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Your time’s up…

July 25, 2012 03:53 pm | Updated 06:04 pm IST

… says the ticking time bomb.

Time's ticking...Photo: Special Arrangement

I am here biding my time. The people around me not realising that it is their sincere thoughts which created me. I, one of the most humble creations in this earth, stand poised to destroy the peace and tranquillity of everyone around me. Technology has made our life more powerful; it is no more a single assault but waves of coordinated attacks at specific intervals.

The people of this world haven realised neither the slow but gradual rise of our importance nor our unseen mingling into everyday mundane-ness. But I digress, for my hour of glory is upon me and those who call them my masters are about to get a rude awakening. Five…four…three…two…one…

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Poorani was startled by the alarm of her mobile phone. She put it on snooze and dived back into her sheets trying to sleep again.

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Well tried, frail human. I may be “snoozed” but I will never be silenced.

ROBINSINGH JOSHUA PRINCE, engineering graduate

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