{"id":734,"date":"2012-02-07T12:24:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T06:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pothi.com\/?p=734"},"modified":"2012-02-07T12:24:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T06:54:27","slug":"entries-received-for-lknb-contest-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/07\/entries-received-for-lknb-contest-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Entries received for LKNB Contest – II"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LKNB<\/a><\/p>\n

Entry ID 1110: Aliya by Aasif Shah<\/strong><\/p>\n

Next day, he saw her crossing the gully that was in front of his friend’s house. He went up to her. \u2018\u2018How is the pigeon?”<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2018What are you doing? People are watching, please go away,” she said. He was taken aback. \u2018\u2018Wait for me at the road,” she whispered. He walked ahead.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

”She’s fine now, thank you. You are Ajmal\u2019s friend, right?” They’re walking on the road.<\/p>\n

”I\u2019m Suhail. We’re roommates in Mumbai. We came down here yesterday. I\u2019ve a project on oranges as my project for third year. I\u2019m majoring in Botany. What\u2019s that in your hand?”<\/p>\n

“A Tale of Two Cities. Our classic. BA first year. Have you read this book?”<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2018Yes. I found it interesting,” he lied lest she should stop talking to him.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2018This is my precious book.” It was a hard cover book. They had reached her college. He noticed how different she looked. She was in a yellow floral printed kurti and blue jeans.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2018Can we meet again?” he asked.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2018Why?”<\/p>\n

”I\u2019ll be at the farm in the evening.” She strolled inside without answering.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Entry ID 1111: Love Knows No Bounds by Ankita Ghosh<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cVictor Banerjee acted in A Discovery of India<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t know A Discovery of India<\/em> is a movie?\u201d asked a pair of bewildered eyes.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are talking about A Passage to India<\/em>. The other <\/em>is a book by Nehru.\u201d<\/p>\n

The same pair of disbelieving eyes looked at Rakshit, \u201cI thought, after adaptation, they can change the name.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA Passage to India<\/em> is by E. M. Forster,\u201d Rakshit explained calmly \u201cwhile A Discovery of India <\/em>is Nehru\u2019s.\u201d Almost in the same breath, he continued, \u201cThere you are!\u201d as a bespectacled girl carrying heavy notebooks walked in.<\/p>\n

The girl with the disbelieving pair of eyes examined the simple dress, the library glasses, and those anorexic hands and protruding collar bones for the umpteenth time. Mrinalini and Mehek were in the same year at Nagpur Law College. Mehek was mostly unwell, dressed plain and hardly had any friends. Rakshit seemed to be completely mesmerized by her presence. In no time, Rakshit got busy telling Mehek about the debate he was having with Mrinalini about the two books and their respective authors. He even took the liberty to jibe at Mrinalini, \u201cYou never know, tomorrow she will say that Nehru was the first President of India!\u201d Both, Mehek and Rakshit found this to be hilarious and had a hearty laugh. Mrinalini could only sit in muted agony.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Entry ID 1110: Aliya by Aasif Shah Next day, he saw her crossing the gully that was in front of his friend’s house. He went up to her. \u2018\u2018How is the pigeon?” \u2018\u2018What are you doing? People are watching, please go away,” she said. He was taken aback. \u2018\u2018Wait for me at the road,” she … Continue reading “Entries received for LKNB Contest – II”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7vAZr-bQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}