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They Feared Issue 1 - Confessions She did not know how to react. It was difficult to believe that something like this could happen in an institution of this repute. She tried to get the things correctly. “Tanya, tell me, how could someone get inside without opening the door? Did you not lock it last night?” “I did. But I was not getting much of sleep today. I went to get some water at about 5 ‘o’clock. I was reading a book after that in my room. I did not latch the door but closed it properly.” Tanya replied, still crying. “Okay, fine. Can you identify the guy? I heard many of them partying last night near my room. Maybe someone too drunk did this. We will inform the authorities. Nothing to worry.” She always took this upfront position when it came to standing for a right cause. “No, Sakshi. I could only see his red t-shirt and blue pants. I don’t want to tell anybody and I am leaving today only. I am going to call Papa.” Tanya went out, almost running. She left the campus that very evening. Sakshi informed the authorities about the incident. But without the victim’s statement, they were reluctant about even investigating such matters. She asked Abhishek for help. He seemed more concerned about his career. He refused, saying, “ I don’t want to get involved in your ‘social work’.” What if they think of me as a rebel and my grades go down?” She had been busy with work after that and the thing just got out of her mind. And now there are six more days to go and it is again a weekend. Tomorrow will be a Saturday morning. And some people are busy getting drunk just outside her room. That incident with Tanya was just a repercussion of heavy partying. Tanya left out of fear. She is stuck inside her room out of fear. The authorities feared that they might end up accusing the wrong person or their institute may be defamed. Abhishek feared that his image may go wrong in the institute if he spoke against such matters. But how long? How long do we take to overcome our fears and speak up? It’s the time to think. PAGE 10 www.inkdrift.com
Issue 12 - Confessions The Confession The Confession Viniti Rajwani Have you ever read a common word that suddenly starts to lose its meaning, just when you need it to strike a note within or inspire a flame of thought? As I start to write this piece I feel like I’m already running out of words or perhaps there are just way too many of them swarming in my head that I’m just unable to find the perfect combination to string along and adequately express my thoughts. Why are people so afraid of confessions? Is embarrassment the worst thing you can feel towards yourself? As an infant we all were able to express a range of emotions without being timid, so why do we lose the capability to openly practice the same set of emotions when we have grown past about twenty odd years? Emotions that were naturally ingrained in us- with brutal honesty as adults? Why do we hide behind lies and secrets fuelled by insecurities? In am an attempt to contemplate the answers to these odd but important questions, I realized that this is a generic flaw in us all. Everyone has at some time in their life fallen short of their own standards and judged themselves way too aggressively for it. I too have monsters under my bed, monsters I created, monsters I aggravated and monsters I had sown in my heart. Even so, I’ve paid my dues, the ugly ones too. I let my bully turn me into a bully, and at the time I believed I was doing the right thing, standing up and fighting for myself after spending way too much time feeling helpless and self-pity. I felt a sense of empowerment in sabotaging her for ill-treating me for what was a majority of my school life. She was my classmate and we would spend a lot of fun filled bus rides home from school, sleepovers; and I always found myself connecting amicably with her, although only as long as we were not around a group of our close friends. I could never understand why she had developed such a distaste for me in a public setting when we got along so well while we were together. She began to dominate and somehow always managed to exclude me from all activities as a group. It had gone one for too long, in all this time I couldn’t ever figure out why things had to change so much. Then one day out of nowhere I got an opportunity to learn why she felt that way about me. In hindsight, I could’ve just called her PAGE 11 www.inkdrift.com
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