Times Property- Times of India, Hyd

A very short stint with Times Property. Very difficult to write for and I distinctly remember my struggle to get all those botanical plant names right for the terrace garden article..! :P

keep the water out! 6th August 2005
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monsoon garden.. water logged! 6th August 2005
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baths go hi fi 6th August 2005
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for a green cover overhead 13th August 2005
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Source: www.indiatimes.com/epaper

Education Times -Times of India, Hyd

A 3 month stint at Times of India, Hyderabad in the year 2005 gave me good exposure to reporting, editing and interviewing. More than anything it taught me to be independent.

I wrote more than 35 articles for Education Times. Here are my favorites!

Tech Students Make A Beeline To Top Colleges 13th June 2005
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Commerce Is Cool 20th June 2005
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Students Bid Adieu To Holidays 20th June 2005
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I miss…school 27th June 2005
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Fair or foul weather friends? 4th July 2005
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Goodbye Junior College 4th July 2005
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Work After Study In UK 11th July 2005
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Take a look before you leap 25th July 2005
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Ragging:Fun And Fear 25th July 2005
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bonding at bristol 1st August 2005
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Yoga gurus go cool 8th August 2005
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Staying Cool In China 15th August 2005
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Hakuna Matata.... No Worries!

There is only one key to keeping your heart healthy and strong. Just laugh! That’s right…laugh. Hakuna Matata! No Worries! Just be happy! Sometimes life isn’t just right and there’s not much you can do to change it, so you might as well laugh it off!

Laughter is said to be the best medicine. It is sad that as we age we tend to forget what made childhood so magical. One study showed that by the time you reach kindergarten, you laugh about 300 times a day. In contrast, the typical adult laughs a wimpy seventeen times a day. No wonder children are so much happier! Why are we so serious? Maybe it’s because we’ve been taught that laughing too much is childish. To quote the great Jedi
Master, Yoda, “You must unlearn what you have learned. “We must learn to laugh again.

Laughter helps us cope with the difficulties of life by de-stressing and relaxing us. Laughter has also been shown to promote good health and speedy healing. I’ve heard several accounts of people who healed themselves from their serious sickness through heavy doses of laughing therapy. Laughter can also help heal injured relationships. As entertainer Victor Borge put it, “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”

If you’re not laughing much, I suggest developing your own ‘humour collection’, a collection of books, cartoons, videos, ideas –whatever is funny to you. Then whenever you’re feeling down or taking yourself too seriously, visit your collection just to lighten up. For example-my friend has this huge collection of Warner Brother cartoons, and she claims that these cartoons have kept her from going insane during high stress periods.

Learn to laugh at yourself when strange or stupid things happen to you, because they will. As entertainer Adam Sandler once said,” One of the best things people can have up their sleeves is a good funny bone.”

At Every End...

Life’s become a maze
Nothing visible in this haze
Am losing out in life’s race
Bet I am in last place

Frustrated at my hearts silence
Confused about my existence
To my past I wave goodbye
Like clouds, them memories pass by

But, ”You have a choice!”
Pleads my inner voice
“You can move on, mustering enough courage
Or sit and brood, forever in this carnage”.

I’ve decided, I will be tough
That am sure will help me through the rough
To every end, there is a beginning
I will take my sorrows as my awakening.

[First Place Poetry Competition, Vasavi College of Engineering, 2006]