Category: Memoirs
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पंगत का खाना – रोमांच और शुरुआती सीख
बात उन दिनों की है जब मैं स्कूल में पढ़ता था। उन दिनों मैं अपने गृह-नगर कोटा में रहता था। वहाँ मुझे अक्सर किसी शादी-समारोह में जाने का अवसर मिलता था। जैसे ही कहीं खाने का न्योता मिलता, तो मैं रोमांचित हो जाता। सोचता आज तो बढ़िया पकवान मिलेंगे- जैसे श्रीखंड, बाफला, पुलाओ, लहसुन की…
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9/11- the day that shook the entire world!
As a little kid studying in 6th standard, I was keenly watching the news on TV of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in the New York City on 11th Sep, 2001. The event was telecasted again and again on the news channels and it was really a horrific sight to see the…
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Riding on the road- The biker’s paradise!
For some, the journey doesn’t matter, but only the destination. For some, the destination doesn’t matter, only journey does. For some, both don’t matter. And for others, the journey and destination both matter. Here, I will talk about the last category of people, as I belong to this one. Bike riding on the road, is…
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My first lesson of paper money and its worthlessness- in 6th class school fete!
Growing as a kid, I was fascinated with the quizzes and the games and the competitions that were organized in my school and also in the colony that we used to live in, in a nondescript town of Shahjahanpur in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Once, I saw a 7th standard guy making some money…
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Is language the correct and only marker of one’s intelligence and wisdom?
Once we were a group of probationers having a good time in the swimming pool in Jamshedpur GT Hostel 1. We were from engineering side (B.Tech. graduates) and there were a few others who were from commercial side (MBA grads). There was one MBA chap who was flaunting his English skills even inside the pool,…
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Lessons from the mountain trek
Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to climb Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world, remarked that “It is not the mountain that we conquer, but ourselves”. Looking back at my trek experience at the Hampta pass (situated at a height of 14,100 ft above sea level), I cannot agree more with Mr. Hillary.…
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Vanished in a second! When passion is more powerful than even life!
The Ferrari boys who gave up their life for racing Peter Collins- gone too soon…. Image courtesy: Museums Worcestershire Yes, that’s what it takes to take your life- just one second! Things move here and there, bizarre and unexpected, and wooooshhhh!!!! Before you could even think what happened, life’s gone out of the mortal body!…
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The legend of Bansal Sir of Kota- Part 2
This was the target sheet that I got when I started my journey of 2 years in 2006 with the Bansal Classes, as I entered 11th standard. Look at the dates carefully- TARGET JEE 2008, which was our sole aim at that point of time in life. Although I lost this sheet, but somehow got…
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Bottom-up approach to the human rights!
Source: United Nations website Yesterday, on 10th December, it was the International Human Rights Day. The theme chosen by the United Nations this year was- “Human Rights, Our Everyday Essentials”. There was a beautiful conference organized by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) at Bharat Mandapam to commemorate the occasion. The Chief Guest, the Hon’ble…
