Showing posts with label Govind Tiru. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Govind Tiru. Show all posts
Saturday, December 7, 2024
Leaving Bhopal For Manmad And Some Looking For Reward
Leaving Bhopal For Manmad
As I left Fortune Inn Hotel in Hamidia Road Bhopal the stay for two days coincided with thoughts on train I was supposed to take to Manmad in Maharashtra State where reservoir of support for agriculture to flourish is nagging trait. The best thing about Fortune Inn was it had round the clock kitchen functioning with none whatsoever tinkering. The staff was cooperative destined to reach new frontiers well and truly possible if they captured their winter fears. Winter is harsh in this part of country no different from Delhi aiming to hit in post independent India century.
Bhopal is a city as equal as any other city in Hindi Heartland and looking rock solid to Stay As Giant. A city with rich past interspersed with efforts to be as voluble as possible not to be lost in Indian commotion of trying to figure out its configuration. As I boarded auto with Mr Feroze Khan at the helm the ride itself was illustrative of any commute by this set of transport availing every opportunity to access in different regions of India sea port. Reaching Bhopal Station roughly around 4.40 AM there was no possibility one would come across RAILWAY GM.
Taking a seat on Platform one with Mr Prachetan from East Godavari in Andhra Pradesh State sharing the bench the will and whisper of Karnataka Express train one hadn't come through.The wait was endless preoccupied with idea whether train would come on designated time hoping those at the wheels don"t take to whine.
All through 5 AM and beginning minutes of 6 there was no word yet on this train and who all had during the course of journey from Hazrat Nizamuddin in Delhi pulled the chain. Mr Prachetan was enrolled in a course in NIT Bhopal and displaying no sentiments of withdrawal.
Mr Prachetan was super excited that he would be boarding AP Express going all the way to Visakhapatnam where in the early morning hours people beat drum. During the time he waited for the train to arrive he was hooked to smartphone and the vibes he was getting seem to suggest in due course of time he would make calls to Rome.
A little after 7 AM announcement was made for Karnataka Express and it came around 7.30 with porter Mr Ameen carrying the luggage to H 1 coach seat number 13 the one coach where people don't play pranks even if they belong to club of teen. Narmadapuram came at 9,Powarkhera at 9.10,Itarsi after 9.30, Harda 10.30, Mathela 11.50, Khandwa 12 PM, Bhusaval after 1.40 and Manmad after 4.40.I deboarded at Manmad waiting for a connecting train to Nashik. This train ride from Bhopal which is also dubbed As City Of Nawabs dethroned the logic that train running behind schedule can make up though the said train in full flow in sections after sections in India much subjected to speed restrictions making it lie low.
This train traversed through areas rich in banana plantation and fertile areas much destined to grow irrespective of drip irrigation lying high or low.
YEDU KONDALWADA VENKATRAMNA GOVINDA GOVINDA
Monday, September 20, 2010
Bow or not to bow: The rally at Nagercoil by Puneet Rajhans
Bow or not to bow: The Rally at Nagercoil
As i make enquiries about going to Nagercoil and the mode of transport i should seek, some suggest that they have the wherewithal to transport me to another world and some responding by admonishing me for seeking a favour to go to Nagercoil when million others have gone on foot. Probably they disappeared to Nagercoil when million others were sleeping/waking alternate hours.
Truckloads of men, women and followers (different shape sizes and colour) are going to Nagercoil to hear the assorted lot. The lot that is going to open their mouth before an audience that would shrink, trim and grow each passing minute include Karuna, Stalin, Alagiri and Kanimozhi. They would speak for a period not known yet but enough to cast aspersions on those who are willing to turn turncoats come assembly polls given their slide in the rating in the party machinery.
Here the leaders would take a pledge, narrate a tale and probably obfuscate the audience by harmlessly suggesting that another five year outing is on the cards. What the leaders are going to speak about is how they have together with their will and wherewithal withstood the challenges of the hostile regimes at the Centre and the string of demands they are going to put forward before the Centre to see them they stay united forever. Probably it would be to do with the succession line to be put in place where enough clarity is yet to be established; the baton should pass on to the Deputy when the challenge from a Central Minister has not been adequately addressed. Further they would speak about the times and trepidation that we live in and the urgency to foist the black and red flags on either side of the roads when enough trees have not been planted.
