Living on the edge

A few days ago I came across something really wonderful! something that reminded me how fulfilling reading was! It said and I quote        “if there is a single skill that will get you through life above all others - more important than cleverness or passion or imagination - it is the resilience. Without it even the most brilliant person can be crushed.         And no one can develop resilience in vacuum. You have to fail in order to learn how to recover from failure.”  UPSC is a journey that will churn us in understanding this truth, through a personalised experience. Each finding her/his own path to discovery. Civil Service Exam(CSE)’18 brought me huge success. Securing an AIR 33 was not unthinkable but definitely uncertain. It is through these probabilities that when one sails during the process, does one realise the true worth of life and mind you, brings the much needed grounding, humility and respect for surround...

We live in a society where your identity is based on region you come from, caste you belong and gender you are born in. It is a society which perceives and sustains relationships on the basis of status and prestige. It is here that are stories are made, created, rebuild, broken and yet carried on!     I had long been contemplating to write on people but it was so damn difficult to not just understand emotions but also to pen it down in words. No words felt right. I wrote and rewrote and yet nothing worked. That's how surmounting it was! We might want to be unbiased and non-judgmental but that never is the case. We preach one thing and follow the other. We think we do our best! But what is enough and what is the best is defined at our convenience. Thus this story is perhaps no ordinary to tell. To talk of a person who had so many facets and shone so brightly will take more than just one article. Ananth Kumar itself signifies boundless, the one with no end. He was born with a...