It is the weather that would turn you to Puri. With exceedingly difficult and unmanageable cold in the North followed by a fighting and somewhat tolerable cold in Kolkata, the harsh winters are least to be seen in Puri. It is warm and rising during the day and sweaters are to be out when nights are in and days are out.
The temperatures one would relish happening in other parts of the country, especially the ones dogged by 24X7 winter and wilting commentary. Commentary is on the excessive cold that is in the air and leading to discomfort from top to bottom society layer.
Hope the winter abates in the North and it begins to resemble the very admirable heat of Puri and the cold becomes all-forgotten and displaced fury.
Summers are the best in any part of the country for the simple fact that immunity gets boosted from all round activity that has by and large people's sanctity. Surroundings are more visible in the Summers and haze is something that nobody has to bear. Hope spring is not far and summers would be something that would appeal to people wide and far.
Unbelievable has been the weather in this part of the country and the one that can set you to set long term goals.
Monday, January 2, 2012
In Lord Jagannath's Abode in Odisha
In Lord Jagannath's Abode in Odisha
As i go past Bali Sahi in Lord Jagannath's Abode, the past few days spent here have been complimented with a query on what prevented me from coming to this place for the past two years. It was September 2009 when i visited Lord Jagannath's home for the first time with a seven-day stay split between two adjoining hotels, chandrama and anjaana, on Gopal Ballav Road. Over a dozen times i would have gone past Gopal Ballav Road, turning right to Gopabandhu Chowk, turning left towards Mochi Sahi Square which finally takes you to Dolamandap Sahi (Temple Road). The walk from Gopal Ballav Road to Lord Jagannath's temple would be under 2kms but enough to turn you down for a while before you started again. September was sultry strong and enough thoughts went into before you tried to step out in late afternoon. Howsoever strong the rush may be inside the temple the happiness quotient visible here has fewer comparables across country.
This time December has been pleasantly cool; and all of a sudden on the last Saturday of the year the humid conditions began to make their way. Post prasadam meals from the temple - for the days stationed here at least once is a must - as i stepped out to go for my routine coffee from a makeshift camp run by a tea/coffee vendor opposite Sea View Hotel i come across sweets and medical centres like Rathi Sweets, Bhai Bhai Sweets and Jagannath Homoeo Sadan on Bali Sahi Road. Further down the road there is Tri Shakti Club, Sri Sri Batalokanath Temple and Radha Ramana Bastralaya. It is just few metres before the road is to merge with the one facing the sea, Swargadwar, there is a tall red structure , Pranavananda Seva Niketan Bharat Sevashram Sangha. It houses accommodation facility. In proximity is the cultural centre and a free reading room. Well no one could be sighted manning the desk either at Accommodation Centre or Free Reading Room as the one supposed to answer queries was expected in the evening.
Prior to visiting the Pranavananda Seva Niketan, i visited the makeshift camp and the vendor was kind enough to hand me a strong coffee. On most of the occasions you come across vendors who outright reject the request for a special tea/coffee. The coffee i took was opposite Sea View hotel Sea Beach, established 1931. Establishment of this Sea View Hotel in 1931 suggests the foresight of the gentleman to raise a structure when India's very freedom story was far from reaching a stage of complete success. 1931 was the year and establishment done under the cloud of colonial fear. The Sea View would have lost count of the number of tourists it would have accommodated and got separated over the years. The other day while i was standing opposite this structure i saw uncountable number of empty beer bottles being loaded by a scrap dealer on his van; and this suggested despite the weather being temperamentally cool the visitors tend to have their share to keep their temperament under check. THe solitary Abode of Lord Jagannath has a Solitary Sea to its credit and solitary may be the numbers here and there who would be taking beer to be in fighting gear.
There are other hotels as well facing the sea and i did not venture out to update myself with the tariff turnaround they have witnessed. It would be nonsensical to get the tariff update when one does not intend to stay on this side of the city. One thing was for sure : Most of the crowd (comprising family) thronging to this place was cultured and not economical with truth. As for the seashore the surge of humanity was to be seen to be believed and as i stood there i was reminded of Marina beach in Chennai and the sole visit i undertook on a Sunday morning when the rush was palpably low.
