Posted in Concern, Personal, tagged Bihar, muzaffarpur, travelling, vodafone on April 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Not even a single post in more than a month is clear indication that I have been busy. I have been busy in traveling, doing shopping, reading, writing papers, making presentations, doing financial planning, shifting house, gaining weight.. and what not.
The long pending visit to Bihar happened during this period and it was really an [...]
Posted in Concern, Education, thoughts on March 16, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I read two contrasting articles revealing two different aspects of Indian education system, though most of us are quite aware of the indian education sceanrio, yet these articles made me ponder over them. The first article was a news clipping “36% of scientists at NASA are Indians: Govt survey” and the second one a cover [...]
Posted in Books, Concern, Education on September 16, 2007 | No Comments »
After a long time, got an opportunity to read a Hindi novella ‘Bigade Bachche, Sabse Achhe’ (Spoilt Kids, The best Kids) written by V R Jogi and P G Vaidya. A very simple story (it seems that you are reading a book written for 5th graders), yet a thought provoking story.
This story seriously questions [...]
Posted in Concern, Education on September 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Look at the picture below. No these are not ruins of some neglected heritage site, this is a school (situated just 20-30 kms away from Lucknow) in Uttar Pradesh . So where are the students are teachers. They all were very well there, I could not muster the strength to take the picture of the school when teachers [...]
Posted in Bihar, Concern on July 31, 2007 | 9 Comments »
A girl who made to IIT, could not join as she was not financially capable of paying the admission fee, and none of the banks offered admission loan to her. Read the Story Here.
Nothing new in this considering the banking system and bureaucracy in Bihar. I faced the same problem four years ago, after making [...]
Posted in Concern on June 5, 2007 | No Comments »
If you have kept yourself abreast of recent development on Climate and Global Warming, this is one issue which need to be taken seriously by people at large and not only by environment enthusiasts and activists. Here is what we can do to make a small contribution individually to this big issue. 1. [...]
Posted in Bihar, Blog and Blogging, Concern, Personal on May 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
After 5 years, I got time and opportunity to visit my ancestral place and my provenience. I have spent my early years in this place, which is located 9 kms from GT Road, near UP-Bihar border in Bihar. It is so close to UP that my Hutch SIM was not on roaming though I was [...]
Posted in Blog and Blogging, Concern on February 11, 2007 | 3 Comments »
A milkman was asking 50 paise more than the MRP of a milk packet, and woman protested. No, not that she cannot pay 50 paise extra, but she was just exercising her rights as knowledgable customer and inform the milkman what he was doing was not right. And what followed this!! A sheer act of [...]
Posted in Blog and Blogging, Concern, Personal, thoughts on February 4, 2007 | 20 Comments »
I always wondered why people turn violent, why they want to kill somebody, knowing very well that it is going to ruin their life as well. Life gave me a first hand experience to explore the answer or should I say that enlightened me with answer.
As usual, every weekend I took a train to my [...]
Posted in Concern on July 29, 2006 | No Comments »
The havoc caused by numerous old and outdated non-biodegradable product is really a major concern for the people all across the globe. And this has led to serious efforts being put in making products biodegradable. The following article on Ecofriend provides a list of 10 most innovative biodegradable products in the world. Right from bio-degradable [...]
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