, but to simply...

  Just One More  She wasn’t the kind who warmed up easily especially not to strangers with display pictures and digital footprints. The idea of making friends online felt like holding fireflies in closed palms: beautiful but brief, bright but never certain. But then came him. A chat request turned into conversations that slipped into her nights. She didn’t notice when "just talking" became a ritual, and how her laughter began to echo in his texts. They didn’t rush. They talked. About little things that felt like everything, childhood scribbles, parents, career worries, unfinished dreams, what makes them feel alive, what keeps them up at night. And somewhere between all the backspaces and full stops, a soft bond was tied not with promises, but with presence. Eventually, the idea was thrown into the air, casual and dangerous — let’s meet. Not through screens. Not pixel to pixel. Real. Like coffee mugs sweating on a table. Like air shared in the same silence. She wanted it and ...

 Crafting The Broken  They talk of love like it’s a river, deep, wild, forever flowing. But my kind of love? It wasn’t a river. It was a clockmaker’s workshop at midnight that's intricate, and full of forgotten pieces ticking in different corners. I didn’t fall into it. I assembled it. Each time I was broken, I picked up the parts. Not to glue them together with desperation but to restructure the rhythm of how I’d be loved next. What about the ones like us, who once carried heartbreak like a second heartbeat, but one day decided: “I will not let this sadness become my identity.” So instead of sitting in a room echoing with "why me," you quietly rearranged your life like tidying up a house no one visits but you still want it to feel like home. There’s a version of me the world will never meet. The one who waited in the backseat while someone else took the wheel of my heart, only to crash it into silence and leave me stranded with headlights still on and no goodbye. But th...

I wasn’t planning to cry tonight. But you know how feelings work — like unsent drafts you thought you deleted, they come back. Louder. Uninvited. I’m not asking for the moon. I just want a glimpse, a borrowed second of him looking at me the way I look at my screen when his name pops up. I crave nothing extravagant. Just one glance. One heartbeat-long moment that says, “I see you too.” But love… Love isn’t a vending machine. You don’t insert poems and expect affection to roll out. And yet, here I am...  The girl who carved universes in footnotes, who folded feelings like origami, and mailed them in the form of verses that sounded like metaphors but spelled his name in silence. He read them. He said “ beautiful .” But he never saw himself in them. He never saw me behind them. I’ve been screaming affection in lowercase. And he’s been replying with full stops. The worst part isn’t that he didn’t love me back. The worst part is — he never even noticed the emotions I had for him.  A...

 SATVIK  " Until someone openly says I LIKE YOU and I WANT US to be together. Take their kind gestures as them just being nice. We overanalyse a smile, replaying a compliment, thinking maybe this means something. But let's be real, unless someone genuinely says I LIKE YOU, it's just kindness. Not a hidden love story. And even if they like you but are unable to say it right now, they will surely say it one day if they feel for you that way." I recently read these lines somewhere and they clung to me like the scent of first rain on parched earth — raw, grounding, painfully true. Isn’t it odd how we lace ordinary moments with extraordinary hope? Every time I told him, “ You’re rare ,” I meant it in the sincerest shade of admiration, not as a breadcrumb of flirtation, but as a celebration of his existence in a world so noise-cluttered with apathy. And when he said kind things about me, it wasn’t a hidden signal just a mirror reflecting honesty. But the trouble with me? I ...

ANURAAG They said love born from screens and messages is nothing but a fleeting illusion — a mirage that wastes time and drains the heart. They said I was spinning my world around someone who barely knows me, someone who can’t be near when the nights grow heavy, someone who wouldn’t notice if I vanished from his life. Maybe they’re right, in a way. But what they could never see was how a heart can tether itself to moments that feel like nothing to others but become entire galaxies to the one who holds them. I never claimed his love, I simply guarded mine like a secret constellation drawn only in my sky.  He doesn’t know what he means to me, and maybe he never will. But there’s a kind of devotion in admiring someone from afar, in saving snapshots of his face like museum pieces, even if they vanish in one blink, one time mode. Just for those seconds, I let my eyes drink in the gentle chaos of him — the under-eye crescents speaking of sleepless battlegrounds, the dimpled corners that ...

  RCB WON ; HUMANITY LOST   "Anything beyond a limit becomes poison — even nectar." History has never failed to remind us of the dangers of excess. The legend of King Yayati , cursed with insatiable desire, teaches us how indulgence can turn blessings into burdens. The tale of Ravana , despite his wisdom and power, is a tragic lesson of pride taken too far. Even the mighty Titanic was believed to be "unsinkable" — until human arrogance met the harsh reality of nature. Time and again, it is proven: when we cross the line of moderation, even good things can bring disaster. And what happened recently in Bengaluru during the RCB victory celebration is yet another grim reminder. Once hailed as the land of culture, discipline, and values, Bharat now stands ashamed under the weight of collapsing civic sense. A place that once taught the world about dharma now struggles to follow basic rules of public behavior. What should have been a joyous occasion turned into a tragedy,...

