Friday, June 6, 2014

Tapping for the past three and a half years, making us live in fear

Tapping for the past three and a half years, making us live in fear

Conversations which we can't have in any room and movements that remain restricted, the agenda pursued in the past three and a half years by those supposed to maintain law and order is highly unethical and irresponsible. For the past three and a half years,tapping from adjoining house has been the mandate with a never-ending urge to create commotion here and there. Commotion with different patterns which a normal man would find it difficult to take in his stride and that too for such a long time.  A normal conversation which anyone would have cherished and a seamless movement inside the house which we would have desired has not come about.

We dread to think of what the man or different men during different duty hours from adjoining house would resort to if we don't comply to their diktats. They had a free reign during the raising of a new structure, the amount of fear and commotion they delivered us would have fewer parallels.   If we raise our voice against injustice being handed to us on a platter, they air their disapproval through much-depleted water supply. If that is not all, they ask outsiders to seek more water, more than four to five times a day, to make us believe that there is no getting away from their acts which are entirely inhuman. You see the outsiders can give tough times to old members of our household. Mark my words, the amount of water you ask them to waste and thereby give sleepless nights to old people here, the same commodity you won't find in abundance elsewhere. If that is one act, this is followed by banging the floor above our rooms during odd hours, the attempt is to create an atmosphere of fear.

We have never been in argumentative spell with anyone in the lane despite they provoking a delivery boy, vegetable vendor here or a courierwallah there  From adjoining house, they decide when to send delivery boys, whom to employ in banging the gate and the door and when to raise commotion here and there. A simple courierwallah task also they make it look dreadful with banging the gate during odd hours or pressing bells without a break. There would be scores of vendors working in the lane. They have a right to livelihood. But there are some whom they employ with no hesitation to give us trouble. Every time we went to bathroom during morning hours, these men would send this vendor upstairs who would scream and shout. How can one justify this act that when we are passing motion say at 8 in the morning or 11 in the morning that very moment this vendor would pass through bathroom and not before that or after that. We had to literally persuade the vendor to let us complete the bathroom formalities and how come he had to pass through the bathroom only at that time when we are in the bathroom.

Different men during different duty hours who are engaged in the task of tapping and tailing define the time when we should go to sleep and the time when we should leave the bed. Even a foray to a bathroom during night hours can spell trouble as each and every movement they tail. We dread to think of their conduct and what shape and provocative colour it would take in the next coming hour (in the next coming hour). From early morning to late night, not a single minute passes when they don't tap and in the process making our lives difficult. Tapping has been one among different instruments they have employed to make us repeatedly beg to them for peace and any ruckus in any part of the country if ever it takes place, one can understand their role and commitment. Otherwise who is bothered about whom and why would anyone create a stir here or a stir there unless told by them. 

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Ride to Prasanthi Nilayam

Ride to Prasanthi Nilayam


On A Saturday left for Prasanthi Nilayam with hopping across four different buses looking to be a more reasonable way to approach the station. At Nizamuddin station, the earlier arrangement of getting the current status of seat availability from ground floor has been done away with and in store is a window counter on first floor with no display status on trains and the berths available. You can only know the status once your turn comes, not before that. SEcond, the govt run canteen is not to be found and whatever little you would like to take, one has to settle for a private restaurant whose charges are exorbitant. This is happening in national capital what to talk of other cities and towns in tier I and tier II. The loo too has been moved further away on platform one and during late evenings it cannot be safe for women. At least the loo should have been equidistant on platform one.

