Fisher folks are the son of the sea and its at the beaches where you often see them in action. On my recent trip to Colva, I had got a chance to see how the fisher folks prepare for their next adventure, and look forward to a promising future – catching more fish.
The video is a mix of time lapses and glimpses from my travel experience. In case you love it, dont forget to leave a like.
So I moved into my new house about 4 months ago, and I have not got a TV yet for my home. It has been those four months where I did feel missing the TV around the house, and it absence has definitely helped me use my laptop more. Err.., that is not why I didn’t get the TV yet but then again, I do miss it.
That idiot box is being missed by my wife has been turning this thought around of avoiding TV for some weeks now, especially with my wife wishing to catch up the ongoing T20 after coming home. As I spoke to a colleague today, realized that her child has learned a lot from watching youtube.com and TV also kind of rekindled the thought to get one. The decision is still not been made, but mostly I would give in.
And the reason why I would give in has nothing to do with what others are saying. It has to do with what I am missing out on. If you remember one of my previous posts on the idiot box was about my craze for wild life, travelling and science channels, I have been missing watching them as well. The idiot box, after all is not idiot if the one watching on the other end is thoughtful enough. Not having TV around also means that I am missing out on learning something new from this medium. Watching such channels was never frowned up on by my family unless it was becoming a daily affair and made them miss their regular shows.
The idiot box, after all is not idiot if the one watching on the other end is thoughtful enough.
And one of the things that I want my daughter to do is to pick up these good habits that I have. Like reading when she grows up or never to stop learning – the two of my activities that has held me in good stead. The third one could be blogging, but she is still too young to do that just yet and I would let her decide if she wanted to do it.
What do you think about your idiot box at home? Have you ever thought of getting disconnected from it?
I am sure most of us have had faced this situation. At home, your dad / wife / mother / sister have all their time slots defined. At 8 it could be a serial at Colors, 8.30 at Zee, 9 at Star Plus and 10 at Life Ok (of course, for Mahadev). Do not go by the time I have mentioned, I never kept a track of these time slots anyway.
And in afternoons, there is repeat telecast of the shows and your wife / mother / sister missed because there were seeing other ones which clashed.
And I have to blame Ekta Kapoor here. She is the one who convinced Star to move Prime Time from 7.00 pm to 10.00 pm with Kyuki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi and the likes. You know, they caused a drastic change in the lifestyle of people, and their bio-clocks. (more…)
Kutch (or Kachchh)
Kutch, by far is the largest district in India. Kutch literally means something which intermittently becomes wet and dry and it is called so because large area of Kutch is shallow wetland which submerges into water during rainy season, and is known as Rann of Kutch. The Rann is famous for the salt flats which become snow white after the rain water dries up.
In Kutch is also my ancestor’s village. Unfortunately, I visited this beautiful place for the first time after I was 22 years old. I never grew up here but this is a place I am so fond of and I never miss a visit at least once in a year if not twice. The villages in Kutch are really awesome to be in and stay over. Life is here is very much laid back unlike Mumbai where it is too fast and one strong reason why I love to spend my vacations there.
I have finally completed my travel post on Kutch and it is now live on my blog. Do check it out!
Deep in the darkness of long night,
Is when travelling at speed of light,
I am going long away,
To a different state of my own mind,
Heavenly place may be waiting for me,
To show its lovely palace of sand,
Dunes I will miss and so will be the heat,
B’coz its winter with blanket of mist,
Its crystalline white mist I want,
From you the natural wonder land,
By each inch am closer to you,
I am eager more to snap a shot!
Black buck or a wild ass,
Natural assets & your lemon green grass,
Plucking peacock dancing in the hay,
What a beautiful beauty you amass,
Is gold and sandy so color to eyes,
Mid night moon will soon quell its ties,
A bright day and chilling sun light,
My surroundings become just as bright,
Wow, is what I feel to say,
When I think of you and feel gay,
Oh my dear wonder of nature,
Don’t wanna wait to come your way,
Isnt it true that I lust for your sand..
Hey beauty just thinking of you,
Ghoosebums spiraling my adrenaline up,
Into my chest, to my right arm,
No wonder that you are the great Rann..
A changing nature getting warm,
With heat, earth warns,
Dont abuse me, enough,
Dont greed for me, enough,
Depleating is my strength,
Can i not breathe and replish?
Each day my burden goes up,
Did u not touch a 7 billion?
Deep in the space,
I am alone, lonely,
Care for me,
Get this thing deep in your mind,
Each day i bleed,
Each day sky holes up,
For you still need me,
Cant you find someone like me, again,
I bless you, oh saint,
Dont whine if i cant take it,
Limitless and shameless,
Care for your future,
You ruin my shade,
I feel for you,
You wont be left with food,
What will you answer your baby?
Eat, am loving it!
Sleep, am at rest,
But dont itch me,
It pains,
Humble plea,
As much i need you,
Never will i betray,
Love me, you are my children,
ps: earth is asking u to be humble, pay heed to it.
Have you ever heard of an Astro Garden?
I was a bit surprised when I read about Astro Garden in the local news paper. How much is the level of beliefs that people have? From gems to stones, metals to flowers and worshiping god on particular days, and trees. If it was anything else, I would have discounted it but when I read through the article, it felt interesting.
Kalyan is soon to get a 1400 meter plot near KDMC office which host an Astro Garden. An Astro Garden is a garden with trees that are placed in a horoscopic layout with each tree placed in the place of planet. Two and one fourth stars make one zodiac sign and there are 27 stars for which there are 25 plants. It is known to all of us that people who believe in astrology often get into chantiing or buy precious gems/stones in combination with the metal of ornament (gold, silver, copper) to get rid of doshas (weakness) or bad phase in their horoscopes.
