Kolkata Dairy...
Started the day with Prayers @ Kalighat temple in the morning.. Tasted the finest Bengali Rusgulla from KC Das... Visited Victoria Memorial & then Birla Planetarium… Chilled out @ the floating Floatel hotel in the afternoon… Boating from Millenium Park to Howrah bridge thru the Hoogly… a memorable joy ride in Kolkata Tram in the evening & then Metro rail thru MG Road… all in all, it was a perfect Sunday with Shekhar...
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Sunday, March 04, 2012
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Daiwik experience @ Rameshwaram
Showered in 22 thirtham @ Rameshwaram temple last sunday (12th feb), and then had a memorable trip to Dhanushkodi in the afternoon.
Boarded TN state transport Bus No.1 from Rameshwaram to Mugunthraya Chatram (20kms) (Fare 10 per head).
And from there, hired a Tempo to Dhanuskodi (10kms) to travel by sand (Fare 80 per head for up & down).
The mini-tempo ride along with 20 others was an adventerous joy ride on sand road & back waters to reach upto the Land's end, 27 kms south of Rameshwaram... Srilanka was just another 40 kms by sea.
Had to return bare foot as I lost both my footware while on the tempo ride
After the 1964 cyclone, Dhanuskodi is now uninhabited and a restricted place after 6pm.
Once this sprawling town had hotels, textile shops and dharmashalas catering to pilgrims and travellers.
Ruins of a two storied Library building
That is Kothandarama Temple view from Dhanushkodi road.
Sea is so calm in one side and the other side is full of waves.. Locals call the calm beach as Male and the roaring one Female.
Place where both of them joined...
Dhanushkodi beach is so shallow that there were people who walked coolly on sea for as far as about 200m...
Visited this famous Church @ Danushkodi on the return trip...
The sand was so hot that my foot were burning inside the church premises...
The Church walls were built full of Corals!!
Traced the railway track filled now with sand... In 1964 cyclone, a train full of passengers had lost their lives; and after that the Indian railways had abandoned this track...
The old railway station which had got ruined is today a mini-shopping place.
Had a road side shopping of Kanavathod & local antique.
After reaching back Rameshwaram, shopped a new pair of footware..
It was a tiresome day, but trully memorable!!!
Showered in 22 thirtham @ Rameshwaram temple last sunday (12th feb), and then had a memorable trip to Dhanushkodi in the afternoon.
Boarded TN state transport Bus No.1 from Rameshwaram to Mugunthraya Chatram (20kms) (Fare 10 per head).
And from there, hired a Tempo to Dhanuskodi (10kms) to travel by sand (Fare 80 per head for up & down).
The mini-tempo ride along with 20 others was an adventerous joy ride on sand road & back waters to reach upto the Land's end, 27 kms south of Rameshwaram... Srilanka was just another 40 kms by sea.
Had to return bare foot as I lost both my footware while on the tempo ride 
After the 1964 cyclone, Dhanuskodi is now uninhabited and a restricted place after 6pm.Once this sprawling town had hotels, textile shops and dharmashalas catering to pilgrims and travellers.
Ruins of a two storied Library building
That is Kothandarama Temple view from Dhanushkodi road.
Sea is so calm in one side and the other side is full of waves.. Locals call the calm beach as Male and the roaring one Female.
Place where both of them joined...
Dhanushkodi beach is so shallow that there were people who walked coolly on sea for as far as about 200m...
Visited this famous Church @ Danushkodi on the return trip...
The sand was so hot that my foot were burning inside the church premises...
The Church walls were built full of Corals!!
Traced the railway track filled now with sand... In 1964 cyclone, a train full of passengers had lost their lives; and after that the Indian railways had abandoned this track... 
The old railway station which had got ruined is today a mini-shopping place.
Had a road side shopping of Kanavathod & local antique.After reaching back Rameshwaram, shopped a new pair of footware..
It was a tiresome day, but trully memorable!!!
Sunday, January 08, 2012
One life, a little gleam of time between two eternities...
Definition: Gleam - A brightness in a person's eyes taken as a sign of a particular emotion
What puts a gleam in your eye? What are the "little things" that leave you with a smile, a tear of joy, a feeling that something has touched your heart? Here are some of the things that put a gleam in my eye....
- The laughter of my child as they play
- A small little hand reaching down to pick that first flower of spring and then handing it to me
- A child's smile
- The look in my friend's eyes when he watches me
- The smile of a loved one who hasn't seen you in a while
- A blessing from an old song
- A greetings in the mail from my sister
- A quick note or phone call from a dear friend
- The suns rays as they burst through the cloudy sky
- An eagle as it soars through the sky proud and free
- A hand holding mine
- A hug
- The words "Good job!"
- Driving through the country side with my window down and music blasting
- A good bargain
- Staying with my parents
- Just being silly with my family
- The smell of a new baby doll
- The sounds of the birds on a quiet summer day
- The ocean
- The rain on the roof
- The first butterfly of the season
- Going barefoot through the grass or beach
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Interview with a Hi-tech Genius
Important lessons:
1. Aisi technology aane wali hai ki 1 sal tak aapki awaj vatavaran se record karke tape ki ja sakegi.
2. Jab mobile badlo to uske battery ek hathoda se markar todo. Purani battery ke tukde jod ke data chori ho jayega.
3. Ye Sir, barish karwane ke liye cloud seeding ki baat nahi kar rahe. Ultra hitech CLOUD CDing aur unique people identification ke baat ho rahi hein.
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