Pranav Sameer Writes...

  In general, there are two kinds of people on this earth. Admirers and haters. Admirers consist of your family, friends, your known acquaintances, your well-wishers, etc. As for the haters, I think most of the people do have haters (just an assumption because it has become a normie these days). In our childhood, we had haters among our friends itself. We picked up a quarrel, we fight, we don’t talk and then we pass comments and spread rumours about that one person who never left our side when we needed him the most. Trivial issues like these were prevalent and friends used to patch up after a pep-talk. But that’s now it is as we grow up gradually. We get to overthink about rumours on us, we rack our brains, spoil our mood, and ultimately, we end up spoiling our day. What are these rumours though? Many people think they are just mere words which won’t be having an effect when spoken out. Well, they’re wrong. Our human tongue is a beast which only a few people can tame and m

  It was 2017. I was in class 9. Shri APJ Abdul Kalam’s words were echoing all around the country. “vision 2020”. I was awestruck after I read the synopsis of Mr Kalam’s book, “India 2020-A Vision for the New Millennium”.  The Vision is dedicated to a ten-year-old girl whom Kalam met during one of his talks and asked her about her ambitions, to which the young girl replied, "I want to live in a developed India." In his book India 2020, Kalam strongly advocates an  action  plan to develop India into a strong nation by the year 2020. And then we welcomed 2020 with a humongous amount of energy, enthusiasm and great zeal. But, as Erin Morgenstern says,  “life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set-in-stone. Remember that.”.  In January, we got brief news of the ‘Epidemic in China’. Then by February, the infamous Coronavirus spread to other nations. In March, WHO declared COVID-19 an international pandemic, disrupting all my summer plans. And