The Joggers’ Park is one of the very good off the beat Bollywood film. It revolves around a retired judge’s morning ventures into a local joggers’ park and him getting into a strange situation of a sort of romance with a young Bollywood model cum dancer. After retirement from my government job and subsequent training…
Pride of Central Railways, running since British Raj Time and covering seven Indian states and a distance of 1930 kilometres, is supposed to be fastest Indian train between Mumbai (Bombay) and Delhi via Bhopal. That is historic Punjab Mail. It is now classified as Superfast Train, some of Indian’s better running trains. But it doesn’t…
Armageddon, may never happen. But most of us live our lives in such a manner as if it will happen the very next day. Worrying all the time as if the world is going to come to an end. Worried about happiness, pleasures, finances, relations and at some times even without any reason whatsoever. Some…
No, I have not spelled London Bridge wrong; I do mean the bridge on River Hindon, a small river flowing east of Delhi. Hindon has many bridges, but the one worth mentioning is on National Highway 24 (NH 24) Branch running between Noida and Ghaziabad, the two Delhi Suburbs or Satellite towns in Western UP…
A moment of Joy, at times, though it costs nothing, is difficult to come by. It is surprising that something available free of cost eludes most of the persons on this planet earth. There are people who are poor and living under the poverty line, not having enough to eat. If these people complain of…
Beginning of summer this year made me visit the hot desert of Rajasthan yet again. This time it was not the National Highway 15, but I journeyed through recently reconstructed Hanuman Garh- Kishan Garh (near Ajmer) road in North Rajasthan. April is no time to visit Rajasthan, especially the desert part. But my organisation had…
The beginning of English fictional writing in novel form happened much after Chaucer and Shakespeare. Most of these early writings occurred some three hundred years back in early eighteenth century. One great writing of that time was Jonathan Swift’s ‘Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World’, which later became popularly known as ‘Gulliver’s Travels’….
Delhi to Goa Some best places in the world are located either in the mountains or along the sea. This planet boasts of many beautiful beaches all over the world’s seas and oceans. These are the places associated with nature’s beauty and the peace and tranquillity they provide along with the associated fun and frolic….
En attendant Godot, a 1952 exceptional masterpiece drama by Samuel Beckett which meant in English, Waiting for Godot. For a person not having much knowledge or interest of Literature, it may be a shock, or far from understanding because it belongs to Theater of the Absurd. And Absurd, the human life is. If not the…
PrologueTravel is a necessity and routine in modern life. Travel by train is definitely a necessity as well as routine in most parts of India. Whether routine or not, one has to travel by train once in a while for variety of reasons. There are trains of all types in India; fast trains, slow trains,…