A spectacular view of Marine Drive, Saifee Hospital and sunset there. Sitting here I remember sitting at the corniche at Dubai.
Notice the lighting effects on Saifee Hospital.
There are some huge stones lying in the water, or is it something else ? Visible during low tide, which got hidden in water during high tide.
The monument was created by Britishers to mark the place of their arrival in India. More details here.
Had been to Mumbai. And while there, took some pics on Gateway of India, Marine drive and while back on the way in train too.
Posting here some pics in different posts.
This is a belated post, dedicated to my belated mother-in-law.
14th of Feb, the day passed off with peace and love in the air. At night, I got a call from my brother-in-law and called to say that my mother-in-law has passed away in Mumbai. I was shocked. After two mins, I again called him to ask, and reconfirm what he had just said.
Minutes later, I called my family and informed them of it, and all of them rushed to my house at night itself.
My mother in law was scheduled to board the flight of ziyarat of Maqamaat Muqaddasah on 15th Feb at 9am. She fell down in Raudat Tahera complex. Last rites were performed on the same day and were finished off by 1am. The rest of the passengers continued on their scheduled ziyarat.
May Allah grant her peace. Ameen.
As Huzurala TUS is in Dongaon, me and my family with families of my brother and sister, went on a road trip to Dongaon for a day to be spent there i.e. Sunday and attend Waaz of Shahadat Imam Hasan AS and perform deedar of Aqa Maula TUS and Mufaddal Maula TUS and also perform ziyarat of Maulaya Nooruddin QR.
For google map link click here.
We left in a Qualis (7+4) and was a 9hr 30min travel each side with adequate stopovers on way for refreshment and food.
Overall, a superb trip to be long remembered and cherished.
A fortnight ago, I got a call from my friend who was with us in Dubai. Though he just used to meet on some Fridays. Was happy to get a call from him inviting me for marriage of his brother at Warora.
I and another friend, decided to go all the way to Warora (234 Kms from home-to-home) by bike. The road from Nagpur to Warora, going through Nagpur-Chandrapur Highway which is more than half a National Highway — superbly four laned — and the rest being State Highway — which is being converted into four lanes — was simply great. A smooth ride.
While going, we stopped at Jamb and in return, as it was late, we had a stop at Jamb, but could not get anything further to stop.
We were surprised that during the entire run of 234 Kms — on National Highway and State Highway — we did not encounter even a single Patrol Vehicle.
Many of my readers are using Dawoodi Bohra Miqat Calendar – which is based on google services and very easy to use and incorporate in your own google calendar. You can even get free sms / email reminders for the same. If you need to understand how to do that, ping me.
For those who want the links:
Previous post: http://abdeali.org/blog/2011/01/dawoodi-borha-miqat-calendar/
I have updated the calendar to include entries for 1433H i.e. 2011-12.
There are many celebrations, which we do every year. Like, celebrating new year, different personal calendars, religious calendars, social calendars. Many of these engagements are also repetitive in nature, some weekly, fortnightly, monthly, quarterly and even yearly.
How many of these do we celebrate with all our heart and mind set to celebrate it ? And, how many of them do we — each individual — celebrate as a routine, celebrating for the sake of celebration ?
One needs to ponder over it.
Malls in Nagpur are in general a failure. I think that the Mall Management is very much responsible for this due to their policies.
Couple of days earlier, I had been to The Empress Mall, the mall charged me INR 10/- for parking my vehicle in their premises. So how do they expect more foofalls in the mall. Simply put, less footfalls, less visitors, less business, and mall fails. How does the mall management think that we will pay Rs10/- for just parking our vehicles their ?
While discussing this issue with my friends, I came to know that Eternity Mall also charges Rs 5/- for parking of vehicles.
About some days ago, I read somewhere (I don’t remember if it was in print of paper), that Eternity Mall is facing shortage of footfalls; now I understand the reason for that.
I think that they should make parking FREE for say 4 hours as is in practice in Dubai, UAE in malls. After that, charge them nominal if they are not making any purchases in the mall. If they make purchase of some fixed amount they get an hour extra free and so on.
Otherwise, the future seems blink.
Grow up Malls in Nagpur, else you will fail.
Deepawali or Divali is generally called in slang — the festival of lights — was celebrated with great enthusiasm yesterday at Nagpur.
But, surprisingly, what I saw around, was total chaos.
The roads are being daily (even without the festival around) are being cleaned till 9 or 9.30am. While most of the shops open up early, atleast the daily needs shop and the children go to school. And the roads are not clean. Where is Cleanliness ? Is NMC reading this ?
Most of the signals, on the squares, where I travelled, I saw the signals being run on Emergency, rather than in normal mode. The Traffic Police personnel as always, were sitting 200 meters after the signal (you know better why this happens). While in normal mode, people tend to not to follow the traffic rules, so how does the corporation expect people to follow rules when the signals are running on emergency mode ?
Yesterday evening, or rather night, at around 9.45pm, the roads had visibility of around 300-400 meters because of the smoke from fire crackers.
Happy Deepawali.
Dream is not what you see in sleep;
Dream is which does not let you sleep.
-- Dr Abdul Kalam (Former President of Republic of India).