1.25 billion reasons why ‘Hum honge kaamyab’ @Jantar Mantar
Number in a roll call, rank on a marksheet, biometric in a database, fine print in a ‘special Intensiverevision’. The system is designed to make you feel like a cockroach, scurrying around, fighting, surviving, one in 1.25 billion. Saturday I became that – part of a mass thought to be as inconsequential as dust, as unnoticed as air that, to paraphrase Maya Angelou, rose; that, to paraphrase Faiz Ahmad Faiz, sent a throne up in the air like cotton.
- ▪Number in a roll call, rank on a marksheet, biometric in a database, fine print in a ‘special Intensiverevision’.
- ▪The system is designed to make you feel like a cockroach, scurrying around, fighting, surviving, one in 1.25 billion.
- ▪Saturday I became that – part of a mass thought to be as inconsequential as dust, as unnoticed as air that, to paraphrase Maya Angelou, rose; that, to paraphrase Faiz Ahmad Faiz, sent a throne up in the air like cotton.
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| Publication time | Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:44:01 +0000 |
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Number in a roll call, rank on a marksheet, biometric in a database, fine print in a ‘special Intensiverevision’. The system is designed to make you feel like a cockroach, scurrying around, fighting, surviving, one in 1.25 billion. Till you are one in 1.25 billion. Saturday I became that – part of a mass thought to be as inconsequential as dust, as unnoticed as air that, to paraphrase Maya Angelou, rose; that, to paraphrase Faiz Ahmad Faiz, sent a throne up in the air like cotton. When you live in Delhi, Jantar Mantar becomes a place you often hear about, most commonly in news reports, or notice while driving past, but seldom visit. Vaguely you know that it is an observatory, tracing the movement of the sun, moon, and planets.
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