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2011-07-23T14:47:00.000+05:30

Mussorie has Chic Chocolate (decent chocolates), the mall road - library and picture palace end. The police station in the middle of the mall road is a vibrant red.Our hotel, the Park Plaza was a disappointment - in fact, I doubt there are any good hotels in Mussories except perhaps Jaypee and Fortune.Mussorie is good for 48 hrs - thats it. Nothing else there except a lot of scenary and quiet

2011-07-23T14:35:00.000+05:30

Dhanaulti in Dhanaulti

2011-07-23T14:33:00.000+05:30

Dehradun from the Park Plaza hotel in Mussorie

2011-07-23T11:55:00.000+05:30

Temple - Mussorie Mall road

MS office and Mondo

2010-12-20T01:11:00.001+05:30

After spending time to remove the office ‘10 mondo pack, i finally installed genuine office 2010 for the first time. Most probably, cause I can afford it now and I need it!

2010-08-01T22:28:00.003+05:30

After a long hiatus I am back here. The dog in the pictures below has grown and my brother has had a baby. My cousins got married and my wife had a major surgery. Work got interesting and then irritating in this time.My parents are getting closer to retirement and I sometimes now want to be an agriculturist.A year is a long time when you are 30. Stuff happens!

2009-11-16T20:18:00.001+05:30

Doggies are wuf! - more to come

2008-11-30T14:27:00.003+05:30

Apply for Inclusion of name in the Electoral Rolls : MaharashtraConcerned AuthorityElectoral Office in the City or the respective District Election Branch located at the district Collectorate Office.EligibilityEvery person who - Is not less than 18 years of age on the qualifying date andIs an ordinary resident of the Constituency and Is an Indian Citizen.FormsEvery eligible person has to submit

2008-11-30T13:48:00.002+05:30

Details on how to get your name added in the electoral roll http://india.gov.in/howdo/howdoi.phpKnow your MP/MLA of your constituency on this website. I am trying to see how i can contribute - i suggest we all do that. But there is not too much information on this site. Just a listing of MP's that i could find. MLA's are impossible to find. I have also never heard of most of the constituency

2008-11-30T13:13:00.002+05:30

BAU is OBVIOUSLY not the answerMumbai was once again attacked by terrorists. What should have been done is:Basis the GPS device tracked on day 1, co-ordinates of the terrorist masterminds should have been taken out in an air strike on day 2 itself. The sat phone with GPS was found on day 2 end even as the terrorists were talking to their masters on the phone. They continued to do so perhaps till

2008-11-09T20:27:00.001+05:30

क्या आप जानते है इस भाषा को?और पढ़ते रहिये इसी को। फिर मिलेंगे

2008-06-19T20:02:00.000+05:30

2008-06-19T19:49:00.000+05:30

And here is the real full Patch - unmacroed!

2008-06-19T19:38:00.000+05:30

A macro close up of Patch

2008-05-25T23:29:00.000+05:30

Yalla helikopter!Kowloon

2008-05-25T23:26:00.000+05:30

COCO - What is this all about now? (psst- i dont know!)

2008-05-25T23:20:00.000+05:30

While i was packing for HK.

2008-05-25T23:18:00.000+05:30

2007-06-10T12:27:00.001+05:30

Just leaving office - view from the car park at sunset.Lower Parel, Mumbai.

2007-06-10T12:24:00.001+05:30

Street vendor who gave us some chana chaat - very spicy stuff!Bandstand, Mumbai

2007-06-10T12:19:00.001+05:30

PATCH!

2007-06-09T22:17:00.000+05:30

Sunday in town. The rains are going to land in another week. The winds have started blowing.

2007-03-14T13:49:00.000+05:30

Just a shot i took last year. OfTheLampWhat else?

2007-03-14T13:36:00.000+05:30

Last year in Kamshet near Mumbai - the rain, the smell of the goats and this posing shepherd.

2007-03-14T13:31:00.000+05:30

GOA! The PNJ 327 on a black night on the Panjim river.

2007-03-09T21:04:00.000+05:30

The mumbai floods in 2006 - after this photo, the downpour was incessant.