The party cadres would take the pledge that as and when these flags are uprooted they would be replaced by saplings that would be painted black and red when it has secured its full growth. Of all the pledges and directions that this meet would witness, there would be another understanding between the cadres and party honchos that for a meet of this scale and tribulation (pangs of trauma that the common man is subjected to), the industrial houses need to open their coffers failing which the black and red flags would be hoisted at every conceivable place of freedom. Of freedom and for the overwhelming need to stay alive to such proceedings of future, the industrial houses of desire and growth would have to heed to the suggestions of the party at the helm.
AS for the other rally the party would be keeping a close watch on is at the dalal street as it has the potential to sweep aside the rally at Nagercoil given its unchecked ascension. Precisely on that count this rally has been fixed at 6 in the evening when the street is empty and dalals have disappeared for good. For this rally no travel advisory has been issued which actually paves the way for a large contingent to turn out and bow their head before the reigning kings and queens.
As for me the decision to bow would be entirely linked to the crowd that hasn't greyed enough to disappoint me.
As i make enquiries about going to Nagercoil and the mode of transport i should seek, some suggest that they have the wherewithal to transport me to another world and some responding by admonishing me for seeking a favour to go to Nagercoil when million others have gone on foot. Probably they disappeared to Nagercoil when million others were sleeping/waking alternate hours.
Truckloads of men, women and followers (different shape sizes and colour) are going to Nagercoil to hear the assorted lot. The lot that is going to open their mouth before an audience that would shrink, trim and grow each passing minute include Karuna, Stalin, Alagiri and Kanimozhi. They would speak for a period not known yet but enough to cast aspersions on those who are willing to turn turncoats come assembly polls given their slide in the rating in the party machinery.
Here the leaders would take a pledge, narrate a tale and probably obfuscate the audience by harmlessly suggesting that another five year outing is on the cards. What the leaders are going to speak about is how they have together with their will and wherewithal withstood the challenges of the hostile regimes at the Centre and the string of demands they are going to put forward before the Centre to see them they stay united forever. Probably it would be to do with the succession line to be put in place where enough clarity is yet to be established; the baton should pass on to the Deputy when the challenge from a Central Minister has not been adequately addressed. Further they would speak about the times and trepidation that we live in and the urgency to foist the black and red flags on either side of the roads when enough trees have not been planted.
The party cadres would take the pledge that as and when these flags are uprooted they would be replaced by saplings that would be painted black and red when it has secured its full growth. Of all the pledges and directions that this meet would witness, there would be another understanding between the cadres and party honchos that for a meet of this scale and tribulation (pangs of trauma that the common man is subjected to), the industrial houses need to open their coffers failing which the black and red flags would be hoisted at every conceivable place of freedom. Of freedom and for the overwhelming need to stay alive to such proceedings of future, the industrial houses of desire and growth would have to heed to the suggestions of the party at the helm.
AS for the other rally the party would be keeping a close watch on is at the dalal street as it has the potential to sweep aside the rally at Nagercoil given its unchecked ascension. Precisely on that count this rally has been fixed at 6 in the evening when the street is empty and dalals have disappeared for good. For this rally no travel advisory has been issued which actually paves the way for a large contingent to turn out and bow their head before the reigning kings and queens.
As for me the decision to bow would be entirely linked to the crowd that hasn't greyed enough to disappoint me.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
The Party meet that failed to take the man on board by Puneet Rajhans
The Party meet that failed to take the man on board
At Mahadanapuram as i wait for the public transport that would transport me to KKRI, a Tamil guy wants to familiarise me with the environment around. I settle for this round of conversation by suggesting him that i would respond in the language best understood by a large majority here. He is quite offended by the sight of goons and guys going to mark their attendance for a private-cum-public rally of the ruling party. Explaining his dilemma, he went on to elaborate on how he made innumerable visits to the party office with the plea that he should be taken under their fold. "Sir, the experience has been traumatising enough since none of the visits led to my membership in the party and i resigned to the fate of running a motor workshop."
