Well, again after a considerable hiatus, here I am. And in this post, I would like to write about "Horlicks". No, not the drink, but the competition, or rather, competitions. For the uninitiated, Horlicks Wizkids is an amalgamation of all things wonderful and noisy and exciting, and most of all it is about participating. Winning should not be the objective if you go to the Wizkids. It is about letting yourself loose, enjoying responsibly and supporting your school to the fullest. Conducted commendably by the effervescent Syed Sultan Ahmed, or Sultan sir, Horlicks has managed to capture within its grasp, the crux of entertaining while not crossing a given limit. I can only speak for the Delhi Wizkids, and I am only speaking for the Delhi Wizkids, and every year the school students eagerly wait for what is dubbed as the " South Asia's largest inter-school fiesta" and the refreshing amount of competitions that it eloquently serves up.  Horlicks has never, in my six years of participating in it, failed to deliver. Never. In fact, it has always managed to raise the bar to a higher level. Truly the best.

It has been a long, long time since I wrote in this blog. By that time,  innumerable things happened all over the world some highly debatable, some highly controversial. But I am not going to wander into realms that are not suited to me. So here are my views on the book 'The Shining' by Stephen King. Perhaps my first horror novel, and I could not have had a better start to my experience in this genre. Stephen King, rightly named the king of horror writing, subtly imbibes the psychology, while making us muse, perhaps a little unconsciously, how some things can influence, how some things can blunt, perhaps the sharpest thing in our body, the brain. The conflicts, the emotions, the feelings experienced by the Torrance family while living in the torrid Hotel Overlook, are craftily captured, and sometimes so cunningly plotted in the bylines of the story that you are tempted to just ignore it to just quickly reach the juicy bits. But let me warn you, you are doing this on your own risk. This is an excellent book. You will see that it stands proudly, its head risen among other novels in its genre.