Rajiv Gandhi's Laptop

Rajiv Gandhi (9 th Prime Minister of India with his laptop).

P.S. This photo was shot by my friend during his visit to Delhi recently.

Favourite Whistle- Kill Bill.

A train tale

I love trains and I love train travel. I have stayed close to the railway tracks for most part of my life. My home, my college where I graduated, my present college, all are adjacent to the railway track, each one closer than the previous.

This is about a short trip to Kolkata, last month. I took a train to Howrah. Much of the journey was eventless except for an 11 or 12 year old ragamuffin ragpicker kid who entered the compartment at Bhubaneswar train station. His agility and keen observation immediately caught my attention. He went under the seats and in no time extracts 12 empty plastic water bottles. He realises that 12 bottles are too many for him to carry out, all in one strech. He reflects for a moment and then goes back hunting under the seats. Curious to see what he was upto this time, I strained my neck and in a few moments, he magically produces a plastic cover from beneath one of the seats! Cool- but he figures out that he can't fit 12 bottles in one plastic cover. Ah-bad luck I thought.

A minute later, I decided to check on the boy. Much to my surprise he had torn one side of the plastic cover into one single plastic sheet. He was busy uncorking the bottle's cap, putting the plastic in between and re-corking the cap. Soon, he was done with all 12 bottles, picks the plastic sheet to which all the 12 bottles are now attached, puts it on his shoulder and walks off.

That is something that I wouldn't have thought of in a million years. The mind of a child!

Bro's Drum Solo

The sound isn't great, try play it aloud. 2:35 minutes.

Food

I thought, my Hindi was the worst amongst all the Hindi speaking people in the world. But that's not quite true.
It was our undergrad days, it's afternoon and my friend decides to break the daily canteen food routine and goes out to the nearest Sardar restaurant. He didn't seem interested in looking up the menu. Anyway, finally the Sardar comes to get the order

Sardar: "Kya kayega?"
Friend: " Ullu ke Parathe".

Sardar(confused): "Kya?"
Friend: " Ullu ke Parathe, dena."

Sardar: " Aloo ke Parathe?"
Friend: " dena, dena".

Sardar smilingly goes off and gets him - Aloo ke Parathe.

Terra Naomi & Avril Lavigne

Say It's Possible by Terra Naomi


Lyrics here.

Knocking on heaven´s door by Avril Lavigne

Life & Love

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

-Samuel Butler

Close shave

Close shave with the Shatabdi Express. Sixteen second clip.