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When I came to this city, my first impression was very vague. To describe my emotions, I would like to pen down a poem. I hated the running around, the cacophonous sound, the never ending nights, the extremely bright lights, the non-stop rains, and the rush in the local trains. I felt like going back home, into the known world, my own Rome. I thought it was a struggle with destiny, but my mind wanted mutiny. Somehow a month passed by, the city embraced me but I still wanted to bid goodbye. I spoke to my dad, he said you can come home my dear lad, but fight it out in the city for a year, it may just bring you some cheer. So I dug my heels in, prepared to face every sin. Slowly and gradually the city won me over, Going back home seemed like a push over. I never realized that a shift had taken place, my bachelor pad had turned into a home I now embraced. As ...

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Doppelgänger You know the famous paranormal phenomenon that people quote often of how there are 7 faces identical to yours in the world. Do you think you have an exact double or doppelgänger somewhere in the world? Pronounced as dop-puhl-ganger, it means an apparition or double of a living person.  Drawn from the German language, its origin walks back to the 19 th century when a lot of superstitions and folk tales were attached to the word. This is a list of German expressions used in English; some are relatively common but most are comparatively rare. In many cases the loanword has assumed a meaning substantially different from its German forebear. In contemporary vernacular , the word doppelgänger is often used in a more general sense to identify any person that physically or perhaps even behaviourally resembles another person. The word doppelgänger is a loanword from German Doppelgänger, consisting of the two substantives Doppel (double) Gänger (walk...