Torrential Rains and Wipers stolen !
On Sept 8th, we left Lucknow for Jaipur. To our shock the car’s wipers had been stolen !! We got them replaced just in time, before encountering torrential rains.
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अस्वच्छ Nehru Place
Very sad to see a dirty, garbage filled Nehru Place. Looks like this part of Delhi hasn’t heard about the Swachh Bharat campaign :(.
The Vivekananda series …….. 8. Transformation
Transformation is the fundamental principle of life and nature. Get a pair of slippers and stop complaining that the world isn’t carpeted !
Garbage Tales From New Delhi
Swachh Bharat 2.0 should be about Waste Segregation at source. That is the only way we can resolve the issue of growing garbage mountains.
Blue Flag Beaches – 8 in India !!
Blue Flag Beaches, 8 in India and that too in the first attempt ! What a proud moment it is for all of us. Kudos to the Swachh Bharat Mission
Indore cleanest! 4th time in a row
The results of the Swachh Survekshan (Swachh Bharat survey) for 2020 are in. Indore has topped the survey for the 4th time in a row.
Protests are fine, Filth isn’t
While flipping news channels to gather some headlines, I paused on the India Today channel because they were showing how Delhi police and para military forces were clearing up the Shaheen Bagh area. Shaheen Bagh had gained fame or notoriety depending on whether you agreed or disagreed with them, during the anti-CAA protests and the … Read more
Glad that BJP lost Delhi
Disclaimer : Don’t let the title fool you. I remain a huge fan of Mr. Modi irrespective of what happens in any poll. For me he is the greatest Prime Minister India has known and will know in a long long time. Yes, Lal Bahadur Shastri ji didn’t get enough time in the role otherwise … Read more
Garbage Molehills become Mountains !
In October I had a speaking session in Sarita Vihar and took the Gurgaon-Faridabad Pahadi road that connects to Delhi near the Manav Rachna University. I didn’t notice anything very different on the road that we have cycled several times during 2009-10. I fondly recollected our first ride with the PedalYatri group to Mangar and … Read more
Two Train Journeys and The Changing Indian Railways
For many people, the best thing that came from the colonial rule was the Indian Railways. Unfortunately I don’t think the colonial rule did anything good because it fundamentally made us believe that our culture and traditions were inferior. The railways would have anyway come to India at some point in time, it didn’t need … Read more