Looking Back On Rajasthan Odyssey III

Looking Back On Rajasthan Odyssey III

Ever since I returned from Rajasthan, thoughts come back and forth on a province and on those who port from one mobile operator to another sensing an opportunity not coming in brevity. Port they do in the face of statements and claims from a mobile operator that services would stay undisturbed even if there are visitors who have been to a pub. Perhaps from Jaisalmer to Jodhpur I could not come across standalone pub or a chain gaining fame courtesy a well crafted blurb. Perhaps drinking and the idea may be anathema for scores of people as their kids visit schools that are double. Open drinking I could not spot as people by and large understand drinking next to a theatre, drinking next to a tutor who of late has been waylaid are undercurrents of a community that dither. Dither on issues as essential as sending wards to schools, to sending children to have a session in pool. Dither whether the smart electricity metres installed would do a world of good or generate bills for restaurants, malls and households essentially conveying excessive moolah rule. Perhaps in the Hindi Heartland express orders to stop their installation may come into due play sensing electoral plaudits, post polls the bills may be in varying digits. That has been the correction schedule that provinces in this belt have employed in the run up to poll that fewer find cool.

Fewer Jobs, Fewer Water Knobs

Having stayed primarily in western part of Rajasthan, Jaisalmer is nicknamed "Golden City" and Jodhpur "Blue City".  Have the inhabitants been able to chase away midlife blues in the face of shrinking job space to contracting cricket craze which is hit hard by a mat of haze. Packed buses with no bruises to Jaipur, Jalore, Shergarh, Pokhran, Ramdevra, Jaisalmer, Tiwari, Osian, Bhopalgarh, most in western part, may illustrate the hip and happening template somewhat opposite to jobs that have a shut gate. A vendor here, a visitor there may be scouring for water in deep heat, this section of the province has a different writ. Water batteries remain charged may be a prayer, do ground realities convey a different trace fear?  As of now, nerve-racking it may look for some inmates to log miles in search for water, this elusive resource keeping them on tenterhooks with none having designs to be a NTA tutor. The moment this territory which is in the thick of Thar Desert gains renewed water beat, much of the perturbation would be in isolation with no added fleet. You sweat in the sun, alarming proposition may look to have no fun, one hopes water and the noteworthy chase the country would evolve with a new churn.

Those Flocking From Distant Places

Oasis Haveli to Shahi Palace in Shiv Road to Renuka in Chainpura to name a few in Jaisalmer kept the cash registers ringing when there was no dry heat, does the innings of somnolence wrapped in innocence point to a flat market when tidings are sluggish and weather oppressive. For now there were set of people all over the place coming from as distant zone as Howrah in contact with those in Dausa. These guys could make out that negotiating 2245 kms from the Province of West Bengal to Province of Rajasthan may get them suntan, and here in this city they would collect requisite followers and fan. These Bengal guys knew inside out that spending anything less than a week may not get them the architecture of this place as it has well defined yellow sandstone ace. From Bengal to Bengaluru tourists would continue to flock taking in stride the prized moments spent here, and memories down the months to share.

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Looking Back On Rajasthan Odyssey II

Looking Back On Rajasthan Odyssey II

Having been in Jaisalmer for six days, the unscripted visits to Jaisalmer Fort brought me in contact with host of people who had views on water tanker minus anchor. Here water tanker which may not make it to the Fort and would go careening down the steep path, and this known to those who don't welcome a ride in yatch. Though there are six water wells all shut, there are days when there is no water flow and this aberration is a blow. Coming across Mr Nandlal, Mr Kishan Gopal, Mr Lakshman Gopal, they were well versed with the briefing on South (South India), able to place Goddess Meenakshi Temple In Madurai and Lord Govinda  ( Lord Venkateswara ) Temple in Tirumala hosting devotees round the year with enough dose of cheer. Perhaps one among them came from Karachi and settled in Fort, able to visualise developments across country, and those destined to make big entry. In Tamil Nadu Province Tamil Star Mr Vijay has hit big, can this play out in Hindi Heartland brick by brick? 