On the return journey to Grand Road via Bali Sahi i come across Panda Communication, coming with the facilities of Rail, Air reservation, internet , xerox. Inside the doors are locked. Further away is Jagatguru Ramanuja Acharya Ki Digbijaya Peetha (Ramanuja Kota). What one can see are bushes inside and i don't venture further on this one. A few metres away is Students Point- education-cum-fashion, with the underlining message that all recharge coupons are available here.
As i go past Bali Sahi in Lord Jagannath's Abode, the past few days spent here have been complimented with a query on what prevented me from coming to this place for the past two years. It was September 2009 when i visited Lord Jagannath's home for the first time with a seven-day stay split between two adjoining hotels, chandrama and anjaana, on Gopal Ballav Road. Over a dozen times i would have gone past Gopal Ballav Road, turning right to Gopabandhu Chowk, turning left towards Mochi Sahi Square which finally takes you to Dolamandap Sahi (Temple Road). The walk from Gopal Ballav Road to Lord Jagannath's temple would be under 2kms but enough to turn you down for a while before you started again. September was sultry strong and enough thoughts went into before you tried to step out in late afternoon. Howsoever strong the rush may be inside the temple the happiness quotient visible here has fewer comparables across country.
This time December has been pleasantly cool; and all of a sudden on the last Saturday of the year the humid conditions began to make their way. Post prasadam meals from the temple - for the days stationed here at least once is a must - as i stepped out to go for my routine coffee from a makeshift camp run by a tea/coffee vendor opposite Sea View Hotel i come across sweets and medical centres like Rathi Sweets, Bhai Bhai Sweets and Jagannath Homoeo Sadan on Bali Sahi Road. Further down the road there is Tri Shakti Club, Sri Sri Batalokanath Temple and Radha Ramana Bastralaya. It is just few metres before the road is to merge with the one facing the sea, Swargadwar, there is a tall red structure , Pranavananda Seva Niketan Bharat Sevashram Sangha. It houses accommodation facility. In proximity is the cultural centre and a free reading room. Well no one could be sighted manning the desk either at Accommodation Centre or Free Reading Room as the one supposed to answer queries was expected in the evening.
Prior to visiting the Pranavananda Seva Niketan, i visited the makeshift camp and the vendor was kind enough to hand me a strong coffee. On most of the occasions you come across vendors who outright reject the request for a special tea/coffee. The coffee i took was opposite Sea View hotel Sea Beach, established 1931. Establishment of this Sea View Hotel in 1931 suggests the foresight of the gentleman to raise a structure when India's very freedom story was far from reaching a stage of complete success. 1931 was the year and establishment done under the cloud of colonial fear. The Sea View would have lost count of the number of tourists it would have accommodated and got separated over the years. The other day while i was standing opposite this structure i saw uncountable number of empty beer bottles being loaded by a scrap dealer on his van; and this suggested despite the weather being temperamentally cool the visitors tend to have their share to keep their temperament under check. THe solitary Abode of Lord Jagannath has a Solitary Sea to its credit and solitary may be the numbers here and there who would be taking beer to be in fighting gear.
There are other hotels as well facing the sea and i did not venture out to update myself with the tariff turnaround they have witnessed. It would be nonsensical to get the tariff update when one does not intend to stay on this side of the city. One thing was for sure : Most of the crowd (comprising family) thronging to this place was cultured and not economical with truth. As for the seashore the surge of humanity was to be seen to be believed and as i stood there i was reminded of Marina beach in Chennai and the sole visit i undertook on a Sunday morning when the rush was palpably low.
On the return journey to Grand Road via Bali Sahi i come across Panda Communication, coming with the facilities of Rail, Air reservation, internet , xerox. Inside the doors are locked. Further away is Jagatguru Ramanuja Acharya Ki Digbijaya Peetha (Ramanuja Kota). What one can see are bushes inside and i don't venture further on this one. A few metres away is Students Point- education-cum-fashion, with the underlining message that all recharge coupons are available here.
As i go on Gopal ballabh Road, there is hotel greenway, appayana restaurant (alu parwal kassa for rs 40 and tandoori roti a piece rs 15. hotel parichay, savera restaurant, slew of saloons, regional research institute for homoepathy, hotel chandrama, hotel anjaana and baby lodge.
As you leave mochi sahi square and on temple road is basiram lodge, baikuntha dham lodge, town lodge, baba lodge. On vip road is vip guest house and laxmi narayan guest house.
