Category: Travel

  • Refresh Complete !

    Had a very refreshing weekend !!!

    Hope you enjoyed too !!!

    And sincere apologies for not being able to respond to any comments on the last few posts !! Have been crazy busy at work and was out for the weekend ! Will write soonest !

  • A trip down the Memory Lane 🙂

    I was talking to Tunna a few days back she told me about something that she was thinking about… memories associated with long lost friends and they coming back with something that happens today… She even wrote something and sent it to me and wanted me to write about it…

    Here is what she had written :

    I am sure it must have happened with all of us….some things, some incidences…trigger our thoughts for someone…. The life seems to be moving fine….we all busy with chasing our dreams…but in midst of this madness how come thoughts of someone find its way… I was sharing these thoughts with one of my collegues…and the reply came..” are u unhappy” And i realised i have made the mistake of sharing my precious feelings with some idiot..i dnt have to be sad to be missing… I thnk ppl still dont realise someone can be missed with a smile…some moments wen run thru…jus leaves u wth smile.,..and only smile… this one is for all ( ths all is not the large…actually very few) my dear friends i have not been able to speak in a long time….i miss the time spend,.,..wth time i value u even more…
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    I feel good friends are like old letters that over a period of time might hide under a pile of books or other things, but when you are cleaning up your mess, you are bound to reach that letter again, read it, sit back and relax, and think about the great times you two had together… even make an attempt to find out where they are and get in touch with them again… distances, times, circumstances suddenly do not matter in such cases….

    Good friends are also like the songs that you once loved and could listen over and over and over again, and then with time you moved on to listening some new numbers, new singers, etc, and suddenly that song plays back on the radio and you are reminded of how much you have loved, and missed that song too… just that you might not have realised it… and you just get back home and find the music you ‘love’ to love…

    There are people I associate with, who have been fantastic friends and probably they are today as well, but with time we lost touch… I am not sure where they are, what are they upto, and in some cases I am in touch with them as well,

    And all this while I make new memories everyday…


    Some of the people and my memories that have some space in one of the other corner of my head and heart …

    The walks with Nimisha and Taru, to bus stands other than our college stand so that we could miss the bus and spend more time talking and walking together,

    Me and Nimisha going to Taru’s place one morning and singing together throughout and even on our way back,

    A holi riot at Abhay’s place when we took out buckets of water from his bathroom and socked everyone wet in the room (God only knows how his mattresses and other stuff would have dried; must have taken ages; the entire house was a water hole),


    Me and Kapil bhai walking and discussing our scripts and singing Sa Re Ga Ma from Chupke chupke ( apparently we two used to sing it very well),

    My IIIrd standard fight with Sandeep when I had beaten him black and blue in the school bus and over years we turning to best pals EVER ( every evening we were sure to spend atleast 2 hours walking around the entire sector and talking whatever nonsense)


    The ice cream after getting off the school bus and dividing the payments between Sandeep, Neeraj and Me… the bugger Aakash never used to pay…

    The duplicate film roll that we bought from a shop on our Xth standard farewell and the messed up pictures that we go from it.. Neeraj you ass, I had asked you to buy the roll the previous day

    Working with Meghna in the street plays and spending so much time talking about everything under the sun

    Taking Himanshu’s bike for the interview at Spectramind.. the poor guy waiting for me till like 10 in the night in his college only because my interview formalities had not finished


    Narang always telling me that I was making a mistake when I was going around with Shikha in Hughes

    Adi, Me, Aro, Anmol, KB, Narang singing, “Babuji Zara Dheere Chalo…” before we used to start our shifts 😀 and anmol’s typical my name is arthurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, and me Aro and Narang adding the “teri maaaaaaaaaa kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii” in the same tone 😀


    Loads and loads of conversations with Aro and Tushar in the last 5 years !!!