The SIR Pack

As for the Fort it is over 900 years old, having come up during King Jaisal's reign in 1156, the time when no one had the audacity to play SIR trick. Perhaps the SIR commotion has reached the Fort as well with some maintaining that SIR exercise is primarily meant to shut doors on marginalised and those in minority who never presided over affairs that would make them look haughty. And this electoral roll revision googly some add paean as if to suggest sections of land have to be in chain. When the decision which poll body finds wise and fit on who would vote and who would not, and in the crosshairs are simple fellows who don't feel the need to maintain contact with those residing in Greece Island Delos. Droite may be the outlook of the poll body and the administration down the months would have something else to realise given the new findings leading to repercussions coming as no big surprise.

Renditions On Water

Mr Pankaj Bissa, Mr Kushal Bissa, Mr Kailash Ojha were other gentlemen I met in Fort and all worries were centred on water and the intermittent passage hitting the homes some alarmed by sighting of turncoats. Water scarcity in Fort looks real so does other enclave in Rajasthan primarily Mount Abu where some find it handy while functioning with machines of DELL. When Rajasthan The Province would get over this dispute no one knows in a nation where host of Riparian States deem fit to let this chapter close. Riparian Provinces need to better watch out for saving this reserve and prudent usage one should not dodge.

Valid Passage To Ajmer

As I completed and hailed my extempore visits to Fort, the next job on hand was to get a valid passage to Ajmer, and this came true through Jodhpur where some set of people have visited Australia's Uluru. Holding spiritual thrust, this is a must-visit for those who are vigilant dawn to dusk. The Ajmer travel rigmarole was easy to unpack despite I reaching the destination in the middle of night and coming across people of glorified height. Visit to Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Shrine was done with ease and hope peace tidings breeze in and win.

This task to explore Rajasthan was a good deed as one has maintained India despite deviation and divergence here and there is a treat. Treat to soak the natural air from Udhagamandalam to Udaipur, and this is no less than a fair. Treat to come across different set of people with different mindset who all along praise those who are not in loan debt. Treat to get the word out that India is a nation with a whisper of dry spell here and a deluge there and yet few subjected to wear and tear.

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Looking Back On Rajasthan Odyssey

Looking Back On Rajasthan Odyssey

Having decided I would be visiting Rajasthan Province, it was a toss up between Ajmer and Jaisalmer with a hint or two on Mount Abu on which reports seldom come in South Paper Eenadu. By no means an egregious folly to take a Tatkal train ticket from Sarojini Nagar Reservation Centre in South Delhi, as all attempts to get online ticket came a cropper despite some keen to have mineral water of the brand TATA COPPER. Tata Copper is fast making inroads in Indian market as it comes from the House of those who after meeting near and dear ones offer rose. Rose to placate them from rising prices of milk which fewer households sensing erosion can take in bulk. Rose to gain belief and hold steady that fuel consumption and alike in these uncertain times are visible cheats hitting belly.

Taking A Train To Jodhpur In Rajasthan

Left on a Monday on the way to Delhi Cantt with visible sighting of Bhikaji Cama Place, R K Puram, Moti Bagh, Nanakpura, Dhaula Kuan ( All Places In Delhi ) with Jodhpur bound train (26482) leaving at 3.11 PM. From a station where passengers desire there be connectivity to South India where Tamil, Telugu, Malyalam movies come with their set of sensation highlighting evacuation. Traversing areas as diverse as Alwar, Bandikui, Dausa, Jaipur, Phulera, Makrana, Degana ( All Places In Rajasthan ), the train made it to Jodhpur after 11 on day one. The ride in this city to Jalori Gate left me with sole option to take a room in Hotel Durga Silverline from where accessing Pal Balaji ( Lord Hanuman Temple ) was fine. With Jaisalmer on itinerary, took a bus from Jodhpur Central bus stand with the ride peppered with a message vote karein vafadari se, chayan karein samajdhari se (Vote With Loyalty, Make Wise Selection). Does this message hold relevant when the fire of SIR is making millions and millions getting denied vote on flimsy grounds rote by rote. In a nation of FIR, this SIR fire if not reined in would hit the base of those having illusions of being all-weather King. Reach Pokhran at 4.33 and on the way to Jaisalmer there is KASHIDA Exclusive Range Of Handicrafts By Artisans Of Western Rajasthan, and here some would be wise to spend South African Rand. Notings on Date Palm Safari look appropriate and I reach Jaisalmer at 6.38. This ride released the brief that even in winters the temperatures have the intensity to bake the earth and Rajasthan weather deliberated in distant Perth. 

