Mystery of The Soul

How to regain what I have lost,

No jewels, no pearls, but something more will cost,

The feeling of loss, tore my soul,

The sword of failure crossed my heart,

The feeling of emptiness, the feeling of mist,

Has overtaken my mind,

I am alone as usual, facing this tough time,

But the rule of life can't be changed,

It has to move, it will move,

The wounds of failure make some pain,

But the one who has fallen will rise again.

Kushagra Sharma
Y13 Undergraduate, The LNMIIT

Hang In There...

There are times when we are so sullen and emotionally exhausted that we long for outlets of our emotions. Not that we need a trigger for any catharsis, but we are so choked and full to the brim that in that state of numbness, it is a far fetches thing to realize this on our own.

We have a hard time breathing, a harder time gulping and all we do is to try shaking it all off. But it never works, not for me.

Situations, circumstances or whatever one might call them in their lingos, are so twisted and wicked. No matter how hard you try, you end up in despair. That's when our faith is shaken. We start losing it. Everything around us starts annoying us.

We start to damn that whatever we are today, we were not meant to be.

'This was not my cup of tea!' 'If I were doing what I always wanted, I might have had a better life!'

But are we always right? Or we just camouflage our weaknesses and failures with lack of interest?

Past always haunts us. And low recesses of heart, like these, further invite them to torment us. So, actually we are not doing any good by revisiting that lane.

What we have now, today, only that is our cup of tea. We can't set eyes on other cups. No matter how fancy they may look and how cracked and leaky our own may seem.

There are no guarantees, after all.

There is no room for vacillation at the expense of damaging your present. You are doing nothing but vandalizing your own life.

Hang in there, for tomorrow is yet to come. And there is certainly a moment, hidden in the shell of future, that will change everything for good. Your mind set will drastically differ and you will see your life, once a miserable one, with hope.

Just live in present and you will see, however withered your life may seem, it can still be salvaged.



Mohit Joshi
Y12 Undergraduate, The LNMIIT

Facing Challenges: With a Smile

One day I was having a chat with a friend of mine, who is a part of a social cause initiative named ‘Igniting Minds’ where she teaches the orphans. This task, according to her, is highly challenging, but at the same time, it’s a moment she admires the most, and it actually adds happiness to her life.

The two words ‘challenging + happy’ made me to go deep in my thoughts. I wondered that how many of us really face our challenges with happiness???

Rather, for most of us challenges are an open invitation to worries and a starting phase of sadness, which slowly peeks into our life and thus ends up creating emptiness (for most of us).

The reason why I am again and again emphasizing on the word ‘most of us’ is because it depends on the way we live our lives, the way we see our lives, the way we distinguish between the bright and dark bands of our lives.

While writing the above lines I am reminded of a quote by Joshua.J.Marine, which says --

“Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful”.

So how many of us really support this saying??? The answer would be all of us. But now if I ask, how many of us really employ this in our life? It is a million dollar question that forces you to look deep inside yourself and ask yourself that for so many years you have been hearing so many influential and philosophical thoughts of great people... and what do you do after listening to each such thought; you end up saying- wow! What a thought... and then that’s where the road ends to such a beautiful and meaningful quote… and exactly why this road ends? The answer is simple enough. It is just that we don’t employ this thought. We just praise it...

AND THE PEOPLE WHO EMPLOY THESE THOUGHTS ARE THE ONES WHO START PRAISING EVERY PHASE OF THEIR LIVES. THEY START ENJOYING EVERY MOMENT OF THEIR LIFE, AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, START PLAYING WITH CHALLENGES.

Of course no one’s perfect and no one’s gifted with a perfect life. So, the challenges are bound to come and they await you in every step of yours… It depends on how you face it --with cowardice or with valour and spirit.

Many of us, when burdened with a lot of problems in our life get frightened and rather than acting and finding solutions to those problems, we sit at a corner of the room like squirrels. Okay, now I know what would be your next question. WHY SQUIRRELS??? Guys, you know I love the way a squirrel eats with its two tiny hands, the way it jumps from one branch to another, but there is one quality I don’t like about squirrels … and that is the way it faces hurdles in life. Have you ever noticed a squirrel when many vehicles arrive in its path… if not, don’t worry… let me tell you… when it is in such a situation its body is filled up with so many reflexes from its mind that it just moves haphazardly between the vehicles even when there would be so many safe places to go. Hmm… it is a little hard to relate with human life but I am at your service. So let us translate this situation into human life… It's a little weird... but still…

Squirrel=human being, vehicles=difficulties we face in our life, the reflexes=confusions we create in our mind, a safe place=a solution to our problem.

