Last Round

V.I.III LAST ROUND Amidst all the chaos and drama, I was also embarking on my fifth and final year of medical school. Holy friggin’ crap. I was almost there. Almost. I could practically taste it, the moment I’d get to ditch my ‘Mr.’ for a ‘Dr’. I mean, duh – of course that had been the only thing I was […]

Idealism

V.I.II IDEALISM Recent events had shaken me to my core. Once again, I’d become conscious of the state we seemed to be living in. I couldn’t stand how much reality diverged from the ideal. It was something I’d dealt with easily years back, after my awakening. Back then, I’d started noticing the same discrepancy between how things are and how […]

The Sound of Silence

V.I.I THE SOUND OF SILENCE It took a while for me to get it. Took a while for me to finally understand that being strongly opinionated is not enough. And when I realised that, I was done. I was done being a wallflower. I was done staying on the side-lines. And for the first time in my life, I stood […]