Hummingbird

Its true!! I am in a trance... Kahaan wo aiyyaashi ke din jab maine bina soche samjhe laptop le liya tha n aaj ka din, when to buy a pen I've to think twice about money and monthly expenses. Coming from a well paying job(atleast from my perspective :) ), financial independence is something which I am used to. It is a big paradigm shift from being able to spend when I wanted , where I wanted, to keep my ulterior wants under control. To watch a movie in a Fun cinema instead of PVR, to eat in hostel after watching the movie rather than "chilling out" at a Mac'D or someplace else equally unproductive :P:P. "Its all in the mind", people would say. If you want to spend you will. I know i should not spend and my brain agrees with the logical reasoning and counter I give to support my financial frugality but what about my curbed heart which craves for some impulsive buying, some therapy from hectic schedules where I can let loose my purse strings to do what I want. ...

This might be harsh and Modi might get me killed for even thinking in such a way, but my experience of this city has been one of madness. There is nothing wrong with the city per se (because i have yet to see anything other than the railway station and few glimpses of heavy roads and blaring horns from an inside of an autorickshaw). I am blabbering, i must first tell how I came to be in this situation. This time a few good old men decided that they scrap the age old practices and try something "new" with poor students. The result was "C.A.T" and I turned up, after a LOT of interviews, at Insitute of Management, NIRMA university, Ahmedabad. Technically, its on Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar highway, almost equidistant from two cities that are pretty much the socio - economic representative of Modi's Gujarat. My college (wow it feels good to be a student after 3 years :) ) is a picturesque beauty, an oasis amongst wilderness and other adjectives which you can think of. The...