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At the Coffee Machine

It all began with a cup, actually 2 small paper cups - white from the inside, with graffiti like prints on the outside. Like best friends they support one another. Alone they might not have been able to handle it, but united they are strong. This paper cup bond meets two perfect snow-white cubes of sugar. Perfectly polished, devoid of bagasse, they tumble down into the cup, one besides the other. A while later, you can hear the grinding as coffee beans in the transparent casing slide to replace their friends. And then with a slurping noise the brown liquid oozes down into the cup. The sugar cubes absorbing every drop, turning brown from bottom up until there is no more of white remaining. Moments later, a foggy mist appears above the cup, like the magician conjuring up for a show and then in the blink of the eye, the hot white milk has drowned the cubes. The cubes giving away their sweetness in this beautiful amalgamation of milk and coffee, the sacrifice to reduce the bi...

It is Real

Main jindagi ka saath nibhaata chala gaya.. Har fikr ko dhunen men udaata chala gaya.. Wait! This is what we have been doing this entire time. We are smoking (dhunen m uda rahe hai) everything, to the extent that we need to ban some important things. This is not above any of the things discussed until now. The above song - irrelevant, aforementioned ban - irrelevant. The relevant topic is... (wait for it).. Climate Change Yes, you heard it right. Climate change is a real thing. Oh yes! This is in respect to some recent video by some famous personality who commented something silly, and he has some pretty big fan following, so it goes out to those bhakts (followers) as well. And no. Climate change is not a propaganda by the Chinese, as another famous personality seems to have stated few months back. Climate change is just as real as The Emergency, 2G Scam, Intolerance, Communal Violence or Demonetization. Oh sorry, the last point is still debatable, thoug...