Emotionally Speaking

UPDATE: June 2010. Now I have shopped some 350 books from flipkart.  Flipkart rocks! Flipkart now also sells CDs, DVDs, Music and games and have raised $8 to $10 million dollar VC funding (source); so expect more! I had a very bad experience with online shopping (I was cheated by Rediff Shopping and then had [...]

www. surajkundmela.wordpress.com It was my maiden visit to the famous SurajKund Crafts Mela on 14 February 2010 as part of the JNU UNESCO and Photography clubs’ trip to the fair. I shot more than 450 pics of the 24th edition of the fair and ended up making an online pictorial documentation of the fair a [...]

A lot of visitors come to this blog searching for Hindi poems, messages, Hindi SMS text etc. With Valentine’s Day round the corner, it would be in order to publish a Hindi poem on the theme of love and Valentine’s Day. The Hindi poem linked below is by JNU student Wasiul Haque and was written [...]

Loved the film Avatar?! Want to Avatarize yourself? Want to see how your Avatar would look? There was this McDonald Ireland link that no more works now but another site called Avatarize Yourself works perfectly! You can create your Avatar, customize it, change background and share and/or download the image Avatar. The site may take [...]

These are some interesting photos from the 19th New Delhi World Book Fair (Pragati Maidan). I was there from about 11:30 am to 4 pm on 4 February 2010. Please see the end of the post for links to many more photos of the Book fair and the Pragati Maidan. What I did not like [...]

These are four photos of the steel balloons near the AIIMS flyover. Their utility and futility has certainly been debated in the media. According to a Tribune report, even the CM Shiela Dixit was not very happy with them. I shot them from the bus yesterday en route to the Delhi book fair. They are [...]

Delhi Metro (DMRC) is good with taking feedbacks into account. Sometime ago I had submitted a feedback on their site and they had replied. See that below   “Dear Madam/Sir, With reference to your email dated 25 Mar 2013, we would like to inform that DMRC has taken the following measures for boarding/de boarding and the same [...]

Very good, biting India-Pak political cartoon from the Hindu, dated 3 May 2013. Backdrop: Death of Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan (murderous attack in jail).

Written quickly for friends; ignore typos. Some random tips.   I was away from Rajasthan from 12th morning to 16th morning (April) with a friend. Travelled by bus, totally unplanned. Earlier I had passed through Jaipur and gone twice to Ajmer. I went to Alwar, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Udaipur in that order and took return train [...]

This is copied from the quick advice I gave to a friend who was looking for Quechua Forclaz 500 trekking shoes in Delhi. Most of it is valid for online shopping. Useful for anyone looking for Quechua products. Written 27 April 2013 ****************** 1. Quechua Forclaz 500 shoes (women) on parent Decathlon site; size chart [...]

This Hindi poem on women’s plight was written in anger. It reflects the condition and anger after a number of rapes in India (December 2012 gang rape in Delhi, 5-year-old Gudiy rape case  and so many others). This poem is for anyone looking for a poem on women, the rape culture in India, the male [...]

Some of us wanted to use the Campus2 Home service of Safe Express (send 20 or 30 kg boxes in 390 or 490 Rupees); it is working with campuses all over India to emerge as a campus /university /college courier service. It has a bad customer service; I wrote emails and it all bounced (from [...]