Cold Comfort

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Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments,embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour - John Boswell Winter is a season to philosophise about life. All those conversations that fill the time while we sip our numerous cutting-chai makes one think and ponder more than one does in the simmering summers. After all what sort of philosophy could one do while eating ice cream and drinking lemonade? In winters though, for the few hours when the sunlight sparkles, often a bunch of people gather around the tea stove and begin conversing, forming a cozy little intellectual hub that disperses once the rounds of chai are finished. But as thoughts often do, they linger in your mind much after they have been spelt out. One such thought has persisted in my mind for the last couple of days. It goes like-....