When the ex comes back to haunt...

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Nisha and Gaurav have been friends for six years now and have been dating each other for the last two years. Gaurav had been in love with Nisha from the first time the two had spoken in college. However, with Nisha it had been a bit different. When she had met Gaurav, Nisha had been in a tumultuous three-year relationship that had left her an emotional wreck. Her ex had been incapable of commitment and had been a serial womanizer. Even while Nisha's trust in relationships and her self-confidence had reached rock bottom, Gaurav had stood by her, an undemanding friend. Eventually Nisha was dumped and it took her a year to get over the scars. Slowly, Gaurav's love and patience won and Nisha veered towards him. The last two years had been bliss for the two: Gaurav got the girl he loved and having seen....

The pimps of pain...

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...OR Misery means a million bucks... Or a million hit counts, or maybe even four. 'Bad news is good news', and it hasn't been truer than it is today. We read bad news, we comment on it, we charge by the minute on it, our political ideologies center around it, we ask for votes based on it, we sell it to nations; and if there is no bad news, we create it. Lawyers, doctors and most definitely the media would go out of business if it were not for bad news and someone else's misery. Heck, we revel in misery. People dying is a news flash, kidney trade translates into TRPs and litigation, someone raped is a prime time reconstruction, a marriage breaking down is national gossip... As long as someone suffers, world economies will move, leaders will be impeached and elected, gossip magazines will sell, TRPs....