The Ego Surfer

The surroundings were alien. The pretentious exterior of the school building seemed more intellectual than the unimaginative white-washed buildings of St. Mark’s where Ravi had been his previous academic year. Scores of aspirants pored in through the two gates of the school and seemed suave and from the well-bred nobility of northern Bangalore. Ravi felt an overpowering sense of nervousness as he tagged on to his elder sister, waiting for their appointment with the Principal. The Principal’s office was right next to the entrance and Mr. Radhakrishnan was conversing with a deferential parent inside his cabin. A score of desperate parents unabashedly starred through the window trying to catch a glimpse of the celebrity principal. “I heard he is very strict even with the parents!” a parent told her spouse in Tamil. Ravi’s sister, Kala, glanced at him and parted with a nervous smile. Ravi reciprocated. The security guard, in a ragamuffin uniform and a Hawaii slipper, rushed towards the cro

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My literary flair seems to be titillated only when I am acutely poignant or heavily in monetary debt! Now, having been ensconced in relative ordinariness and narrowing the gap between the negative and the positive in my unkempt balance book, I seem to have totally lost it to express myself on anything. I am your unfriendly neighborhood IT guy; physically disproportionate, emotionally challenged and economically endowed with more than I deserve or can handle. I seldom talk to anybody other than my laptop. I keep myself passive with a 9-9 job; dealing with clients across the globe, churning out colorful reports in impossible formats and spending time “fire-fighting” (as software folks say with brooding eyebrows) issues in my projects and the ever-increasing attrition in my teams (am I the reason for it?!). I have a miniscule domestic life and spend weekends in hibernation when I try – and fail – to pull my overweight ass to the neighborhood gym. Just the other day – actually it was a yea