Resurgence

Eclipse I woke up at 6 in the morning to catch the glimpse of ‘Rahu’ swallowing the Sun. However the nature had decided to play games with me and all I could see was the cloud cover over the sky. I was informed later by one of my colleagues that he was able to see the ‘partial eclipse’ over the Calcutta sky. Well I could not have done something at that time. However, I caught the TSE (Total Solar Eclipse) at Varanasi on TV and that sight was ‘awesome’. To see the corona and the ‘diamond ring’ was out of the world experience. My interest was more on a place called Taregna, a place near to my native city of Patna. This small naxal hit town was touted as the best place to view the eclipse in the country and as a result had seen a rush of astro-tourists from across the globe. The state government tried its best to beef up the security as well as the infrastructure for this celestial event. The place, as all of you would know by this time, was the research laboratory of legendary astronome...

A Work of Boredom “What do you want dear Vatsa?” The voice had a mythological serial like feel to it. “Who is this?” I asked as I opened my eyes. “Well I am not very sure of the grammar you used. But then the English grammar has defied all the logics with which I created this world. It must have been an anomaly and I can not change the codes now to rectify it.” “Who are you? And where are you? And what rubbish are you talking?” “Well again I do not see the need of two Ands in the sentences you spoke. Anyhow to answer your questions- I am God. You can not see me because I am God and you are human and hence you do not have the privileged access to view my image in this dimension. To answer your third question” and I suddenly felt a tight slap on my face before I heard these lines “You do not talk disrespectfully to God. I was introspecting on my design of this world when you disrupted my thought process. And to make it worse you labeled the entire thought process as rubbish.” “Sorry God...

Damn Machines Suddenly a message flashed on my computer screen: “Are you the One?” “The one? Which one?” I asked. It was strange for someone to message in green (but considering the growing concern for environment and increasing trend to ‘go green’, I took it as a fad). The screen flashed again “I mean, Are you Shanu?” “Yes.” “Run” “Run. Where? Why?” “This is the problem with you researchers. You ask a lot of irrelevant questions. Run. There is a danger to your life.” “Danger. What kind of danger?” “Is there a need to probe on every thing? Just run.” “But where?” “Again a question. When will your kind learn the lesson? You are wasting time. Run anywhere. Just move out of your office. We will send backup team to protect you.” I left the chair immediately and scanned the floor for my immediate boss. He was nowhere to be seen. I took a deep breath and started to run (Well it was actually a rushed and cautious walk). There was a sense of déjà-vu in the way the entire episode happened. Prob...