    Haircut Trips to Ganga Shopping complex with Tushar…


    Ankur calling the Pangong Tso, Tso Moriri at Diskit 😀 and that too in a video and his dialogue about the stuck vehicles on our way to Pangong… Aaj to Phencho dekh kar hi jayenge !!! and that Saale firangi, this in India, yahan everything has a jugaad 😀


    And how can I forget the Up-32 at Khardungla 🙂

    Strange enough, I do not remember much about Ahlcon and those two years that I spent in that school, except the fact that I really liked and respected my physics teacher, Mrs. Archana Deepak!!!

    There are million memories more… Can write a book about them 🙂 there are some sad ones too, and even though I remember them, I choose to not talk about them here… no point !!! life is happy !!


    Have a happy weekend !!! God Bless 🙂

    Stills :
    Deepu and Aro with Ankur’s daughter Neitya at the gurudwara Nangal Sahib
    A lovely bunch of kids in Ambikapur, Chattisgarh
    Deepu, Kavita and Anjie at the south group of temples, Khajuraho
    Kids in Ambikapur, Chattisgarh
    Two friends at the Hauz Khas Monument, Delhi
    Bunch of kids in Moradabad
    Deepu, Anubhav, Me and Ankur at the North Pullu, Ladakh
    The Up-32 family at Khardungla pass, Ladakh 🙂
    Tushar and me near Ram Jhula in Rishikesh
  • 5 things you (might not) know !

    Random things are really not that random if you climb a few stairs up and them see them… It all seems to fall in perspective of the person.. but then for the sake of a tag, let me still call the following 5 Random Facts about me !!! (I think I am supposed to write 7, but I will pass with 5 :)

    So thanks to Vineeta or Nairvee, here we go ! 5 things about me, which you might or might not have known ! (I have been asking her to write something for Chai Ki Dukaan, and now I can be after her life to write it :P)

    1. I can never get over how beautiful mountains look… Every single time you see them, you can see something different, some more majestic and grand than every before…

    2. I can still not figure out what is my favorite element from the PanchTatva… The Fire, The Water, The Sky, The Wind or the Earth… Is my love for my village related to Earth, or The way I can keep looking at the sky for ages, represents my love for the Sky? or the fact that I feel Fire is one of the most exciting things to look at, proves that I love FIRE !!! not sure… But the fact is all of these elements can feel so delicate, so pure and harmless at one point of time, and at the other make you feel like a nothing in front of them !!!

    3. My love from photography comes from my love for people… I enjoy getting involved in conversations when I am travelling more than taking pictures, and these conversations make me click !!! the mood at a tea stall, the people in a bus, passengers at a railway station… are the people that I like to first, before taking a picture of them…

    4. Joy in my life comes from the small and simpler things ! talking to kids on the streets, walking around with a friend, getting a call from a friend i have been missing, doing something for someone i like, and so on a so forth…

    5. I don’t know how to react to surprises… Even if I am very happy, I cannot really express it if I am surprised at the same time.. the Irony is that I might look totally blank and speachless when a surprise is thrown at me !!

    Done Dana Done Done !!!

    Khush Vinnie the pooh?

  • …

    Off to a destination tooooooooo far away in a few hours from now…

    I wonder how I am going to manage this 15 odd hours flight !!! Phew…

    Here is what I think I would be doing…

    ~ Finish The Kite Runner
    ~ Watch atleast 3 movies
    ~ and I don’t know what !!! that makes it sound more exciting 🙂

    I was thinking about something for a while now… I did something about it too a few days back, and I realized that I was terribly late… has made me feel very helpless before I am to go !!! and I am sincerely hoping that it turns out to be for everyone’s good… I think it will !!!

    Chalo ji… Chai ki dukaan would be closed for this weekend now !!! or may be not 😉

  • White Falling…

    Its snowing outside right now…. not too heavy but i can see the soft cotton falling on the road and the cars and all over…

    beautiful…

    I was waiting for this to happen 🙂

    I just told a friend a dream I had sometime back… and right now its seems that I am in a dream myself… well minus the laptops, and people and the cars, and the roads and the buildings outside 🙂