2007-03-09T21:01:00.000+05:30

2006-07-12T19:29:00.000+05:30

Mumbai blasts- BAU is the answer?The mumbai blasts happened yesterday. Today, offices are open, the sensex went up and people are on the trains again. Like nothing happened. TV channels are saying its a good thing.So its going to happen again, right?Almost 200 people died yesterday, and its business as usual here. What is the message we are sending to the terrorists? Go ahead, bomb our cities,

2006-03-28T00:54:00.000+05:30

All pictures of the weddings, of my brother and mine (2 weddings, in case you are confused...my brother and i got married in a gap of 9 days!), are by parul.he took some awesome shots. Thanks pal!

2006-03-24T00:24:00.000+05:30

my brothers on the horse- its so colourful aint it?

2006-03-24T00:23:00.000+05:30

me and my future current wife! before my wedding

2006-03-24T00:21:00.000+05:30

My brother's wedding! yippee!

2006-03-24T00:20:00.000+05:30

after the wedding- going back home

2006-03-24T00:18:00.000+05:30

getting hitched.

2005-10-11T15:02:00.000+05:30

pooja of the car

2005-05-05T02:03:00.000+05:30

heyhey hey, hey.leave me alone for just one day.turn back on me, and look away,wait for me to come againhey, hey hey.look here, i am not a kid anymore.i have grown up, and some more.my life has changedbut you never noticed.i'm not the same oneyou used to know.look into my eyesi dont want to lietheres no party and there no timeits all work thats all i am.i wish what you are saying was a little

2005-05-02T23:05:00.000+05:30

ladakhthis site belongs to a junior at IMI's dad. the photos do too. in any case, i thought the photos look so good. this is one of the things i want to do. go to ladakh and take pictures of the place. stay there for a month and have yak tea. avoid yak cheese or butter bacause it is like stone, and the cheese definetly has some hair in it! i know this cause some of my nepali friends once bought

2005-05-01T03:38:00.000+05:30

suggested websiteslive plasmachromasiatry out these 2 sites. live plasma will really blow your mind at the possibilities. its 347am and i am sleepy. i just got back from work. and no, its not a night shift. its like the whole day and then the whole night (almost)i dont think this is how i want to continue 2 years from now. till then, here i am.

2005-04-27T02:00:00.000+05:30

STAND BY MEWhen the night has comeAnd the land is darkAnd the moon is the only light we'll seeNo I won't be afraid, no I won't be afraidJust as long as you stand, stand by meSo darlin', darlin', stand by me, oh stand by meOh Stand, stand by me, stand by meIf the sky that we look uponShould tumble and fallAnd the mountains should crumble to the seaI won't cry, I won't cry, no I won't shed a

2005-04-25T23:00:00.000+05:30

put up on show (and rightly so)

2005-04-25T22:59:00.000+05:30

the rock music party

2005-04-24T23:51:00.000+05:30

the leaves fading into the blacknessthe leaves were big and heavy. when i looked up, they were fading into the night above. deep green, turning into an almost black, turning into the night.sitting on a good cushioned chair having my coffee, i felt life like that tree. with the leaves of the next few days and the next few months gradually fading into an inky blackness.at one point i used to be

2005-04-21T01:47:00.000+05:30

truckful of colours

2005-04-11T22:46:00.000+05:30

S T O P the L I F T

2005-04-11T22:40:00.000+05:30

through the windscreenthe rain finally came in chennai. it was quite a day. business was down and the weather was beautiful. sometime during the day, i had some tea someplace and it all felt good. then i had to get back to work!things are always like that. its all good till the next moment.the yellow autos and the rain on the glass and on me will always remain as a striking memory within me.

2005-04-11T22:16:00.000+05:30

to the end of somethinga letter putting everything in wordsanger, hate, disgust for the lovesomethings in life used to have a meaningnow it is like a jaded memorywhen i think of all the time we hadit makes me want to shut my eyes and crymy stomach hurts and my shoulders shakein anger and in hate.he was thinking it could end somehowin another country and in another placethe world is small and the

2005-04-04T01:07:00.000+05:30

light and shadows

2005-04-04T00:59:00.000+05:30

waiting to be filled

2005-04-01T13:16:00.000+05:30

candyfloss

2005-04-01T13:15:00.000+05:30

above the beach

2005-04-01T13:10:00.000+05:30

motion in plastic

2005-04-01T13:09:00.001+05:30

Big Yellow (taxi?)

