I find myself perplexed whenever our ministers vomit out their hatred towards specific religious, ethnic communities for obvious reasons of vote-bank politics. I do not understand their moral-ethical, educational backgrounds on the basis of which they articulate such nonsensical statements such as filtering out Indians from the foreigners. Our country like most other countries has …
No one was more happy then us “Ghumakkad’s” after hearing that Ladakh is now an Union Territory. Many of us have a dream of taking a trip to Ladakh, I can gladly say I did that. Being an Army brat, I have seen a lot of new places and met lot of people. But I …
The year is 1947, Pakistan Sponsored irregular guerrillas from North West frontier province in firhans with local Poonch Rebels attack the summer capital. The Pashtun tribesmen engage in mass rapes, looting and killing. The idea is to force the then Maharaja Hari Singh into acceding to Pakistan. Instead the Maharaja calls out to Lord Mountbatten …
In this fast running world we rarely get a chance to experience real beauty or discover ourselves. Specially people who reside in Metros like Delhi. We are so engrossed in our jobs that we don’t even have a moment to reflect. Thank the gods we live a driving distance from the mountains. In order to …
The tradition wear of Maharashtra ‘Nauvari’ sari mostly worn by Maharastrian elderly women’s, retains it charm in 21st century too by youngsters, as its name derives a nine yard long sari. So to retain its traditional values one of my friend designer Bhavana Saravade has given a thought to it in making it prêt–o-porter (ready to …
Plastic pollution has become one of the major environmental concerns, it’s not limited to India but to the world . According to experts, the next war will be because of plastic, if we don’t manage plastic, we will lose the war . Plastic pollution is an accumulation of plastic in the environment which adversely affects the …
THE GHOST OF WRONG DECISIONS : PLASTIC POLLUTION Read More »
“I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.” – Roald Dahl Reading is one of the great activity which solves lots of curiosity, opens …
चिरागों को आंखों में महफूज़ रखना बड़ी दूर तक रात ही रात होगी अज़ल-ता-अब्द तक सफ़र ही सफ़र है कहीं सुबह होगी, कहीं रात होगी मुसाफ़िर हो तुम भी, मुसाफ़िर हैं हम भी किसी मोड़ पर फिर मुलाक़ात होगी.. Bashir Badr Pictorial Summary of summers in Nainital. In the last 60 days, I had an …
Safar aur Nagme : Spending whole of summer in Nainital Read More »
TV series are the new sexy. In this era of technology, binge watching TV series is in the trend. Even people who work very hard in their weekdays sometimes give their whole weekends to Netflix and the likes. But almost always we run out of new series to watch. Most of the time we don’t …
WHY ONE SHOULD READ EVERY DAY : BENEFIT OF READING A BOOK “Books allowed me to see a world beyond the front porch of my grandmother’s shotgun house…[and] the power to see possibilities beyond what was allowed at the time.” – OPRAH WINFREY If we talk about reading books it’s interpreted in different ways from …
