MY AGLETS

  • Prasanna Vighne

    On my WW-II fascination, on D-Day’s 80th Anniversary.

    Yesterday, June 6th, marked eight decades to D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion ever, the most extensive operation of the most significant war of our times. A turning point so pivotal that it shaped the rest of the war and the century after it. It decided the outcome and, by doing so, created the world order […]

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    On Airports

    The moment one steps inside the airport, the rest of the planet might as well fold itself up till its curb. They are a coagulated bundle of all human emotions stripped down to their raw form, in a finite and interchangeable space.

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    Alma Mater Matters

    I wonder what gives us our nostalgia for the institutions that brainwash us… A Christian missionary primary school in Amravati, where I studied till standard sixth, was my introduction to the term Alma Mater. There was a song or a prayer that we used to sing in the morning assembly which eulogized the school. ‘An […]

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    Fire in the Mountain, Run, Run, Run!

    The world won’t end all at once, but a thousand houses at a time. All we can do is prepare.

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    To The Women of Game of Thrones

    Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you haven’t watched Game of Thrones till Season 6. Cersei deserves a quiet applause, Loving her children was her cause; Power now is her only friend, That every foe plans to upend. Firm she sits atop the Iron Throne, Oblivious of the real King In Snow who was grown; […]

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    PETRICHOR

    The feeling was one of the most inexplicable ones in the world. The tedious, turbulent hours had gone by in a blur and now, here he was, quiet and still. Shekhar could feel himself drowning into a dense fog, falling into an endless pit, never quite hitting the ground. His eyelids felt heavy, and he […]

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    Wrong Day, Wrong Time, Right Place

    This isn’t an appropriate time to blog. With exams and assignments coming up, I find myself irresistibly attracted towards pulling out the serial procrastinator from within and finally start ‘Aglets’. As usual, this was one of the most untimely inspirations. Blogging on WordPress has been a plan since quite a while now, with even the name […]