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The Mumbai University - II
2006-12-02 04:57:07 By the time I got around to taking this picture, the light had faded to very sad levels, but I wanted to try it out still. The shots were exposed for about 1.5 seconds and as I was holding it in my hand it was shaking a bit as well. Add to that the fact that I got it after stitching three pictures , it is a wonder that it even exists.There are large distortions due to this, but I think this was the favourite three pictures of the evening. You will need to click on it to see the whole thing in detail. More About: University , Mumbai , Univ , Univers
Bombay heritage walk - 19th Nov
2006-12-02 04:57:07 Got their message in my mail box a couple of days back. Lets see how it goes. If it all falls apart, Atleast all the beer joints are close by. :) More About: Bombay , Heritage , Bomba , Bomb , Walk
The Mumbai University
2006-12-02 04:57:07 By the time we reached the Mumbai Univ ersity , it was too late to do any serious photography, and I must ask the good readers humble forgiveness for the following pictures. They were taken by long exposure of over a second and will therefore be not very steady.But the building is truly beautiful and I really must go sometime in the day and get some better snaps.The constitution posted outsideThe convention centre with its zodiac wheelA beautiful winding staicaseThe Main window on the Univ buildingThe Watch tower. More About: Univers
Chopper_ride.avi
2006-12-02 04:57:07 This was my first (and only) chopper ride. I was joining my ship off the LOOP (Louisiana Offshore oil Platform) and as a result caught the chopper from New Orleans to the ship. We even stopped midway to fuel up. A great feeling to be up there. More About: Ride , Chopper
The Flora fountain
2006-12-02 04:57:07 Another in the series of stiched pictures, this snap is also the result of stitching three pictures.The fountain was the place where the walk ended and apparently this fountain was actually made in the UK and then shipped in peices here. More About: Flora , Fountain , Flor
Urinating norms in India
2006-09-20 14:25:00 It is like this. India has never been known to be a very healthy place. You hardly have to step out of your hotel before you are assaulted by people urinarting everywhere. This has led to great epidemics like bomb blasts and aircraft falling.Now it is like this. More and more forigners are urinating on the side of the road sides of side roads. But they are not knowing. There are these bacterias that actually climb upstream through the stream of urine as it falls on the ground. These bacteria are waiting on the ground, waiting to pounce up the first stream of urine that is splashed on to them. After they swim up, they lodge themselves in the urine emiting appendege or crevice (as appropriate) and cause much sadness.The method to avoid this sadness in India is as follows:1) Urinate with all your might.2) Urinate maximum for 2.35 seconds. These are very fast bacteria.3) Stop urinating.4) Hop over five jumps to the right.5) Repeat step 1 to 4 till as long as required.This procedure is n...
The days are all packed.
2006-09-18 19:41:00 My blog does not seem to have any entries in it for some time now. It is probably a good thing. But then most things, good or bad, must be explained when possible.As everyone is aware, there is nothing like some good education to kill anything creative in a person. I have joined college. In Mumbai.The weird part of it is that there is so much to write about in a place like Nagpur when you are doing practically nothing, but in Mumbai when the day is literally packed, there just seems to be nothing to write about at the end of the day. A day in mumbai is like a roller-coaster ride, after which, you just want to sit down on a bench and grin to yourself. More About: Days , Pack , The D
Shadow work and the town of Mhow
2006-08-29 16:05:00 The town of Mhow is famous for its shadow work. What shadow-work actually means it that the actual embroidary is never seen, but only the shadow or the faint color and outline of it is seen from the other side.This work has caused much sorrow and confusion since the time it was created. My own mother once gave a suit to be stiched and the tailor like any sane person thought that the beautiful embroidery work should be presented outside and stiched the whole suit inside-out. I personally think that the whole story of the Shadow work might very well resemble that story of The Emperors New Clothes.But one thing that is undeniable is that this is a work of art. The first thing that I thought on seeing the work was that it was a pity that they had made the shadowwork on such poor cloth. But then I realised that the cloth had to be thin and of that texture if the color of the threads had to be seen on the other side.To make the shadow-work, a tracing is first printed on the cloth. You can... More About: Work , Town , The Town
Indian Postal Service - Philatelic account