Connecting The Dots In Jaisalmer

Taking a room in Camel Country in Chainpura Street followed by wonder of wonders in Hotel Renuka with no need to reflect on East Africa neighbourhood store Duka. Are these stores reaping a windfall little is known as Africa still struggles to pace itself as a safe investment zone. Hotel Renuka room reminded one of SUPRABATH TOWERS In Tirupati where Mr Jay Chandra Reddy was at the helm and like Mr Yash Purohit here who was kind enough to host me with notable mention be made of Irish bree. Interactions far and wide kicked up the debate on water and the prudent usage in a nation where from season to season come indispensable message. Indira Gandhi Canal coming into force in 1974 may have tide over the crisis but those living in Jaisalmer Fort are yet to have choices. From Mr Manohar Lal Purohit, Mr Yash Purohit, Mr Giriraj Purohit, Mr Narain Singh to Mr Talpat Singh would have bemoaned the shortfall in tourists during lean season sensing the high temperatures and low adventures. Even SAM the territory most visited in winters during summers has no footfall despite no one anticipating across border any major brawl.

Interactions were as well on 400-odd homes in Fort with 5000 people staying there and hoping to cash in on during winters as in some season there are no secured tethers. Raging unemployment, raging lawlessness and the aid that most expected the govt to release for small and marginal farmers in the face of fewer drip irrigation mechanism in place as tourism alone can't keep steady hope and be in 365 days race. Jobs and jobs all thundered, restraint in their criticism of a regime that seems to run short of zing. Sand dunes, which peaked during '40s and '50s, may have given way to more roads and more homes, some faring exceptionally well and not exacerbating climate change tolls. With six days spent here, there was no mismatch on roads to take, lanes to skip as a city of under a half million can still lend the idea that has no haze trace. From unemployment to underperforming sectors of economy, the country has seen it all and region like Jaisalmer would evince interest Winter or Fall.

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Having Been To Ajmer Shrine, The Ride To City Of Delhi Where Some Take Stock Of Media Rally

Having Been To Ajmer Shrine, The Ride To City Of Delhi Where Some Take Stock Of  Media Rally

Having been to Ajmer Shrine (Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Dargah), and having reached Station on time, the train departed with fewer seats occupied with no anecdotes to hide. This stay in Ajmer was primarily to do with a must-visit to Ajmer Shrine which is witness to a rush post nine. Frisking should come into play as we believe in all Religion With A Vision. When the train went past Kishangarh, few kms from Ajmer, there were appearance of bunch of freight trains with some having fresh coat of paints. Passengers are well aware the shortfall of revenue the railways make up by putting in more and more freight trains which are by and large minus frisking, and they are notable A KING. Railways do carry politicos of different beat and different heat with some wondering why questions can't be put to those running the affairs of country and these guys issuing express orders that Opposition Party Events should not find mention and entry. This diktat from treasury benches is doing no good; democracy can take more than baby steps if Opposition Groups are seen through the prism they are prude not rude.

