This picture was taken a year ago. The office (Oriental Insurance is just opposite Scandal Point, The Mall, Shimla).
The babus here, seem to be quite punctual and they’ll close shop exactly at 5:00 PM and other days exactly five minutes late. Has anybody tried their timings?
The story wanders into the past to about 10 years ago. So why am I penning it down now? Two reasons – one: There weren’t blogs at that time. If there were, I wasn’t aware of them; two: I got reminded of it recently when I appeared for NET (National Eligibility Test), which would qualify [...]
The only bright part of this route (Shimla to Rohru) is the stretch between Fagu and Theog. Else, my car seemed in shambles and falling apart. Each and every screw, howsoever rusted it was, seemed like falling apart. Many did. Total damage would be finally assessed once I take my car to the mechanic. From [...]
This is not a first hand account. Rather I’ve heard it from different sources. The local MLA (member of legislative assembly) from Jubbal-Kotkhai, Narendra Baragta, recently, at a public rally to appease the common man, announced – “Yeh jo Ching-Ming hai na, jo apne desh mein bade bante hain, yahaan dekho hamaare liye sadak bana [...]
नितिन ने बचपन की याद दिला दी है, सर्दियों की छुट्टियों की बात करके।
वो लिखते हैं: “सर्दियाँ आख़िर आ ही गयीं। इस समय रात का एक बजा है और कडाके की ठण्ड पड़ रही है। इस ठण्ड में आख़िर नींद कहाँ आने वाली है। सोचा क्यों न कुछ लिखा जाए। सर्दियाँ आते ही मुझे [...]
I’ve been missing from this place for long now. Nityin has just inspired me to write something. He wrote a year-round-up on his blog. Well, here’s mine. It’ll be more of personal, rather than a global round-up.
Where do I start? Well, it’s been more than a year now that I’m on medication for depression and [...]
The past week has been eventful. With bad mood, controversies at the job front and some learnings from relationships. Actually, I won’t call it a bad mood. It was kind of numbness, blankness and emptiness – a feeling I’ve had after a long long time. May be a year. May be because I’d been [...]
Shyalli ro goo laago bheda, se de kanda de po hogde. That’s an idiom in our Pahari language, that literally means that a Vaid (a doctor) found out that a Fox’s excreta can be used for a medicine. When the fox came to know about it, she swelled with pride and in her ego, went [...]
I know. It’s been a long time since I posted on this. Well HimVani has been keeping me busy for long and no time left really for my personal ramblings
How does it feel to be under an X-Ray? Once, I was asked to go through it… It was a simple pre-anesthesia checkup…. an X-Ray of the chest… but an X-Ray for an operation of something else.
In a dark room, I patiently waited for my turn… with anxiety if these X-Rays would harm me or [...]