The Bangalore bound train left Delhi at 8.50 pm , with seat number 37 taken by me as the lad opposite mine had taken 39. Having been allotted 39 i preferred to stick to 37. Amongst those closeby comprised a family and some preferring to spell out their  B Tech status. Mathura coming at  10.05 and Jhansi coming at 1.26. This time round i could not find any interesting character like Gomes working in Kitchen Department in Dubai whom i came across during my return journey from Chennai. Bina coming at 3.05 am, it presented a picture of India with the platform chock a block with passengers, most of them sleeping on floor. MNREGA has been of limited success with no effective checks and balances and this is just an illustration of that. If MNREGA had effective checks and balances, the wages meant for eligible people would have been delivered solely to them. More effective checks and balances needed. Not less than three hundred to four hundred passengers were on that platform during that point of time. Bhopal coming at 4.26, surprise of surprises, the train left before the schedule time. Betul at 7.35am, Amla 7.51, Hatnapur 8.07, Chichonda at 8. 11 and Nagpur at 10.25. Fruit vendors at Nagpur station could be seen doing brisk business. As the train pulled out of nagpur station, there is a blue colour structure followed in the same line by a series of appartments. Would returns come, it is hard to spell.
This was followed by semi pucca houses, which should be made sturdy and letting the residents stay should be the mandate. Then there was Narayana Vidyalaya, hoping fee would be less here.

Nagpur cricket stadium came after 15 minutes from station. Warora came at 12.30.  Before Warora long tracts of land not irrigable could be sighted and post Warora somewhat irrigable template could be seen and equal attempt being made for the same.

Majri station at 12. 41 and Ramagundam at 3.11

Majri station comes at 12.41 with a station after this that is fairly clean, Sirpur Kaghaz at  2.30, Manchiryal at 2.50, Pedamppet at 3.09 and Ramagundam at 3.11. From here fairly green belt.
Well nothing much could be said about the family carrying a kid, the JNUTU lad opposite me looked to be dipping in the non veg preparation with bare hands and with the same taking the curd, perhaps nothing to differentiate between the two. Another man who too seemed to have passed out from JNUTU spoke about the meet the PSU he worked in had organised in the national capital and they were made to stay in Surya, a five star hotel  at a much lower rate given it is yearly arrangement between the company and the hotel. That reminded me of struggling template of these five star hotels and the Kashmir Food Festival that was organised in the national capital in a five star hotel in Nehru Place. If Kashmir food charm is to be spread then during the course of festival at least 500 coupons each day should be set aside where commoner can take the grub at a price between 50 and 70 rs. Let the spread be limited but let there be the temptation of having the same.   This would do a world of good than just having 100 odd people each day.  

Secundarabad at 6.10
Kazipet came some time after 4.10 followed by Secundarabad at 6.10. Here one man from which coach of the same train he emerged God knows who insisted on coming with me to a nearby temple was not a good experience. Perhaps a better judgement i could not make at that point of time. Now the JNUTU lad had been replaced by an old lady who took pride in the fact that his son worked in an IT company. The way she was feting her grandson, offering chocolates, biscuits, mineral water and cool drinks (in the South people prefer to call cool drinks and in the north it is called cold drinks) every other minute and the way it was left half eaten and even the train food showed the disrespect they have for food and money. She herself left the food half eaten. IT Company does not teach you to show disrespect to food and money. Dharmavaram coming at 3.35 am and Prasanthi Nilayam between 4 .10 and 4.15. TTE Nagaraj was fairly cooperative and his stint in the railways has been good for either side.

The ride to Prasanthi Nilayam was ok except for the fact that it takes almost two nights to reach there from national capital.


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Friday, May 16, 2014

Ride to Prasanthi Nilayam

The ride to Prasanthi Nilayam

On A Saturday left for Prasanthi Nilayam with hopping across four different buses looking to be a more reasonable way to approach the station. At Nizamuddin station, the earlier arrangement of getting the current status of seat availability from ground floor has been done away with and in store is a window counter on first floor with no display status on trains and the berths available. You can only know the status once your turn comes, not before that. SEcond, the govt run canteen is not to be found and whatever little you would like to take, one has to settle for a private restaurant whose charges are exorbitant. This is happening in national capital what to talk of other cities and towns in tier I and tier II. The loo too has been moved further away on platform one and during late evenings it cannot be safe for women. At least the loo should have been equidistant on platform one.