As the bus began to move, he even showed the workshop on the way where he slugs it out day in day out, seasonal viruses and floods notwithstanding. His innumerable visits reminds me of my two failed visits to Nagercoil in the past 12 hrs to understand the depth and deepening bond between the party and the cadres. Probably the bus stuffed with the greying crowd won't settle for giving space to someone who wants to have the first hand account of the Dravidian histrionics. Quite intimidated by their train of thought i disembark and prefer to wait for the return journey in the company of a Tamil and other souls from neighbouring states. Probably the innumerable visits to the party office and the red and black flag that he failed to carry along that marred his chances to his membership aspiration. Here between Nagercoil and 20 kms away there are no less than 10 million red and black party flags and other cutouts, banners and billboards of big booming and greying leaders which aim to keep the party alive for a period that is yet to be put in black and white. Against the tsunami of cutouts one discovers the odd outing of a big hoarding explaining in detail the exemplary punishment that would be handed out if one dares to carry plastic cups and carry bags in the state of Tamil Nadu. Since the rally meant to arrest the diminishing returns of leaders and their followers would see in plenty the appearance of these plastics in all shapes sizes and colour, what could be the best argument that the party can put forward. THe party honchos could claim that since it is a public rally meant to awaken the public of our need to stay and bite together, the ban on plastics is entirely uncalled for. Probably for these public rallies where speeches are long and the longevity of the leaders yet to be defined, the plastics get a new lease of life with their mass usage by the masses. Had the Tamil guy who has been shunted to the world of motor workshop had a frail association with plastics, he could well have an outside chance of making it to the party establishment with the firm instructions to engage in the insider trading job, which he can hardly lay his hands on given the low returns the workshop provides.
As the commute gets over, i think of hitting another state with another public rally that would give me a fair idea of who all can get on board when the employment avenues are shrinking by the day given the conflicting reports on growth projections (probably it would be tamed sooner than later) for the future. As for the public transport, this time round i would settle for a mini taxi that would have a party cadre at the wheels.
At Mahadanapuram as i wait for the public transport that would transport me to KKRI, a Tamil guy wants to familiarise me with the environment around. I settle for this round of conversation by suggesting him that i would respond in the language best understood by a large majority here. He is quite offended by the sight of goons and guys going to mark their attendance for a private-cum-public rally of the ruling party. Explaining his dilemma, he went on to elaborate on how he made innumerable visits to the party office with the plea that he should be taken under their fold. "Sir, the experience has been traumatising enough since none of the visits led to my membership in the party and i resigned to the fate of running a motor workshop."
As the bus began to move, he even showed the workshop on the way where he slugs it out day in day out, seasonal viruses and floods notwithstanding. His innumerable visits reminds me of my two failed visits to Nagercoil in the past 12 hrs to understand the depth and deepening bond between the party and the cadres. Probably the bus stuffed with the greying crowd won't settle for giving space to someone who wants to have the first hand account of the Dravidian histrionics. Quite intimidated by their train of thought i disembark and prefer to wait for the return journey in the company of a Tamil and other souls from neighbouring states. Probably the innumerable visits to the party office and the red and black flag that he failed to carry along that marred his chances to his membership aspiration. Here between Nagercoil and 20 kms away there are no less than 10 million red and black party flags and other cutouts, banners and billboards of big booming and greying leaders which aim to keep the party alive for a period that is yet to be put in black and white. Against the tsunami of cutouts one discovers the odd outing of a big hoarding explaining in detail the exemplary punishment that would be handed out if one dares to carry plastic cups and carry bags in the state of Tamil Nadu. Since the rally meant to arrest the diminishing returns of leaders and their followers would see in plenty the appearance of these plastics in all shapes sizes and colour, what could be the best argument that the party can put forward. THe party honchos could claim that since it is a public rally meant to awaken the public of our need to stay and bite together, the ban on plastics is entirely uncalled for. Probably for these public rallies where speeches are long and the longevity of the leaders yet to be defined, the plastics get a new lease of life with their mass usage by the masses. Had the Tamil guy who has been shunted to the world of motor workshop had a frail association with plastics, he could well have an outside chance of making it to the party establishment with the firm instructions to engage in the insider trading job, which he can hardly lay his hands on given the low returns the workshop provides.
