an ambitious journey

Adolescence is such a crucial phase of life where you experience new things, that transforms you into a more mature person. So here, in the next few paragraphs I will very "maturely" explain fellow adolescents on how to be content.  The dynamics involved at this stage of life are too much to handle. You are due with 10 assignments every other day, concurrent exams, relationship problems, irritation due to small things AND SO MUCH MORE.  Just yesterday I was reading a news where a 12-year-old kid suffered a heart attack. Should this period really be so stressful? is a question that popped up in my mind. Well, the question is ambiguous. Some would say if not work now, then when; others would say enjoy the innocence right now deal with the problems later. I say that we do need to work hard today to have an easier life tomorrow. But it is not worth losing our mental and physical wellbeing in the process. There's already too much competition in the world, why don't we focu...

 We had been waiting soooo long for this opportunity .....  the chance of visiting the National Defence Academy at Khadakwasla, Pune. My father's NDA course Silver jubilee function was being organised in the second week of Dec 2022, though two years late due to CoVID induced delay. 10th-11th December 2022 -       We travelled to Delhi from Dehradun by road on 10th Dec. The next day we had an early morning flight. The desire of seeing the NDA was the only motivation that egged us to wake up so early. We reached Pune at noon from where we went to our hotel. We were welcomed with my father's coursemates hooting and shouting in excitement. Then we changed and took a nap until it was time for the course get together dinner. I was able to meet and make many new friends at this dinner; and the special thing about Army children is that they mix up really quickly. The night ended late while we jived at the DJ's music, and finally left the hotel late.  12th Dece...

The moon was formed 4.5 billion years ago. At the beginning, basins were formed from the heavy bombardment of asteroids and comets which were floating in space due to explosion of big rocks in the space. Then a short-lived igneous activity happened, commonly attributed as mare volcanism. Thin crusts were formed. After this, intermediate cratering and formation of ray craters took place. Mostly regolith rays covered the moon. These rays were made from the collision of large and small meteoroids on the already forming ball of rocks. These activities kept happening for centuries and the consequent product is what we see up above the sky every evening. The first mission to moon was experimented by the Soviet Union on September 12,1959. Though the mission failed, ten years after the Americans successfully landed humans on the moon on July 16, 1969 from their spacecraft- Apollo11.                               ...

  My parents recently joined a bird watching and stargazing group in Dehradun. It is administered by Mr. Satpal Gandhi, a professional stargazer and birdwatcher. Various sessions are conducted for the group members and their friends which helps spreading of this hobby to many future bird watchers and star gazers.            Mr. Gandhi, on 12th December, asked all the group participants if they were interested in going for a trip the next day, to a place called Asan Barrage for experiencing a meteor shower and observing rare birds. My parents asked my sister and me if we wanted to go and out of excitement we said yes. I was informed by my parents to pack warm clothes as it would be really cold and we would be staying near a water body during the month of December. We set off at noon and reached Asan Barrage at half past 2. We all got mesmerized the moment we saw that place. It was a magnificent riverscape and the cottages had a conical rooftop with...

It was May 1999 when an Indian army patrol led by Lt. Saurabh Kalia walking along LOC in Kargil went missing that raised eyebrows at the headquarters. What came back were badly mutilated bodies of our brave soldiers. This incident started the fourth war between India and Pakistan; The Kargil war or Operation Vijay, which started from May 3rd and ended on July 26th. Yes, this was the fourth time that a war was thrust upon the Indian subcontinent. The war continued for 2 months prior to Pakistan's defeat. 527 Indian soldiers were martyred, breaking the hearts of numerous people and leaving behind hundreds of families in grief. Many soldiers had been awarded with the Paramvir Chakra for their brave and courageous act. India had to fight to maintain its territorial integrity. Though in general wars are not desirable, but one can  flip the pages of history and more importantly in the Indian context, the wars had been fought against invaders, blunderers and enemies of the state. ...