2006-08-29 13:13:00 I had written some time back, in an upbeat spirit about the Indian Postal service and the philitaly service that it offered. In the intervening period, the postal department has not done much (Apart from a few misplaced postcards- which could be because of Thai post) to remove the tinted glasses from my eyes.The scheme that had made me so buoyant was brilliant in its simplicity. It purported that if you deposited some money with the post office, they would at no postal cost (all in house you see!) send you new philatelic stamps as and when they did get published.I had put in my trust into the department and placed my 500 rupees in their care. That was in June and just when I was beginning to fidget, in came the mail with this package.I must say that the packaging and the processing is great. The stamps come by speed post and are sealed in an impressive envelope that is sealed with wax (do they still do that?) on the behind. Inside the stamps are further enclosed in a clear polythene... More About: Service , Dian , Phil
A blog for dad
2006-08-29 09:27:00 I have started a new blog. In it I will be putting up old snaps of dad and the family. The times when he was in the Indian Air force and even before. I was going to put them up in here, but then realized that this s-crap book was defintiely not the place that something like that should be tackled.It promised to be a most exciting project. Atleast for me as I try to understand the times and the person before even I was born.This is the linkto it. Hope you people go over there once in a while and like it. More About: Blog
Mhow - An Eating foray
2006-08-28 04:45:00 I doubt even people staying in Mhow would describe it as a place of surpassing beauty. Any person who enters the small town of Mhow looking for beauty is promptly directed to the Cantonment area. Any person seeking to enter the cantonment area is promptly shown the wrong end of an SLR which miraculously does make the Mhow town look exceedingly beautiful by comparison.I don't know if it was my misfortune that I am of the defence stock and was not shown the gun, but it did ensure that I shall not chronicle the beauty of the Mhow town in these lines. The Cantonment on the other hand is as beautiful as most cantonments seem to be. In this post monsoon season, the greens were everywhere and the wide open spaces were blooming with some amazing colors. The houses of the cantt. are ofcourse the same from kanyakumari to the valley. neatly spaced, yellow colored, with large lawns and peeling plaster. I think the architects keep it so deliberately so that the residents in them, that keep movi... More About: Eating
Me , my god and some milk
2006-08-21 15:37:00 I rarely joke about god. And I expect others to do the same. So today I got a bit of a shock when the TV announcer was shouting that Ganesh idols across the country were gobbling up milk like there was no tomorrow. A Mr Pinki from bhubneshwar was on the line."Hello Mr pinki? ""Hello?""Yes Ji. So did the ganesh idol drink milk from your hand?""Nahi nahi sir. But it did drink milk from my mummy's hand. please speak to her.""Hello?""Yes madam? please go ahead.""Yes yes. So the lord ganesh drank from my hands. I took it in a cup and the whole milk disappeared.""So madam, how are you feeling now that god has eaten food from your hands?""Ji I am feeling good.""Did you hear that?""Did you hear that?""Did you hear that?"I realized that unless I replied, my wife would continue this talk ad nauseum,"Em? Realize what?""People are feed ganesh. We should too.""You got to be kidding."She did not had to be kidding.So we dutifully picked our small silver ganesh from my black bag and put it in a cu... More About: Milk , Some
A post of sadnessness
2006-07-21 06:03:00 When I first came to know about the mumbai bomb blasts I was drininkg a chilled bottle of Singha Beer on the beach of the Phi- Phi Island in Thailand. I had logged on the the web to check out a few things and the details hit me. After I had read enough and seen enough, I logged out, went on the beach and began to cry.There is a ghost haunting me more and more everyday. It is the guilt of inaction. As I read the news daily, I see much of the same thing. If it is not happening in Mumbai, then it is happening in Jammu. Or Imphal. Or Chattisghar. I don't see myself in the foreseeable future to kill someone. Then why would any sane person kill so many people? And sane they must be. How else could a person or persons carry out such an attack. What circumstances would push a person to such an extreme that he would kill others? And what could I have done to pull him back from that point? If the place he grew up in was bad, could i have done anything to make it a better one? If he had no fr... More About: Post , Sadness , Ness , Snes
Flat Chested Mermaids and the sun
More articles from this author:2006-05-23 14:25:00 There is simply no question about it. Sunrise and sunsets are meant to be seen at sea. I always find it truly remarkable. I mean, you have the same bloody sun. Agreed, depending on the orbit of the earth, its size might increase or decrease a bit. But for all practical purposes, it is a circle the width of your thumb. And this circle sets on the sea?s horizon. Which for all practical purposes is simply flat water. Sure there are some waves now and again, that with some constructive wishful thinking, can be converted into topless mermaids. Depending on the distance of the waves, they either turn out to be very flatchested Mermaids seen up close, or very un-flatchested mermaids seen from very far. So essentially it?s just a flat horizon over which the sun sets. And yet, the sheer tireless beauty that the sunset consistently provides you with, never fails to surprise me. Now the sunrise at Tungnath was stunning. But you have to agree, that even a snap of someone like me naked, in that ... More About: Chest , Maid , Erma , Este , Aids 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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