As you leave mochi sahi square and on temple road is basiram lodge, baikuntha dham lodge, town lodge, baba lodge. On vip road is vip guest house and laxmi narayan guest house.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Tea opposite Lily Cottage
Tea opposite Lily Cottage
It was the tea opposite Lily cottage that gave me the confidence that i could cover some distance on foot. Distances that i have been trying to cover on foot and Krupasandhu Communication opposite the beach i tried on two occasions for cyber bite. The man manning the desk and also serving as priest told me the nagging pain of net being slow and this would dislodge me from seamless flow. Probably the day on Sunday had begun with a visit to the Puri station to get the ticket for the next destination. Shutters were down when i reached there and in evidence was pushing and shoving as shutters were lifted in full glare.
The reservation personnel on counter two was taking his own sweet time to get functional. And the man ahead of me hailing from Odisha and claiming to have settled in Kerala too diagnosed the problem in the same sentiment. Probably the first ticket would have taken some time to be issued but the amount of time it took surely suggested that reservation personnel had some other issues to handle before he could issue the first printout clue. By the time my turn came courtesy a gentleman from the State of West Bengal who offered me his standing position thereby lending me to jump 10 places in ticket queue pump the ticket personnel had some issues with my pan card xerox. I handed him the original to satisfy his query and when the xerox was handed with signature appended he again had issues on how signature had been cemented. I signed again and gave him the requisite change and here on three different occasions he said : " aaj kal sab log governor samajte hai" The signature and its lessening clarity made him issue this statement three times perhaps suggesting that the issue of ticket was never on his mind. This has been the experience of most passengers that whenever they go to a reservation counter to get a ticket issued the reservation personnel is a person occupied with other thoughts and no care.
The ticket was issued for a State beyond Odisha and it came at Eight O One fare. The fare was steep and here i should count my blessings that confirmed ticket was the biggest reap.
The reservation personnel is in a world of his own and given the masses the railways carry you can't fault them for their shinning foam. The return from station to Temple Road was on foot and it was an experience that one should book. Because there are some green cover you pass through and some roads which has traffic few.Going past Station Road, VIP Road it does not take long for one to experience the green cover and the shinning hour.
It was the tea opposite Lily cottage that gave me the confidence that i could cover some distance on foot. Distances that i have been trying to cover on foot and Krupasandhu Communication opposite the beach i tried on two occasions for cyber bite. The man manning the desk and also serving as priest told me the nagging pain of net being slow and this would dislodge me from seamless flow. Probably the day on Sunday had begun with a visit to the Puri station to get the ticket for the next destination. Shutters were down when i reached there and in evidence was pushing and shoving as shutters were lifted in full glare.
The reservation personnel on counter two was taking his own sweet time to get functional. And the man ahead of me hailing from Odisha and claiming to have settled in Kerala too diagnosed the problem in the same sentiment. Probably the first ticket would have taken some time to be issued but the amount of time it took surely suggested that reservation personnel had some other issues to handle before he could issue the first printout clue. By the time my turn came courtesy a gentleman from the State of West Bengal who offered me his standing position thereby lending me to jump 10 places in ticket queue pump the ticket personnel had some issues with my pan card xerox. I handed him the original to satisfy his query and when the xerox was handed with signature appended he again had issues on how signature had been cemented. I signed again and gave him the requisite change and here on three different occasions he said : " aaj kal sab log governor samajte hai" The signature and its lessening clarity made him issue this statement three times perhaps suggesting that the issue of ticket was never on his mind. This has been the experience of most passengers that whenever they go to a reservation counter to get a ticket issued the reservation personnel is a person occupied with other thoughts and no care.
The ticket was issued for a State beyond Odisha and it came at Eight O One fare. The fare was steep and here i should count my blessings that confirmed ticket was the biggest reap.
The reservation personnel is in a world of his own and given the masses the railways carry you can't fault them for their shinning foam. The return from station to Temple Road was on foot and it was an experience that one should book. Because there are some green cover you pass through and some roads which has traffic few.Going past Station Road, VIP Road it does not take long for one to experience the green cover and the shinning hour.
