The Young India

Kartikey Sehgal

Some years back, I thought of four friends and if their close friendship will last.
It may, I thought. But don’t trust the eye that does not imagine the valley of flowers.
Many things don’t last. And the exceptions are etched in glass.

There was a boy in college. He spoke of his four friends, “this too will not last”.

Many years later and after a myriad of tribulations, he phoned one friend. “It did not last”.

He was at once a mixture …

Kartikey Sehgal

“Happiness will not come from happiness; but only from pain. We know the value of standing in shade only after roaming in the hot day sun.”
–Atharva Veda

Pain is fun. Pain is natural. Pain is the word given to describe a feeling that is not like happiness. Humans crave pain. Often they are not able to understand the true nature of pain and hence they give in to drugs and sadism. To know pain is to understand a simple duality.

You know …