Living Diagonally In My Parallel World!

संदीप खरेच्या कविता ..... इतके दिवस मी फ़क्त ऐकले होते की संदीप खरेच्या कविता खूप छान असतात. इथे Calgary मधे weekends ला खूप वेळ मिळत असल्याने त्याच्या कवितांना Google केले। This guy writes good stuff. Actually it is Thanks to dear Sachin Kulkarni that I got to hear Sandeep Khare. The first poem that I heard was "अताशा असे हे मला काय होते ". This is a fantastic piece of retrospection. He has brought about the thoughts of everyone who has thought about his actions of the past. The sight of clouds fighting amongst each other to be the first to drench the earth it clouds our thoughts and finds a way out through the eyes. Absolutely stunning metaphor on the ironies and compulsions of life. Here are some of those that I could. I may have made mistakes in writing the exact words as the convertor that I used was actually an English to Hindi one! Just click on the images to make the poems more readable.

These days I am back to my old hobby of putting thoughts on paper. It isn't poetry neither is it prose or shall I say the form is a Chhand (छंद). A lot of things are happening. A lot of events taking place. Life presents itself in so many colors - pain, suffering, happyness, joy to being just dispassionate. We get so engrossed in our activities that we take for granted a lot of things and a lot of people. We somehow train our brain to accept only those things which interest us ... are useful to us. Like when we are preparing to cross the road and we see a beggar on the other side, continue walking a few steps ahead so that the beggar is avoided. Later we do not even remember this incident during the day. We take a lot of things for granted. These days I have a lot of time for myself...... To think about how my life has moved..... Life keeps on happening... Like a storyboard or a movie flashback... The story keeps on building... The characters keep on playing... People keep on enter...

As you look down from the window of the aeroplane, the first impressions of Calgary are that its smaller than any known US city. Then as the downtown comes in your view it seems even smaller. Yes the downtown area of Calgary is indeed very small consisting of just a few avenues and streets. Now that I have lived here for a year, I have started liking this town. Its spread across a vast area but the population is less than half of Pune. The people are very friendly and courteous. The roads that run east to West are Avenues and the ones that run North to South are termed Streets. After you land and go towards the baggage claim area you find out that the airport is indeed small to be called an International Airport. It however is very neat with clear signages. The airport staff is courteous. Infact all the people I have met till now are friendly and helpful. As soon as you claim your bags and get out of the terminal building a blast of cold air hits you. Yes. It is like entering the freez...

Trip to Karde (कर्दे) This was a trip planned almost a month ago. We were looking for a weekend getaway when someone mentioned Karde. Karde is a very small village near Dapoli. The population would not be more than 1200. The village is still not commercialised though the hotels are. The people are very simple and friendly. The beach is still clean and has white sands. Infact this is only one of the two beaches in Maharashtra having white sands. The water is clear. We decided to go via Mulshi. We (Vaishali, Karishma, Akshay and me) started from Aundh at 5.45am . Appa joined us at 6am from Model Colony. We took the road to Chandni chowk then to Pirangut. The small Pirangut ghat offers a magnificent view of the plains down below. Fields are still green owing to the abundance of water in this area. The road to Mulshi is quite good now (thanks to the Lavasa project by HCC) and we were doing 80's till we reached the end of Mulshi. The Mulshi backwaters presented a splendid view. The ro...

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Trip to GMRT at Khodad On our way back from Lenyadri we decided to visit the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope at Khodad. Since we were going there without an appointment and too on their holiday I was not sure if we would be allowed entry. I was pleasantly surprised when they not only allowed us to visit but also provided their own vehicle for a short trip. For getting permission to visit check their website http://www.gmrt.ncra.tifr.res.in/ or contact: Mr. J. K. Solanki Administrative Officer Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope PROJECT Post Box 6 , Naryangoan, Tal - Junnar, Dist - Pune. PIN : 410 504 email : solanki@ncra.tifr.res.in Phone Nos. at NCRA +91-20-2569 7107 +91-20-2569 1384 +91-20-2569 1385 Phone Nos. at GMRT +91-2132-2521 12 +91-2132-2521 13 +91-2132-2521 16 +91-2132-2521 15 +91-2132-2521 17 Or contact National centre for radio astrophysics Pune University campus, Pune 411007 Telephones: +91 20 2569 7107 ...

Taking advantage of the holiday that both Akshay and I had on 2 nd October, we decided to go to Lenyadri. It is one of the Ashta Vinayak’s but I tried to collect some information more information about Lenyadri. So here is the story. Lord Shiva used to do penance regularly. Parvati (also called as Girija) was curious about Shiva’s penance. She always thought that Shiva is greatest among the Gods then why & which god's penance was he doing? Lord Shiva told her `Omkar’ (Lord Ganesha). He is more powerful than Shiva, Brahma & Vishnu. Parvati too decided to do rigorous penance of Omkar because she wanted Ganesha to be her son. She started her persistent effort on the Lenyadri mountain. For twelve years she made a persistent effort. On Bhadrapad Shuddha Chaturthi God appeared in person and gave her blessings that he will become her son. This son was named Ganesh. It is said that Ganesha’s childhood took place in the Lenyadri mountains. It was his playing place. Gautam ...