In Lord Jagannath's Abode in Odisha
As i go past Bali Sahi in Lord Jagannath's Abode, the past few days spent here have been complimented with a query on what prevented me from coming to this place for the past two years. It was September 2009 when i visited Lord Jagannath's home for the first time with a seven-day stay split between two adjoining hotels, chandrama and anjaana, on Gopal Ballav Road. Over a dozen times i would have gone past Gopal Ballav Road, turning right to Gopabandhu Chowk, turning left towards Mochi Sahi Square which finally takes you to Dolamandap Sahi (Temple Road). The walk from Gopal Ballav Road to Lord Jagannath's temple would be under 2kms but enough to turn you down for a while before you started again. September was sultry strong and enough thoughts went into before you tried to step out in late afternoon. Howsoever strong the rush may be inside the temple the happiness quotient visible here has fewer comparables across country.
This time December has been pleasantly cool; and all of a sudden on the last Saturday of the year the humid conditions began to make their way. Post prasadam meals from the temple - for the days stationed here at least once is a must - as i stepped out to go for my routine coffee from a makeshift camp run by a tea/coffee vendor opposite Sea View Hotel i come across sweets and medical centres like Rathi Sweets, Bhai Bhai Sweets and Jagannath Homoeo Sadan on Bali Sahi Road. Further down the road there is Tri Shakti Club, Sri Sri Batalokanath Temple and Radha Ramana Bastralaya. It is just few metres before the road is to merge with the one facing the sea, Swargadwar, there is a tall red structure , Pranavananda Seva Niketan Bharat Sevashram Sangha. It houses accommodation facility. In proximity is the cultural centre and a free reading room. Well no one could be sighted manning the desk either at Accommodation Centre or Free Reading Room as the one supposed to answer queries was expected in the evening.
Prior to visiting the Pranavananda Seva Niketan, i visited the makeshift camp and the vendor was kind enough to hand me a strong coffee. On most of the occasions you come across vendors who outright reject the request for a special tea/coffee. The coffee i took was opposite Sea View hotel Sea Beach, established 1931. Establishment of this Sea View Hotel in 1931 suggests the foresight of the gentleman to raise a structure when India's very freedom story was far from reaching a stage of complete success. 1931 was the year and establishment done under the cloud of colonial fear. The Sea View would have lost count of the number of tourists it would have accommodated and got separated over the years. The other day while i was standing opposite this structure i saw uncountable number of empty beer bottles being loaded by a scrap dealer on his van; and this suggested despite the weather being temperamentally cool the visitors tend to have their share to keep their temperament under check. THe solitary Abode of Lord Jagannath has a Solitary Sea to its credit and solitary may be the numbers here and there who would be taking beer to be in fighting gear.
There are other hotels as well facing the sea and i did not venture out to update myself with the tariff turnaround they have witnessed. It would be nonsensical to get the tariff update when one does not intend to stay on this side of the city. One thing was for sure : Most of the crowd (comprising family) thronging to this place was cultured and not economical with truth. As for the seashore the surge of humanity was to be seen to be believed and as i stood there i was reminded of Marina beach in Chennai and the sole visit i undertook on a Sunday morning when the rush was palpably low.
On the return journey to Grand Road via Bali Sahi i come across Panda Communication, coming with the facilities of Rail, Air reservation, internet , xerox. Inside the doors are locked. Further away is Jagatguru Ramanuja Acharya Ki Digbijaya Peetha (Ramanuja Kota). What one can see are bushes inside and i don't venture further on this one. A few metres away is Students Point- education-cum-fashion, with the underlining message that all recharge coupons are available here.
As i go past Bali Sahi in Lord Jagannath's Abode, the past few days spent here have been complimented with a query on what prevented me from coming to this place for the past two years. It was September 2009 when i visited Lord Jagannath's home for the first time with a seven-day stay split between two adjoining hotels, chandrama and anjaana, on Gopal Ballav Road. Over a dozen times i would have gone past Gopal Ballav Road, turning right to Gopabandhu Chowk, turning left towards Mochi Sahi Square which finally takes you to Dolamandap Sahi (Temple Road). The walk from Gopal Ballav Road to Lord Jagannath's temple would be under 2kms but enough to turn you down for a while before you started again. September was sultry strong and enough thoughts went into before you tried to step out in late afternoon. Howsoever strong the rush may be inside the temple the happiness quotient visible here has fewer comparables across country.
