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MoBiLe Ads….
What follows is an SMS that I got yesterday night….
“Hi, Guys for Complete Fun, Masti Entertainment Enjoy with NRI, Models, Airhostess, Russian, Nepali. If interested call Any @ xxxxxxxxx or Jeet @ xxxxxxxxx otherwise ignore… “
Please join me in welcoming the new age mobile advertising…
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WheRe ‘R’ tHe VeGGiES?
Delhi – a World Class city… and one of the initiatives taken to take the city towards that mark is making a Global Village on the land around the DND ( Delhi NOIDA Delhi Road)…How is that happening? here is the process…
This land was being used for Farming, basically an agricultural land…
The question here is that who took over the land? Was it acquired by the Govt. or bought directly 1 to 1 from the people…. As per the Land Acquisition Act in our country, the govt. can acquire any land and/or asset for national purpose or development… One of such projects is the development of SEZs where the Govt. Acquires land and then hands them over to the corporates developing the project…
During one of such acquisitions, the people get compensaton for the land plus the structures if any on the land and the crop… They also get the compensation for an year of income… Also the training for an alternate livelyhood is the responsibility of the Project Sponser…
Now comes the question that I am struggling with…
How does the government compensate for the loss of Land? Where do we get alternative land from?
There is only an “X” amount of agricultural land in India… and everytime one of these projects comes up, some amount reduces from this “X” amount.. hence reducing the amount of land that we have for the farmers…
Alternative means of income and livelyhood might ensure that the people getting effected continue to live properly… but do we have any alternatives for the soil?
do we have any alternatives for the vegetables that were once grown on that land?
do we have any alternatives for the load on nature?I guess no… and I am not how many of the people who read this agree to me… but I am not really keen on a situation when we start eating capsules instead of vegetables to match the required nutrition chart, when we start importing food grain instead of having our own…
All this in the name of infrastructural development and economic growth…
Is the tradeoff too irrelevent? or are we only looking short term?
P.s. This post is not about just one piece of land near the DND… this is about all the agricultural land which are loosing out on, slowly but surely…
Thanks a ton Bindiya for the time spent in talking to me about this and giving me more information…
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You Are Cordially Invited….
- The loudest and the shrilliest Music…
- 50 people dancing on a floor made for 10 on tunes that I have never heard in my life…
- A hall that stinks…
- People surrounding the food like there is no tomorrow…
- A floor that sticks to you shoes…
- Oh and did i forgot to mention the real smoke machine, and the laser lights on the DJ console…
- No paper tissues around…
- Men with Rifles and Guns all around…
- And the Dowry earned Hyundai Santro all decked up at the gate…
Welcome to the BIG FAT WEDDING @ a village in UP….
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I am a PiZZa….
I am a classic Cheese Pizza…. complete in itself… but only for the few who have a taste of no frills food…The people who came into my life at some point or the other were toppings… some improved me and some screwed up the taste…
But the Classic Cheese Stays… i might taste good with some topping and taste really bad with another.. but that would not effect my soul… i will continue to be me !!!
Complete in my own sense….
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Me….
Its easy to face anything in this world, but yourself… for how long can you keep running away from yourself… for how long can you keep telling yourself that its not the truth… for how long can you lie to yourself and for how long your own self would stay ignorant…i keep getting introduced to a new me, every now and then… and though the situations, the circumstances, the behaviour changes… there is something that stays that same… me…. even though its new, it still does not change…
the darker side of me… possesive, jealous, angry, silent, loud, irrational, demanding, cribbing, wanting to get attention all the time, too much of a thinker me…
the practical side of me… calculative, playing safe, accepting the facts, looking at life in the eye, letting go of things beyond my control, taking it the way it comes to me, me…
the other side of me…. happy go lucky, not bound by anything, raw, honest, entertaining, non reactive at times, and too much reactive at times me…
and i know it for sure that there is a lot more to me then just me… and i am on my way to find whats that !!!
have you found out whats you?
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sToRiEs….
