About the blog

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I am an engineer and a mental health social worker. Needless to say, I am constantly learning, unlearning, and relearning and I love every part of it! 

This blog is a bunch of short stories about people, incidences, or happenings around me or just my thoughts that I couldn't help but jot down. 

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When you take a left turn from Wakad Bridge, somehow your heart goes into hibernate mode. You are ready for a mechanical day ahead. Driving through the Hinjawadi traffic, when you look out the window of your bus, your mind always wanders off. What you see outside your window is like the ads that feature before a YouTube video. Not important! The only time when you are compelled to watch the scene outside your window is when the bus stops somewhere longer than usual. If you are an employee at Hinjawadi and your bus is not in a state of motion for a long time, some kind of alarm goes off. Your wandering mind comes back on track.  While going home this evening, something similar happened. My bus stopped at the signal longer than usual. The alarm went off and I immediately started analyzing why my bus was not moving. A rickety roadside sugarcane juice shop outside the window caught my attention. A 3-year-old was stacking sugarcanes in the machine. First look at that picture le...
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