Posted by: Naren on: March 19, 2009
This was my contribution for Lit-Soc Creative Writing Contest, as part of Tapti’s Newsletter. For the uninitiated, Lit-Soc is a year long Inter-Hostel Competition and Tapti is my hostel at IITM:
Hello readers! A very good morning to you all and for all those expecting a bad day, cheer up coz, boy, have we got something [...]
Posted by: Naren on: November 6, 2008
After a decent fight, this was what Arun and I could come up with for LitSoc Light Music Solo Competitions. Composed and sung by AR Rahman, it is a wonderful piece from the movie Kannathil Muthamittal. Just to be clear, me choosing the song and the ongoing clashes in Sri Lanka [...]
Posted by: Naren on: October 16, 2008
As part of my Drama course, I was asked to present a Monologue. Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch impressed me a lot. Hope you enjoy it.
Regarding the decrease in the number of words I have written these past months, I must apologize and give you various reasons like academics, lack of [...]
Posted by: Naren on: June 12, 2008
It was with a crowded mind that I started off for my department on Monday, as I had to meet my professor, go to the library to get my ID card renewed and go to Pondy Bazar on some personal errand. The holiday season has rendered me so sluggish that I ought to appear on [...]
Posted by: Naren on: May 25, 2008
“What’s in a name, what’s in a name, er.. What’s in a name…” – A forgetful Shakespearean scholar.
The point being, over the span of your lifetime you tend to have various names, various ways by which people call you. You love some of them, hate some and cherish some. Whether it is your parents calling [...]
Posted by: Naren on: February 25, 2008
Hi, will you please vote for me?
Why, what are you standing for?
Does it help if I give something for free?
What are we talking about, core??
Don’t you take anything lesser than that?
What else have you got to offer?
Maybe a Coordship in this or that?
Do I look like some duffer??
How many votes can you get me?
Is it [...]
Posted by: Naren on: February 24, 2008
This is my article that I hope will get published in Contour, the yearly magazine of the Civil Engineering Department at IITM.
This is not an article about my moment defining experience in IIT. There are simply too many of those to count them off my fingers, and worse, pick a single one of them [...]
Posted by: Naren on: February 18, 2008
Puffed, watery and droopy are those eyes,
Queer is the way he moans and sighs,
Rusty are his thoughts as he walks,
Steering himself away from bushes and stalks,
Teetering to one side and then to the other,
Unkempt, disheveled and a beggar’s brother,
Vacuous he is as he is questioned like a retard,
“Where is your mess card?”
X – rayed and [...]
Posted by: Naren on: February 1, 2008
I am an IITan. That speaks volumes in itself. Before you start thinking what this pigheaded, arrogant, son of a gun is talking about, I compel you to think again. Is that really the question you want to ask? Isn’t there another question that is lurking behind that shady mind of yours? Isn’t that the [...]
Posted by: Naren on: January 31, 2008
I get up in the morning, bright and gay,
And then realize that it’s not the best of things to say,
I go back to my sleep,
As I have a reputation to keep!
So, I get up in the morning, bright and fresh,
and ever so slowly, reach out for my brush;
Anything more said would [...]
