October 4, 2020

A Trip to Dhanaulti Hill Station

It was in December 2012. Continual rains for two days lashed Dehradun and Mussoorie hills. The temperature plummeted to freezing point and there was a snowfall in the Dhanaulti. Dhanaulti is a hill station about 30 km from the popular hill station of Mussoorie in Uttarakhand State of India. It is situated at an altitude of 2286 meters, and is known for its quiet environs amidst the alpine forests of Deodar, Rhododendron and Oak. We planned to visit the place after 3 days of the snowfall. We did not expect to see any snow as we thought it would have… Read More »A Trip to Dhanaulti Hill Station

A Visit to Goa

We went to Goa, once upon a time Portuguese dominion, and now a state within Indian Union. in 1510 Portuguese who were in India for trade took control of Goa and ruled it for 450 years. It is admixture of Konkani and Portuguese cultures. Everyone knows that alien powers came to India for its resources like fabled spices of Kerala where Vasco da Gama set his foot and set the process of rat race for the natural wealth of India. Spreading Christianity was the another motive, although it was never their intention to treat the converted locals as their equals.… Read More »A Visit to Goa

School

When I go for morning walk, usually it is between quarter to six and eight of clock, there are few sticklers like me, CSIF jawans who have to assemble for morning exercises and some students, and working people going to Mumbai in the buses. On the whole that is all that is there. But situation is changing very rapidly and scene is also getting for a change. Far away in the East, darkness is is giving way to the day and there is darkness is fading fast. It is becoming reddish in the East. The street sodium lights seem to… Read More »School

Question Paper of Life Exam

Each life is unique. Each living entity is different from the other. Take the physical appearances for example. There are so many outwardly parts of the body which can have different shapes and permutations and combinations are endless. And this makes each individual unique. Nature does not seem to be using assembly line system of production but takes pains to create variations in individual parts to create a different individual every time. In fact, the natural phenomena favors distinctions. Even the products created in a assembly line begin to take different identities through their interaction with the user. Two cars… Read More »Question Paper of Life Exam