The beginning is the most important part of the work...

Who's quote is it? I think it was Plato...Whoever it was...He/She was spot on.So what are we waiting for...? I guess none of us know what exactly we are supposed to do or say..as the description of this blog says, we will define our purpose as we go along, so let us flow with the flow...

We dont know each other, do we? We meet everyday but the overwhelmingly huge class makes it difficult for like-minded people or not-so-like-minded people for that matter,to interact. That is why we are here,right? Sometimes when Prof.Shirshendu is teaching(no offence...err..or may be a little):), I sigh, and look around all these people sitting around me, and wonder, "something about MA is estranging." More often than not i find a few others doing the same..carelessly looking around and wondering.Though when our eyes meet, we blink, we shift in our seats and get back to Shelley.(which i was surprised to find is almost done with!!!)And usually it takes a while to locate the same person again..with whom i shared this fraction-of-a-second empathy!

You know, being students of literature, we should indulge in more interaction..more involvement, more expression! the classes rush along in supersonic speed and we barely know our seniors...and we have no projects, no hard-nosed indulgences! we are a very passive race of beings!Well...a cynical remark but not so entirely.We have to initiate...and i guess, this is a step towards the right direction.

Anyways, i am just blabbering aimlessly, but im just 'going along'..Dont worry i will soon make a point.

Okay, Lets begin with introducing ourselves...how about that?
Allow me to begin,

I am Hina Khajuria. I did my B.A Eng from Daulatram college which aint one of the top-notch ones but the faculty there is nothing less than top-notch!I am in Hindu now.One of the stephens' rejected ugly ducklings! heh heh! anyway, I love writing, I think its liberating and essential..to the extent of making you a better person.Because when you write, you think, and when you think you introspect, excogitate and that leads to self-knowledge. I genuinely feel we dont know ourselves. (and that is not because we failed to answer the 'who am I?' in Sanjay Sharma's mind-boggling Wordsworth class..no offence , really this time, it was a fun class..Its interesting to dig endlessly into a simple question till it leads you to think, "lets keep it simple" heh! "turning and turning into the widening gyre"....)

so I love writing.and reading of course!

I am a huge animal lover! dogs top the list!the most intelligent and lovable beings under the sun!and yes, all my closest friends have passed the 'If-my-pet-likes-you..' test!:)

I love nature, in the Wordsworth(though i am not a fan) and more so in the Alice Walker kind of way (The Color Purple, a must-read if you didnt take the Women's Writing paper in the 3rd year)!though i dont truly believe that if someone cuts a tree, my hand will bleed...but if someone cuts a tree, my heart will surely ache..and it aches quite often.May better sense prevail.

And though i am not much of a poet,i scribble a lot at the back of my registers...not to mention doodling which sure as hell does not make me an artist!

So, that was that I think this was a mighty and needlessly long introduction..but so be it..I have us rolling.... hopefully!

Please introduce yourselves in as much or as less words you like , so we know whom are we getting ourselves into this with!:)

See you all in class!

Hina.