2005-04-01T13:09:00.000+05:30

cameras and action

2005-04-01T13:08:00.000+05:30

saturday at work

2005-04-01T13:04:00.000+05:30

73, armenian street

2005-03-31T19:39:00.000+05:30

what to write?sometime has gone by since i wrote last. as always i am again at a quandary over what to write. i have been very busy at work, which has intruigingly affected the gathering of knowledge or issues that i would have liked to do. instead, i find that i have learnt nothing about anything. it is quite depressing, that in the pursuit of making money, we end up not learning anything that

2005-03-08T00:49:00.000+05:30

flattened flowers on a tar roadalmost every day on the road i see crushed flowers of so many colours. walked over, run over, stamped over. but initially, thrown over the cart which is at the head of a procession carrying a body on its final journey. and once the body has passed, the flowers colouring up the road are a testimonial to life's passing. and as further proof, life actually passes over

2005-03-03T16:41:00.000+05:30

never tomorrowthe world is today, isint it?there is never tomorrow. over the last few days, i have been working a lot. till late in the night and the whole day the next. somehow, watching a movie mid week seems like a good idea to break the routine. what good does that do? not much, actually. it just makes me feel a little bit more alive. like there is something else to my life than just my work.

2005-02-27T01:18:00.000+05:30

BULLA KI JANAbulla ki jaana is now definetly one of the best songs written. that, inspite of it having being written in the 12th century. sometimes, it takes a long time for someone to get famous.my father had an interesting interpretation of the song. its actually in the first person. and it is god singing to bulla, you dont know who i am. i am so many things. and so on. i think that is probably

2005-02-26T00:29:00.000+05:30

FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGASi saw this movie over a year ago at home. it raised johnny depp's status in my eyes more than a few notches. something about he delivery of his acting is unparelleled even in hollywood. if anyone can close to being a nut like him in any other move is probably brad pitt in twelve monkeys, another absoloutely incredible movie. i was reminded of depp and fear and

2005-02-17T22:28:00.000+05:30

SERENITYthe net's unique ability to excite continues. sometimes, once i come back home, i like to browse through to some of the sites which are apolitical, uncontroversial, and dont involve the words iraq, the US, iran, politics and the like. the website with this image and others like this are here.

2005-02-17T01:15:00.000+05:30

this ad herethis italian ad brought back memories of the time i read gandhi ji's entire autobigraphy in class 7th. the entire series was in the kendriya vidhyalaya i studied in and was printed in sevagram, sometime in the 1970's. it was quite wonderful to read all that his mind held. today, there is a feeling of betrayal sometimes, to that kind of thought. one that is possbile, yet elusive. the

2005-02-14T23:53:00.000+05:30

dont take D cold Over the course of a conversation i got to know that paras pharma's drug 'D Cold' has the drug Phenylpropanolamine (PPA). i got some info on the drug from the govt. of singapore's health dept. site. Which had something quite serious to say. Phenylpropanolamine (PPA) is a nasal decongestant and

2005-02-12T00:58:00.000+05:30

State of mindexit stage left got me onto rush and made me listen to frank zappa (which i dident like at all). i just went to his blog and it isint updated since the last time i saw it. more than a year ago. a sudden thing. for me. like a disappearence. gorgeous writes though. but the tone has changed. its not the same as earlier. i hope everything is right. so often, our blogs and the websites

2005-02-11T22:14:00.000+05:30

To Kill The Child2 new singles by roger waters. he's saying the same thing that most of the world is saying.hey, america, listen!

2005-02-11T01:46:00.000+05:30

iranian theocracy being destroyed by its students what is the meaning of information? is it about an idealogy, or is it an opinion? for if it is an opinion, then the facts dont matter. the truth is, just as in this case above, where the theocracy in iran is being destroyed by its own students. the same students who are being given the support of the US in case they have an uprising. it is so

2005-02-09T01:51:00.000+05:30

hang up The Supreme Court today issued notices to mobile firms and private banks on a public interest petition alleging that they were providing........ this article in the business standard has a little more relevance to me than usual since I work for a very large MNC bank. my bank also happens to indulge in such practices time to time. clamping down on cell phone cold calls will have a

2005-02-08T01:21:00.000+05:30

a woman, a man with a large white bag and an invalid man. this was the scene i saw this morning on my way to someplace. they were collected together because a bus had broken down and they were the only 3 people unable to move on. obviously waiting for another means of transport to come their way. it was almost a movie scene, perhaps even the starting of something like yuva. intercrossing lives

