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Time to leave - bidding farewell

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Last days as a school-er I walk ignoring an eye contact with a boy I punched last month. My good class mate leaves his bench removing his head from the sunlight as I walk in. “290 million students drop from universities & colleges due to corona virus” “Miss World Singh arrives Nepal with request of Minister of Tourism…” “Syrian government kills 15 people – 1 child; other injured in a Russian airstrike” The national no. 1 selling newspaper features these headlines along with an aspiring Nepali model because it’s Friday, TGIF – the newspaper says, where all other features are miserable except for the celebrities posing at the pub. This is when I’ll be stepping my first steps out of my comfort zone, my first second-home. As I grab the newspaper and take my seat, I hear an English -Nepali- teacher faking accent to learn it. Kids are asking me to hurry as they’re eager to check their horoscope for the day, the librarian is trying hard to calm the students in the room willing to avoid no...
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Lessons from 'Flowers for Algernon'

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  I don't know what is worse; to not know what you are and be happy or to become what you've always wanted to be and feel lonely.   Flowers for Algernon is one of its kind. Despite having numerous works regarding abnormality and dis-functioning of human brains in the world of literature, I doubt there is any other work as appreciable as this for it not only talks about a person's experience for being different but also addresses other problems and terms, so much more than that. Charlie, the protagonist of the novel, was loved by his mother. More because hed was her son than for what he was. For years, when Charlie failed to prove himself as a normal kid, his mother tried everything she could to make him smarter, to make him feel belonged, in the world of 'normal' people. Before Charlie's sister was born, his mother felt miserable and she blamed herself for what was of Charlie. But when Charlie's sister was born, her mother accepted the fact that ther...
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