The Happy Universe - Rishav Sahoo Blog

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48680630 Hey folks! It’s me again, Dog. Hope you are all doing well. Today I wanted to share something with you all. Something that everyone of must know. Something that every one of us should start believing in! Do you remember my friend ‘Bird’?  Remember I called him crazy when I spoke to you last? Maybe, I was wrong. Maybe he isn’t as crazy as we believe him to be. Yesterday something happened. Something bad, very bad! It made me think for long. Well, I cannot think for as long as hoomans, but within a short duration I have realized something real. I don’t think the Hoomans are as intelligent as we thought them to be. Yesterday my Hooman took me to the park. Park is good. It is beautiful. It has trees. In fact, it is the only place in our world that has some trees. I feel fresh there. I was playing with my Hooman in the park. Meow was also there. She was chasing some poor mouse that lived under the park bench. I was playing ‘fetch’...

Hi! I am Dog. My Hooman calls me that. I live in a house with my hooman. Our house is in very beautiful world. It has a park, flat roads for cars to walk and a lot of houses. Our world is full of too many hoomans. My hooman is good, he gives me food. He plays with me and makes me sleep. I have many friends. Meow lives next door to mime with her hooman. She is a cat. She likes balls with threads.  Moo is my big cow friend. She and her sister live together with their hooman. They have their own house. Their hooman doesn’t sleep with them. Maybe because they are big! Bird is my crazy friend. He can fly. He tells weird stuffs. He claims to have seen very big water. Bigger than our world! I have tried to convince him that there is nothing big than our world. He doesn’t listen. So he is crazy. He thinks because he can fly, we should believe anything he says us. This image belongs to the rightful owner. Once he told us that he has seen a lot of hoomans around this big water. Th...

सन 2016, मार्च का महीना था। बारहवीं के बोर्ड्स शुरू हो गए थे। उस दिन पहला पेपर था। हम सब लोग परीक्षा केंद्र के बाहर 9 बजने का इंतज़ार कर रहे थे। कुछ लोग एक आखिरी बार किताबें टटोल रहे थे,( जैसे कि उन चंद मिनटों में पूरा पाठ्यक्रम चाट जाएंगे) और कुछ उसी खुशनुमा अंदाज़ में (कि अरे जो होगा देख लेंगे) मार्च के महीने की सुबह वाली धूप का मज़ा लेते हुए अपने साथियों से बातें कर रहे थे। इन्हीं सब के बीच मैं भी शामिल था। लेकिन मेरी कुछ और ही बात थी। मैं इन सबसे परे कुछ और तलाशे हुए था। मेरी नज़रें उस एक चेहरे को ढूंढ रही थी जिनको मैंने अपना गुड़ लक मान लिया था। अब भई गुड लक वाले चेहरे के दर्शन किए बिना परीक्षा कैसे दे सकते थे। थोड़ी मुश्किल और शिद्दत वाली कोशिश के बाद मुझे वह चेहरा अंततः दिख गया। वह चेहरा जो मुझे ये आश्वासन दे सकता था कि हाँ अब सब कुछ ठीक है। वह खड़ी थी कुछ दूरी पर, अपनी सहेलियों से अलग, एकदम अकेली, हाथों में अपनी किताब लिए। मैंने देखा उसके चेहरे की ओर। उस मासूम चेहरे पर परेशानी छाई हुई थी। एक पेड़ के नीचे कभी किताब को देखती तो कभी किताब से नज़रें उठा कर मन ही मन कुछ बड़बड़ाती। इसी प्र...

I had been waiting for this day for long and now that this day has come, it doesn't feel so good. I started packing with my books And the laptop came along. Between the books in my shelf Were few memories as photographs Past years were reminded Beautiful days with beautiful people. Not so long trips. Birthdays celebrated. Classes bunked. Places explored, Redefining beauty of the ugliest places in the town. I was determined never to get attached to something like this I was determined not to let my emotions be dominated by something like this And then I felt something crawling on my left cheek The photos now looked blurred My lips smiling and eyes filled. I closed my eyes and put my head up I looked outside the window, it was one of the most appealing evening views I have ever had. I paused the packing, went outside, took my bicycle, and started towards the calmest, most serene places that I knew in the city. But unfortunately, that was no more the same...

Imagine loosing someone you love, for life. Not the ones related to you through romantic love, but the ones whom you actually love. Like your Mother, or anyone else in the family you have been the closest to. Isn't only the thought of it enough to send a chill through the spine? Doesn't it feel to take the thought of it straight away from the mind?. Now imagine the feeling when the one person whom you love unconditionally has lost someone that dear to them! That is even harder. You don't feel what they must be going through. You might not even have the slightest idea how they must be feeling. But, what you feel is totally different. You can't cry over the demise of the one person they have lost. You can't also stay calm watching the one dearest to you in such pain. Now you don't know what to do. Let them pour their heart out and feel the pain, let them have their alone time to grief or try to help them get through it and overcome the grief? You want to...

