Vision Translated

A clorrful life Not a good practice, but I overheard the elderly lady, Mrs. Bakshi was talking to her friend Mrs. Srivastava over phone sitting beside me. As a neighbor she knew me, so she didn't bother talking to her mind sitting beside me. I was in the doctors clinic too, waiting for my turn on a Sunday afternoon. Later I saw Mr. Bakshi, with his white hair coming out from the chamber of the doctor. So, I understood that Mrs. Bakshi was perhaps accompanying her 75 year old husband. Someday he must have been a smart man and she too! While sitting beside me, I heard her saying over phone to her friend, "writing a new story, 'The Need Of The Hour', part 2", It's difficult though to write these days and my grandchildren keep asking me each hour "what do you do the whole day". 'RUPA' only is publishing it. I am happy, but I will not be in India on 8th Sep, 2012, when they publish it, as my husband wants to go back to our own small...

Down Memory Lane SmileZ

A snap from the top of Alwar Fort A palace made in 1815 A.D. and in Early 19th Century A.D. Rani Moosi's 'Sati Rite Funeral' is our next journey into another story of Indian history ....

A Road Again A road connects both way. We decide if the trip is for coming or going to the place we want. There are times when we also don't know while walking, if it is a one way trip. When wanting to come or going back where we want is just a wishful thought. But, we keep walking into that cycle with or without even knowing the destination of life!  Life goes on !

A simple while flower on my way this afternoon

Friendship day As a single child I grew up in a old city of Eastern part India, with a lot of my cousins of different age groups. But, that hardly used to matter anyways. The team also used to include cousins' cousins and their friends as an extended part of the joint family. All were friends, to do a lot of planned activity, to get scolded later from elders. Also, there was a lot of fight, shouting and yelling while playing, which also used to end only after some scolding from any of the elders. After few years, the group size only increased, as few school friends were also added and very soon became a part in the group of friends.  As I can see that 'Friendship day' started in 1935, when US congress dedicated the day to honor friends. But, that was not the age of Internet, it was transistor radio, which was the source of important news only, so in India this was not known almost. Time changed, as we all grew up and then came to some serious life, work t...

A small weekend trip to Rishikesh My first trip to Rishikesh was about 6 years back. I drove upto a place called Devprayag. 30 km uphill drive was a nice and thrilling experience. Indeed the place very well could be a place for God. Peace everywhere and lash green woods and the roads are only made by human. Ganges flows down below, which makes the only soothing noise to the ear and ofcourse cars and trucks.   In these years things have changed. More people on the road, more cars. Rafting has become a major interest and grown a booming business. I saw people only coming for rafting in 1000s. Camping also picked greatly and numbers are only growing of different type and price. Often roads are jam packed and cars are in more than one row, which used to be free and a nice drive, even few years back.  Depending on the age group for rafting of 26km stretch, from Rishikesh to Hardwar, distances are set, as who can cover upto what distance. Nights...