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रात  के  प्रहार  मैं  लगता  है  अब  नींद  नहीं  आनेवाली तब  सोचता  हूँ  मैं , लिखू  कविता  नमो  वाली नमो  है  शख्स  वोह  जिसने  गुजरात  का  दिल  है  जीता मांग  रहा  हूँ  खुदा  से  अब  दिल्ली  का  ताज  सीधा CM  की  कुर्सी  से   किये  परिश्रम  ने  है  रंग  दिखलाया दस  वर्ष  में  बिजली , सड़क , पानी  का  हल  ढूंढ  निकाला मख्कन  सी  सडकों  पे  अब  चले  हैं  गाडी  हमारी लगता  है  हमे , कोई  बड़े  निर्माण  की  है  तैय्यारी पर  कुछ  लोगों  को  विकास  की  रोटी  रास  न  आई बारह  साल  से   तीस्ताओ ने  एक  ही  जूठी  रट  लगायी के  Guj के  CM ने  मुसलमानों  की  जान  न  बचायी जबकि  SIT ने  भी  उसकी  इस  बात  को  झूठी  बताई बोली  SIT की इन्होने  जूठ  की  फैक्ट्री  खूब  चलायी जब  पड़ोसियों  ने  मदद  से  किया  इंकार , 24 घंटे  में  मोदी  ने  आर्मी  बुलाई .. कहा  उसने  की  गुजरात   पुलिस   ने  भी  दंगायियो  पे  गोली  चलायी तो  फिर  तीस्ता  पहुंची  सुप्रीम  कोर्ट   देने  इन्साफ  की  दुहाई .. पर  अपना  NaMo है  कर्मयोगी  निराला , विकास  का  मंत्र है  घोल  के  उतारा निडर  हो  के  करे  हैं  सारे  काम , दुश्मनो...

First of all, a very Happy New Year!  It's been a while since I wrote on the blog.  I am re-starting it again hoping that I will be more consistent in writing on the blog daily. Well, last month was fun.  Wife and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary in Coorg.  Coorg (Kodagu, as it is called now) is a beautiful place filled with waterfalls, lush greenery and just a beautiful landscape.  We went to Coorg from Bangalore after picking up DS's cousin in our car.  Hence, we started off for Coorg around 4:30pm.  That was not a good idea since Coorg is about 7 hours away and with my little son with us, it is nearly impossible to drive 3 straight hours without stopping.  We stopped in Mysore and had our dinner at Country Club, Mysore.  Please save your time and money and don't eat at this place.  It serves lousy and spicy food and the cleanliness of glasses is horrible.  It is better to eat at Kamat's that comes along the way. We left Mysore around 8:20pm.  The road to Coo...

The last few days have been very run of the mill kind of days.  Basically, I have been busy with work.  I want to watch the T20 matches but the matches that start at 6:00pm have been usually quite boring ones with Ireland or Netherlands or Bangladesh or one of the minnows playing.  By 9:50pm, I am too tired to stay up till midnight to watch the second T20 match of the day. Yesterday night, I did watch India stink up the joint against the West Indies.  Dwayne Bravo is in sublime form right now.  Though, I have to say that many Indian batsmen played terrible shots to get out.  Dhoni doesn't seem himself with the bat and watching them struggle against the bowling of Kieron Pollard, Suleiman Benn etc was horrible to see.  Anyhow, we need to win the remaining matches against Egland and South Africa to have a chance to qualify. We have been searching for a house to buy in Marathahalli, Brookefield and Whitefield areas.  We have finally liked one place and are thinking about booking this ...

I think there have been quite a few posts written on it but I seriously feel strongly about a need to drive some sense into the drivers.  Some things I would like to tell the drivers here: Making a right turn does not mean you come into the right lane (blocking oncoming traffic) to make a turn When it says "No Free Left turn", it precisely means that.  When the light is red, you CANNOT make a left turn.  Please do not expect the guy in front of you to move if the light is red no matter how much you honk. When there is a traffic jam, no amount of honking will get you out of it Please be considerate to pedestrians and don't stop you car 1 feet from the pedestrians feet, as if you are the king of the road If you pass a car/truck/bus etc on the left, once in a while please expect to get hit as well Just because the lane for oncoming traffic is empty does not mean you start driving in that lane When making a right turn at light, there is only lane to turn right. ...

It has been blustry and damp since last night.  While coming back from work, we had rain all the way home on Airport Road.  At night, winds started howling and I love the sound of winds blowing through the small crevices in the closed windows.  The wind was and is cold even this morning.  My son finally ordered me to put some socks on for him, something he has not worn in close to 6 months. My son had his second day in nursery at Vibgyor School in Marathahalli yesterday.  The school decided to split kids in his playschool class between 7 sections of nursery.  So, now all the friends of my son are split up.  He hated his 1st day of school.  However, for the second day, a friend of his from our apartment complex got admitted into his section.  I thought that would make a difference!  No way!!  Both were crying incessantly.  It was like triveni sangam of Ganga-Jamuna-Saraswati in full flow from the eyes of the two.  Luckily, an old teacher of DS saw him crying and took him to the class.  ...

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This is an old post that I had written on blogspot about 4 years back when I was in the US.  It is still applicable and I still feel the same way. ********************* I have been meaning to write on this topic for a while. Ever since I arrived to USA for my undergraduate studies, I have heard arguments between Indians born in the US about what is bad about India and Indians living in India who find bad things, or things they can laugh about and point to say that people are the same everywhere. Having been in the US and India almost an equal amount, my thinking is a bit different on this. I am more indian as far as thinking is concerned i.e. more social, less win at all costs etc. type of thinking. So, my thinking follows the perspective of those Indians living in India. My brother(s) waste no time in telling me how this or that is not right in the USA. Admittedly, that is true. You can always find things that are not good in the US. However, one thing we Indians should keep in mind i...

Well, my son still continues to suffer from fever.  Everytime he takes paracetamol (Crocin), the temperature comes down and then rises back again.  So, I am back working from home and trying to juggle him with my conference calls and emails :-)  It is fun and I can kind of understand how much work it is to go to work, cook, clean and tend to a child.  I think I would be terrible if I had to do it full time so, full credit to my wife who does it quite seamlessly. While at home, I get to watch all the kiddie show and current favourite of my son is "Chhota Bheem".  It is quite clean and little educational, no where as educational as Dora though.  I enjoyed the Bheem show though and wouldn't mind seeing it again.  We are again hooked to shows on National Geographic and Animal Planet.  It is so much nicer to learn about nature than to watch mindless soaps or slapstick comedy programs. Thinking of Chhota Bheem and Dora, I am reminded about the monkey that is roaming around in o...

I came home yesterday and found that my 3 year old son has fever, though he was in a pretty good spirits.  That is the thing with kids getting sick.  Parents feel more for the kid than the kid themselves.  They are generally in jovial mood unless the temperature goes beyond 100C or if they start feeling lethargic. I finally got to have my favourite fruit- Black Jamuns.  Our driver saw them with some sabziwala so, he bought them for me.  I guess in Tamil it is called "Nagapalam".  Interesting..I learn new things everyday. Additionally, I had worked out early in the morning yesterday and then I worked out again in the afternoon.  Surprisingly, I still feel refreshed.  I did about 50-60 push-ups yesterday.  I don't intend to do that many everyday, but I wanted to find out how far my body can go and looking at how I feel today, it seem I can probably do even more. :)  So, I guess it is all in the mind. I have started doing meditation in the morning around 5:30am.  Although I ...