Now they can take the trees (read saplings) that stand for their stars as well. Though the newpaper said that Saplings will also be given if someone wanted to plant the trees near their homes/buildings or society, I think even if a small amount of money is charged for each sapling, like a Rs. 5 or Rs. 10 which can go towards donating these trees to those who can’t afford it makes sense. Some times monitory value adds a bit of importance than things that come free. It should also help to keep the project viable in case of lack of funds.
Brain child of Mayor of Kalyan Dombivali Municipal Corp. (KDMC), Vaijayanti Gujar, inspiration of an Astro Garden came from a similar garden she saw in Malgoon, Goa. Apart from being an interesting concept for religious, it also encourages tree plantations. The garden will be designed by Uday Kumar Padhye, president of Cosmic Ecological Trust (CET). CET has been active in Dombivali – Kalyan region for a while and I am trying to get more information on their activities.
I came across this news article in DNA Mumbai edition (Dombivali/Kalyan edition dated 12/11/2011) by Naveeta Singh.
This as promised is the second part of the series of pictures that I had taken on my trip to Konkan. I hope you enjoy the pictures. These are the snaps that I took early morning from the train. I hope you would enjoy them.
I had earlier posted The Sahyadris – Some pictures – Part I and these are the remaining pictures. If you like them, please leave a comment. Thanks 🙂
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I had been to a short trip down in Konkan and these are the snaps that I took early morning from the train. I hope you would enjoy them.
Update: There are many more sequence shots that I have taken while the train was moving and I would be uploading them by this weekend. You can watch out for more 🙂
These pics were taken on my E63 and while the train was moving and hence, the pics wont reflect the best of the quality.
Related Post: The Sahyadris – Some Pictures II
Foster’s AOC (Art of Chilling) party is an exclusive [only by Invite] event.
For me, the last two months have been very hectic… that was also evident from my blog. I did justice only once a month, effectively, two posts in two months. Which is sad but lets just hope things to change! Sorry my regulars…
So let me take you back to what I want to share. Good friend Renie Ravin, the Founder and Web Architech of IndiBlogger.in send a mail informing the exclusive entry pass available for me so that I can unwind myself. It was for the Foster’s Art of Chilling. Last time around too I had got an invite, but I wasnt able to go. But this time, I was destined to.
These guys know how to party, and Foster’s is really famous for that. I had asked all my lady friends out, and a few agreed… So finally, I had two of the ladies coming but there was a problem. I had to get the number of people in Even numbers, so either I had to get a friend along or I had to get one more lady.
I rang up Renie many times to confirm which combination will work for me and updated the status so that I can secure passes. He was patient and always took the call and tried to help out. Finally, it did work out.
We reached the event albeit late owning to the honky traffic at Kurla. The journey towards the event was actually bad but so immersed were we in the thought “Art of Chilling” that we did not feel we were wasted by the traffic.
Location: The Club, Andheri West, Mumbai
Event: The Foster’s Art of Chilling
To start off with, the music that was being played was cool and was going with the environment. For those who dont drink Beer, there was a special arrangement. The Coconut. The moment you had that with a Pool side party gives you a Hawaiian kick. That is why I keep saying that these guys know how to to Rock!
The food was awesome and in numerous variety to suite different tastes. The moment some one has a can of the Foster’s Beer within such an environment, it can send chills down your spine.
Foster’s Rock.
Disclaimer: This article contains mention of Alcoholic drink. I, in no way endorse the consumption.
Update: The images were deleted following a server virus attack on the website. I am sorry 🙁
Once I was having a lighter discussion with my mom when she revealed that she would have preffered a taller man to a same heighted or slightly tall. My dad is taller, but not much. During those days women hardly get to choose. Ever since, I am still trying to find out why women like taller men. When I say taller, it means taller atleast by 5′ taller.
Crica 2009
Just because I really didnt had any mood to work today, I tried to do a small research (read: bird watching) on Shaadi.com. I saw a few beautiful girls there, but what surprised me here was that most of the good looking girls there had set parameters similar to what I described above. Height was important for them.
I am 5″3′ tall and am fair and when I looked at those women who share the same height as mine wanted someone who was 5″8′ tall. (more…)
If you are honest and Dare Devil, you are eligible. But do you even want to marry Rakhi Sawant?
It is not dream, you can actually.
Rakhi Sawant now wants to wed a man who wins her over a Swayamvar. Yes, you read it right!!! The 29 something actress and Item girl is a bride in waiting, searching for her life partner in a soon to be launched reality show titled Rakhi ka Swayamvar on NDTV Imagine.
And this time even the audience will get to help Rakhi choose her hubby. Rakhi will make sure that those participating will go through hell even before even thinking of making him her groom.
Hiting right in the face of Ash, Rakhi says that its only people who make and give the status to an actor and these very actors do not allow people to see their marriage.
She likes Rahul Gandhi and she can have her way, she would marry him. She said that this is not a publicity stunt and all I am following a long lost tradition. Aiming guns at Akshay Kumar, she said that she is not among the stars who have their wives unbutton jeans button.
The second hand Rakhi, who was in a relationship with Abhishek Awasthi earlier, said that it was a big mistake.
While I was watching Discovery yesterday, this series about the wild animals in India showcased how the authorites responsible for saving the Tiger ignored the requests of scientists and Wild Life conservative organisations. This led a massive increase in the cases of Poaching which resulted in a huge loss to the assests (Tiger) of the state.
