aS Featured: The Lost Bride

One who reads, writes. As promised, We keep bringing to you 'aS featured' where we publish select ‘arbit speculations’ submitted by our readers to us. Ujjwal Raghuvanshi brings to you a heart wrenching piece of poem this poetry month. Do you think you might have some long lost poem kept somewhere that might be worth featuring? Send it in to arbitspecs@googlegroups.com. We're waiting, poets!

Door was ajar, waiting for the eonian night to end.                                  

Window was still, heralding the arrival of the moonlit breeze.
Still as the sun, she laid, her face trying hard to deceive the phantasms of her mind.

“Pas, laisse-moi” shot through the silence, she fell of the lair.
Once a pleasant face of a bride was now contorted with hapless fear.

Beads of sweat rolled down her marble skin; a shiver ran down her spine.
She knew her time was coming lest her conscience believed it.

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Basics of basically

Sitting in the midst of my interim thesis viva presentation, I couldn't help but listen to the plethora of basicallies spewed into the air by everyone while speaking. Intrigued by this, and inspired by this fad of writing pretentious articles analyzing indicators of forever ensuing trends (even when you don't know shit about it) an arbitSpeculation had to arise out of the attic.

Follow this link if you're the kind of reader who does. http://bit.ly/Ak7Fle
If not, I won't basically define basically for you, but I will embed this oh-so-geeky graph of the usage of the word.

[insert random quote that sounds pretty impressive]
Orwell wrote: "If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."

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In case you wondered, why the Yepme delivery box in #MaukaMauka ad 4!

So the #MaukaMauka series of advertisements goes on with the winning spree of the Indian team. While I'm totally loving the fact that India has had a hat-trick of impressive wins already, I was a bit disappointed with the fourth ad in the series, this time against West Indies.

The ad is surprisingly weak and apologetic in establishing any emotional connect unlike its predecessors, but what disappointed me the most was the almost random Brand placement of Yepme.com! A little googling (news) up and I found out the real reason why!

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Mountain Dew's Realtime Snapchat story. Errr...What?

Okay, so marketing 101? Superbowl ads are awesome! Among the better ones this year that have spread far and wide, there is this oddball doing the rounds.
Mountain Dew released two new flavors Pineapple Orange Mango and Kiwi Strawberry during the Superbowl XLIX with an ad showing two dudes dancing eccentrically after sipping the same.

Well, wait... here comes the interesting stuff.

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#SocialKiAankh ! - Pilot

The world is social today, like it never was. Socio-viral development.
Damn, that sounds heavy! And ridiculous! And heavy. :/

Anyways, till yesterday we were the novice kids playing with our childish gadgets, while the adults and grown up professionals minded their Business as Usual.

And suddenly every damn thing which has got anything to do with being cool is happening on social networking sites. And every business worth its salt is trying hard to cash on social media marketing.

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The year in images: an arbit thought.

Consider this.

The Board of Governors (BoG) of the KVS headed by HRD Minister Smriti Irani decided that teaching of
German language as an option to Sanskrit will be discontinued herewith.

I will come back to this later, but I have to admit, the accompanying image did morph the first thoughts that would have come to my mind, rather, even aggrandize my negative vouch towards the decision.
Although the media's usage of a news image has been widely discussed and reiterating it would not add substance to the agreed upon notion, I would like to add that more than the authenticity or correct usage of an image, the selection also creates subtle biases in the reader's perceptions.

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aS-Featured: I'm Not The Only One

One who reads, writes. As promised, We keep bringing to you 'aS featured' where we publish select ‘arbit speculations’ submitted by our readers to us. Chaitanya Krish speculates on his 'imagined' experience. Do you think you might have some arbit speculation that might be worth featuring? Send it in to arbitspecs@googlegroups.com. We're waiting, readers and writers!

"May I come in Sir..??" 
That voice brought me back to the classroom. It was alive, like a symphony, only starting with a crescendo and never coming down. It had a certain purity and an undefined  rhythm to it. It was the voice of an angel. 

She was searching for a seat anxiously and  that's when our eyes met. With a half smile on my face, and anticipation in my mind, I signaled her to sit in the empty seat beside me, with my eyes.  The class was almost half empty. She could have sat anywhere in the class. She had no reason to accept my awkward invitation. But, when you want something with all of your heart , the universe conspires and brings it to you. Now my relationship with the universe was a bumpy one. The universe usually screwed me every time it got a chance, but that day, it chose not to.  She smiled silently and came towards me and took the seat beside me. My heart was beating slower and faster, the same time. I had butterflies in my stomach, who refused to settle down.  

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