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It's all about her (fictional) Part 1 & 2

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(1 PART) Mira's POV I was sitting in front of my dresser, getting ready for the so-called meeting my parents had arranged for me; Matchmaking, that's what they call... "Don't you have at least one single picture of his in your phone" Kavya, my best friend grumbled, scrolling through my phone gallery without my permission. "No" I replied flatly, why the hell would I have a picture of a guy whom I met once? Suresh and I WERE childhood friends, but after their family shifted out, we never once saw each other, let alone talked to him. She made the tch sound, extremely disappointed at my disinterest in the matter. When I was about to counter her with something savage; a knocked on the door distracted us. It was my mother, she was peeping through the door so I presume she had already stepped in before showing her presence. It had always been like that. Being born in a conservative family and on top of that growing up in Delhi like a city; there's ...

How I improved my English?!

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Nowadays people are more obsessed with English as it has been A global language, and to be honest it's a bit handy if you are traveling or connecting with people on social media or personally.  People like me who had completed their education with non-English schools would understand the struggles of learning or speaking English and get that confidence to communicate with others.  But let me be honest it's not difficult as our teachers make it seems like, with all that grammar and proverbs, vowels, and that all so heavy vocabulary.  To be honest, it's not the problem with understanding or speaking English, it'is the confidence that we lack when we came to a situation where we have to speak, and that too with someone who had freshly came out from Convent school or someone who likes to flaunt about his foreignish  English.  I myself who had studied in Marathi Medium School and graduated from the average college, think I kind of got over that st...