ANMona Canvas

Have you ever seen inevitable personified? We keep writing about standing at the edge of the abyss, just like movies, but never address what happens after slipping from one. It is just like the taste of cyanide – unknown, until one fine day, someone survives the day just to tell the world if everyone before him tasted a sweet, bitter, or sour death. We keep testing our limits and pushing further and there’s just so much life can take, and the limits let loose and you free fall from the abyss. Standing there, with an aimless heart and a blank mind and absorbing the utmost beauty and solace of nature’s waterfall while sliding inch by inch by the back force of the same water, somehow the entire scene out of a movie set seems extremely inevitable in retrospection. How much careful and cautious can you be when nature pulls you in? Well, that is the beauty and wrath of nature at once. In one split second it can take you from daydreaming to fighting in between the crossfires of gravity and b...

As the comfortable Volvo halted at the KMC gates, with a jerk, it was time to start a new chapter in life, MANIPAL! The morning did not see the consoling rays of the beautiful Sun that sets in the lost edges of the End Point. Thus, on a misty Thursday morning, as a flu-attacked girl, this journey in a whole new world had started. Manipal had given the coolest warm welcome with the intermittent bursts of drizzle, a signature of the place for six months of the year! Lost as it felt, for the first few months, like the aimlessly wandering clouds in the evening sky, confused whether to pour down or control her emotions, Manipal had rightfully taught, how to stay put. I could feel the dampness of each morning, at the corner of my eyes, missing the gentle motherly touch. Usually Sun used to show up late, especially during those 8 o’clock classes. The lush greenery around used to carefully hold the sparkling dewdrops from the darkness of the night and offer a canvas for the m...

The best thing about this Heavenly ride we're on is, this place, with the most unpredictable and bizarre weather conditions ever, is actually very soothing when it comes to the ease of getting familiarised in an alien place! Manipal will always... I mean it, ALWAYS keep you so busy 24x7... you don't exactly get much time to contemplate over the why's and the how's of your landing here... Neither will she ever... and again I mean it, EVER make you feel like leaving everything and running into the hills that the 19th and 20th blocks (Boys Hostel) elegantly face...! Though the last statement has a small condition applied... THE COMPANY YOU MAKE... Yeah... it matters a lot... the only key to have such a contended stay 2122 kms away from the place you owned for 19 years of your life, is, you have to make a very good friends circle... people whom you'd have to bank on for the rest of the four years... 'cause you'll never ever make such close friends ever again ...

T he basic plan is to begin from where I ended last... Merely to uphold the continuity... since, we're talking about a series... So... that's where we had ended...! Talking about how the one whole year is ending in a full circle... and this is exactly how it had all started... The First Morning... 30th July, 2015! 30th July, 2015... the morning did not see the consoling rays of the beautiful Sun that sets in the lost edges of the End Point ... For those who aren't a part of or haven't visited Manipal, End Point, is one of the first few places you'll get to see in the first few days of your visit... As the name suggests... It is the End Point of Manipal from where you get a complete overview of the whole valley that dips down at your feet and you actually feel At The Top of the World! :D The view of the consoling rays of the beautiful Sun that sets in the lost edges of the End Point ! The mighty Volvo stopped at the gates of the Kasturba Med...

First day of college! :D W earing this same check shirt this morning suddenly reminded me of this first day selfie! How everyday fleets away in front of your eyes and you keep staring into infinity! We address time as 'IT'. But its no less than a living entity! Ticking every second... escaping from your clenched fist like a sand grain slips out when you try to captivate a handful inside your clenched fist! How things are ending in a full Circle!  A year is about to pass. Every single individual around is almost unaware of the passage of time and we still call 'IT' time!  Time quite behaves like those wrong people you fall in love with! To you they are the world! To them you are everything but the world! How they surpass your existence and your feelings like we surpass the existence of 'IT'... Time... How they slyly slip out of your hands and fit in well in someone else's... Like 'IT' does... Time... Today 'IT's your...