In Delhi power and water bills hit rooftop and those making payments for the same are gentlemen named Bob.
Saturday, March 7, 2020
Journey Through Divided Delhi on NDTV
Journey Through Divided Delhi on NDTV
As i watched Journey Through Divided Delhi on NDTV it was all about Delhi Riots that gripped parts of Delhi with law and order machinery in a state of distress as ever. Delhi was home to riots of unimaginable scale, something not seen in the past three decades. Houses were set on fire, the people were run over and their belongings stolen with cops looking the other way round. This episode of reality check with hosts Mr Sreenivasan Jain and Ms Maria doing all they could do to bring across the message that in these uncertain times harmony should be the topmost priority. They had a fair share of interactions with aggrieved family members who had no place to live, none to share their stories of apathy and ignorance of Delhi cops and living in tents was all they had to content with. Their houses ravaged, their belongings ransacked and minute after minute threats emanating from one community to not return to their place of work/residence were enough telltale blush of horrifying times we are in. There was a tete-a-tete with Mr Gupta who was a landlord of one politico who had made hate speech.
This episode of reality check was something to watch out for as it tried to trace the antecedents of rioters who largely were goons running wild, loads of them from outside Delhi.
As India's Parliament is set to debate Delhi Riots it should try to fix the responsibility for this set of ruckus witnessed on Delhi streets primarily the lackadaisical attitude shown by authorities who were not prompt enough to respond to distress calls. Members cutting across party lines should speak with no fear or favour as the fault lies at the doorsteps of govt enmeshed with law and order machinery.
Congratulations to NDTV's Ms Nidhi Razdan for winning IPI (International Press Institute) award. Quite appropriately observed that these are testing times for media in India as any story that is conveyed with a determined will and sincerity is seen as an act of anti national. Who is anti national and who is prominent professional only times will tell.
As i watched Journey Through Divided Delhi on NDTV it was all about Delhi Riots that gripped parts of Delhi with law and order machinery in a state of distress as ever. Delhi was home to riots of unimaginable scale, something not seen in the past three decades. Houses were set on fire, the people were run over and their belongings stolen with cops looking the other way round. This episode of reality check with hosts Mr Sreenivasan Jain and Ms Maria doing all they could do to bring across the message that in these uncertain times harmony should be the topmost priority. They had a fair share of interactions with aggrieved family members who had no place to live, none to share their stories of apathy and ignorance of Delhi cops and living in tents was all they had to content with. Their houses ravaged, their belongings ransacked and minute after minute threats emanating from one community to not return to their place of work/residence were enough telltale blush of horrifying times we are in. There was a tete-a-tete with Mr Gupta who was a landlord of one politico who had made hate speech.
This episode of reality check was something to watch out for as it tried to trace the antecedents of rioters who largely were goons running wild, loads of them from outside Delhi.
As India's Parliament is set to debate Delhi Riots it should try to fix the responsibility for this set of ruckus witnessed on Delhi streets primarily the lackadaisical attitude shown by authorities who were not prompt enough to respond to distress calls. Members cutting across party lines should speak with no fear or favour as the fault lies at the doorsteps of govt enmeshed with law and order machinery.
Congratulations to NDTV's Ms Nidhi Razdan for winning IPI (International Press Institute) award. Quite appropriately observed that these are testing times for media in India as any story that is conveyed with a determined will and sincerity is seen as an act of anti national. Who is anti national and who is prominent professional only times will tell.
Friday, March 6, 2020
The Plush Bus Going To Srisailam That We Came Across in 2018
The Plush Bus Going To Srisailam That We Came Across in 2018
The sooner the coronavirus is contained the better it would be for humanity
The sooner the coronavirus is contained the better it would be for humanity
As i visited South Extension i could spot men, women draped with masks a reality in uncertain times we live in. We were least concerned about outbreak of coronavirus in China as long as cases did not began to get reported in India. Once people/persons tested positive in India scary were our thoughts coupled with an urgency that we remain miles and miles away from this virus. We are in a dilemma across world where even brief symptoms of the same can make us scary of this dreadful dent.