When I opened my eyes, I could see what was in front of me with difficulty. Everything looked blurred and translucent. My head was also giving me nauseating effect as if I was having a hangover. It took me some time to get back to my senses and it was then I figured out that the blurred vision was due to all the smog and not because I was losing my eyesight as I thought previously. I looked around and found the place to be totally unknown to me.   It was a shed house, like a place of hiding with lots of injured and grieving voices. People with scratches on their body, people with lost limbs, drenched in blood, lying on their beloved’s arms. Their beloveds, shedding unending tears, incapable of doing anything. Helpless, for the medical facility was no longer at their service, watched family and friends dying in their arms. They themselves were in no condition for mobility. Badly injured as if the survivors of war. Their faces spoke a volume of intense fear and guilt...

बाहर रहता हूं, घर से दूर, अजनबियों के साथ। है कुछ दोस्त, जिन्हें अपना कह सकूँ, पर घर तो घर होता है।  जब भी छुट्टियाँ होती है, घर जाने का खयाल आता है । अंदर एकदम से खुशी की लहर उठ जाती है। पता होता है घर पर कुछ करना नहीं है, बस आराम करना है, सुस्ताना है और समय बर्बाद ही करना है। बावजूद इसके घर तो जाना है। कभी कभी तो सोचता हूं घर न जाऊँ। घर जाकर करूँगा भी क्या, यहीं पर रुकता हूँ, बचा हुआ काम खत्म कर लेता हूं। यहां रहूंगा तो आगे के काम को भी जल्दी से शुरू कर सकूंगा ताकि वक़्त आने पर सब संभालने में आसानी होगी । मगर एक खयाल जब आता है, तब सारी दुविधाओं का अंत हो जाता है। घर जाने पर माँ से मिलूंगा । यही खयाल काफी है सब कुछ छोड़ छाड़ कर घर लौट जाने के लिए। आज भी जब घर को जाता हूं, सबसे पहले माँ को ढूंढता हूँ। वैसे तो जब मालूम होता है कि मैं घर आने वाला हूं तो राह ताके इंतज़ार में रहती है, लेकिन जब बिना बताए जाता हूं तो हर कमरे में, रसोई में हर जगह ढूंढता हूँ कि माँ कहां है। माँ के मिलने पर ही चैन आता और बाकी कोई काम किया जाता है। एक बात तो ज़रूर है, जब माँ दिख जाती है तो सफर का सा...

It has been a week since this incident had happened. I have been living a wonderful life since then. The perspective towards life has completely changed for me. I wanted to share it with every person who is in pursuit of happiness. It was a usual morning. I was headed towards my college. Like many other days, I found out that the lecture on the subject was suspended again. I got irritated by the frequent cancellation of classes. It was a sunny and humid day. The next lecture I had to attend was to be delivered after about 3 hours. I was not in a mood to return to my room and back again. I decided to visit the library. But, it had slipped out of my mind that the library opened at 11:00am.It was only 9:30 in the morning .And as obvious, on reaching I found it to be closed. I had some water and with that heavy and boring head sat on a platform under the shade of a tree located in our campus. There was already someone sitting at some distance to me. He was busy writing something o...

The other day , on a fine , chilly, winter morning, during recess, I was hanging out with my group of favourite bastards in the school lawn. We were having fun insulting each other and staring at pretty girls . The cold morning kept us rubbing our palms together for frictional heat and the sound of shivering teeth added life to the cold when the freezing breeze slapped us hard on the surroundings. It was then I realised all the warmth in my body oozing out , when my eyes rested on the most beautiful human creation of dear Lord. My crush was out in the lawn under the sun. Her presence made all things bright and beautiful around me. The cold was gone, my teeth stopped playing piano and the rubbing hands were calm. The whole universe felt warm and serene. The freezing breeze no more mattered and my eyes completely synchronised to her motion. She was along with two of her friends increasing the warmth of the surrounding and adding beauty to the universe under the sun. Few moments...

It was a pleasant afternoon during my vacation. The weather was good with the clear sky and a cool wind blowing. I was lying on my bed literally doing nothing and occasionally staring at my phone. My younger brother insisted to go out for a ride. It didn’t take much longer for us to decide where to go. My home town being situated amidst the whole of nature always has some place to offer wonderful. Few kilometres away from home was a river, we decided to visit for a swim.  We started off on my bike covering our faces with kerchiefs to block out the dust from the road side (ya, this is also included in the “whole of nature” mentioned earlier) and the pollution. We nevertheless enjoyed the wind and the greenery, the sight of passing by trees on both sides of the road is always a treat for the eyes. The wind splashing on our body and the roaring engine added thrill to the journey. Time passes faster when we start enjoying something. And thus in no time we arrived at our desti...

They had found out. The truth, truth who I was. A spy. It was over. I saw my end coming. Anything I could do was to wait, wait for my death. A small mistake that was about to end my life. "Tie him up", commanded their boss. I was tied by my hands and legs and one of them pushed me on my knees. The pain of fear had dominated over physical pain. I couldn't feel my knees bumping on the ground hard. He pointed a gun on my forehead. The boss, was just eager to kill the only proof of his illegality. A streak of fear ran down my spine. My whole body shivered. I felt my hands and legs trembling. He pulled the gun to load a bullet. That sound was all that was audible. Everything around got numb and calm. The water dripping down the ceiling of their base, the wind brushing against my face, it was all precisely felt. My brain could concentrate and focus on each activity going around me. Their laughter in the background in slow motion and the eagerness of the boss to kill, ...