Just came back from another memorable trip to Kerala. The trip was oriented towards visits to a few temples and religious places. In the otherwise hectic schedule, we were able to take some time out to visit the Palaruvi waterfalls near Kollam. This is a tourist destination and is about 75 Kms South of Kollam District.
Some moments that we captured in our Fujifilm Finepix S9600 -
Blogging is just not a hobby any more. In addition to this, blogs are now a source of income to many bloggers and websites aiding this are helping them do this.’, ‘
I joined Social Spark a few days back. Now what is Social Spark could be the obvious question right? In one line the answer would be that, “Social Spark is an exciting place where I monetize my blog, make friends, enjoy and all this with complete honesty”.
In the busy schedule that we follow, are we in some way ignoring our family? How much time are we able to give our family everyday, or for that matter in a week? If at all we are able to do so, is it quality time that we are spending.’, ‘
‘Confidence’ is an abstract term. What is confidence? Is there a set formula to develop confidence in you? This is a question anybody would ask when we talk about high and low confidence.’, ‘
It was the starting of the Indian Premier League. The entire tournament involved huge money. There were a lot of good players playing for the various participating teams and these players were being paid huge amounts of money. Because the tournament involved such huge amounts of money, the expectations were also high. There were certain teams studded with stars and there were certain other that had no or, less tsart in their teams. These teams were hence ranked based on their star value. Once such team was the “Rajasthan Royals”. They were being called as the “underdogs”. With no so-called stars in their team, theirs was the only team without a coach. A team filled with young domestic players were up against star studded teams.
What is the relevance of the World Environment Day? Why do we celebrate a day like this? How serious are we when we give a name to a day?’, ‘
Today is the “World Environment Day”. Fliers, posters, banners, mailers and many more such things are on the internet and everywhere. A handful of people are working hard to generate a bit of awareness in people towards our environment.
Our politicians have now turned moral police. A group of people who are unable to do their primary duties turning moral police is indeed funny?’, ‘
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You would now not be able to see your favorite character on the big screen drinking or, even holding a glass of wine or, champagne. For a moment just imagine, the thespian actor Dilip Kumar, or, Shah Rukh Khan in the role of ”Devdas” without the glass of whisky. Imagine a dialogue where Devdas says that, “Ma asked me to forget Paro, The world now askes me to forget drinking”, without the word “drinking” in it. Wondering why all this imagination!!!!
This is one of the best poems written by P.B.Shelley. His description of the nature and the evening in this poem is beautiful.’, ‘
I
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn”s being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou,
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed
The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,
Each like a corpse within its grave, until
Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow
Naini Tal is a perfect weekend getaway, about 320 Km from Delhi, awal from the torturing heat in Delhi. This is an excerpt from a trip to Naini Tal’, ‘
The summers in Delhi was at its peak and the temperature was the highest in a few years. the heat was unbearable. That weekend for a long one for me as I was fortunate enough to get three weekly-offs together. This made it the perfect moment to plan for a weekend getaway to Naini Tal.
The Indian government is busy implementing measures to reduce traffic congestion on Delhi roads in preparation to the Commonwealth Games. But how far are these measures relevant?’, ‘
Another 100 Crore has been wasted and another huge and much hyped about project is on the verge of abandonment. The BRT corridor has turned out to be a major flop with traffic congestion increasing and utter chaos ruling on the stretch. The efficiency of the planners in the government is under question again. Was this required?
Why is it that measures to reduce traffic congestion are proving to be in-effective? There are multiple reasons to it.
I received this forwarded email a couple of days back. As my habit is, I would have just deleted the email, just because it had a “Fwd:” in the subject and I knew it was one of those chain emails that I hate to spend time reading. Just that one word in the subject caught my attention and I opened the email. The word was “PETA”. I knew it would be carrying some information.
This is one of the best poems written by P.B.Shelley. His description of the nature and the evening in this poem is beautiful.’, ‘
I
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn”s being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou,
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed
The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,
Each like a corpse within its grave, until
Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow
P.B.Shelley has been one of my alltime favorite poets. His poems carried a touching meaning in it and was an easy read and understand. “On a Poet”s Lips I Slept” he talks about how a poet gives birth to his creations from nothing.’, ‘On a poet”s lips I slept
Dreaming like a love-adept
In the sound his breathing kept;
Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses,
But feeds on the aerial kisses
Of shapes that haunt thought”s wildernesses.
He will watch from dawn to gloom
The lake-reflected sun illume
The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom,
Nor heed nor see what things they be;
But from these create he can
Forms more real than living man,
Nurslings of immortality!
One of these awakened me,
And I sped to succour thee.
It was 12th of September 2008. A day I can never forget. I was born a Keralite but had always lived in North India since birth. My upbringing was in various parts of North India and it is not uncommon for people from a state migrating to a different state in search of jobs, to forget their hometown and the culture that their basic caste followed and practiced. It was not different with me either, and I knew my culture only to the extent it was practiced in my house. Though my parents ensured that they inculcate all of these into me, we often found that we had to compromise on lot of things because something that was practiced in our culture was done differently in the culture that I was living in. But no regrets, because I feel that is where diversity comes in and diversity is what we Indians are know for.
As I spent my summer vacation this time in my native home, I was digging through the many wealth in the store room of the house to find things that were of my interest. I suddenly stumbled upon a huge box of the size of about 2 feet. As I cleaned the dust of it, I discovered that it was a radio. I couldn’t have left it there because the memories attached with that radio was much more that with anything else that I could find.