Avoiding public places and public gathering could be one way of not contracting this dreadful dent is what we could gather from newspapers and tv channels reports. That effectively means a Big No to Air and Train travel, travelling by public transport on a minimal scale and keeping human to human contact too minimal. This dreadful dent has to shed its nasty designs and be a history is the prayer on our lips as we as a nation and very much part of universal fusillade crave for an environment that is crona free and none sporting any symptoms of it by any degree.
In one of the Chinese provinces this dreadful dent originated and with travel schedule looking mandatory it passed on to humans in the universal space we are in. Cases of corona being reported were mammoth in China with the ready awareness that one could get fully recovered if precautions were in place. In China the number of cases reported each day has dropped but still it is abysmally high and it is other nations where people have travelled from China and adjoining enclaves that have reported a spike.
Each individual on earth has to put in a prayer morning and evening that this dreadful dent is contained in totality and its spread halted by innumerable insights that we come across. Keeping sanitiser in hand could be one way to not contract it, but how far can be awareness about the same in urban jungles and rural hinterland. It hasn't had an outbreak in rural space in our country and other places and that is comforting enough to make us look less scared. Measures are put into effect where its spread is stopped till the last drop and people are free to log in miles at will. When we would have the fortune to avail this opportunity is not known, what is known is that once temperatures spike and summers set in, this dreadful dent could well be in its last lap receding in all variants. We get too concerned about stock markets and the mayhem that has visited them not knowing that should not be the underlying goal, these very amateurish markets may fall and rise loaded by the fundamentals in the economy and how robust they look. At the moment the thoughts and prayers should be on this dreadful dent and how it is not given an opportunity to hit the humanity hard and we escape this nature's wrath and remain unscratched.
As i visited South Extension i could spot men, women draped with masks a reality in uncertain times we live in. We were least concerned about outbreak of coronavirus in China as long as cases did not began to get reported in India. Once people/persons tested positive in India scary were our thoughts coupled with an urgency that we remain miles and miles away from this virus. We are in a dilemma across world where even brief symptoms of the same can make us scary of this dreadful dent.
Avoiding public places and public gathering could be one way of not contracting this dreadful dent is what we could gather from newspapers and tv channels reports. That effectively means a Big No to Air and Train travel, travelling by public transport on a minimal scale and keeping human to human contact too minimal. This dreadful dent has to shed its nasty designs and be a history is the prayer on our lips as we as a nation and very much part of universal fusillade crave for an environment that is crona free and none sporting any symptoms of it by any degree.
In one of the Chinese provinces this dreadful dent originated and with travel schedule looking mandatory it passed on to humans in the universal space we are in. Cases of corona being reported were mammoth in China with the ready awareness that one could get fully recovered if precautions were in place. In China the number of cases reported each day has dropped but still it is abysmally high and it is other nations where people have travelled from China and adjoining enclaves that have reported a spike.
Each individual on earth has to put in a prayer morning and evening that this dreadful dent is contained in totality and its spread halted by innumerable insights that we come across. Keeping sanitiser in hand could be one way to not contract it, but how far can be awareness about the same in urban jungles and rural hinterland. It hasn't had an outbreak in rural space in our country and other places and that is comforting enough to make us look less scared. Measures are put into effect where its spread is stopped till the last drop and people are free to log in miles at will. When we would have the fortune to avail this opportunity is not known, what is known is that once temperatures spike and summers set in, this dreadful dent could well be in its last lap receding in all variants. We get too concerned about stock markets and the mayhem that has visited them not knowing that should not be the underlying goal, these very amateurish markets may fall and rise loaded by the fundamentals in the economy and how robust they look. At the moment the thoughts and prayers should be on this dreadful dent and how it is not given an opportunity to hit the humanity hard and we escape this nature's wrath and remain unscratched.
Thursday, March 5, 2020
Best Wishes to Mr Elton John, Mr Tom Cruise, Mr Stevie Wonder, Mr Phil Collins and Mr Lionel Richie
Best Wishes to Mr Elton John, Mr Tom Cruise, Mr Stevie Wonder, Mr Phil Collins and Mr Lionel Richie.
As i listen to song sacrifice by Mr Elton John my best wishes are always with him and hope he has robust health. My best wishes to Mr Tom Cruise, Mr Stevie Wonder, Mr Phil Collins and Mr Lionel Richie for decades to come. Listening to Take My Breath Away from Top Gun starring Mr Tom Cruise.
