Barca and all things real

Early April 2017 :- A video from an absolutely new channel, Hardik Sapra, comes up. It shows a young boy, twelve years of age, solving the Rubik's cube five times and getting an average of 23 seconds. The video quality is similar to that of 1970 movies. The view count is not too high. The boy with a Gan  cube as a display picture started his YouTube career. Over the next one week he dropped two more videos. He started getting the hang of the whole thing. However he still had many problems to encounter : the video quality, the content, the audio, etc. He next uploaded after a month. Even this video did not get too many views. He soon realized that he was not to get too many views. None of his videos had even hit a fifty.  Over the next few months he kept uploading videos. However, none of them still crossed the 50 view mark. His content was not too interesting. He himself started losing interest in his YouTube channel. He, however, did not lose his love for cubing. It all chang...

I come from an unusual family. My father is from Punjab. My mother hails from the land of Bengal. I happen to be from Hyderabad. The people from my father's family are extreme right wingers, nationalists and religious. So of course, my mother is a complete Marxist, anti nationalist and atheist. The differences are innumerable. However, they have learned how to live with their differences and so have I. Such a background has caused me to come up with my own conclusions rather than agree with one side. This summer, I like many others, was completely tired of the Hyderabadi heat. Feeling jobless and lonely after a lively year of school had ended, the prospect of going to Chandigarh and then Amritsar really thrilled me. I had never been to the latter ever before. I was supposed to go with my dad, my granddad, my aunt and her two children. All of them except me had been to Amritsar before, so the prospect of visiting the place for them wasn't as exciting as it was for me. We went ...