Rhetoric and Civil Life | Shwetanc Bothra

'Kairos' isn't magical, you got to work for it. Through 208 episodes and 9 long years, the much celebrated TV show How I Met Your Mother left a very important message for its viewers: when you are in the right place at the right time, everything fits and it all goes right; and as the protagonist finally meets the ‘mother’ in the last episode, I only wonder if he knew that it was all through the gift of Kairos, that the show got its beautiful ending. As we all eagerly await for that perfect moment to find us, I googled the sentence, “right place at the right time”, which led me to a very interesting article on how to be in the right place at the right time . It speaks vastly about how kairos, the most essential key to success is not entirely abstract, and timing is anything but a play of luck. Kairos is in your own hands. The protagonist finally has his chance encounter in the last ep of HIMYM We extensively discuss the significance of timing and how a s...

She works at nights, by the water She's gone astray, so far away From her father's daughter She just wants a life for her baby All on her own, no one will come She's got to save him... At a party recently, in the rhythm of electric beats and gibberish lyrics, an upbeat, pop and 'very 2017' music started to play. The music had great dance beats, an excellent voice - and the unheard of : clean lyrics. If the surprise wasn't enough, this club song was also meant to be an ode to a particular section of the society, the most important section in my opinion : mothers . If you haven't already figured it out, I'm talking about Clean Bandit and Anne-Marie's 2017 hit, Rockabye. The name, while hinting to the celebrated nursery rhyme, is an ode to a child, by her mother. She, a single mother, works as a provocative dancer to make ends meet - and more importantly, to provide her child a life of comfort, that she never had. The lyrics of...

Crazy America, Crazier Americans! This is my first visit to America, and everything is so different. Each day of the last month has been appallingly eventful - be it the kind of people I meet, the kind of situations I find myself in, the kind of food I try - and this alien weather. I've shed tears of every kind, and loved every second of it. For someone who isn't American, America can be intimidating. The people are easy-going, overly independent, ambitious and yet hardcore 'fun-lovers'. The balance they maintain between their workload and leisure is commendable; and their attitude downright awesome. This is the reason I want to write my experience, as a multi-cultural international student, in this magnificent country of the United States of America. In the past month, I've had several experiences that I've wanted to share with people, especially other international students or those just far away from home. Be it my first bite of S'mor...