Super Tuesday was Great. Hope Mr Biden has a smooth flow and transition. Best Wishes to Mr Biden and his family members. Best Wishes to Mr Barack Obama, Ms Michelle Obama, their daughters Ms Malia Aan and Ms Sasha. Best Wishes to Ms Melania Trump and her family members.
Best Wishes to Ms Serena Williams, Mr Alexis Ohanian their child Alexis Olympia Ohanian Junior, tennis players Ms Venus Williams, Ms Gauff, Ms Naomi Osaka and their family members. Best Wishes to Mr Novak Djokovic, Mr Rafael Nadal, Mr Roger Federer, Mr Andy Murray, Mr Pete Sampras and all tennis legends across world. Best Wishes to Indian Cricketer Mr M S Dhoni and his family members.
Best Wishes to Ms Maggie Lake. Best Wishes to Ms Robyn Curnow, Ms Amanda Davies, Ms Nina dos Santos, Ms Kristie Lu Stout, Ms Hala Gorani, Ms E Burnett, Ms Sasha, Ms Kinkade, Ms Christian Amanpour, Ms Shubert, Ms Becky Anderson, Mr Copper, Mr Anderson, Mr Nick Robertson, Mr Richard Quest, Mr Fareed Zakaria and all staff members of CNN News Channel across world and their family members.
Best Wishes to Ms Haru Mutasa, Ms Catherine Soi, Ms Ivonne Ndege, Ms Folly, Ms Dareen, Mr D Jordan, Mr Everton Fox, Mr Mcbride and all staff members of Al Jazeera News Channel across world and their family members. Best Wishes to New York Times Staff Members and Washington Post Staff Members and their family members across world.
Hope the Nations in the Middle East sail through and have best of times. Best Wishes to Mr Tom Hanks, Mr Clint Eastwood, Mr Michael Holding, Mr Michael Schumacher and Mr Mick Schumacher.
Best Wishes to Ms Angelina Jolie and her six children. Best Wishes to Staff Members and Family Members of NDTV News Channel beamed from India. Best Wishes to SVBC Channel beamed from Tirumala in India. Best Wishes to Staff Members of Hotel Murugan in Srisailam in Andhra Pradesh State in India.
As i listen to song sacrifice by Mr Elton John my best wishes are always with him and hope he has robust health. My best wishes to Mr Tom Cruise, Mr Stevie Wonder, Mr Phil Collins and Mr Lionel Richie for decades to come. Listening to Take My Breath Away from Top Gun starring Mr Tom Cruise.
Super Tuesday was Great. Hope Mr Biden has a smooth flow and transition. Best Wishes to Mr Biden and his family members. Best Wishes to Mr Barack Obama, Ms Michelle Obama, their daughters Ms Malia Aan and Ms Sasha. Best Wishes to Ms Melania Trump and her family members.
Best Wishes to Ms Serena Williams, Mr Alexis Ohanian their child Alexis Olympia Ohanian Junior, tennis players Ms Venus Williams, Ms Gauff, Ms Naomi Osaka and their family members. Best Wishes to Mr Novak Djokovic, Mr Rafael Nadal, Mr Roger Federer, Mr Andy Murray, Mr Pete Sampras and all tennis legends across world. Best Wishes to Indian Cricketer Mr M S Dhoni and his family members.
Best Wishes to Ms Maggie Lake. Best Wishes to Ms Robyn Curnow, Ms Amanda Davies, Ms Nina dos Santos, Ms Kristie Lu Stout, Ms Hala Gorani, Ms E Burnett, Ms Sasha, Ms Kinkade, Ms Christian Amanpour, Ms Shubert, Ms Becky Anderson, Mr Copper, Mr Anderson, Mr Nick Robertson, Mr Richard Quest, Mr Fareed Zakaria and all staff members of CNN News Channel across world and their family members.
Best Wishes to Ms Haru Mutasa, Ms Catherine Soi, Ms Ivonne Ndege, Ms Folly, Ms Dareen, Mr D Jordan, Mr Everton Fox, Mr Mcbride and all staff members of Al Jazeera News Channel across world and their family members. Best Wishes to New York Times Staff Members and Washington Post Staff Members and their family members across world.
