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I thought this deserved to be preserved, that's why I'm dumping it here. Because it was beautiful. A fews days back, I had a dream. It was raining heavily and there were thunders. It was a dark night and I, saw a rainbow! It was beautiful and glowing. It wasn't like a typical circular rainbow, I could just see some part of the curve and I was too scared to go out and follow the trail to see where it goes.But, I went out, followed it. I don't know where it was leading, as I went out, I saw many many rainbows similar to it, glittering in the dark, rainy and scary night.  I remember that feeling being out there. I was scared, exited and curious to go out there and see where it leads. I don't know where it would have led me, the dream ended before that. I don't even know what it meant. But it definitely meant something. Something beautiful!

There's a saying, ' you are an average of 5 people around you '. I believe it's true. But everything has to evolve with time, and that applies to this saying as well. People in India spend around 6-7 hours in front of the screen and if you are from this generation, most of it would be social media. You probably spend more time on those apps than with your best friends.  This changes the perspective entirely for that statement. Because now you have to consider the social media factor while considering the average.  When you are going through a phase in life (which is almost always) and you come across an Instagram post which is soo relatable and so called, ' motivational ' (which is also, almost always). You get motivated. You feel that you got a solution. It ' feels good '. You change your thoughts, your beliefs infact your values (temporarily).  The next day, you see another post, this time it says something different (maybe the first post told you, ...

By Anomaly, here I mean someone who's trying to do different, follow a different path. And that's sometimes scary. It sometimes hits you. You see people around you getting placed, getting settled and you are still hustling around your dream.  Being in final year of engineering, where I believe most of the dreams die and people now start to settle for whatever placements they get (of course, here I am talking about mediocre people, exceptional is rare at our college, and Anomaly is rarest). Me being one of the very few people doing a startup. I mean sounds cool right? A startup! CEO! Founder! Funding! Valuation! It's all bullshit.  Sometimes you are mentally exhausted managing college stuff (most of it is useless) and trying to survive with a very early stage Startup.  If you are preparing for Competitive exams or even placements, there are a huge people around you who relate to you. For me, hardly anyone because of course, I am an anomaly. Sometimes I feel it's too risk...

People ask me this question a lot of times after knowing my CET Score, why did I choose mechanical. I could have easily secured admission in EnTC Engineering or even Computer in the spot rounds. So here's why I chose mechanical over other branches and why now I feel it's a huge mistake I made.  I am very much interested to learn a lot of things. I have a lot of interest in supercars, superbikes, planes, spaceships and many other things. Also, in AI, Metaverse and Robotics. I wanted to become an aerospace engineer because I love rockets and spaceships. So, it was a dilemma for me choosing a right branch for engineering. After some thinking, I decided mechanical because I thought I could learn computer science online through courses. But mechanical can't be learnt that way, it's a hands-on activity. Online courses won't help there.  So, I got admitted to COEP Mechanical, because of course, it's so called the best college you can get in the state through CET. I was...

Zero maybe an End of something or a new Beginning.  Let's begin with me in brief, I was born in a middle class family, I have no sibling and Grandpa was an intelligent man. Everyone in my family thinks that I will achieve what my grandpa wasn't able to achieve, Success. I was a studious kid from childhood, was a topper in my class, had big dreams, which ofcourse, I still have, and I have always been an obedient, sincere kid. Got good grades in 10th board exams, not enough though to get admission in the so called best Junior College in my town. My parents had to pay a donation to get me admitted. Just because I got 0.2% less grades than the cutoff. I actually regretted that moment.  But that was not what I wanted, I actually wanted to study in Pune to prepare for JEE. But that didn't happen, that's a different story. Still, with a regret, I got admitted in that college. Decided to study hard, which I actually did. I got more score in 11th than in 10th and a even higher ...

I am damn interested in knowing how differently people are raised. Some come from a privileged background, some just travelled places with their parents' transfers, some people are like me, who were raised in tier 2, tier 3 cities or towns, whatever, and the are exposed to an entirely different world of tier 1 cities. I feel grateful to the way I was raised. I have seen all extreme aspects of India. From poverty to luxury, from vilages to metro cities and the people at these different places. I believe my environment was very crucial part in shaping me. Maybe if I was still at village or town, I wouldn't have started a startup. I would have been just doing engineering and looking for a stable job with good salary. Being able to see underdeveloped and developed India, helped me understand how startup can solve different problems at different levels. That's why I am building Leafora.  I was lucky that my parents didn't force me in being a thiest and following the religio...

Why do they exist and how are they being used by the people (specially Indians)?   I have been thinking about this and realised that I was also somehow falling for this trap of social media. Sharing stories on Instagram just to impress a girl I liked. I kept checking if she had seen my story. And that's not healthy . Digging deep I found that people share stories to brag, flex about how they are enjoying life and you are missing out if you are not with them. Of course majority of that stories aren't intended to hurt someone. But once we peel off layer of human behaviour, we can slightly see where this all is going.  Maybe I feel it's somewhat good that I don't use Snapchat and I don't really share stories anymore or post something on Instagram. I just use it for the purpose of news, and some content that some amazing pages posts. And that's a relief knowing that you aren't unintentionally hurting someone mentally, by flexing about your fancy food, outings, ...