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Here is the link to my Youtube channel "Jas" where I have posted few videos of my public performances of singing at various occasions since 2011.Few of them are videos of performing with the awesome band 'Saptak' based in Trivandrum.(Quite an accidental incident!!) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYh8ARulxaVomRq8RsbaP_g

A short trip during the summer vacation definitely is something that energizes your mind and fills it with some positive power. This vacation, being the longest in the history of my school life, we made a week long trip to Delhi. Despite burning at 46 degrees, I could enjoy Delhi in all its beauty. The sun was overhead and it felt like standing inside an oven, there was dust and the air wasn’t as clean as it is back here. But Delhi was a fun and enlightening place to be in.                                   To experience the history that I’ve only learnt in textbooks was something that made my heart leap in joy. To walk past those same buildings and streets through which the Mughals and the rulers of the Sultanate walked past, literally gave me goosebumps. Many a times I wished I lived in those glorious times. Well, yes, the world is much better now, but you know- just to know how it might have be...

                         I thought being a leader was simple.But I was badly mistaken.Being a leader is no simple deal.And I learnt that just a few days back after taking up my first serious role as a leader.                              Last Sunday was the swearing in ceremony of the newly elected state leaders of Akhila Kerala Balajana Sakhyam-Asia's largest children's organization.It is an organization started way back in 1929 under the mentorship of Malayala Manorama and has a membership of more than 4 lakh children.It has a 4-tier federation system starting from the unit to the union to the zone and then the state.We conduct classes,seminars and camps for the members and the children in turn carry out many social service schemes like helping children from underprivileged backgrounds, conducting medical camps,building homes for the poor,visit...

Dear Parents,                   I've just finished 10th grade and its now time to take the first of the many crucial decisions of my life.All 10th graders are busy like me,planning about what to do next in their academic lives. Everybody is busy writing admission tests,getting into entrance coaching institutes and tuition centers.Maybe your son or daughter is one among those lot. That's why its one of the best times to be writing this letter to you.                        I've always loved social sciences and have always wanted to work in that field.That's why next year I would be opting for Humanities stream.Many of my relatives,friends,my parents' friends and my friends' parents  are trying to make up my mind to drop that idea of mine and join the science stream. Being born to two doctors and being a topper in class, it comes in as a surprise for many people when I say th...

When I walk out of a theatre after watching a movie,it is very rarely that I have a wonderful feeling of happiness and fulfillment intertwined with each other.And after such a long time Jungle Book brought back that sensation.Jungle Book was no doubt the best movie I had seen in quite a long time. The theatre literally transformed into a jungle where I saw Mowgli with his manly tricks and his wild friends up so close that I felt that I was one among them too. Everything seemed so real.                    The graphical animals could connect with the audience through their emotions better than  human actors, in any random movie.The farewell scene between Mowgli and his wolf mother Raksha did make me cry. Baloo and his bare necessities made me happy from within. Bagheera's presence made me comfortable.And don't forget Shere Khan;he did make me rage for revenge!                     ...

 Dear JNU,                 We are living in bizarre times,literally. Everybody's firing nationalism from all corners. You need to get certificates of nationalism to be proved that you're a "True Indian".Just criticizing the repressive apparatus makes you anti-national. Talking about the real issues that people face in India makes you anti-national. What is happening right now is too hard to even comprehend  because this is against the very idea of India that our constitution talks about.           What is really ironical in  this situation is that people who actually strive to alleviate the many problems that we as a country face are called anti-national,while those who let lose fascism and endanger the ideals of our constitution, teach us what nationalism is.What I don't understand is why  do they  consider it a taboo when the woes of the people of the nation are raised?Why is it that they ...

There was a time when I slept  among Kalashnikovs, When I was always willing to be the suicide bomber, I walked among fearless men, Who spared not even young children. They said they’ll pay me sums, a hundred rupees; I’ve not even seen a hundred rupees. They said they’ll feed my poor mother And cure her of her ailments. They said they’ll give me a better house to live in, And give me a square meal a day. Oh! How naïve I was to have believed them. I was young and full of vigor, When they asked me to do the foul deed, I set my pistols and bombs, And toiled myself day in and day out, With patience and excitement. But the day I killed them, I saw a part of me die with them. I heard wailing mothers, In the wake of their loss. That robbed them of their hopes and joys. I saw blood everywhere, vengeance in every breath, Until it taught me of my ghastly act. My hands are stained with the stench of my beastly act Oh! What have I don...