Hope the Nations in the Middle East sail through and have best of times. Best Wishes to Mr Tom Hanks, Mr Clint Eastwood, Mr Michael Holding, Mr Michael Schumacher and Mr Mick Schumacher.
Best Wishes to Ms Angelina Jolie and her six children. Best Wishes to Staff Members and Family Members of NDTV News Channel beamed from India. Best Wishes to SVBC Channel beamed from Tirumala in India. Best Wishes to Staff Members of Hotel Murugan in Srisailam in Andhra Pradesh State in India.
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Visiting Lord Jaipali Temple (Lord Hanuman Temple) near Tirumala
Visiting Lord Jaipali Temple (Lord Hanuman Temple) near Tirumala
I would remain ever grateful to Mr Kumar, Mr Naveen, Mr Shekhar and Mr Suresh of Friends Tea Stall in Tirupati for dishing out black tea. Mr Pasha of Sai Hotel opposite Friends Tea Stall was kind enough to dish out black tea one particular day. I would remain grateful to Ms Naveena, Mr Karunakaran, Mr Prabhakaran and Mr Subramaniam of Vikram Hotel Tirupati for providing me the best food in town. As Tirumala pilgrimage was completed with sighting of Lord Venkateswara on more than one occasion it was time to look for flights that would take me to the city of New Delhi. I visited Alpha Tours and Travels office and I came across Mr Dileep. The air tickets from Tirupati to New Delhi were sky rocketing high and Mr Dileep suggested i better try Chennai-Delhi Route.
The Vistara flight to Delhi had a pricey ticket range and i did not have any other option on hand. A pricey ticket with pricey take i settled for that hoping against hope that flight would leave me with reminders that would float. Mr Dileep came across as a thorough gentleman with no airs. On a Thursday i left the bed a little after 3.30 am and with thoughts abandoned of having another darshan ticket as i already had a flight ticket in hand i settled for black tea from Friends Tea Stall. Much before 6 i boarded a bus to Tirumala. On the way i came across a woman conductor who expressed her helplessness in giving change. The very fact that Woman Conductor was on duty much before six in the morning suggested Tirupati as a city was much safer for women against some other cities of India that had a bad repute with abuse and annihilation as rampant as ever. It is collective effort of cops and govt managers that make it a point to ensure collection of men outside your place/residence who file in and file out with repeated thundering of abuse so as to please the political bosses. Hope tranquil sentiments prevail in Tirupati and beyond.
Having reached Tirumala around 6.30 or so i waited for a vehicle that would take me to Lord Jaipali Temple (Lord Hanuman Temple) near Tirumala. In came Mr Hari with jeep number 1641 and we were on way to Jaipali. The point where you deboard the jeep and walk to Lord Jaipali Temple doesn't call for much acumen. There are in all 200 steps to be negotiated not steep by any thread of imagination. Much before 7 i was in Jaipali with thoughts essayed in a different diary and left the place a little before 8 am. Having reached Rambagicha Bus Stand i visited the outer precincts of Lord Venkateswara Temple which was roughly the outer gates of Lord Venkateswara Temple. The prayer on the lips was i get more opportunities to visit Tirumala with the comfort of gaining pious darshan. Later i settled for bus ride for Tirupati from Tirumala. Around 11 i had South Indian meals from Vikram Hotel with the staff as diligent as ever. I vacated the room in Charan Residency around 12 pm having come across Mr Murali of S V Fancy Store opposite Charan Residency who kept best bunch of bananas. I would remain ever grateful to Mr Murali. I was in Tirupati bus station much before 12.30 and here i came across Hotel Saravanan, Hotel New Woodlands, New Sri Sangeetha Bhavan. Next to Sri Sangeetha Bhavan was Advanced Reservation Centre. There was a non AC bus to Chennai via Puthur, Nagari, Thiruthani, Thiruvallur and Poonamalli. There was another bus going to Tindivaram. I could sight Sri Vasavi cloak room. Between Tirupati and Tirumala i sighted two white Ambassador cars with the numbers AP 03 C 5589 and AP 03 Y 9293. The bus for Chennai left at 1.20 pm from Tirupati Bus Station.
