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Roger Federer - the chemical of happiness!

There are a few songs that I listen to every time irrespective of the mood and the time of the day. Despite an umpteen number of hearings, they do not seem to fade a wee bit or even set in boredom. Each time, these songs unravel a bit of themselves like how peels of onion come out one after the other if you start peeling. There is never a feeling of completeness that I have got till date listening to those songs even though I may have probably listened to them hundreds of times. I stay astonished as I keep discovering a new, unheard beat every time or a specific line in the lyrics that strikes a chord on every listen or find out some new patterns in the structure of the song. In spite of such deep analysis, they have never left my psyche and keep auto playing in my mind in the most random situations as well. It's as if my mind is programmed to play these special songs as soon as it detects changes in the mood!  To my bewilderment, I started noticing that I was undergoing...

VIPs - The bane of India.

A few days ago, I was stuck in a huge traffic jam with the signal never changing its color to green. It was a wait that was truly testing the people's tolerance. What should have normally been a delay of maximum five minutes had already taken close to twenty minutes on that day. The patience of those waiting there was already wearing thin and totally exceeded the threshold pretty soon as they started honking deliriously, but to no avail! The wait continued for ten more minutes and finally we could see an entourage of cars passing on the other side of the road led by police jeeps. Well, you may have guessed it right. It was apparently a minister passing by, and to make his journey smooth, traffic was halted on both sides, for as long as half an hour!   My mind quickly recollected the ban on red beacons imposed from last year. The respected Prime Minister had tweeted that with the red beacons on vehicles gone, every Indian was special and every Indian was a VIP. Yes, the b...