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Pop Goes the Experiment!

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  As a high school student, biology was always my favourite subject. I had this firm belief that all humans were created alike and equal in every sense of the word. I had the conviction that if some new born babies from different backgrounds were kept in complete isolation from the outside world, brought up by one couple, for some years -they would all grow up to be exactly same human beings- the replicas of one another! I used to believe that we all are what we are only and only because of our upbringing! I was definitely going to conduct this experiment once I grew up! This sounds so naïve and funny now, doesn’t it? Gradually, the light of awareness started dawning on me- I came across the highly interesting science called genetics. Then I came to know about another wonderfully interesting science called psychology! It made my eyes open wide with intrigue!                          ...

My Foray into Blogging

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  Whenever I sit to write my new blog, there’s a chaos in my mind- I want to write so many things, express so many thoughts- but I don’t know where to start. Let me start today with my foray into this world of blogging. Reading was a hobby introduced to me by one of my school friends when I was in 6 th grade. Before that I used to read comics and whatever magazines of my mother’s I could lay my hands on. Slowly, reading developed into a passion, and now I’ve got addicted to books so badly that I feel anxious when I’m on the verge of completing a book and don’t have the next one ready. Over the years I’ve read a plethora of books starting from Enid Blyton to Nancy Drew-Sherlock Holmes-Danielle Steele-Jeffery Archer-Ayn Rand, not to forget the classics like Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, Gone with the Wind and so on. Then I shifted to historical fiction to biographies and autobiographies to true accounts to non-fiction. Of course, magazines and newspapers have always b...