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Untangle it... If you can

As I work harder to untangle it All the more jumbled it gets As I try to clear the clutter Circumstances, it seems, work harder It's not my cup of tea, they say I feel it's just not my day I hope it would come some day

RIP

Something died inside me last night When I saw human forms spread on the road Awaiting someone to rescue them I hoped someone will save them Hoping and praying, I passed by I didn't stop, just let them be But something breathed its last Apparently it was the poet inside me Who till sometime back was trying to take birth

We, Together

Sharing the same space, We live in different time zones Sharing our lives, We live in our own worlds Sharing our joys, We have our own sets of problems Sharing our love, We have our patches of loneliness Loving our differences We are together till death do us part

Riding A Cycle Of Awareness

Here's a success story. Not the rags-to-riches kinds, but of achieving the unthinkable. Neither their lack of years nor their address -- they belong to the slum areas -- has been able to stop them. This bunch of little angels from Janta Colony and Adarsh Nagar in Nayagaon, who're anywhere between nine and 14 years of age, has managed to improve the health status of other slum kids. And for all the hard work they put in since May, the youngsters have earned smart bicycles. They will be felicitated on Sunday, the birthday of Pt Jawaharlal Nehru, who wanted to create responsible citizens out of children. And, here's a group he would've been proud of. Older children looking after the little ones' health might have sounded like an unachievable task but then Gurpreet Singh, assistant director of NGO Developing Indigenous Resources (DIR), came up with the novel idea two years ago. Today, it has turned out to be one of the most successful projects and the NGO's chief