The Rime of the Modern Biker (Biker here is the cyclist not any fancy Harley or the Bullet which is made like a gun). I know that The Rime of The Ancient Mariner is the longest lyrical ballad written by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge which is actually a masterpiece. I am no poet to even try my hands at that so I stick to normal prose and ask people to please be tolerant 🙂 Let me be very frank…
The geographical proximity of India and China have led to conditions that many times we see with our neighbors. There are very few neighbors who remain to be very close and friendly in normal day to day life. Indo-China relations have never been very amicable and the future isn’t going to be that rosy as well with the world looking at these two countries which hold one third of the world’s population as the so called “bright spots” in the…
Recently my weekend morning started a little differently. As usual I wanted to check my phone (I know its a bad habit but yeah many times I do check my Whatsapp messages, mails and other stuffs like that) and for some reason it just switched off and then never started. I had bought phone couple of years back for hefty sum of 37000 that too in three monthly installments. It was a Samsung Note II and as the Samsung software…
Imagine a situation, 4000 thousand years from now something happens to this world we know and everything is gone. The language we speak, the cities we have and technologies we are proud of. It just happens that someone finds one of our cities and starts finding so many different kind of stuffs like the plastics with some writings, sewers and drains, foundations of building but unfortunately nobody is able to make sense of any of those because language cannot be…
Bonjour Mesdames et Messieurs Je suis apprendre le français pendant deux ans avec Duolingo. Il est disponible en Android Store, Apple Store ou un ordinateur. Il est une application très bonne sans annonce. Je suis un étudiant de français dans mon collège. Le cours était seulement 30 heures de long, ne pas apprendre beaucoup. Après le cours Je suis l’habitude de faire une classe les jours sur Duolingo. Il faut 20 minutes pour terminer un chapitre et il devient très addictif ainsi. Je l’ai…
I come from the viewpoint that the racial division in India between the “fairer” Aryan north and “darker” Dravidian south is a glorified imagination of western vedic scholars and historians. The western vedic scholars did in the intellectual sphere what British army did in the political realm – discredit, divide and conquer Indians. The whole idea was to prove the “white man’s burden” and justify imperialism. Probably it gained currency in the northern part of India because it brought northerners close…
My mom tells me that when I was two months old, they took me to place called “Ziro” in Arunachal Pradesh and that is probably why I became a “hill person” or as we say in Hindi parlance a “Pahari”. I still stand by that as hills and mountains is where I feel homely and get the feeling of belongingness. Here is a snapshot of the years that has been so wonderful that I always want to go back. I have…
Nalanda is small town in Bihar which is famous for tourists on the Buddhist Circuit. I have been visiting Bihar from childhood days as we had relatives there and we used to visit during our summer vacations mostly every couple of years. But I had never been around much, but somehow this time it worked out and I visited Nalanda/Rajgir which is about 100 km from Patna and roads are relatively better when compared to rest of Bihar. Anyways it was…
I am writing this and you may feel that its a page out of “Savdhaan India” or any of the crime shows that are quite popular on TV channels. So here goes the story, it started sometime back in December 2014. I get a call from a lady somewhere in Tamil Nadu who starts shouting that someone has taken her credit card details and used it to do some transactions. Throughout the call she was in accusing mode and I tried…
It was a beautiful Saturday morning and I just came back from cycling.On reaching home little tired I was asked to get some milk and quite reluctantly I left for the Nandini shop just round the corner. As the luck would have it my purse slipped out of the pocket and unfortunately I never realized. So that is how I lost everything in my purse from DL, Credit & Debit Cards,PAN and some cash. That day milk costed me more…