Emotionally Speaking

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I would give it 7 or 7.5 out of 10. It is a very good film, but nothing great. Believe me or not. I watched it yesterday night at the South Delhi PVR Priya Cinema Hall (3D; hated their scratchy defective glasses which needed changing for many people). The first half was just okay (actually [...]

I have a motorcycle. I prefer the term ‘motorcycle’ (bike, for me, indicates a bicycle, unlike for most Indians). I am buying a bike in foreseeable future (Trek or GT for off-road cycling on weekends); so it is necessary that I demarcate the two for clarity. My motorcycle is a Yamaha: SS 125 (erstwhile Gladiator; [...]

I voted in the Delhi Municipal elections at about 8.10 am, moments after the process started. Vasant Kunj (SC reserved seat for woman), ward no 171, Venue: Kendriya Vidyalala, opposite old jnu campus near the Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Bersarai. Photos from my arriving at the polling station, police and security, polling room, polling staff, [...]

The Railway Corruption Enquiry Committee: The problem of corruption in the Railways has been an old one. Corruption existed in the shape of bakhshish or mamul from the public for the services rendered. But corruption assumed serious proportions during the Second World War when the entire resources of the railways were utilised for the needs [...]

Text Copied from her emails and press release. Published on this site for publicity Grand event happening in Lodhi Garden at Gate No -1, on 8th April 2012  (6:45 AM) to celebrate Baisakhi & World Health Day on Sunday organized by the Thakurdwara Trust in association with the former Asian Champion Sunita Godara, Director Health [...]

In an unfortunate incident (that went mostly unreported in the media; see Aaj tak story), a section of JNU students virtually hounded out Arvind Kejriwal . He was barely allowed to speak at the Koyna hostel mess venue (23 March 2012, about 10 pm). Anyone who knows the campus, knows that it is the time-tested  [...]