{"id":520,"date":"2016-11-11T05:22:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T05:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/?p=520"},"modified":"2019-11-20T10:21:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T10:21:34","slug":"hushed-by-devangana-kuthari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/2016\/11\/11\/hushed-by-devangana-kuthari\/","title":{"rendered":"HUSHED &#8211; By Devangana Kuthari"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/tumblr_inline_oghguu2BjT1un32nx_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"521\" data-link=\"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/?attachment_id=521\" class=\"wp-image-521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/tumblr_inline_oghguu2BjT1un32nx_1280.jpg 800w, https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/tumblr_inline_oghguu2BjT1un32nx_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/tumblr_inline_oghguu2BjT1un32nx_1280-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/tumblr_inline_oghguu2BjT1un32nx_1280-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Picture Credits &#8211; Parvathi Bakshi<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first day of unpacking,<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of fears and belongings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the sea of new faces,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>young adults were set loose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A hushed feeling of homesickness,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>spaced loud chatters and exchanged-smiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One moment names exchanged, the next forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First impressions of like and dislike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time rolled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three days became three weeks,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>finally, 3 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Change was the only constant,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>obviously excluding assignments and never ending readings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Familiarity slowly settled in corners,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of shortcuts and friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Techniques of survival,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>for devilish eight am lectures and heavenly Sodexo food,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>were learnt, practiced and propagated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And before we knew,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>dorms became home<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and friends; family.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture Credits &#8211; Parvathi Bakshi The first day of unpacking, of fears and belongings. In the sea of new faces, young adults were set loose. A hushed feeling of homesickness, spaced loud chatters and exchanged-smiles. One moment names exchanged, the next forgotten. First impressions of like and dislike. Time rolled. <a href=\"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/2016\/11\/11\/hushed-by-devangana-kuthari\/\" class=\"btn btn-link continue-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perspectives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}