Yes my dear friends, this fact is cent percent true. Don’t you think when obstacles cover your path like a dark shadow…. instead of finding a ray of sunlight… you actually try to make that shadow much darker. When you are burdened with lots of challenges… you get so much confused in them that rather than solving them step by step, you are in a great rush to solve all of them at a single go, or you just sit and watch them overpower you.

And this is where we all do mistakes. Now, what is the solution when you are faced with challenges?

First of all don’t take challenges as challenges but as a daily soap which is going to come after a certain interval of time with a new spice always added into it.

Secondly, sometimes challenges are invited by us… but if you really ask me I club this type of so-called self-made challenges into self-made difficulties, probably because we encounter them in our life due to our lack of time management skills. If you really want to know the importance of time… ask a mother who’s trying to give her child the best nutritious food when the baby is growing in her womb, only to give rise to a healthy kid after nine months… or try to understand the importance of time from a patient who is suffering from cancer and knows that he is going to leave this world in a week… or to even understand importance of every second, ask an athlete who missed the world record by a second…

Friends, these are some real facts of life I wanted to share with all of you… obviously I know it’s really hard to employ such big things in life. Frankly speaking, even after knowing such things I am also not able to employ them in my realistic world… but at least we can try. Who knows, one day, maybe we will succeed…..

At last I would like to share some lines of a beautiful poem that I learnt way back in my school, THE ROAD NOT TAKEN –by Robert Frost

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and

I took the one less travelled by,

And that has made all the difference… 

Sanjana Mehrotra

Y13 Undergraduate, The LNMIIT

The Indian police has long been criticized for its overweight police personnel. They have been battered time and again due to this serious issue that has been plaguing the police force for decades. Although the police and the government might have come up with many solutions, none of them actually worked. But, now is the time for them to bring to test an innovative idea, which might be bizarre, but will surely bear fruit.

We all know that many (almost all) police officers are fat and overweight (read pumpkins). But why not all? Well there is a reason behind that too…

The new recruits are the ones who stay slim for at least a year. Why? The simple reason is that they have to do all the running – running the Indian police! (pun intended). But, it’s true that the Indian police force follows a strict rule (another joke!). Once the new recruits join duty, they are assigned the job of doing all the running. When someone comes to the police station to file an FIR, it is these guys who do all the hard work, i.e. chasing -- not the accused, but the ones who come to file the report; they chase these guys out of the police station! Now that’s hard work! And, mind you, there is a well chalked out plan for chasing too, i.e. a rape victim is chased up to a mile out of the police station, a dacoit victim is chased half mile and so on... Repeated offenders (those who are stubborn, and come again to file a report) are chased twice the length they were chased earlier!

Now, an intelligent question: Why don't they do the chasing in a police jeep?

Well, police jeeps are usually unavailable, thanks to globalization. These days, so many antique car rallies are being organized in India, so police vehicles are shifted there -- not for patrolling, but for participation‼!

Again, the new recruits are the ones who chase the robbers (another joke!). Well, they don't chase all the robbers, but only those who slip by the police without giving them their commission‼!

Half of you might be thinking that why the policemen don't shoot all these guys, why chase them?

Because my friend, there are, again, two kinds of police personnel in India:

• First type - the one with danda.
• Second type - the one with gun? False. The one with a danda which has a barrel attached to it!

Kyonki police ki chalti to hai nai (bandook nahi chalti; waise police ki toh chalti hai), so bandook bhi dande ka hi kaam karti hai!

Then why the hell does the government not provide them with the guns?

Well, the reason is because it is a crime in India to provide any kind of gun to a criminal gang. So the government is bound by the law, you see‼! The guns actually meant for actual policemen on display in the museums, because these are antique items‼!

Now, back to the innovative idea which was mentioned in the beginning -- how to help the policemen shed their (baby) fat?

Here’s the solution: From now on, the policemen must be assigned duty in a different manner, such as each day must be assigned to an officer irrespective of the rank. They will be assigned a job of chasing the people who flock the police station for filing FIR, and same for the robbers… And I bet, you’ll see the results in six months‼!

You might be sarcastically criticizing the Indian police by now, but they are actually doing a better job than ASI (Archaeological Survey of India) by safeguarding historical monuments and items, i.e. their own police stations, guns and their jeeps; 'cause ‘robbers often carry away a police jeep’ (remember ‘carry’, and not ‘drive’)‼!.

Now, if we do a comparison between Indian police and American police, then in Bollywood terms (Vivacity just concluded!), if American police is Hrithik Roshan, then Indian police is John, (not John Abraham, dude) but apna John Prakasa Rao Janumala, popularly known as Jonny Lever‼!


Himanshu Rawat
Y12 Undergraduate, The LNMIIT

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Akshat Nagar

Y12 Undergraduate, The LNMIIT