Hey folks, I am still alive. After a prolonged unexpected gap, I have found bit of time to get back to my niche. Its a nostalgic feeling when I have a look into my blog, just takes me back to the time when I used to spend a dozen of hours everyday in front of my system. Once I have got into the corporate hub, I just got screwed with work and I feel happy that somehow I could find some time now. I am currently working on a couple of projects which makes me hop often from Indore to Mumbai and vice versa. Working late hours, and stretched at both ends, now I feel I have got imbibed into the corporate life. I hope I would be able to proceed with putting my thoughts into words more often.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
A World In Motion...
I wasn't required to spend time in deciding this title for the post. It is the name of the event I am talking about here, and with which I am associated with. The concept is good, and I found it relevant as well.
A World In Motion (AWIM)
This curriculum joins together teachers, students, and industry volunteers in an exploration of physical science while addressing essential mathematic and scientific concepts and skills. Industry volunteers play an essential role in motivating the next generation to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math by bringing their everyday experiences into an AWIM classroom.
This curriculum joins together teachers, students, and industry volunteers in an exploration of physical science while addressing essential mathematic and scientific concepts and skills. Industry volunteers play an essential role in motivating the next generation to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math by bringing their everyday experiences into an AWIM classroom.
The abandoned citizens of Mumbai...
My current project office in Mumbai for SAP implementation is on Reay Road.
Reay Road Railway Station on harbour line is a landmark and a heritage railway station in Mumbai. But I doubt if one can get that sort of feeling on going there. Probably most of us who visit Mumbai, would not have heard of this place, forget about visiting it. But me visiting it the first time popped sever
What I saw there was another portrait of an underdeveloped Mumbai, where you see no signs of proper living conditions. So what seemed to be restricted to known areas, like Dharavi and Byculla, is definitely not the case.
Since the beginning of the city, slums have been a part of Mumbai’s landscape, posturing as festering wounds on a civic space. When you land or take off from the Mumbai airport, you get a good glimpse of the habitat.
Often we hear and read about plans to clear Mumbai, and provide housing to the slum-dwellers. But this looks like an intractable task to me. The reason being, that a place like Dharavi can be considered for redevelopment because it would be an striking proposition for the builders, but there are a whole lot of others which are along the roadsides, railway tracks or on footpaths. There is no money to be made there, so it would not attract the builder. The government also has been benign with their approach to the issue of slums and their proliferation.
With these pictures of Reay Road, which are still a lot “human” as compared to what I actually witnessed but could not gather the courage to photograph, you would see that the appalling sores on the cityscape speak volumes of the fortitude of people. They are also the rightful citizens of the city, but have been left abandoned with their fate.
It needs a conscience, a tremendous political will and the mindset of non-slum dwellers to get rid of this inhuman state of living, which is a blot on Indian civilisation.
Reay Road Railway Station on harbour line is a landmark and a heritage railway station in Mumbai. But I doubt if one can get that sort of feeling on going there. Probably most of us who visit Mumbai, would not have heard of this place, forget about visiting it. But me visiting it the first time popped sever
What I saw there was another portrait of an underdeveloped Mumbai, where you see no signs of proper living conditions. So what seemed to be restricted to known areas, like Dharavi and Byculla, is definitely not the case.
Since the beginning of the city, slums have been a part of Mumbai’s landscape, posturing as festering wounds on a civic space. When you land or take off from the Mumbai airport, you get a good glimpse of the habitat.
Often we hear and read about plans to clear Mumbai, and provide housing to the slum-dwellers. But this looks like an intractable task to me. The reason being, that a place like Dharavi can be considered for redevelopment because it would be an striking proposition for the builders, but there are a whole lot of others which are along the roadsides, railway tracks or on footpaths. There is no money to be made there, so it would not attract the builder. The government also has been benign with their approach to the issue of slums and their proliferation.
With these pictures of Reay Road, which are still a lot “human” as compared to what I actually witnessed but could not gather the courage to photograph, you would see that the appalling sores on the cityscape speak volumes of the fortitude of people. They are also the rightful citizens of the city, but have been left abandoned with their fate.
It needs a conscience, a tremendous political will and the mindset of non-slum dwellers to get rid of this inhuman state of living, which is a blot on Indian civilisation. Monday, November 2, 2009
At last, I rode my new bike...
October 31, 2009. Finally relaxed my nerves of excitement to ride my bike.
Well, to inform everyone, I have cleared the clouds of confusion of which bike to take by eventually buying a Hero Honda Hunk - a strong muscular black coloured beast.
Now I am not writing this post to elaborate on how my bike looks, or how good it is. But if I say that I got the bike on 21st October, but did not ride it for 10 full days, you would surely look at me with surprise. But that is the truth.
Actually my Mumbai trip from 22nd, and thereafter me going down with cold and cough made me reach this long waiting period. My hands were itching to get hold of the grip, and go zooming out for a long long ride. And when it ws Saturday approaching, I knew that finally the wait was about to be over.
It was bliss. The feel and ownership of a new bike is surely amazing. It might be short-lived, but at least in the initial few months, I am going to relish and cherish it like a treasure. (For 10 days, it was covered with a bedsheet and tied with a rope to prevent dust from settling on it.)
And to my relief, Sumit also approved, after his ways of testing, that the bike is nice. :)
Well, to inform everyone, I have cleared the clouds of confusion of which bike to take by eventually buying a Hero Honda Hunk - a strong muscular black coloured beast.
Now I am not writing this post to elaborate on how my bike looks, or how good it is. But if I say that I got the bike on 21st October, but did not ride it for 10 full days, you would surely look at me with surprise. But that is the truth.
Actually my Mumbai trip from 22nd, and thereafter me going down with cold and cough made me reach this long waiting period. My hands were itching to get hold of the grip, and go zooming out for a long long ride. And when it ws Saturday approaching, I knew that finally the wait was about to be over.
It was bliss. The feel and ownership of a new bike is surely amazing. It might be short-lived, but at least in the initial few months, I am going to relish and cherish it like a treasure. (For 10 days, it was covered with a bedsheet and tied with a rope to prevent dust from settling on it.)
And to my relief, Sumit also approved, after his ways of testing, that the bike is nice. :)
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