Abha’s parents want her to get married before she leaves for the job she got selected for through her college campus placements… She says she does not want to get married and does not want to make her parents sad either… she does not know what to do.. she is sad, confused and frustrated… to add to the pain, she feels that she is still not out of her ex relationship….
Meera’s parents also want her to get married… No idea if she likes anyone or she ever had an affair… she has not expressed her joy or sorrow whatever over the fact that her parents are looking for a match with her… Her parents are very worried over the effort that has not resulted in anything so far for over an year…
Abha’s ex boyfriend claims that he loves her, but he is not in a position to get married to her… For reasons that he himself is aware of…
Meera’s elder brother Nitesh is a chick magnet… he really liked girls and always had more than he could handle always around him…
Sakshi is a very ambitious girl… she has worked very hard to reach the position in her career where she is today… and maybe its too late for her to get married now… @ 32 she is finding it very difficult to find someone who would match her ability, who would understand her, who would be able to digest her success in her work… and she has no clue about how she would manage a home if at all she gets married…
Chetna is doing just fine in her office… she has a good job, she is a well paid manager, but not really doing that gives her a professional satisfaction the way she wants… she has figured out other ways to channelize her energy… and tries hard to be nicer and better… there are days when she looses it completely and things totally randomly, but then she gets back to her ownself.. and carries on…
Niti is seeing this guy who she kinda likes, but claims that its only a time pass “affair”… she just might be trying to fool herself with the entire thought process, and the guy might be adding to it…
Chetna does not like the guy Niti is seeing these days… she can strangle him any day….
Nitesh likes this girl… not for keeps types, but likes it.. but while she is a great person… she is not good in bed… and he does not know what to do about it….
Keep looking around… you will see more stories building up then you can imagine…
There always is something more to it….
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Delhi – Pushkar – Ajmer – Delhi
do i need to say more !!!
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and now time for a detailed trip-o-logue…
Long discussions with a group called Let’s Go.. preperations and bookings… and last minute drop outs… this is what happened before the trip happened…
We finally managed to start around 0030 hrs on 26th January for Pushkar… it was just the four of us finally… Me, Ankur Gupta, Aditya, and Shubhika… about 100 kms on CNG and the rest on Petrol, we reached Puskar around 0600 hrs with one break and swapping of people on the front seats…
here are the key highlights of the drive to Pushkar and some statistical infomation…
1) Total Distance covered : Approx 425 kms…
2) Total Time taken : about 6 hours…
3) Top Speed : 160 kmph
4) Cars overtaken with sheer power : Skoda, Endeavour, Tata Safari and numerous others…
5) Best Stretch : A consistent 130 kmph on the Jaipur Ajmer road for about an hour
6) Car we were in : Fiat Rock Solid Petra
7) Number of Breaks : 1
We did not expect ourself to reach Pushkar that early, and were kinda surprised ourself when we reached there… fortunately we found a small Dhaba open in Pushkar and had our second tea of the drive there… we managed to kill about 30-40 odd minutes, before we moved to the Hotel Sunset where we had booked the rooms… this was right there in front of the Lake and the view was beautiful… thinking about not waking up anyone at that hour, we decided to just rest for a while, and then knock the doors… that we finally did and realised that the door keeper was not too keen on entertaining us and we left that place quickly… One local guy assisted us in reaching Hotel Kashyap Palace, which looked like a relatively new small hotel with 8 double rooms… no frills nothing, but clean and nice…
All we wanted to do at that hour was sleep for a while, before hitting the streets again in Pushkar… so we all crashed on the beds and woke up only around 1100 hrs, got fresh and all, and moved on to check out the small town… Our hotel was near the Govt. Sr. Secondry School Pushkar, and not too far away from the main market either… 10 minutes walk and we were at the Only temple in the world of Lord Brahma… did the usual walking around, shooting around and were out quickly… Had loads of nice food at a small restaurant called the Mamta Restaurant near the temple itself…
