One dark day awakens India.

India witnessed one of the most lurid terrorist act a year ago. The whole country was shocked, shattered and felt helpless in the hands of ten men who made some very prominent places of mumbai their terror ground.

 A year later, yes, there are hundreds who have lost their dear ones, many who will never be able to walk, shake hands, or be able to feel safe among strangers. But what has been the biggest outcome of this horrendous crime has been the way Indians have bonded like never before.

We love our country more that ever now, because we know in matter of seconds things that we take for granted can just be massacred and snatched away from us. We sincerely feel like changing the system, we have renewed our confidence in our leaders and we know the power lies within us to make a difference in our neighborhood, society and country.

Terrorists struck our motherland to terrorise but they never knew that, that dark day in the history of India would awaken a nation and its people to become stronger and act like one force.

To take on every challenge…we are one India.

 

 

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9 Festivals You Would Love to be a Part of in India

The important festivals celebrated in India that you will love to be a part of again and again…

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A two wheeler journey to paradise

A visit to Karnala bird Santuary, weekend getaway from Mumbai.

Birthday with the King

A trip to Sasan Gir National park, the last bastion of the Asiatic Lion.

पानी बचाओ

यदि आप और हम इन पांच मुदों पर अमल करें तो हर वर्ष 40,000 लीटर पाने अकेले बचा सकते हैं।

1. उन नलो के मुरम्म्त जल्द से जल्द करवा लीजिए जिनमे से पानी रिसता हो । जिस नल मे से एक मिनट मे 15 बूदें गिरती है, वह नल एक दिन मे 24 लीटर पाने बर्बाद कर देता है यानी एक वर्ष मे 7500 लीटर पानी बर्बाद हो जाता है। प्लमबर को बुला कर नल की मुरम्मत करवा लेना पानी के इस बर्बाद के मुकाबले कई गुणा सस्ता पड्ता है।

2. कोल्ड डिंक की बोतल मे रेत भर कर उसे फ्लश टेंक मे डाल दें। इस तरह जब भी आप फ्लश टेंक का इस्तेमाल करेंगे एक लीटर पानी बचाएगें। इस तरह आप एक दिन मे 2 लीटर और साल मे लगभग 750 लीटर पानी बचा सकेंगे।

3. फ्लश टेंक ऐसा खरीदें जिसमे से जरुरत के हिसाब से कम या ज्यादा पानी निकाले। इस तरह आप एक दिन मे लगभग 9 लीटर यानी साल भर मे लगभग 3000 लीटर पानी बचाएगें।

4. शावर के बजाए बाल्टी से पाने ले कर नहाएं। इस तरह आप दिन मे 70 लीटर और साल भर मे लगभग 30,000 लीटर पाने बचाएगें।

5. दांत घिसते समय या दाडी बनाते समय नल चालू न रखें । इस तरह आप दिन मे 7 लीटर और साल भर मे 2500 लीटर पानी बचाएगें ।

इस तरह पांच आदमी मिल कर हर वर्ष 2 लाख लीटर पानी बचा सकते हैं

An American talks about life in Delhi

I am always curious to know what others think of India, especially people coming from more developed countries like Australia, UK, Canada and of course the US.

Here is something I found written by Marie Cushing who is a junior at Johns Hopkins University participating in the IES Delhi program in India.

She chose Delhi in order to experience something completely different from the world she has known, and get insight into a country that has become an emerging world power. During the semester she hopes to become inspired, have a meaningful conversation in Hindi, eat as much spicy food as she can stomach and hold her own in a game of cricket.

In the article she has written about Delhi she gives quite a nice description about the places she has visited, what to find, what to buy and what to get plenty beforehand if you are visiting this place. It is especially great to find a foreigner who accepts India as it is including the heat, roads, poverty and is not biased about the country.

Here is her account of Delhi and India

Milk…an Indians elixir of life!

 Oh, yes, we Indians do love our milk, just like we love our cows. There is milk in our food, our prayers; our rituals as w e even bath our Gods in milk as a gesture of supreme faith.

Pouring milk on a shivaling

There are special days like the Nagpanchami, when we offer milk to serpents in the hope that they will bless us and not bite. It is of course another matter that scientist say serpents like the cobra, do not actually drink any milk.

There are days like the Shardpurnima when milk is kept in front of the full moon so that some special blessing are received from the Moon God and the milk becomes more pious than ever when it is drunk.

We ask our guests and bridegrooms and children to drink milk in the hope that they become strong and remain healthy. And when we can’t have enough of this pure glassful of white liquid, we turn it into curd or cottage cheese or ghee or butter or chas or lassi and still have it day in and day out. We have entire empires made of milk, those entrepreneuring milk people who serve delectable sweets made out of condensed milk.

Spoilt for choices...at the sweet shop

Be it for the bones, for the health, for the teeth, for the brain, or just for the powerpacked wholesome goodness of it, milk is indeed an Indians elixir of life.

Here is something interesting that odzer observed about this Indian obsession. http://www.odzer.com/?p=1485

aag jalni chahiye….

Starting with my hindi section of the blog with this beautiful and inspiring poem by Dushyant Kumar. Seems quite apt in the current election phase going on in the country….

The basic jist of this poem is, if you are standing up for a cause…then don’t just stop at that…see to it that your act makes way for change…action speaks louder than words.

आग जलनी चाहिए – दुष्यन्त कुमार (Dushyant Kumar)

हो गई है पीर पर्वत-सी पिघलनी चाहिए

इस हिमालय से कोई गंगा निकलनी चाहिए

आज यह दीवार, परदों की तरह हिलने लगी,

शर्त लेकिन थी कि ये बुनियाद हिलनी चाहिए

हर सड़क पर, हर गली में, हर नगर, हर गाँव में

हाथ लहराते हुए हर लाश चलनी चाहिए

सिर्फ हंगामा खड़ा करना मेरा मकसद नहीं,

सारी कोशिश है कि ये सूरत बदलनी चाहिए

मेरे सीने में नहीं तो तेरे सीने में सही

हो कहीं भी आग, लेकिन आग जलनी चाहिए।