Living Diagonally In My Parallel World!

Process for getting Domicile certificate in Pune Disclaimer - I am only sharing my experiences. I am not competent to advise on this topic. (I would prefer to treat this blog as unfinished till we get the domicile certificate!) Last week Akshay’s school informed us that a domicile certificate is mandatory for getting admission to the 11 th class. They gave a yellow blank document that was the application form. Here is the process: Get the yellow form from school or from the Citizen’s Service Cell at godowns behind the Shivajinagar Court’s. Go to the school and get a token in your child name. (Why can’t this token be distributed in the school alongwith the form?) This token is in the form of a paper with the child’s name and the school seal. Some schools directly put their seal on the yellow form. But I would prefer the token system. That way even if you make a mistake while filling the form you can always change the form and fill it up yet again. You cannot afford to ma...

Never Argue with a Woman One morning the husband returns after several hours of fishing and decides to take a nap. Although not familiar with the lake, the wife decides to take the boat out. She motors out a short distance, anchors, and reads her book. Along comes a Game Warden in his boat. He pulls up alongside the woman and says, `Good morning, Ma`am. What are you doing?` `Reading a book,` she replies, (thinking, `Isn`t that obvious?`) `You`re in a Restricted Fishing Area,` he informs her `I`m sorry, officer, but I`m not fishing. I`m reading` `Yes, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment. I`ll have to take you in and write you up.` `For reading a book,` she replies, `You`re in a Restricted Fishing Area,` he informs her again, `I`m sorry, officer, but I`m not fishing. I`m reading` `Yes, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment. I`ll have to take you in and write you up.` `If you do that, I`ll have to charge you w...

गणपती आरती I had been singing this aarti since childhood but I never bothered to find out what it meant! Now maybe the shades of grey behind the ears compelled me to find out what it meant. Here is an interpretation of what I have learnt from others about this aarti. I am open for suggestions or corrections. I tried to use the right Marathi letters but could not find the exact matches for a few. In that context there may be some spelling mistakes. गणपती आरती – समर्थ रामदास स्वामी सुखकर्ता दु:खहर्ता वार्ता विघ्नाची (श्री गणेशा तू सुखाचा कर्ता आणि द:खाचे हरण करणारा आहेस वार्ता विघ्नाची नुरवी = विघ्नाची वार्ता शिल्लक ठेवित नाही) नुरवी पुरवी प्रेम क्रुपा जयाची (त्याची क्रुपा फक्त प्रेमच पुरवते) सर्वांगी सुंदर उटी शेंदुराची (ज्याच्या सर्वांगावर शेंदुरची उटी [उटणं?] आहे) कंठी झळके माळ मुक्ताफळांची (ज्याच्या गळ्यात मोत्यांची माळ झळकते आहे) जयदेव जयदेव जय मंगलमूर्ती दर्शनमात्रें मन:कामना पूर्ती (ज्याच्या मात्र (फक्त) दर्शनाने मनोकामना पूर्ण होते) जयदेव जयदेव ...