The Bangalore bound train left Delhi at 8.50 pm , with seat number 37 taken by me as the lad opposite mine had taken 39. Having been allotted 39 i preferred to stick to 37. Amongst those closeby comprised a family and some preferring to spell out their  B Tech status. Mathura coming at  10.05 and Jhansi coming at 1.26. This time round i could not find any interesting character like Gomes working in Kitchen Department in Dubai whom i came across during my return journey from Chennai. Bina coming at 3.05 am, it presented a picture of India with the platform chock a block with passengers, most of them sleeping on floor. MNREGA has been of limited success with no effective checks and balances and this is just an illustration of that. If MNREGA had effective checks and balances, the wages meant for eligible people would have been delivered solely to them. More effective checks and balances needed. Not less than three hundred to four hundred passengers were on that platform during that point of time. Bhopal coming at 4.26, surprise of surprises, the train left before the schedule time. Betul at 7.35am, Amla 7.51, Hatnapur 8.07, Chichonda at 8. 11 and Nagpur at 10.25. Fruit vendors at Nagpur station could be seen doing brisk business. As the train pulled out of nagpur station, there is a blue colour structure followed in the same line by a series of appartments. Would returns come, it is hard to spell.
This was followed by semi pucca houses, which should be made sturdy and letting the residents stay should be the mandate. Then there was Narayana Vidyalaya, hoping fee would be less here.

Nagpur cricket stadium came after 15 minutes from station. Warora came at 12.30.  Before Warora long tracts of land not irrigable could be sighted and post Warora somewhat irrigable template could be seen and equal attempt being made for the same.

Majri station at 12. 41 and Ramagundam at 3.11

Majri station comes at 12.41 with a station after this that is fairly clean, Sirpur Kaghaz at  2.30, Manchiryal at 2.50, Pedamppet at 3.09 and Ramagundam at 3.11. From here fairly green belt.
Well nothing much could be said about the family carrying a kid, the JNUTU lad opposite me looked to be dipping in the non veg preparation with bare hands and with the same taking the curd, perhaps nothing to differentiate between the two. Another man who too seemed to have passed out from JNUTU spoke about the meet the PSU he worked in had organised in the national capital and they were made to stay in Surya, a five star hotel  at a much lower rate given it is yearly arrangement between the company and the hotel. That reminded me of struggling template of these five star hotels and the Kashmir Food Festival that was organised in the national capital in a five star hotel in Nehru Place. If Kashmir food charm is to be spread then during the course of festival at least 500 coupons each day should be set aside where commoner can take the grub at a price between 50 and 70 rs. Let the spread be limited but let there be the temptation of having the same.   This would do a world of good than just having 100 odd people each day.

Secundarabad at 6.10
Kazipet came some time after 4.10 followed by Secundarabad at 6.10. Here one man from which coach of the same train he emerged God knows who insisted on coming with me to a nearby temple was not a good experience. Perhaps a better judgement i could not make at that point of time. Now the JNUTU lad had been replaced by an old lady who took pride in the fact that his son worked in an IT company. The way she was feting her grandson, offering chocolates, biscuits, mineral water and cool drinks (in the South people prefer to call cool drinks and in the north it is called cold drinks) every other minute and the way it was left half eaten and even the train food showed the disrespect they have for food and money. She herself left the food half eaten. IT Company does not teach you to show disrespect to food and money. Dharmavaram coming at 3.35 am and Prasanthi Nilayam between 4 .10 and 4.15. TTE Nagaraj was fairly cooperative and his stint in the railways has been good for either side.

The ride to Prasanthi Nilayam was ok except for the fact that it takes almost two nights to reach there from national capital.

Normal lives we could lead not bound by those hearing every piece of conversation

In homes we can't speak, the rooms where we can't go as cameras are all over there. This has to stop and snooping has to stop. Everybody looks to peace and small rents than let them create nuisance.


