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Gujarat

Friday, April 27th, 2012

During a short period of two months, this was my second visit to Gujarat. The direct base being Ahmedabad, and then short trips to Denmal and Balasinor, which my accompanies had been to Denmal and Surat.

Ahmedabad and Denmal was a religious visit while Balasinor was a friend’s marriage.

Gujarat progress is real good, with even Volkswagen show rooms in small towns near Ahmedabad, like the one I saw in Mehsana. Well, that’s the power of Dollar and Pounds (as the car driver said to me).

Some photographs:

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My Dear Bank

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

My Dear Bank

I agree that YOU were the pioneer in bringing many changes in the way banks work, especially in India.

But, now, please stop ending sms / emails for visiting your ATM, while you are aware that most of your atm’s are either out of order, old, out of network, out of cash.

Sincerely.

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IRCTC — Good work Keep it UP

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

At some choosen railway stations, IRCTC has come up with dormitories and rooms, both AC and non-AC. I was there in a dormitory for some hours. Its clean, hygienically sound, financially also not too much, and neither too low. Moreover, rooms / dormitories can be pre-booked.

Will surely stop again at IRCTC retiring rooms.

IRCTC Dormitory

IRCTC Dormitory

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Marine Drive

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

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.

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Gateway of India Mumbai

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

The monument was created by Britishers to mark the place of their arrival in India. More details here.

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Mumbai

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

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.

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Road trip to Dongaon

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

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.

 

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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.

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Deepawali — The Festival of Lights

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

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.

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Hyderabad: I’m impressed

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Had been to Hyderabad for two days to attend marriage function of my friend.

We left on Saturday night and were scheduled to return by Monday morning, but trains were cancelled / late due to the Telangana strike and hence returned on Monday evening reaching back on Tuesday Morning.

Except the train cancellation / late running, there we saw no effect of the strike in the life of people living in Hyderabad.

As we had nothing to do on Monday, we made a tourist reservation on Monday and went for Hyderabad Darshan and saw the following:

Birla Temple

H E H Nizam Museum

Chow Mohalla Palace

Salarjung Museum

Charminar (Drive through)

Mecca Masjid (drive through)

Golconda Fort

N T R Garden

Lumbini Park (drive through)

Husain Sagar (drive through).

 

Overall it was an fantastic trip, we enjoyed every minute of it.

I and my friends, we all were impressed with Hyderabad — the city of Nizams. Nagpur has lot to learn from it, it was clean (despite strike), big roads, traffic manners, regular city bus service, extremely cheap eataries — good quality and quantity also in it and many many more things.

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