Media Not Been Fair To Opposition

Opposition does not deem fit to welcome pot boilers and the regime in order is yet to have sleepless nights from ascent of dollar. This episode and those emanating from Tamil Nadu's Erode could very well take the sting out of baffles of Mainstream Media and give them praiseworthy idea. Mainstream Media for how long would give a miss to events of those in Opposition Space not known as treasury benches are yet to establish contact with distant Rome. If the wheels of fortune can make those at the helm take space in Opposition chase, this could be very much in the realm of anticipation if set of EVMs in the Corridors Of Establishment not fudged, and those doing the same not blushed. This was sum total of deliberations with a woman who joined the chorus after Jaipur (Jaipur Is Capital Of Rajasthan Province) where good number boarded the train with some having thoughts on Middle East in the month of February at a time when The Administration In The West had not gained infamy by declaring a war with no bar. 

Lush Green Fields Could Be A Lollipop

Lush Green fields which came before Jaipur could be a lollipop if the slew of godowns sighted do the talk. While Jaipur came at 7.33 (AM), lush green fields were spotted prior to nine and later, resilient were those serving breakfast on board, some probably hailing from BEAWAR where at some point of time Tamil would be the new flavour. BEAWAR figured prominently in Ajmer-Merwara State Of Rajputana. Ajmer Shatabdi coming from Delhi passes at 9.17 and with Alwar accessed there were series of flats looking of the same pattern like in Gurgaon (Haryana Province) which in some locale is called GURGAON NOW. Rewari (Haryana Province) came at 10.20, Palam at 11.20 and Delhi Cantt at 11.25 with notable mention of those having honest traits in areas like Nanakpura and take goodness vow. From Bengal trains do go all the way to Rajasthan including Jaisalmer where people are expected to pay fare with no airs. The time taken to complete this commute could be over and above 40 hours as people in Bengal take rice and reflect on innings pious.

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It Was With Ease I Trooped Into Ajmer Shrine In Rajasthan Province In West India

It Was With Ease I Trooped Into Ajmer Shrine In Rajasthan Province In West India

Having reached Ajmer, it was with ease I trooped into Ajmer Shrine (Khwaja  Moinuddin Chishti Dargah), moments spent here now and then could be encapsulated in a chapter on this Rajasthan city where occasionally people get witty. Post Dargah visit, there were umpteen calls raised in the air that auto (Auto Is A Public Transport In India Aligned With Three Wheels) is available to take one to Pushkar, another tourist attraction abutting Ajmer gaining feat and recognition for having sole Lord Brahma temple in the world where at the moment peace proceedings look to be lull. From West Asia it is almost maddening to raise hope when it would fare well to usher in normal tidings, the seat of disturbance is doing no good to The Administration In The West which doesn't realise it has on hand limited innings. And more so ever since the new administration was in place in Jan 2025 and from thereon given the mismatch on a host of issues, it hardly had fine tuning. One prayed and chased away the blues emanating from West Asia as some powers were keen to get this theatre ringed by sentiments bordering inertia. Middle East and some sections would continue to draw parallels for the sustained period before war they could kiss peace, and there were no notable cheats. One Can Barely Trust The Administration In The West as it wants to add up to the room disfigured by a whole lot of files that best deserved to gather dust as it is rocking foundation stone shile. 

Not Visiting Pushkar, Skipping Nathdwara As Well In Rajasthan

Coming to Ajmer, last time when I was here I made it a point to visit Pushkar, this time I wasn't inclined, hoping to step in that territory some time later in the year when flights to varied destinations won't be subjected to wear and tear. This time as well I did not keep a date with Nathdwara (Rajasthan) as I was keen to get back to Delhi where during office hours large number of residents do visit an area named Hailey. After returning to the room I set out in search for Rasoi The Train Restaurant, and having accessed Hathi Bhata the area on foot, I realised some were getting familiar with working of bluetooth. The veg meals are over and above Rs 500 if I can recall at this moment and the cooking oil they use would come in for praise and this cafeteria having double ace. Perhaps the rice quantity could have a makeover as I come from an area adjoining Bengal where rice is consumed by even those who go by the name Mr Paul. The staff is caring like the one in Hotel Shahi Palace in Jaisalmer (Mr Devilal, Mr Akshay) and Hotel Renuka in Chainpura Street in Jaisalmer ( Mr Yash Purohit, Mr Roshan, Mr Surendar Singh, Mr Ayub) as well. Cyber cafe search did not yield much and here I faced a wall with the notable ones in Kacheri Road shut sensing seasonal brawl.