Sightings in Ajmer Part II

 - Udai Guest house
- Sanjri Guest House
- Sunil Kumar Guest House
- Faluda Mix Icecream
- Kaayanat Guest House
- Mahaveer Marg (the lane going inside)
- Tamanna Manzil
- Anjum Guest House
- K M C Chinese Food Point
- A One Guest House
- Aaina Music Mahal
- Allah Rakha Studio
- Altaf Studio
- National Electronic Store
- Cool'n'fun parlour
- Garib Nawaz Sweets
- Jamalpur House
- Dewandas Kirana Merchant
- Ashok Cap Store
- Siddiqui Communications &Travels STD ISD PCO
- Khwaja Sweet Mart
- Momin Sweet Mart
- Darbar sweets
- Haji Flower shop
- Burraq Guest House
- Rauf Flower Corner
- KGN Photo
- Bharat Guest House
 Inside Mahaveer Marg one can seek tea from Kishore Tea Stall and milk from JK Bakery.

These sightings were primarily in and around Dargah Bazaar Road

In Kacheri Road

- Shree Number Plate ( the man sitting outside the shop a picture of consolation)
- Modern Internet Cafe (this cafe came handy when ticket could not be procured from railway station        window)
- Irfan Pathan, Peanut vendor
- Kishan, the paper Vendor

During different walks in and around the city had a chance to meet different people coming from different regions. Gulabi maharaj from bhardona village had come for meditation session and mohan, a tea seller, bravely putting up against extreme weather, could be sighted near Ajmer Press Club. Had a chance to meet Abdul Gafoor from Kutch. From Gandhidham, about 40 kms ahead is Bhuj and 100kms away is Rann of Kutch. As for the route that his team took to reach Ajmer, they went past Kutch, Unjha, Kapasari, Sarwar Sharief and Chittorgarh before reaching Ajmer. Also met abdul razzaq, earlier providing water in and around the dargah. His two sons working in shops was all that he could spell at that moment.

In the city meeting sheikh mukhtar who has been running a  furniture shop in mandi mola in Mysore. The stay in the city was ok except for a stray incident here and there. Only in extreme cases one should lengthen the stay beyond a day as one never knows when those who are supposed to show their power pitch can make a grand entry as they have been doing in a lane in national capital.Tapping and placing camera is their overwhelming assignment doing for reasons best known to them . Every word you speak, every movement you make they record each and every act coming on the back of support of fewer elements who are on their pay rolls.

Sightings in Ajmer

From Delhi Gate

The stay in Ajmer was spread over four days with a need to check into a new lodge as and when the need arose. While taking a stroll towards Hotel Regency, the sightings i came across were encouraging enough to note the same. Here a special mention needs to be made of Man Singh and Hanuman Singh of Regency who were a treat to speak to. Roopji whom i could not meet has been doing fairly well in his hotel endeavour as spelled by one Ramesh attached to the same hotel.

Sightings in Ajmer

- Hotel Regency (meet azghar hussain a cloth vendor outside regency)
- Qadri Hotel
- Novelty Guest House
- Karishma GH
- Manish cycle works
- new zameel hotel
- hotel gareeb nawaz
- surat bhojanalaya
- jai bhole juice centre
- roopmahal guest house
- ticketvala sainath tours and travels
- chistia palace
- peer mehta gali on left and soon after this lane is gujarat tea stall
- moon star
- s k telecom
- jody shoes
- srinath marble
- abbas palace

Further ahead are
- kgn fancy store
- hotel mannat palace
- mayur bag house
- dhan mandi
- hotel mittal enterprise
- heer ranjha bags
- hotel sahiba palace
- muskan guest house
- Pt. badri narayan prasad sweets pvt ltd
- hotel patni palace
- sethi investments

- hotel sukh sagar
- jyoti garments (they come handy for fabric in a reasonable range)
- hotel shahanshah
- sagar footwear
- anand music centre
- kgn perfumers gharib nawaz perfumers
- hotel delhi darbar
- hotel vassumal
- shalimar guest house (As against this structure the stay in Hyderabad House in the same road on a previous   occasion was comforting)
- jaleel guest house
- hotel kamal palace
- hyderabad guest house