tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41239152011-08-15T23:00:10.971+05:30Around meNiharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.comBlogger301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-85203914802299014802011-04-07T16:35:00.001+05:302011-04-07T16:35:09.618+05:30From flickrsliderCreated with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-11600099181369783482011-04-07T16:18:00.003+05:302011-04-07T16:32:06.201+05:30Some pictures from WardhaSome pictures from Wardha.
Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-37006924918112158482010-11-18T11:18:00.001+05:302010-11-18T11:18:18.971+05:30Travel on no moneyIt was at around 10 pm, with no lights on the street, no sound of humanity, and only the occasional roar of the tide, when we asked Mr Dhanavade, "Where is the nearest ATM, Sir?"
I, along with two friends, was concluding my two-day back-packing stay in Diveagar, a small beachside hamlet on Maharashtra's Konkan coast. It is the sort of sleepy villages you see in old movies, where a tightly-knit Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-49240062229629941382010-11-15T14:12:00.001+05:302010-11-15T14:12:02.778+05:30Gem clips. Small yet big.
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mso-paper-source:0Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-73319398555646882172009-11-01T04:53:00.001+05:302009-11-01T04:53:52.412+05:30Woody Allen There’s something very Real about Woody Allen’s movies. Its like he takes all the riff-raff out of the situations he portrays and says “hey, this is how life eventually is. you have a woman fancying two men at a time, or you have this artist guy who just wants women around him and doesn’t stop a bit to hide that from anyone. this is life in the face, man.” Most scenes are very lovable, and Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-14436647349411091922009-10-27T00:03:00.001+05:302009-10-27T00:03:24.246+05:30you’re fired Reading headlines and news opinions about layoffs isn’t half as appalling when something like that happens close to you. especially something in the next cubicle at work. It almost makes one think that there’s absolutely no value for good work anymore in the world. I mean, a guy comes al the way from a different city, starts working, dedicated his entire life and thoughts to the work, but all Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-90832444940401489112009-10-23T00:16:00.000+05:302009-10-23T00:16:21.248+05:30"Classes"
My tyrst with classes began, first, in my tenth standard when I joined the first and last tuition of my life. As far as I can remember, my classmates had been to this mysterious torture hole which gave more homework that school itself. I remember in my third standard or so, classmates leaving school hurriedly to gobble up lunch and reach their 'tooshan's.
When i joined my tuition it Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-41214367033679759502009-10-11T13:21:00.000+05:302009-10-11T13:39:57.516+05:30Autos.
This blog is dedicated to this hard working tribe of 'shared' autowallahs, who instead of plying on 'meter' and looting the city of cash, instead do a service by moving on fixed routes with fixed prices and giving us humble citizens what the city buses cannot.
The first striking difference between a 'normal' auto and a shared one is the absence of meter in the latter. It looks rather oddNiharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-83189313049585646082009-09-22T00:20:00.001+05:302009-09-22T00:25:15.466+05:30To ReadIsn't there anything better left to read?? Other than the usual editorials, opinions, of people sitting in high-rising airconditioned buildings? opinions that are based on, sigh, other opinions or things that are 'thought of' in other high-risers? Nobody writes about, say, African farming. Or the natives of Gobi desert?Sigh.Thrown into this mood by the overload of editorial opinions set Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-29532591006153829752009-09-17T01:17:00.000+05:302009-09-17T01:25:00.176+05:30Top.Remember, a top?The other day I saw kids from a nearby slum playing outside my building, with a top. While the taller and evidently older one skillfully released the strung top with a graceful jerk of the hand, the smaller kids stood bewildered staring at it as it twirled at top speed and eventually came to the much-dreaded sideways tilted halt.It took me back years, when my mom used to show Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-48331931034861117522009-08-06T11:38:00.001+05:302009-08-06T11:48:29.202+05:30I completely agree with today's Haaretz editorial titled "The benefits of rapport". Clinton's personal visit to N. Korea and his meeting with Kim Jong Il played an instrumental role in not just freeing the two American journalists imprisoned there, but also in