BHRANTI  Delusion or Misinterpretation  A tale of seeing with closed eyes—and finally opening them. We’ve all heard fragments of Dharma, half-truths wrapped in rituals, misunderstood over generations and passed down like heirlooms. Somewhere along the journey, what was meant to unite became a tool to divide. And the tragedy? We never paused to question—only followed. Sanatan Dharma never taught division. It taught balance. It never advocated discrimination. It defined duty. What we call jati today, was once simply karma—one's chosen work, not one's birthright. It was Jati Vibhajan (division of duties), not Jati Bhedan (discrimination of people). But over time, we started confusing positions with prestige, and lost the real essence of Dharma. In a quiet ashram by the holy Ganges, there lived a saint. He was not famous, not loud. But there was something about his presence—peaceful like the river beside him, and firm like the mountains that watched over him. His life was a discip...

WHY ALL MUSLIM???  Bharat has been bleeding for centuries now, A rivalry that started when Arabs came to show us how. Islam entered, a new chapter began, But did it come with peace or a master plan? Today, terrorists don’t just kill, they defame, And the whole Muslim community bears the same blame. Is that fair? Was that the aim? Or is Pakistan laughing, fanning this flame? Look, there are those who live for Pakistan, Even though they’re in India, do you see the plan? But let’s not forget, there are Muslims too, Who love this land, being honestly true. Yes, it's rare, but it’s real, it exists, And we cannot erase it, no matter the twist. Pakistan dreams of chaos in our name, Using religion, sowing hatred, fanning the flame. The recent Pahalgam incident is crystal clear, Has ignited a hatred, a fire we now fear. Pakistan aims to divide, to sow endless strife, Unable to conquer by force, so they target our life. With a calculated plan, they stir the flame, Claiming religion killed Hi...

Time To Roar   Terror in Kashmir, it strikes again, Just when peace seemed near, it tore in vain. In Pahalgam, innocent lives lost in a blink, A cruel tragedy, enough to make you think. What did they do? Was there a crime? Were their lives a casualty of some twisted rhyme? Did they offend, provoke, or strike? Or were they simply living, just like you and I? Why this bloodshed? Why this rage? Are we trapped in a never-ending cage? It’s time to stop, time to ask, Time to look beyond this bloody mask. Yes, I am a proud Hindu, standing tall, But my demand isn’t hate, it’s justice for all. I seek no division, I seek no fear, Just a land where love and truth are clear. A Hindu land, where wisdom stays, Where ancient truths break all chains and haze. Not a land of sorrow, not one of despair, But a land of strength, where justice is fair. We’re not the ones who bow or break, We’re the children of a land that will awake. We’ve learned to rise, to stand, to fight, This is our time, we’ll set...

  Life – A Question Paper with No Option  ‘None of the Above’ Welcome to Earth, baby human version 1.0! Fresh out the womb, yet they ask—“ Why so slow? ” You blink, you breathe, you burp, you bawl,  But nah, no applause—" Did she say mumma yet at all?" From one to three, you’re basically a potato with emotions, But still, you're grilled with “ What’s she learned? ” promotions. Speak a syllable, walk a step— It’s a miracle if you aren’t labeled inept. Then four to ten—ah, school, the holy shrine! Where joy is taxed and marks define. " Which class now? "—like you’re a damn product line. Childhood? Oh that’s cute, but could you read this sign? Enter adolescence, eleven to fifteen, Hormones riot, pimples scream, dreams are caffeine. " What will you be? " they ask with delight— As if careers grow on trees watered by foresight. From sixteen to twenty, you grind and you gasp, Holding dreams like sand that slips through your clasp. " So… made it yet? ...

The Best Isn't Always Special  You know, the world has a weird obsession with the word “ Best .” As if there’s a universal rulebook defining what that “ best ” must look like, cost like, or feel like. But let me break it to you — The Best isn’t always the Best. What’s a diamond to someone who craves warmth over sparkle? What’s a five-star dinner to someone who just wants a plate of maa ke haath ka daal chawal? Let’s go back to the golden era of life — childhood. Remember those birthday parties? With balloons stuck on the wall using cello tape that could barely hold their breath? When your mom invited the entire “ mohalla ,” including that one aunty you couldn’t stand — let’s call her Aunty Show-Offa . She struts in like she’s here for a red carpet event, perfume strong enough to cause short-term memory loss. The gift? Wrapped so lavishly it probably cost more than your entire party decor. And inside it — a brand new noise-cancelling headphone. Branded. Sleek. Stylish. With the kind...

  Drafted   -paused, not erased Life — that mischievous author with an odd sense of humor — rewrote my story once again. Only this time, the edit made me smile. You know those cinematic breakdown moments when the playlist hits betrayal mode, and your coffee starts tasting like regret? That was me. All it took was a single message — short, sharp, and dressed as casual honesty: " Why are your expectations so high up? " Now, I wasn’t out here building castles in the air. Maybe a modest balcony with some fairy lights. But that line? That was a sniper shot disguised as small talk. No "lol," no soft landing. Just straight into my overthinking headquarters. Within seconds, I had convinced myself I was the emotional version of a spam call — unwanted, overly frequent, and mildly exhausting. The spiral began. I drafted a full-blown farewell — a poetic eulogy to a connection that I assumed had been declared dead. My thumb hovered over “post” like I was launching a nuclear code...