Posts Tagged ‘nature’

Who cares ?

Monday, March 26th, 2012

Well, Who Cares ? These are the only words coming to mind, in view of what I have been watching here in Nagpur since a week, month, quarter, about 8-9 months in Nagpur after returning from Dubai.

Traffic rule: Who cares, those who are supposed to be on the squares, sit in a shade about 10 feet away from the square, nicely sitting on their bikes and selectively stopping people whom they think will pay them, for not following one or the other law. Even the government owned buses break the law.

Airport: Yeah, its an International Airport (surprised!). But the standards are not even of a local airport. You have to pay parking fees, even if you don’t park your vehicle in their premises.

Footfalls at Malls: These are countable on fingers in Nagpur. And, they themselves don’t care to get proper footfalls in their market place. One mall charges you 15Rs just to park your vehicle, even before you do anything there. And that too not in a proper manner. Another mall outlet, asks you to carry your own plastic bags to fill your purchases, as they will ask you for money to buy plastic bags, as per norms of Government ministry of some sort. And lo, you can’t take your plastic bags inside. You have to keep them outside at security counters, which sometimes does not issue tokens also. And when you stand in long queue and get your bills made, you come out, take the plastic bags, go inside, fill your things, and again come back.

Is anyone reading ?

MIHAN, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Nagpur International Airport, Big Bazaar (Future Group), Empress Mall (Empress City).

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Thats life

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

There is an old saying, ‘When you smile, the world smiles with you; When you cry, you are alone’.

Yes, thats life and its true too. When you are smiling and happy, everyone around you will smile. When you cry, you will be perfectly alone, no one, yes, no one, not a single soul on the earth will be besides you, whatever be the relationship which you share with anyone in the world, you shall be alone when you cry.

Life goes on.

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Whats that line ?

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

While returning back from Mumbai, took these two pics. Am not sure what those two dark lines are ? Can someone shed any lights on it ?

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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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Shocked

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

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.

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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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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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After a long time

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

It has been a long time since I have written anything on my blog. After coming back to Nagpur from Dubai, the frequency has also decreased a lot. Hopefully will start writing frequently again.

While driving on roads, many time I think that I will be writing this today, but then I get busy with daily chores of life and just forget to pen it down.

After  living for 3+ years in Dubai, UAE and then coming back to Nagpur, India, I have found many small tiny differences in the life style of people in general — “the public”. These tiny differences, gather on and count on to make a huge difference, which is very well visible and many a times pains a lot. For e.g. driving your vehicles without following any traffic rules and causing disturbances to all, sometimes this may result in fatal accidents too. Throwing your garbage on the road. Parking (almost 80%) in the wrong manner / places.

I hope to continue writing on this and many more issues and hope that this will eventually change to better. Change is the Only constant.

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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.

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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.

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