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Turbulence at 30000 ft

Turbulence at 30000 ft

As she watched the dials before her go haywire, Margaret panicked. As she tried to steady the aircraft, her old instincts kicked in. She took a deep breath to calm her fluttering heart. She maneuvered the yoke, to first steady the aircraft to fly with a single engine and then maintain the aircraft at an uniform altitude.

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Pilgrimage city – Oldest living city Varanasi

Pilgrimage city – Oldest living city Varanasi

The oldest living city Varanasi

Just like the heart which takes in blood from various parts of the body and then pumps oxygenated blood back to the body, so does the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi, takes in throngs of pilgrims who pray before the deity and then disperse with their minds purified to visit another day. Just like the various chambers and valves of the heart regulating the blood flow, so do the various dwars of the temple regulate the unstoppable flow of the pilgrims.

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The Undead

The Undead

Who am I? I am just a cemetery, tasked with hugging the bones of departed souls. Today I have a story to tell. One day, they brought the body of a dead woman. Poor Annette, they whispered. Died due to a prolonged fight with Typhoid, poor soul. As they laid her body on...

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The kicks

The kicks

#ArtoonsInn #Five00-23 I stood at the airport, watching them walk away, not knowing when or if I'd see them again. As this thought crossed my mind, I had already decided that I was not going to see them again. Fools. And imbeciles. These were the only words which came...

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VishaKumar

VishaKumar

Vishakanya! Did she and her ilk really exist in real life or was she just a concept in ancient India? Vishakanyas are mentioned in ‘ArthaShastra’, that well known treatise by the equally famous, Chanakya. I was introduced to the Vishakanya when I read one Amar Chitra...

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