sort of "cooling down" the childish stand-off between the two countries.US, indeed, always has childish standoffs. Look at the way they Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-320632892603842892009-01-18T15:51:00.000+05:302009-01-18T16:19:57.692+05:30A short essay on riding a bike in sadashiv peth [Part I]India, with its excesses and ambitions, has a wide variety of powerful and powerless bikes availabe to the average customer. these, i may add, are auto and manual transmission based. while the ones using the former mode of transmission are those who dont have to worry about clutching, shifting, neutral, etc etc and thus speed up, slow down, Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-10162368456889057342008-12-15T13:27:00.000+05:302008-12-15T13:50:21.286+05:30the other day, as i reached M22 for my morning class, i found a group of unknown women, average age 22, standing outside. accompanying them was a junior friend of mine, who told me about them. they were from some organisation called 'teach for india'."ah. teach india. but of course...the times of india thingy..there're here to get people to join?" i asked."no. its teach For india. its different. Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-34887372021027517222008-12-13T20:03:00.000+05:302008-12-13T20:05:40.521+05:30just heard that the NSG will be covering the security for this year's mood indigo. clearly shows that even college fests attracting students from all over aren't anymore the places where we get to feel, at least slightly, disconnected from the moribund life outside.Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-14957617576358891642007-12-07T14:50:00.000+05:302007-12-07T15:00:32.412+05:30It's quite obvious that my previous post needs heavy updating. When I posted it, Musharraf was still the General, lawyers still protested, Choudhury was still the Chief Justice, and there was no bloodless end in sight (there still isn't, actually)Well, Musharraf shed his army camos for good and got into the seemingly humble suit-and-tie of a civilian president, while the world hushed and gaped Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-64640802134485750682007-08-31T21:32:00.001+05:302007-08-31T21:35:32.375+05:30 A thing or two from good old Pervez General Pervez Musharraf, Chief of Pakistan Army & President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, has more than one reason to worry. For one thing, the upcoming 2008 Presidential elections may just strip him off either, or both, of his offices. But what’s of bigger concern now is that, the General is cornered in the same country where seven yearsNiharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-11405482534581967612007-05-01T12:05:00.000+05:302007-05-01T13:27:38.212+05:30Encountering Reality We as Indians have grown up hearing about so called "encounter specialists": policemen who are enough cold-blooded to kill innocent people and declare it as an "encounter" thus slipping away from the judiciary. Even movies have portrayed this side of our "free and independent" judiciary. True, the provision of encounter has done good to the society before and one can cite Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-61828195050014860232007-02-21T16:03:00.000+05:302007-02-21T16:27:07.420+05:30New NCERT Textbooks (Phew!)I just read a report in the Outlook magazine about the new face of NCERT (National Council for Educational Research & Training; the guys in-charge of making textbooks for CBSE students) textbooks of political science and civics for class 12. All I could say after that was: "Phew! About time!"Finally finally finally and finally, students won't be compelled to read Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-22931899339017788102006-11-28T12:53:00.000+05:302006-11-28T16:15:10.977+05:30israel: the battleground we all knowJewish tradition holds that the land of israel has been a Jewish holy land and promised land for three thousand years. The land of Israel holds a special place in Jewish religious obligations, encompassing Judaism's most important sites (such as the remains of the 1st and 2nd temples of the Jewish king, Solomon).Predictably so, Jews from all over the world haveNiharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-4133216131003262722006-11-28T12:50:00.000+05:302006-11-28T12:51:11.551+05:30pope's remarks against islam:On september 14 2006, pope benedict XVI while delivering a lecture at the university of regensburg quoted a passage from a 14th century book written by the then emperor of byzantine. The passage said, " Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-39872394499133730902006-11-25T22:56:00.001+05:302006-11-25T23:33:09.130+05:30"And Then There Were None" ... Agatha ChristieI know this book was published long ago and has been read and adored by thousands, but I stumbled