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Warora on Bike

Friday, January 6th, 2012

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.

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Updated: Dawoodi Bohra Miqat Calendar

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

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.

Tags: bohras, change
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Malls in Nagpur

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

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.

Tags: change, dubai, india, nagpur
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Nagpur Airport just got a little costlier

Friday, October 21st, 2011

Yes. Yesterday night I had been to Nagpur Airport (Dr. Babasaheb International Airport, Nagpur) to drop a friend of mine who was to travel by early morning flight to Sharjah.

The check post created halfway towards the airport, made a receipt of INR 20/- even though we told them that we will just go inside, drop the passenger and be back in less than five minutes and do not want to park our vehicle (bike). Still they said its compulsory to pay after 11pm till 7am, even if you don’t have to park your bike at the airport.

Now, is this proper ? MIHAN ? Are you listening ? Why should one pay parking charges for drop-and-go service ? That too on so bad roads ?

Tags: change, nagpur
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Mint ice cream

Monday, October 10th, 2011

Yesterday spent two hours and searched seven shops and then found mint ice cream in Baskin Robbins and Top n Town.

Dinshaws guys looked at each other on asking for mint ice cream.

Tags: change, family & friends, india, misc, nagpur
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The Shift

Friday, October 7th, 2011

This post comes in response to a friends request.

Shifting to India:

Its always like shifting back to Home. Home Sweet Home. Does this need any more explanation ?

Be prepared for:

While shifting from a foreign land to India, there are many things which change, in regular day-to-day life. There are no malls to roam around. No good places to hang out. Lot of dust on the road. Pollution from vehicles is all over the environment. Driving rules and safety — forget it. Anyone can drive anywhere, any vehicle, any stuff. You cant say anything to anyone.

More stuff — will think and write.

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Moriswala and Faiz e Qutbi

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

I once again went to Moriswala Musafirkhana. The experience was same as earlier. No changes.

Faiz e Qutbi — i found co-operative. I happily paid the charges.

Tags: bohras, change, family & friends, nature
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Home Sweet Home

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

After living for 3+ years in Dubai, UAE, I have shifted back to Nagpur.

I remember while flying from Nagpur to Dubai for the first time, I cried, for leaving back my family and friends here. Writing this today, after 4 days of my travel, my eyes still cry, for I left behind my friends which were dearer to me. Some of them grew close to my heart while I was in Dubai, we had never met earlier, and some of them I knew since I was a small kid. Tears fell down uncontrollably while the plane took off from Sharjah Airport. As I said to one of my friends, on question of how I’m feeling at that exact moment, like a newly wed girl, happy to go to her new home, and at the same time, sad to leave her parents. Happy to find new life, sad that she will miss her old life, and soon adjust to the new life.

All said, but, I will not be able to forget all those who have made a deep impact in my heart.

Tags: change, dubai, family & friends, india, nagpur, nature
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