2005-02-07T23:30:00.000+05:30

B B Shah a few days back i bought a pair of contact lenses from BB Shah at spencer plaza in chennai. within a week, one of contact lenses tore during the night due to some reason. i had cleaned and kept them through the night as usual in the solution. however the next morning had one of them torn. i went to BB Shah to get them changed. on a previous occasion in mumbai, the optician exchanged the

2005-02-06T02:55:00.000+05:30

the game call of duty has me hooked and in awe of computer graphics technology. its based on the ravoc engine so realism is total! the physics and the ai of the enemies are very close to what could be experienced in real life. i think it should be made mandatory for every 6th standard (and above) students. by the time they finish this (and the expansion pack) they will be experts on the II

2005-02-06T02:47:00.000+05:30

B L A C K the movie's review can be read here. on the way back home, my parents were discussing about what the movie kind of taught. i thought it taught responsibility. the kind of responsibility it takes to take care of individuals. my parents thought it made them realize how lucky we are to have all our senses and whatever else god gave

2005-02-03T22:18:00.000+05:30

iraqis voting- what does this mean? this image was at res republica. it was about iraqis voting successfully. somehow the image to me shows a lot of voters showing their fingers to be cut off....with red marking the spot. it bears more resemblance to the 'democratic process' in iraq. in todays state of the union address by the US prez, he was talking about giving support to any democratic

2005-01-31T18:20:00.000+05:30

one of the first things i am doing after getting onto the net is familiarizing myself with firefox. its a very neat browser and a lot of you must be using it. however, dont use it wothout the mouse gestures extension. and the load in ie extensions which comes in handy whenever firefox is unable to open a page (all because some punks who designed those websites dident want it to anyway!) its free

2005-01-31T01:09:00.000+05:30

back at home. charting a different path. hope things work out fine. in another few days, ater my brother returns to the US, i am going to blog much more. there are some interesting things i want to talk about. so check this place next week.

2004-12-12T22:49:00.000+05:30

the times they are a changing i at no point in my life imagined that this blog could become something that could connect me to work. note the 2 could's. dosent auger well. the truth is, that would be quite something. on another note, the trouble with tv is the lack of physical activity. perhaps if there was holographic tv, perhaps watchable by only one person, the programmed one, then it would

2004-12-07T20:25:00.000+05:30

maktub it is so. there are many words in many languages explaining that word. but not many of us really understand it. at some point in our lives, i would like to understand, appreciate and act on something. rather than do only one thing at any given time. i saw the new edition of nimbus. it looks beautiful. the white goes well with the black of last year. i hope it never turns grey. i see

2004-11-19T12:37:00.000+05:30

part of the city palace, jaipur. tons of pigeons also

2004-11-19T12:36:00.000+05:30

my elder brother, age quite young.

2004-11-19T12:33:00.000+05:30

the morning sun and fishing nets at baga

2004-11-19T12:32:00.000+05:30

shivam and me at colva beach, goa

2004-11-19T12:29:00.000+05:30

birds and the sunset at arambol, goa

2004-11-19T12:28:00.000+05:30

sunrise on baga beach, goa again!

2004-11-19T12:26:00.000+05:30

sunset on baga beach, goa

2004-11-19T12:24:00.000+05:30

baga beach, goa. flame dancer

2004-11-11T14:02:00.000+05:30

HAPPY DIWALI TO EVERYBODY MAY THE NEXT YEAR BE LIKE THE SPARKLES IN THE SKY, JUST, BURNING FOREVER.

2004-08-28T20:44:00.000+05:30

applegeeks

2004-08-28T20:33:00.000+05:30

some kind of power the world is just moving towards a destination i am staying behind sitting on my side the tv is on, and some song is playing the worst bit is, i want the tv off. my world is sometimes reduced to a room and mountains and the tigers dont exist talking to someone new is such a crazyily good thing but it happens lesser and leseer now. the world is starting to bore me not because

2004-08-22T14:10:00.000+05:30

guitar is electricity my guitar is giving out electricity....now, i am too young and too infamous to get electrocuted by my guitar, so if somebody has any answers, pls let me know. its sad that this is happening...since i only some time back decided to getting back to playing it more regulalrly....and well, then it gives me the zings. what ze hell. i watched kill bill 2 last night....hritik

2004-08-21T18:48:00.000+05:30

to rite in a hurried manner is to not rite at all. that is what they say. as i am on the eve of watching kill bill 2 with soem friends and the super boss of the company, i cant but wonder why i am getting obsessed with jap stuff. is it the girls, or the language, or the gore? tell me, o learned one. or is it the mind control, or the calmness of japan. or is it just the myth of the whole thing?

