The Sonance Behind My Silence

                       None of my friends actually understood my obsession with Harry Potter-the world's favourite bespectacled boy wizard. There's a small but significant reason behind why I like the series so much, despite having read every book just once front to back (albeit I've watched every movie at least 50 times). The story goes 9 years in my past, to the year 2001, even before the first Harry Potter movie was released. I'd just been "blessed" with a pair of ugly, dark brown eyeglasses, similar to the ones worn by Harry. I never really got a chance to wear them in school...most of the time they would be an object of playing catch-catch by a few tall bullies in my class. My untidy, fast growing hair earned me many black remarks in my school diary, and I wasn't very happy with the domination I faced because of my small size.                       And t...

     Loneliness and isolation have their own merits and demerits. They make you envy the people who do not have to undergo the same suffering as yourself, but in a way they give you time for introspection. And it is out of this introspection that some great autobiographies have emerged. History itself, is a testament to that. Some eminent leaders have penned books that have become an inseparable part of World Culture, whilst in total isolation from the world. Adolf Hitler wrote his autobiography - 'Mein Kampf' in prison after his failed Putsch in Munich. For Hitler haters, even Nelson Mandela wrote a major part of his autobiography 'Long Walk to Freedom' while he was imprisoned on Robben Iceland for 27 years by the apartheid regime in South Africa. Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru wrote 'An Autobiography' between 1934 and 1935 when he was in prison. Long story short, this blog is also an outcome of sheer loneliness; I hope it turns out good! Just to be clear, I am NOT in p...