Unknown- A tribute to the Patriots

Unknown- A tribute to the Patriots

By Sarvesh Antapurkar1 Comment
  There’s a popular saying in Hindi, “Jo Dikhta hai, wohi bikta hai.” Which translate to say, what appears in front of us, only that can be held accountable for the credit or the blame. And the correctness is as much as anything else. The only one who are seen and respected of all of the people who work for the nation are the freedom fighters, the real heroes, the soldiers, the men in uniform. It’s not about obscuring the glorified ones. It's about talking of those who stay out of picture. It's about taking a bow in their honor and feeling the intensity of sacrifice they did to do the good for their country. About the unknown. This Independence Day, let’s talk of some heroes amongst us, whom we might already know, but not the story behind them.     THE FOREST MAN OF INDIA The Island of Majoli, Assam, is the largest river-island in the world. Based in river Brahmaputra, to the north...
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Unsung Heroes

Unsung Heroes

By Sarvesh AntapurkarNo Comments
I lie to you dressing in cheap clothes, an old duffel and pretending to be a cable operator. I lie to you washing your car, doing over jobs and making you think I'm poor. I lie to you. I lie to all. and you live on thinking you know me. you know my name, or perhaps the name I told you was mine. you know what I do, and not that what I do is lie. I lie of being a software developer. I lie of working on the weekend. I lie about going to the conference. I lie about all the meetings with the clients. I lie about my whereabouts. I lie about the deals. But perhaps, it is all true. I disguise to look poor. I act as a wallflower. I tell you the truth, and so I scream to all, but all of them are too blind to see perhaps you know me as I'm a software developer deciphering the coded messages working on the weekend as I kill a few sleeper cells conference with the mission operators disguised meetings...
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