This time December has been pleasantly cool; and all of a sudden on the last Saturday of the year the humid conditions began to make their way. Post prasadam meals from the temple - for the days stationed here at least once is a must - as i stepped out to go for my routine coffee from a makeshift camp run by a tea/coffee vendor opposite Sea View Hotel i come across sweets and medical centres like Rathi Sweets, Bhai Bhai Sweets and Jagannath Homoeo Sadan on Bali Sahi Road. Further down the road there is Tri Shakti Club, Sri Sri Batalokanath Temple and Radha Ramana Bastralaya. It is just few metres before the road is to merge with the one facing the sea, Swargadwar, there is a tall red structure , Pranavananda Seva Niketan Bharat Sevashram Sangha. It houses accommodation facility. In proximity is the cultural centre and a free reading room. Well no one could be sighted manning the desk either at Accommodation Centre or Free Reading Room as the one supposed to answer queries was expected in the evening.
Prior to visiting the Pranavananda Seva Niketan, i visited the makeshift camp and the vendor was kind enough to hand me a strong coffee. On most of the occasions you come across vendors who outright reject the request for a special tea/coffee. The coffee i took was opposite Sea View hotel Sea Beach, established 1931. Establishment of this Sea View Hotel in 1931 suggests the foresight of the gentleman to raise a structure when India's very freedom story was far from reaching a stage of complete success. 1931 was the year and establishment done under the cloud of colonial fear. The Sea View would have lost count of the number of tourists it would have accommodated and got separated over the years. The other day while i was standing opposite this structure i saw uncountable number of empty beer bottles being loaded by a scrap dealer on his van; and this suggested despite the weather being temperamentally cool the visitors tend to have their share to keep their temperament under check. THe solitary Abode of Lord Jagannath has a Solitary Sea to its credit and solitary may be the numbers here and there who would be taking beer to be in fighting gear.
There are other hotels as well facing the sea and i did not venture out to update myself with the tariff turnaround they have witnessed. It would be nonsensical to get the tariff update when one does not intend to stay on this side of the city. One thing was for sure : Most of the crowd (comprising family) thronging to this place was cultured and not economical with truth. As for the seashore the surge of humanity was to be seen to be believed and as i stood there i was reminded of Marina beach in Chennai and the sole visit i undertook on a Sunday morning when the rush was palpably low.
On the return journey to Grand Road via Bali Sahi i come across Panda Communication, coming with the facilities of Rail, Air reservation, internet , xerox. Inside the doors are locked. Further away is Jagatguru Ramanuja Acharya Ki Digbijaya Peetha (Ramanuja Kota). What one can see are bushes inside and i don't venture further on this one. A few metres away is Students Point- education-cum-fashion, with the underlining message that all recharge coupons are available here.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Cyber cafes across Kolkata, Kanchipuram
Cyber cafes across Kolkata, Kanchipuram
Cyber cafes across country have different emissions for their customers who troop in at their will. Charges range between 5 and 40 depending on the location and the minutes committed to cyber station. In a place like Kanchipuram, the rate was as low as Rs 5. With a starting rate of Rs 5, translating to at least 15-minute usage in Kanchipuram, the rates hovered between 20 and 40 for an hourly update from a cyber cafegate in Udhagamandalam in Tamil Nadu.
In Kolkata, in areas around Central, College Street, Maouli Junction, S N Bannerjee Road, BB Ganguly Street and Bidhan Sarani, the rates start from 5,8 and 10.
As for the services provided by them, it includes scanning, printing, email, cd writing, dvd writing, mobile downloading and scanning, e-ticketing in rail and flight and fax.
Cyber cafes across country have different emissions for their customers who troop in at their will. Charges range between 5 and 40 depending on the location and the minutes committed to cyber station. In a place like Kanchipuram, the rate was as low as Rs 5. With a starting rate of Rs 5, translating to at least 15-minute usage in Kanchipuram, the rates hovered between 20 and 40 for an hourly update from a cyber cafegate in Udhagamandalam in Tamil Nadu.
In Kolkata, in areas around Central, College Street, Maouli Junction, S N Bannerjee Road, BB Ganguly Street and Bidhan Sarani, the rates start from 5,8 and 10.
As for the services provided by them, it includes scanning, printing, email, cd writing, dvd writing, mobile downloading and scanning, e-ticketing in rail and flight and fax.
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