Shivam Raj

A parent's love Each time I yelled at you, I was crying. Each time I punished you, I was hurting. Each time I pushed you away, I was bleeding. I hope you understand someday, how much I didn't want you to shed tears or bear pain. I hope you understand someday, how much I didn't want you to suffer from all the hardships. I hope you understand someday, how much I loved you through all of it, my child.

Eternally bound to this spell, My emotions got quelled, While in numbness I dwell, To feelings, I've bid farewell. Rays of light remain expelled, With the past entitled to foretell, My existence, forced into this cell, Which gradually turned into my shell. Though nothing is now left of me, I can no longer let this be, For brighter days I've known, & I can't continue to condone. Today let the waters shower, Today let new buds flower, Do you not hear it, the death knell ? For I feel again, life's marvel !

There's silence in my screams. Screams in my silence. What you cannot attain through consent, You take through violence. How vile one has to be, to sit blind to unceasing suffering? Shuttering, I try to voice my plight, Despite the constant cowering, I try to rise. You'll hold me down no more, your chains won't have any luck. I too, will stand with a head's high, as for you, your time's up. #metoo #notfeminazi #humanist #equality #societalrevolution

“Our wardrobe decisions tell others about the secret desires that we are trying to hide. Our feelings and emotions lie bare in the closet.” She thought and pulled out a long, flowing dress with a high neckline. The one which focused more on her sculpts rather on dreamy flares. Sensual but not revealing. She was getting ready for a wedding. She chose this dress because she knew he likes it classy. He never gawked on plunging necklines or high slit. He carelessly read out a quote once “Classy is when a woman has everything to flaunt but she chooses not to”. She didn’t know if he was right or wrong. She knew that she has to be classy because this man likes a classy woman - That’s it! It’s been 6 years that she has even heard from him and till the date she remembers verbatim, everything he ever said. _____________ ***Back in the first few days of College - “You walked in late, very late. You walked across the room and made my heart skip a few beats. Blue rugged denim and barely tucked whit...

If you analyze with a cool head, it is very likely. °•°Kejriwal has benefitted BJP More than his party. All his decisions and oppositions have strengthened BJP. 1. He contested from Varanasi and thus divided the votes of opposition. He really made it easy for Modi there. 2. Kejriwal contested over 400 Lok Sabha seats, knowing fully well that this will divide opposition votes and help BJP. He won four seats but helped BJP on over 50 seats by dividing the votes. 3. He tried his best in Goa and Punjab to divide the votes, but could only succeed in Goa. But he created an impression that he is the alternative to BJP and lured some folks to vote for him. 4. As if this is not enough, Kejriwal has taken another U-turn and contested Gujrat. Shamelessly he pursues his goal to help BJP. 5. Instead of providing any substantial opposition to BJP, he brings up non-issues to create sympathy for Modi. First, he raked up the non-issue of Modi’s degree, then he challenged surgical strikes, and then came...

Star within a Star (Thorne-Zytkow Object) :  TZO were a theoretical star proposed by astrophysicist Kip Thorne and Anna Zytkow till a recent discovery proved that they actually exists. It may sound strange but these single star consists of a neutron star in its core while a gaseous red giant or super giant star surround it. They aren’t visually distinguishable in the form of a neutron star(like the illustration shown) revolving inside a giant star instead they are observed by their distinct chemical signatures produced by the unique activity in their stellar core. TZO’s are supposed to be formed when a system of two binary stars interact, a red super giant and a neutron star which itself formed during the supernova explosion. The mass loss of neutron star before supernova event make them vulnerable to the massive gas giants, which engulfs them. Almost after a few hundred years, when the neutron star finally enters the super giants, their core start colliding and if their combined...

Whenever, we have these discussions that marks do not matter, the examples usually quoted are the ones where people have had great success despite not getting good/great marks. The idea is simple - our (lack of) marks today need not hamper our happiness in the years to come. I think, there is another aspect of this, which is equally true, and important. This is about the cases, where people who may have scored high marks, and find it equally useless, in the long term scheme of things. In my 10th Boards, I was the school topper, with a score which was a new record for our school(school waalon ne bataya tha), and was among the top few in the State. I was a kid back then, and it felt like big deal (also, considering that it happens to be the only instance in my schooling, when I topped in my class) Honestly, genuinely, that absolutely means nothing now. Like, for everyone else, with all sorts of performances. Like many other kids who appeared for those exams, I had memorized my entire ...

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. -Carl Sagan Where did the Big Bang happen? The obvious answer, centre of the universe. But that is wrong. Every galaxy is moving away from ours at the same rate. This may suggest our galaxy was at the centre. But this phenomena is true everywhere. It is because the Big Bang just didn’t explode out from the centre, it happened everywhere at once, and that includes right where you’re sitting. JUPITER DOES NOT ORBIT THE SUN Yes, what you were taught at school, was wrong. Two objects, under their mutual attraction, orbit around their centre of gravity or the barycentre. For other planets, their mass is small. So they orbit around a point close to the Sun’s centre. On the other hand, Jupiter is huge.  Huge.  The barycentre lies just above the Sun’s surface and both of them orbit around it. The most powerful thing in the universe?  A star? A supernova? Or a black hole? None can beat a  b...

I am waiting for a Day when I want my Images I don't go to the phone gallery where as I go to Google Images to get my pictures. This is how Success should be defined.😃 मैं उस दिन का इंतज़ार कर रहा हूँ जब मुझे अपनी तस्वीर चाहिए होगी तब मै अपने phone gallery में न जाकर google images में जाऊ। यही सफलता का अर्थ है।😃

किसी चाय की दुकान पर विविध भारती की जगह रेडियो मिर्ची बजते सुनते है तो मालूम होता है कि पीछे क्या छूट गया है। वक़्त कितना आगे बढ़ा, कितना बदला, पता नही। पर जब भी ट्रेन किसी मोहल्...