Emotionally Speaking

Check out my website on Delhi Zoo: a pictorial documentation

What a pity the Delhi zoo does not have a website! I visited the Delhi zoo and Purana Qila on 15 June 2009 and documented everything from the tickets to the animal-shaped dustbins in about 3 hours! Also made a page on Purana Qila (including a pic in which couples are getting cosy in public, [...]

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Website on JNUMC Summer Trekking to Bhaba Pass, Himachal Pradesh

I was not part of this Jawaharlal Nehru University Mountaineering Club trekking but I did made a blog on it (as is my wont) after taking the photos from the friends. Check out the breathtaking Himalayan adventure pics if you love travelling/mountaineering/adventure. Leader Bibek was once caught in snow up to his waist and there [...]

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Delhi Winter is still on, thank heavens!

Last few years have not been very bright for Delhi’s winter and that is something which saddens me. December 2008 in Delhi was the second warmest winter since 1901 and  Republic day was the warmest in last six years! Last few days, however, have been pleasant and cold. I love Delhi’ s winter and do [...]

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Photos: tell it like it is!Spelling Error and Public Pissing on Delhi Roads

Here are a few interesting photos! The photos after the first photo are not for the squeamish! This one was clicked on September 21, 2008. A traffic advisory by ‘TRAFFICE’ POLICE! This notice was published at many places along the road from old JNU campus to Vasant Vihar in South Delhi! You may still find [...]

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How to get Delhi autowallahs to say ‘Yes’!?

That Delhi autowallahs are incorrigible is too well known to be elaborated here (meter not working, choosy about destinations and the like). Here is my suggestion (read trick) on how to get them to say yes over small distances. In JNU campus when you ask them to go to Munirka (more than 2 kms away) [...]

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Trip to Hyderabad

I had written an account of our M.A. class  Hyderabad field trip in mid- March 2005. I discovered it in the cellar! ____________________________________________________ My class, M.A. fourth semester, centre for political studies (CPS), JNU was in the villages of Rangareddy and Nalgonda districts in Andhara Pradesh from march 16 to march 22 on account of [...]

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