Leaving For Ajmer Station To Take A Delhi Bound Train

With Hotel Sundaram least likely to dispense black tea, I left the place at 2.15 AM with one final visit to outer courtyard of Ajmer Shrine and reaching station on time. At 2.50 at Ajmer Station there was a Kacheguda (South India) bound train on Platform One with thoughts on North East States where none are having fun. One has to hold elaborate discussions with China Administration and impress them on the pitfalls of a dam on Brahmaputra River. Beijing should be sensitive to New Delhi's concerns and here winning the polls in Indian province by a party was by no means a grand feat as people are by and large unemployed, and these facts shared by those in Ajmer Station with no hesitation. Is this province all set to turn a new chapter by nailing one here, one there in legal orbit was what emerged of deliberations in Ajmer Station where people do come on vacation. India can't be a police state, letting the word out that chants of freedom would be nipped in the bud, and the people in distress won't be heard. Powers that be can't be complacent by this twin win (Assam, Bengal; Winning Polls, Losing People) as one never knows from which quarter would come challenge as known to followers of Mark Twain.

As Delhi bound train left at 6.10 post Kishangarh there was sighting of third track to bring on board freight train as well as series of underpass and a reflection on who is the boss.

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World Is Praying For Iran. India Is Praying For Iran. We Are Praying For Iran

World Is Praying For Iran. India Is Praying For Iran. We Are Praying For Iran

It is time to look back on the Journey To Jaisalmer and pen notes on proceedings not covered so far. Having stayed in Jaisalmer for six days with impromptu visits to Jaisalmer Fort, I could align with the thought that Hindi belt areas are in dire need of infusion of funds as provinces like Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar are no better despite a stable regime for seven to eight years, and competition not looking fierce. I could see while taking a walk to Jaisalmer Railway Station in the month of February there were scores of people sleeping under open sky,  much-mishandled by an administration that did not care two hoots about negative image flowing from such sightings that has had durable innings. Sightings of buses in the early morning hours to distant Sikar and Pali could see folks chase them in prime search for employment that Hindi belt has denied them these seven years, and this bringing on board no cheers. The walk back and forth saw persons caught in animated conversation over plight of people across India in the years gone by not on A Pedestal Of Hope, and improvised brief handed by the regime of the day has only released litany of complaints with season after season pain. Seasonal employment too has dried up in Hindi belt with half-baked, half-cocked ideas that were thrown up in the air as if to remind those in attendance that they were attending a village fair. From scouring for water to those apprehensive to get in wait listed disorder, the man on the street is face to face with day to day affairs that are not sweet.

Taking Indian Railway Train Ticket To Ajmer To Visit Khwaja Shrine

It took me three different visits to gain train ticket from Jaisalmer to Jodhpur and thereafter Ajmer, having noticed the pattern that taking a bus would be tiresome with no promise I won't sweat, and opening doors for some to place bet. Railway personnel Mr Gopal Das Sain got me the ticket of my choice to Jodhpur where office people on occasions come on tour. On a Sunday left Jaisalmer by Ahmedabad bound train (Ahmedabad Is Capital Of Gujarat Province In West India), having noted Jaisalmer Station neat and clean, and those visiting the same gain requisite zing. Having reached Jodhpur roughly around 9 PM, took the connecting train to Ajmer and reached there before 2.30 AM. All my prayers were for Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Dargah (Ajmer Shrine) which I was visiting after two-and-a-half year. Having taken a room in Sundaram Lodge in Nala Bazar Road in Ajmer, I visited Khwaja Shrine roughly around nine, and the visit saw me immersed in thoughts on previous occasions I had been to this place as old as 1986 and 1994.