We tried to hire Camels for Safari, however there were no camels available, thanks to the maddening rush in the small town… which meant that we had to walk our way to the sunset point, which turned out to be a better idea then doing the safari… a walk back from the point took us to another restaurant, where we ate more…
Here is some statistical information about the day again…
1) Woke up around 1100 hrs…2) Out of the Brahma Temple around 1400 hrs…
3) Things we had at the Mamta Restaurant : Rajasthani Thaali, Daal Bati Choorma, Gatte Ki Sabzi, More Daal Bati Choorma, Chaach… ( Bill : approx : 250 bucks)
4) Total Kms walked : Atleast 6
5) Things we had at the restaurant in the evening ( don’t remember the name though) : Mexican Enchilada, Pizza with loads of toppings, a very different Tomato Soup, Pineapple Lassi and Masala Chai… (Bill : Approx. 250 bucks)
We reached our hotel after a tiring day, and were very very happy when the Hotel owner decided to get food for us from his home… Though we were kinda stuffed already, but the great food did not stop us from eating more… And this time we had great Kadi, Chawal, Chapati, and some traditional sweet… lovely food and that too on the house… We were on the terrace of our hotel which has been made very nicely to sit a lot of people and chat.. wonderfully done…
A good night sleep and my regular alarm saw me waking up at 0700 hrs.. and we got out of the hotel after packing our stuff by 1000 hrs…
I did one of the toughest climbs ever this time… we were trying to reach a temple on the hill top through an unconventional way and did not realise that its going to be this challanging… no way to climb up and no way to get back… we literally searched for a space for almost all the steps that we took to reach the top… and a small mistake would have meant that we fall about 50 ft into stones and thorns… phew… but then we made it to the top.. only to find a closed door 🙂 anyway… it was the spirit that WON there… and we could come down just fine using the stairs that were there… and realised that it would have been tougher climbing up if we had taken that path…
Moved out of Pushkar after buying some excellent bers, and having some great Sugercane Juice… Went to Ajmer Sharif… now while I love the fact that I see people from all religions there, i hate the crowd there…. specially the beggers… God know what, but looks like that they have been professionally trained to speak a different line to get some money for a good 30 minutes… Had to get really aggressive to get two of them off my back, or else they would have followed us to Delhi i guess…
Left for Jaipur, got hit by a truck from the back and left with a damaged tail light… which led to spending a good 4 hours in a police station on the highway, with one of the most cooperative staff… the SHO, Mr. Rajvir Singh ensured the the driver was booked and a FIR lodged… it took some time, but we were out of there with the Truck confiscated, and a FIR lodged against the driver…
Took one break to eat on the highway, and then rushed to Jaipur, and went to Chowkhi Dhani, and ran out of there, scared by the crowd… I hope to go there again, sometime when its less crowded… had dinner at a place called Padharo Sa… decent food here… bill amount again approximately 250 bucks…
Left Jaipur around 2300 hrs and I was home around 0300 hrs… drove all the way from Ajmer to Jaipur to Delhi… and the best part was those 20 minutes when everyone else was sleeping, I was singing loudly, and driving at 120… i loved that time… loved it loved it loved it…
Some more statistics…
1) Total Kms Driven : about 850 kms
2) Room Tarriff in Puskhar : 400 bucks per night on twin sharing
3) Total expenditure for the trip : about 1800 bucks per person
4) Fun and feelings : Priceless
oh.. and a few pictures for the record have been posted here.
Some of my picks from the lot that I clicked can be see on my flickr page, or by clicking HERE…
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JoKeroo.com
All of us have about a million things that keep up thinking, and at times sad as well during a day… and there are not many which make us smile…Internet really helps a lot of us net savvy people to get over the blues and smile for a while, and at times laugh our hearts out too.. one of such sites is jokeroo.com where you find jokes, funny videos, celebrity pictures, funny pranks, a discussion board and what not… you can also subscribe to a feed and remind yourself to visit the site almost everyday to have your daily dose of laughter…
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Batao Zara tum….
I do not have what i think i should have today because something better is about to be handed over to me…hai na bhagwaanji?
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