As the commute gets over, i think of hitting another state with another public rally that would give me a fair idea of who all can get on board when the employment avenues are shrinking by the day given the conflicting reports on growth projections (probably it would be tamed sooner than later) for the future. As for the public transport, this time round i would settle for a mini taxi that would have a party cadre at the wheels.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Misadventures in a'port and traffic commotion by Puneet Rajhans
Misadventures in Airport and traffic commotion
Hadn't we had enough traffic triggered misadventures in the past, there was another declaration coming from a traffic personnel on the voluminous growth that this sector is going to witness in the days to come.
The man could barely hide his glee when he prophesied that there would be 200 to 300 per cent growth in the traffic going towards a'port and adjoining areas once much-publicised and least effective Terminal 3 opens up in entirety. The terminal has been built by GMR Group, the one that has laid one of the best roads in the country, effectively from the outskirts of Hy'bad to the closest point near Kurnool. This stretch makes it possible to cover H'bad- TPT length in just under nine hrs.
The senseless declaration coming on a channel and that too when the flow of traffic towards G'gaon and International Terminal is no less. THere is an entire tribe which doesn't mind the traffic growth maintaining a robust movement (the toll collection centres doubling up as hafta vasool goons) ; something of this mindless trajectory that one can associate with Sensex alone. Here you have this wayward movement of 30 point share index soliciting new eyeballs every day as if all other activities don't hand out handsome returns. The rally in the market; how it is going to fare in the next week, next month and even next season (bordering between hope and despair); to rally being played out with untamed conviction if one particular week has been strong resembles a ritual that is repeated shamelessly year after year.
The sensex is best left to the greed generating community; but how is one to navigate a thought process on someone who takes pride in traffic reaching new heights. Probably the traffic champion has had a date with a soothsayer in his childhood prophesying that when he grows up there would be fleet of cars in his vicinity. That childhood element he can't shake off easily.
Much fault is traced to a series of reports carried out every month detailing the sale of vehicles of different make. Here again the rally sentiments take centrestage. The traffic dislocated tribe would surely like a moratorium on such reports.You know it well that won't happen.
The sarcastic campaign that shows India taking pride in overtaking China in population game by 2030 could well see an appropriate extension of India displacing China when it came to vehicles from two to four wheelers well after 2030. Is the traffic afficionado basing his thoughts towards that end? Try public transport as very few of us have traffic sense and traffic concerns on our mind.
Hadn't we had enough traffic triggered misadventures in the past, there was another declaration coming from a traffic personnel on the voluminous growth that this sector is going to witness in the days to come.
The man could barely hide his glee when he prophesied that there would be 200 to 300 per cent growth in the traffic going towards a'port and adjoining areas once much-publicised and least effective Terminal 3 opens up in entirety. The terminal has been built by GMR Group, the one that has laid one of the best roads in the country, effectively from the outskirts of Hy'bad to the closest point near Kurnool. This stretch makes it possible to cover H'bad- TPT length in just under nine hrs.
The senseless declaration coming on a channel and that too when the flow of traffic towards G'gaon and International Terminal is no less. THere is an entire tribe which doesn't mind the traffic growth maintaining a robust movement (the toll collection centres doubling up as hafta vasool goons) ; something of this mindless trajectory that one can associate with Sensex alone. Here you have this wayward movement of 30 point share index soliciting new eyeballs every day as if all other activities don't hand out handsome returns. The rally in the market; how it is going to fare in the next week, next month and even next season (bordering between hope and despair); to rally being played out with untamed conviction if one particular week has been strong resembles a ritual that is repeated shamelessly year after year.
The sensex is best left to the greed generating community; but how is one to navigate a thought process on someone who takes pride in traffic reaching new heights. Probably the traffic champion has had a date with a soothsayer in his childhood prophesying that when he grows up there would be fleet of cars in his vicinity. That childhood element he can't shake off easily.
Much fault is traced to a series of reports carried out every month detailing the sale of vehicles of different make. Here again the rally sentiments take centrestage. The traffic dislocated tribe would surely like a moratorium on such reports.You know it well that won't happen.
The sarcastic campaign that shows India taking pride in overtaking China in population game by 2030 could well see an appropriate extension of India displacing China when it came to vehicles from two to four wheelers well after 2030. Is the traffic afficionado basing his thoughts towards that end? Try public transport as very few of us have traffic sense and traffic concerns on our mind.
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