While visiting this Shrine the sum total of expectations and experiences augment the arrival of thought that all religion are same and God Is One. I have often felt blessed after visiting Ajmer Shrine, and hope to keep the date as well whenever Khwaja calls me. Khwaja has prepared a script for the world, peppered with a discourse that howsoever hard one may try to bring differences on the back of religion, gains would be ephemeral and there won't be road after tunnel. Khwaja has guided this world and would continue to do so.

Our best wishes for those beginning to have new innings in Tamil Nadu Province. They are good at heart and people should pray for them. 

As for Iran, hope the writing on the wall one can see, and there be peace breeze and none flee.

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World Is Praying For Iran. India Is Praying For Iran. We Are Praying For Iran

World Is Praying For Iran. India Is Praying For Iran. We Are Praying For Iran

Peppered with the belief that gaining access to Nehru Place In New Delhi would come with ease, there were multiple rides with wallet not looking to be tight. As usual stepped out on days when the Sun was at its prime best, the ride oscillated between hope and fear as Election Commission's SIR (Special Intensive Revision) had done the apparent dirty deed and on this there are ample news feed. Multiple Rides coaxed me to board bus number 724 from Nauroji Nagar, and with the lone man at Raj Nagar bus stand, the commute one looked forward to was amidst set of vehicles that get on roads post morning running errands. 

First It Was Bihar, Now Bengal Polls

The ride past West Kidwai Nagar, South Extension Market made one wonder would India in the coming days lose voting thunder. First it was Bihar (Province) and now Bengal (Province), opening floodgates for poll panel's dubious software for keeping in motion SIR and thereby ensuring summer to winter brawl. As the bus inched towards Andrews Ganj followed by Central School where one can invariably get summer punch, the road ride ahead looked taxing as there was traffic congestion much different from plane congestion in the air where rides do come with plenty of fear. As bus made its way to LSR College and Zamrudpur abutting Greater Kailash, those evoking Deceptive-cum-Disruptive SIR at appropriate time may not find space on dais. As the wheels had not come out of bus, evoking praise for these machines that don't raise stress, time was ripe to place thoughts on water stress that India and colonies face, and here no region would like to ape. Water is precious, punctual time for delivery can turn ferocious if there is no ample supply, and from bathing to brimming all can lose lustre if water is amidst surroundings lined by rupture. Water can burst even in unheard of places like race course whose inmates give India jolt dose. As the bus finally made it to Nehru Place, it was time to deboard and look forward to yogurt-based beverage (lassi) that here in this Delhi territory is more than average.

Election Commission's Dubious Software

As I took a return ride, the dialogue and delivery on SIR diktat among commuters was all about this nuisance in play for over six months primarily meant to take away voting rights of marginalised and those in minority as if India could afford this poll googly battery.  Electoral rolls' revision courtesy dicey software which in any other country it would not have passed the test of the courts, and this exercise more aligned to give one political party elusive votes. This SIR and poll panel's dubious software did not get courts thorough attention and investigation, opening the field for mass exclusion of voters, systemically done to favour set of candidates belonging to one party, and Election Commission finding all this pretty. How could the dubious software find 3.66 crore voters in Madhya Pradesh and Bengal as suspects thereby making it easier for votaries of delimitation to clear the decks. Mind you, this fun of keeping Muslims and like-minded groups away from voting theatre can well boomerang as there are other pressing issues if not attended to can get the powers that be canned. 

None Indispensable In Political Space

None are indispensable in political space, and if ill-fated SIR not reined in, those trying to win through back doors would cease to be king, and from here search for houses would make them come across people carrying pen with no ink.  Polls in West Bengal Province were by and large rigged and here some gained handsome tip. Handsome tip they would regret as this poll panel engineered poll upheaval in West Bengal would sooner than later make some people start placing bet.

Civil war no one desires, and as the SIR convoy is not reversed, the country and the capital may lose purse. Deletions should give way to additions, and those denied voting rights in Bengal turf over and above 3 million should be given relief for peace proceedings to be notable chief.  

As for Iran, thoughts would stay on course for peace to float, and in the coming weeks there is hope and hope.

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