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Issue 23, Founders’ Special
Established: 1995
Saturday, October 27th, 2018
When you look around and see fresh paint glistening on the walls, grey clouds that seem to never pour and tired feet paired with excited faces, you know it is that time of the year. Founder’s. The time of the year when life is hectic yet undeniably cherished. The time of the year when you, dear readers, create magic while we observe and record. -Deputy Editor
Star Struck
-Tulika Bhargav, Editor-in-Chief he 11-year-old eagerly looked into the eyes of look. Stirred as if from a deep reverie, the older girl the stern looking girl with a crisp shirt and replied, “It is that time of the year again. A special an ironed blazer who wore a shiny metal time when there is an undeniable liveliness in the air. badge on her lapel. The little girl probed, “What is It is when an Aviator bears a spring in every step, happening? The people around me seem tired yet colour in every stroke, a spark in every note, music happy. The air feels altered and the smell of fresh in every beat, drama in every act and a capture in paint seems to linger in the corridors and the streets”. every photograph. As for words, they quietly erupt The older girl smiled. It seemed to transform the like tiny spells from all that you see around you. It rigid lines of her jaw making her appear soft even as is Founders’.” The younger girl listened in rapture. her eyes crinkled with a warm glow. Time seems to The night sky seemed to have turned into an open flow in a peculiar manner in this expanse she realized. planetarium and each star seemed to shine with a “Night falls fast, today is the past.” A sentence she peculiar dazzle. Although she could not comprehend had once read in the School library, in a book she in entirety all that the girl with the shiny badge had no longer remembers. Yet these lines seem to find just told her, she could nonetheless feel the spirit her perfect symmetry in this moment spurred by a single words had evoked. She beamed for she knew that question. The young girl continued to look at the girl someday she would understand, now however, was with the shiny badge whose eyes had taken on a new the time to practice and perfect.
Photograph: Kushal Mittal
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