talking girls
in a clasroom of 65 girls, it is not hard to discern the 'talking girls' - the last benchers ideally! pranking, talking aloud, bunking the class, stealing tiffin dabbas. before 2000s, it all seemed pretty cool, unknown of its effects in our lives and the other's. in today's parlance, we were not 'aware'. only years later, when one of the girls we pranked on reached out detailing her ordeal about our pranks did i realise, what we did. she was fine and she just detailed what we did to her affected her back then and how she dealt with it. what idiots we were but 'no one knew better'! i wish i could tour around and apologize to everyone i wronged and wish i was a better human back then, but as i cannot do that for now, here's a piece recognizing that and as juvenile it may sound to make this confession in late 30s, it is important too.