Living Diagonally In My Parallel World!

Song link https://youtu.be/_YzYm_jyQ6E?si=EKxaAA4XanMOxFCT&t=4 These days (2026) we hear a lot of noise about kids identified as GenZ… typically those between the ages 14 to 29. These kids are judgmentally “labelled” as a self-obsessed generation and having a nihilistic philosophy of life. Incidentally, this was also said by the “Boomer” generation about kids in the 70’s. So we have circled back to the 70’s. 😊 The youth of the 1970s may have been born in an independent country, but they were disappointed and unhappy. Unemployment, prices rise, absence of avenues to a better life had taken too much toll on the youth. Ditto 2026? And this gave rise to words like Bhankas (भंकस), Bekaar ( बेकार) , and so on. (Those in their fifties and sixties can identify with this  😊 ). The West sang its rebellion through the heavy metal music of Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and the bloom of Flower Power. Towards the end of 70's Pink Floyd's "We Don't Need No Education...

Ayan Mitra had always believed that music lived inside everything, the hum of ceiling fans in his childhood home in Kolkata, the rhythm of rain on tram windows, even the uneven clatter of utensils in his mother’s kitchen. He heard melodies in footsteps, harmonies in conversations, and entire compositions in silence. Music wasn’t just his passion; it was the way he breathed, the way he made sense of chaos, the way he stayed alive. Even as a child, he would tap rhythms on school desks, hum tunes while cycling through narrow lanes, and imagine orchestras playing behind everyday life. Reva Bharadwaj’s family hailed from Himachal Pradesh and now settled in Delhi. She was in love with Delhi’s colors, textures, and movements. She saw beauty in the curve of a staircase, the way sunlight fell across a wooden table, the symmetry of shadows on a wall. Young, sharp, admired for her instinctive ability to transform spaces into living stories, by her late twenties she had already become one of the...