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Media Centre – Infosys Banglore
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I am travelling to banglore for two weeks starting this monday to 23rd…
And I have the weekend of 15th to do my September Trip… suggestions please…
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Choice of Expression….
Two friends…One Angry…
One far Away…
The angry one can either take it all out on the one who is far away because of something he said or probably did not…
Or
The angry one can tell the one far away what really happened and resolve the matter…
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Chai Ki Dukaan…
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Something that i have always loved… every place I go in India… i find one of these… muah to INDIA…
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Language is like SEX…
Greenwich… or gren-ich….This discussion still has been going on… Arobindo wants to sue his school because he was never told that its Gren-ich…. and because of the fact that he would have to face issues when he travels the UK….
I think language is like SEX… people speak/do it the way they like it…
There are no set rules… there are some basic guidelines, called grammar, etc etc are there… but as an individual you decide what you like the best…
so enjoy … the language too 🙂
cheers…
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World समोसा (Samosa) Day !!!
:Time for a day !!!
And let me introduce you to “the World समोसा Day…“
Why only samosas… because this is one snack that I missed the most in London… and also saw how ridiculously dissimilar the samosas in England were to what we get in Delhi… the amazing shape of the samosa is reduced to just a wrap called samosa… and sold for about a pound everywhere…
This post and this day henceforth, I would, dedicate to Samosas, The best tea-time snack I know of 🙂 !!!
May we all get good samosas always… with the best of tea ( @ the चाय की दुकान )
Amen !!!
Oh… and today also happens to ne India’s National Flag Day… read more about it here…
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The Past in Present…
Not too far away in time I was a small kid… and with not many friends… used to be a good student and with a few friends… people my life circled around… and one such friend used to stay not long away from my house…
I remember my first cycle trip to his place… and how I got lost while coming back….i remember how I could still manage to reach home finding my way out with the high telephone tower helping me out…I also remember a day, when three of us small kids were cycling around in noida and one of us met with an accident… he happens to be the father of a sweet girl today…
The third one happened to be one of my closest friends of those times… good company he was…I was always scared of his dad because he was a Police Officer, and his mom was one of the sweetest moms I knew… she is such a lovely lady… and the Mickey and Mona, his brother and sister… were two sweet darlings we used to be with…Time passed… and I moved out of the school… to find a dream and a career for myself, and during all this while we did not talk… we moved apart when no one had heard of something called an email and we used to keep our fixed line numbers in phone books… so loosing that phone book meant that you loose touch… and if someone changes his residence or the number changes.. Then also you would not be able to track them down…
I lost one of my phone books… and I lost a few of my friends I had practically spent the nicest days of my life with… did not make any long lasting friends in the new school or college except while doing my masters… infact the people that I call friends are very very few today…
When I was going to London last month, I talked to one such friend… and he happened to the same guy who I used to treat as my best friend back in दाव school… Abhishek Dixit…
the same guy who used to roam around with me on cycles… the same guy I remember as a die hard fan of Amitabh Bachchan… The guy from Banda, UP, the same guy who used to sit with me on the last bench in school, the same guy who fell with me while we were trying a few summersaults on our last bench in school॥ The same guy I lost touch with for about 11 years…
And I was there with him, in a different country, in a different continent, about 6700 kms away from home… living some of the best moments of life again… the same comfort level॥ The same care… the same conversations, with some refinement though… things did not change much did they?
We walked the streets of London, we went to Scotland, we talked, ate, and ooooogled at girls together… life made simpler… the simple joys of life come to me in form of Abhishek… who also doubled up as the guide in a firangi country in the not so good of situations and the better ones too…
London would have been a mess, if he was not there… thanks Bro for being around… then and now!!! You are a blessing!!!
शुक्रीया दोस्त…
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मेरी चाय की दुकान
I have been thinking about it for a while now… and I think I need another title for my blog… “Life As a (w)Hole” has been there for sometime now, infact a lot of time now… while I still am fine with looking at these words, I do not remember the last time I read the title of my blog…So I think, its time for a change… did not really think about many titles… thankfully the one that came to my mind first is the one that I want to be with…And
Life As A (w)hole… would now be called…
Chai ki Dukaan !!!
Blame it on the London weather or the rains that was all that I saw in the last 10 days of my stay there… because a Chai ki Dukaan was something that I was really missing there in the firangland…
However, the afterthoughts also helped me stick to the thought… because I have always like the roadside tea-stalls… they have been the most adorable, and faithful partners in all my trips in all the years that I have been traveling… go anywhere in India, and you will always be welcome in a tea-stall with a nice boiled tea and a few biscuits… a feeling that no other country in the WORLD can provide you with…
And I think that these tea stalls are where the real conversations take place… the words between the sips of boiling tea, and the sips between the conversations… I love them all…
So the ladies and the gentlemans… please welcomes the
Chai ki Dukaan… this is where my conversations with the world happen !!!
And this post would be incomplete if I do not mention Bindiya, who was very prompt in agreeing to the thought of changing the blog title, when I mentioned that to her!!! Thanks darling!!! It helped…
Might work on the template as well soon… ideas welcome !!!
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Who Should I be scared of?
I believe that one single incident cannot really be good enough for anyone to pass a judgment about the entire country or a state for that matter, however with incidents like what happened in Gurgaon in the Honda Factory where hundreds of people were mercilessly beaten up by the policemen, the time when couple in Meerut were beaten by the policemen and policewomen for being together in a park… and now the dragging of a pickpocket in Bihar…While I am sure that there is some action/ punishment required to straighten things up and the not so legal acts… but is this the right way? Are they trying to be heroes or something?
I would not be lying if I say that I am more scared by the police around me as compared to the criminals… At least the criminals keep into hiding, but the police can roam around freely doing what they want and the way they want…
And to add to an icing on the cake, there would usually be a few ppl suspended for beating the shit out of common people, and there would be a few people suspended (for shaking hands with Sanjay Dutt, when he is released on bail), there would be a group of people to enquire about the whole incident, and the opposition would ask the Chief Minister to resign and the incident would go on a completely different tangent…
Shameful and painful…
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Lost…
I was trying to look up the internet for a definitive meaning of the words ” youth icon”. Did not really manage to find something…So either I completely misunderstand the term Youth Icon or there is some big confusion…
Orkut?
Abhishek Bachchan?
Shahrukh Khan?Don’t we know of people who are young and make a difference in the lives of people in the country? Are there non left?
And the winner is Orkut?
Am i missing something?