The sighting of Lord Venkateswara was something to cherish and hope that people of different faiths visit Lord Venkateswara Temple time and again with the prayer that social equations among different communities remain rock solid as ever and we live in times where there is no challenge to the very existence of mankind from any virus whatsoever. Hate speeches made in public have to be nipped in the bud and those making the same should be held accountable and dissuaded from doing so. You had a judge in the line of fire in Delhi Court who took umbrage to these Hate Speeches.
I would remain ever grateful to Mr Kumar, Mr Naveen, Mr Shekhar and Mr Suresh of Friends Tea Stall in Tirupati for dishing out black tea. Mr Pasha of Sai Hotel opposite Friends Tea Stall was kind enough to dish out black tea one particular day. I would remain grateful to Ms Naveena, Mr Karunakaran, Mr Prabhakaran and Mr Subramaniam of Vikram Hotel Tirupati for providing me the best food in town. As Tirumala pilgrimage was completed with sighting of Lord Venkateswara on more than one occasion it was time to look for flights that would take me to the city of New Delhi. I visited Alpha Tours and Travels office and I came across Mr Dileep. The air tickets from Tirupati to New Delhi were sky rocketing high and Mr Dileep suggested i better try Chennai-Delhi Route.
The Vistara flight to Delhi had a pricey ticket range and i did not have any other option on hand. A pricey ticket with pricey take i settled for that hoping against hope that flight would leave me with reminders that would float. Mr Dileep came across as a thorough gentleman with no airs. On a Thursday i left the bed a little after 3.30 am and with thoughts abandoned of having another darshan ticket as i already had a flight ticket in hand i settled for black tea from Friends Tea Stall. Much before 6 i boarded a bus to Tirumala. On the way i came across a woman conductor who expressed her helplessness in giving change. The very fact that Woman Conductor was on duty much before six in the morning suggested Tirupati as a city was much safer for women against some other cities of India that had a bad repute with abuse and annihilation as rampant as ever. It is collective effort of cops and govt managers that make it a point to ensure collection of men outside your place/residence who file in and file out with repeated thundering of abuse so as to please the political bosses. Hope tranquil sentiments prevail in Tirupati and beyond.
Having reached Tirumala around 6.30 or so i waited for a vehicle that would take me to Lord Jaipali Temple (Lord Hanuman Temple) near Tirumala. In came Mr Hari with jeep number 1641 and we were on way to Jaipali. The point where you deboard the jeep and walk to Lord Jaipali Temple doesn't call for much acumen. There are in all 200 steps to be negotiated not steep by any thread of imagination. Much before 7 i was in Jaipali with thoughts essayed in a different diary and left the place a little before 8 am. Having reached Rambagicha Bus Stand i visited the outer precincts of Lord Venkateswara Temple which was roughly the outer gates of Lord Venkateswara Temple. The prayer on the lips was i get more opportunities to visit Tirumala with the comfort of gaining pious darshan. Later i settled for bus ride for Tirupati from Tirumala. Around 11 i had South Indian meals from Vikram Hotel with the staff as diligent as ever. I vacated the room in Charan Residency around 12 pm having come across Mr Murali of S V Fancy Store opposite Charan Residency who kept best bunch of bananas. I would remain ever grateful to Mr Murali. I was in Tirupati bus station much before 12.30 and here i came across Hotel Saravanan, Hotel New Woodlands, New Sri Sangeetha Bhavan. Next to Sri Sangeetha Bhavan was Advanced Reservation Centre. There was a non AC bus to Chennai via Puthur, Nagari, Thiruthani, Thiruvallur and Poonamalli. There was another bus going to Tindivaram. I could sight Sri Vasavi cloak room. Between Tirupati and Tirumala i sighted two white Ambassador cars with the numbers AP 03 C 5589 and AP 03 Y 9293. The bus for Chennai left at 1.20 pm from Tirupati Bus Station.
The sighting of Lord Venkateswara was something to cherish and hope that people of different faiths visit Lord Venkateswara Temple time and again with the prayer that social equations among different communities remain rock solid as ever and we live in times where there is no challenge to the very existence of mankind from any virus whatsoever. Hate speeches made in public have to be nipped in the bud and those making the same should be held accountable and dissuaded from doing so. You had a judge in the line of fire in Delhi Court who took umbrage to these Hate Speeches.
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