help someone when they can help themselves. You don't need my advice or my help. You are all you need.

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when it rains and there's no power in the house, I don't stare at my phone anymore. I sit next to the balcony and play raga malhar on the sitar.

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accepting my mistake when I'm wrong,
ignoring when I'm right, acknowledging when I don't know what's right & what's wrong.

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Dozens of bloated dead bodies,
of those who succumbed to COVID,
showed up on the banks of Ganga
in my home state.

Perhaps, the families didn't have money
to buy the wood for the funeral pyre,
or perhaps, there was no space
in the cremation ground,
calendars packed for another week,
and keeping the Covid corpse at home
for more time unsafe and unhygienic,
or perhaps, there was no family left behind,
all of them now merely a statistic,
a number in the death toll,
or perhaps, their last wish was for their remains
to be one with the Ganges.

Whatever the perhaps may be,
the government has one thing to be
thankful for: unlike the ones alive,
the dead doesn't complain
how the government failed them.

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that it's not education or success that makes someone great, it's kindness.

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When someone writes their quotes on my comments instead of commenting on my quote.

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What makes you feel lighter the more you have it.

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Love becomes a compromise only for those who don't love themselves enough and end up with similar partners.

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To grow old together,
one has to stay young forever.

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where you share everything when you're a kid, and lose interest as you grow older, until when you're at your most broken and only that diary can feel your pain.

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