2004-07-23T20:35:00.000+05:30

parents i think my parents are the damm best in the world....! a lot of times, they think that we dont really think about them and that we dont appreciate what we are today, but the truth is, that feeling of being indebted for many lives is something i have only for my parents. a lot of times, i have spoken to my friends about how much they mean to us and how much we mean to them. i think i

2004-07-22T21:52:00.000+05:30

the world according to gripe life is bad, the sea is rough and the earth is shaking my lonely bed. forests conspire and paper deliver every coffee is made on a pyre reasons are there, and the threats remain sometimes i have to be wary, of that very thing soon enough, the bread arrives leaves me thinking of all the bad vibes the jeep swerves, misses the cow somewhere a man is shot, for not

2004-07-21T19:29:00.000+05:30

searching for the meaning of it all it is easy to lose oneself in this world. to not have an idea anymore of what you had set out to be. something that is not related to work or to what you want to achieve, but to what are called principles and belief. its easy to not miss them go away. its also very easy to find them too. but its difficult to let go of everything else. my life has come to a

2004-07-14T11:21:00.000+05:30

saw the map today in a related incident, i saw the map of the north east and i then realized that my earlier claims of having visited itanagar and thus, one of the easternmost points in the country can now be revised to my current destination. it is so close to the border, that i get goospimples. we(my collegue)-mind the spelling, and i started thinking about how it must be for the states even

2004-07-12T17:37:00.000+05:30

from the tip of assam i hadnt realised that we are actually on the very tip of assam, and of the country. burma is not very far from here.... that does not mean guns, or border stories or stuff like that. it just is near the border thats all. there are terrorists though, and it is something you cant forget here.....it is important to stay careful. thats the situation. as always, i have lots

2004-07-06T11:53:00.000+05:30

again from assam. or still from assam. tea gardens never looked so good. over here, there is a lot of space, and most of it is green. its amazing how the sky here is blue and black and the earth is green all the time. its very beautiful. sleeping alone, the rain falling outside is very comforting. a steady downpour which makes the morning shine. under all this, however, there is the compelling

2004-06-17T18:01:00.000+05:30

off to assam i am going to a place called dublijan in assam for 3 weeks. there are huge oil wells over there, and i am going there to seel some our products to people working there. seems a little weird when i say it like that. i never thought i would be selling anything. either way, it should be a good experience. after bombay, i think it will be a very different pace, and beyond that, i hope

2004-05-19T19:35:00.000+05:30

again, i visit my blog this time, almost like a guest. i feel like that myself. i had come on the net somedays back oo, but forgot to even open the blog up. i wonder why anyone else would? in any cas,e any hits these days would be just those accidental google hits. when someone wants to know about something and the word is here. hell. maybe to increase my hit rate, i should just put the

2004-04-29T19:26:00.000+05:30

hi again i almost have become a visitor to my own blog nowadays. these days, i have become a visitor to my past, and a spectator to my future. strange, that feels. i did something yesterday that i am regretting having to do, but something that had to be done to preserve whatever semblence of reality i might have wanted to maintain. there are these 2 worlds, and i am stuck in a limbo. either

2004-04-23T19:36:00.000+05:30

hey i dont these days write so much. the thing is, i am not so connected to the outside world, firstly, and the second thing is, i dont know if i have a whole lot of things to write about here anymore. i am finding that as i am increasingly getting into work life over the last one year, i am not able to find time to do those other things that made my life more colourful. not that i am missing

2004-04-07T18:32:00.000+05:30

reality it does bite sometime. i am slowly realizing that the things that i am doing are not the things that i want to do for another few months also. this is just not done. i hope someplace or the other, i will be able to move into something which interests me and keeps me going for a long long time. what is going on right now is almost sublime. unreal. hope this is just a phase.