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[323] Zeitgeist of Our Times

June 22, 2020June 22, 2020by Rahul Gaur20 Comments

I recently learned the word “zeitgeist”, perhaps I’m late to the party but nonetheless, this word holds a great fascination for me. Its meaning in the dictionary is “the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time.” According to a google search, it’s [...]

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[260] I think I know it all

September 21, 2019by Rahul Gaur3 Comments

A clean slate of self-discovery A push is needed to find all my checkpoints again Knowledge has become amnesic in the pursuit I can only hold so much in the little head that's left Smoke alarm whirring in my airy bones Intoxications only resolve to bring back lost energy All that comes back is the [...]

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[149] The Future Waits For None

May 15, 2018by Rahul Gaur15 Comments

As I sit here, a realisation dawns on me. The world nods in confirmation of my fear that it doesn't really require me as it runs without me unabashedly. This doesn't come as a surprise at all but it comes like that strong gust of wind that uproots even the most rooted grass from the [...]

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[143] Guide For Not Reading

May 5, 2018by Rahul Gaur6 Comments

A guide to not reading books. Step 1: Read a book's synopsis, blurbs and get interested to read it. Step 2: Go to goodreads and check how many pages it is. Step 3: Start reading reviews. NO. Start reading 'negative' reviews. Et voila! Anyone else facing the same problem?

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[134] Loss For Words

April 1, 2018by Rahul Gaur9 Comments

The sky waves in its colourful intensity I struggle to intensify the thoughts in my head to write them like they used to before to get my mind talking to my fingers The lies that used to come so easily now hide behind the truth of incapability Memorable performances for the crowd is a rarity as [...]

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[113] A Case Against You

December 30, 2017by Rahul Gaur13 Comments

There is a hearing in the courtroom. You sheepishly pull yourself together to the stand. This is a case against you. A drop of a nervous sweat trickles down your forehead as you wipe it away before anyone can see it. This is the dominion where you are put to the test of life. You [...]

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[107] Persona Of A Writer

December 14, 2017by Rahul Gaur10 Comments

All of our thoughts, ideas, ideologies and viewpoints are not real or at least, not our own. All of these are things that sound admirable/respectable. These are things that we steal from films, books and other personalities to form our own. Just because we think we understand these ideas and have no logical argument against [...]

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[103] The Myth of Doom

November 29, 2017by Rahul Gaur27 Comments

Walking the thin line between inactivity and pain a devil's workshop An atmosphere of echoes surrounds with the gentle brush of memories making me reflective but not blue The silent and the omnipresent distraction makes way for a remembrance of a feeling or my memory of that feeling that no longer resides in truth but [...]

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[95] Reading: A Clash of Two Minds

November 6, 2017November 6, 2017by Rahul Gaur13 Comments

"All of me was lost in you" - The Writer & The Reader to each other. It all starts with a withdrawal of our environment, the forgetting of yourself to get immersed in a world created by another. Instead of the rules of the world, here, rules of the writer riddled in sentences, words and [...]

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[74] Rambling About A Change.

September 8, 2017by Rahul Gaur5 Comments

The urge to write has never been there in me. I looked at writing regularly as something that every writer has to do to reach a level where they are fooled into believing that what they write is decent. Today, I feel an urge to write. It's quite a new experience given my love-hate relationship [...]