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Random Thoughts' is a column by Gaurang Bhatt, a retired former teacher who reads a lot, writes for pleasure and has interests in evolutionary sciences and medicine particularly the brain. He is an avid student of history and etymology and has a cynical outlook with a wicked sense of humor.

I've been noticing this girl shouting out abuses at random unnamed people on Facebook, for reasons known only to her. she'd say 'you crazy ugly loon, stop eating up my space' with thousand angry smileys added. then she'd also say 'you suck, you loser' When you read this, whats your immediate reaction? I stop to think, is that me she's talking about? Frankly! And it's pretty annoying to keep reading such posts. Well I deleted her from my list cos recently she posted 'I must definitely enroll for anger management classes' accompanied with sarcastic tones and evil grins. tch tch. I get headaches.

The “guardian call†missive from school was the closest thing you could experience to a letter from the income tax authorities while growing up. If your luck was out, two things could happen. Your parents would either be berated for their ward engaging in that most heinous crime of them all— “talking in class and making it into a fish market†(I went to school in Kolkata as you can tell) or for the equally dire †not up to standard of the class†which was sometimes an euphemism for “Sign the kid up in my coaching centerâ€. If your luck was better, the teacher would gently chide your parents for your “silly mistakes†(like forgetting, just once in a seventeen-step problem, to change the sign when you changed sides in an equation or copying the number wrong to the “Answer†line).