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From Floppies to CD's and toffees to 'beedies' !!

It rained heavily that evening with thunderstorm. After a long spell of humid air rains brought a favourable change. I called up my friends in our society to have a chat. We had a consensus on a movie at PVR Priya. Six friends on three bikes, what had been decided to make the day more memorable. We had an accurate expectation of Traffic jam on the outer ring road. After curling and bending through the gaps between the vehicles-the only fun to ride bikes, we finally reached Munirka and then we took left for Priya. We stopped at a traffic signal and like other signals we waited for it to go green. Apart from it the rains brought the green theme in the atmosphere. The trees and grasses looked greener. Half dead flowers appeared as a bed of cushion on the wet road. A very lively looking girl, Jugnu aged six or seven (by an estimation) played marbles with her friends close to her home in one of the organised slums in Vasant Vihar. She was very keen to defeat her friends in the game and h

Sucessful or 'Sucess-fool'?

Sir Isaac Newton once said 'Every action has an equal and opposite reaction' which means whatever we do, an equal and opposite force tries to oppose the act we do. Sometimes its beneficial and sometimes its destructive. This law of physics never stops us from putting action in-spite of knowing the end result or in other words 'the reaction' ; then why do some people achieve everything and some fail to do so?  The question arises- How on earth can someone be successful? because the action we grave in, the reaction would refrain us from achieving our objective. Lets take some examples-  a) After three unsuccessful attempts someone summits the Everest in his or her fourth attempt.  b) Someone clears civil services exam after three unsuccessful attempts.  c) Someone making a huge wealth after leading many years as a destitute. All these examples definitely have got some action but we are surprised, din't they face the reaction? They did. They had reactions each ti