upon it recently and couldn't think of not writing a decent review for it so here goes...Ten people. Only ten people on a lonely island. No means of communicating with the outer world. All perfect strangers. An unknown invitee.And an untimely death.Nine Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-1837926083182535132006-11-25T22:56:00.000+05:302006-11-25T23:27:51.791+05:30"And Then There Were None" ... Agatha ChristieI know this book was published long ago and has been read and adored by thousands, but I stumbled upon it recently and couldn't think of not writing a decent review for it so here goes...Ten people. Only ten people on a lonely island. No means of communicating with the outer world. All perfect strangers. An unknown invitee.And an untimely death.Nine Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-1157193118066081242006-09-02T15:53:00.000+05:302006-11-16T11:08:14.144+05:30 MAD II - End of Madness(by the way, this is the second part of the previous post so i would suggest you to read that first and then this one...)I was in a really miserable condition when I worte the last post. Well, more miserable times followed.I cleared the interview of UoH, dammmit. My parents told me to go for it and forget fergusson. I weighed my options and decided that, keeping Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-1152358675311443882006-07-08T15:56:00.000+05:302006-11-16T11:08:14.057+05:30MAD (My ADmmissions)1. Decide on a SINGLE course in a SINGLE college.2. Apply for the course.3.See your name in the merit list.4. Pay the fees.5.Start education.Five steps.Five simple steps to pursue the proper "higher education" of your choice.What can be easier than that?, you would ask.Unfortunately, it is never as straightforward as that...Well some of you may have been so lucky that you Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-1148493939256664702006-05-24T23:30:00.000+05:302006-11-16T11:08:13.941+05:30"The Fist of God" by Frederick Forsyth Hi.. well i know this book was released ages ago but i read it recently i couldnt refrain myself from writing a review of it!! Well here is a typical Frederick Forsyth real-life situation-basedthriller.The novel is based on the Gulf War of 1991. Saddam Hussain has attacked Kuwait and soon the Coalition forces are asked to clear the iraqis from kuwaiti land. Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-1148019208123724592006-05-19T11:37:00.000+05:302006-11-16T11:08:13.866+05:30'THE DA VINCI CODE' RELEASE-- A CODE IN ITSELFThe last few days witnessed an interesting set of uproars from the various christian"religious communities" regarding the release of the movie The Da Vinci Code, based on thebook by Dan Brown. Their arguments were simple and straightforward: don't release themovie. Now why did they rise suddenly against the movie while letting the original book(and Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-1143916472738975722006-04-01T23:58:00.000+05:302006-11-16T11:08:13.780+05:30GENERALLY STUDYING...Few months ago, we had a "GS" exam. Now, what is this GS exam, let me explain it clearly. GS stands for general studies. In fact for the last two years I had been having one GS class a week and every time I thought and so did my classmates that this meant that we studied whatever subject we wanted. Naturally, we translated the meaning of "General" to be really general!Many Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-1143553455998400552006-03-28T19:08:00.000+05:302006-11-16T11:08:13.597+05:30REVELATIONS....After talking to a friend of mine, a question popped up into my mind: Why do some people have the knack of revealing secrets which are like pandorra's boxes? There are somethings which are valid only upto a certain interval and should not be remember or dealt with after the validity!Will such people ever correct themselves or will they go on revealing unnecessary secrets and Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-1143364755953354902006-03-26T14:45:00.000+05:302006-11-16T11:08:13.520+05:30COMPETITIVE EXAMSAlthough I am not writing any of the engineering or medical competitives, I feel there are just too many of them.Afterall, their objective is to clearly define the intelligence, knowledge etc. of a student, then why not have a common test and give admission according to the rank of this common exam?? ....Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123915.post-1142690356887700872006-03-18T19:21:00.000+05:302006-11-16T11:08:13.439+05:30JESSICA LAL CASEThis is one of the biggest downfalls of Indian Law & Justice.A man shoots a lady, everyone sees it, and the killer walks free.Is the judiciary sleeping or what?Let us pray that the killer and those who aquitted him are hanged together...Niharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602124315888658510noreply@blogger.com0