Dear Junior, I see you’re playing your favourite song on loop in your iPod—4th generation. Well, enjoy it; for soon, they’ll both be outdated—your iPod and the playlist on it. Pst, you have a new message from a friend on your Nokia phone. But you have not realized it yet since it doesn’t ping as much. Enjoy your text-only days.…
His eyes shine brighter as he narrates this particular tale. Deepak, on the fifth episode of Twice as Wise Season-2 recollects his early days of collecting and forwarding life lessons through Project FUEL and how a very few people actually believed in what he did. Like, could a seventeen year old possibly collect and pass on life lessons? They’d doubt.…
I remember meeting Deepak the last time he was in Kolkata. It was a certain winter afternoon and we'd met at a quaint Flurys outlet in New Alipore, guzzling down hot chocolate and brainstorming crazy ideas for FUEL. I had turned up five minutes late, drained out of energy, still recovering from the greatest loss of my life and he,…
It is not infrequently that you would catch me indulging myself in yet another episode of my favorite TV show—one of my many guilty pleasures (second to only comfort food). You might be familiar with that feeling. But sometimes, you come across that one scene or listen to that one quote or encounter that one character that strikes a chord…
Twice as Wise has been in some ways, the core of what Project FUEL is all about. The first episode of season 2 encapsulates the expression of love in its most unnoticed and unappreciated forms. And we couldn't just stop at that, could we? So here we are with the next installment of our brand new season. And this time,…
We heard you. All your messages, DMs, calls and all the overwhelming love that you showered on us for the first season of "Twice as Wise" and we couldn't help but get back! So here we are, kickstarting 2019 with a fresh season of "Twice as Wise" over again. Narrated by none other than our homeboy Deepak Ramola aka the…
Here’s a small excerpt from a conversation that I always tend to remember when I am dangling at the edge of my comfort zone- Me- “I just want to go home. I don’t like it here.” Friend - “Have you ever been away from your home?’ Me- “Just for a while.” Him - “Hmm, you are likely to face a…
I see a hilltop on the horizon. A lot of green and bits of white thrown into its midst. There are wild flowers of every colour whose names I do not care to know. They belong exclusively to this hill, to me. I feel a wind blowing across my face, beckoning me to come closer. It is not too cold,…
Time and again, I have Dufresne’s words to Red, in The Shawshank Redemption, echo in my head- one of the better things in life is hope because hope can be your driving factor to help you escape places, physical or mental. And there comes a point in life, when you realize that hope can have varied sources. You feel the…
"Oh to be young, and feel love's keen sting"- A harmless bit of reminiscence on Albus Dumbledore's part, but a few more people and stings later, this statement assumes a deeper and more terrifying meaning. That every emotion lies within the range of two extremes is as good a truth as any. But one needs to ask oneself- how much…
