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Update from the Capital City

It's been a while since I last posted anything here. In fact, its not just a zero-blogging phase, but I have been on a complete web-hiatus all these days, barring a couple of occasions where I had to log on to my University Mail account.

I'm in New Delhi, the capital city, for close to a week now and I must say it is really really cold. The first couple of nights I was here, the mercury mark was hovering about a chilly 3 degrees Celsius. Honestly speaking, these are the lowest temperatures I have encountered for a while! On a sunnier note, the results for the last semester are out and it couldn't have been any better. Just another semester to go now and there's another 20 days to go before it begins.

Nothing else to write here for the moment. I am not too sure if I'll be updating very frequently here for the next fortnight. But then, I just might. Till then...

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