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Year of Two Thousand and Eleven

Gaurav — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:00:58 +0000

2011 has been a turning point in history. Some of the important events from 2011: Earth’s population reached 7 Billion Tax exempt F1 course and 685 crore park built in Noida under Mayawati’s supervision, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. Protests for Lokpal bill were initiated and led by Anna Hazare. Congress (I) party targeted …

पूर्णिमा

Gaurav — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 04:00:48 +0000

चांदनी ने आँखों पर दस्तक दी जब ढूंढ रहे थे ख्वाब में वो चेहरा चाँद में वो तेज़ थी, वो चमक थी — जैसे खुश था उसका चेहरा ज़रूर आज ख़ास एक मॉस बाद वो उनसे मिल के आया है वेग से उड़ता हुआ आया — कोई तो पैग़ाम वहां से लाया है परन्तु शब्दों में क्षमता …

Valentine’s Day 2011

Gaurav — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:58:54 +0000

So things are coming together for Egypt, economy is recovering, weather is getting warmer and people are eating away Hershey™ and Lindt™ chocolates on Valentine’s Day — everything looks better with fuzzy teddy bears holding red hearts but here’s excerpt from National Geographic’s article on the mechanics of this day’s traditions: Today’s relatively tame Valentine’s …

Ideals

Gaurav — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:49:37 +0000

I have failed to find a one ultimately perfect ideal. Instead, I have many ideals who are, as I believe, great and consistent at their tasks or at certain virtues. One such ideal may not be exemplary for me as a whole but I keep incorporating an ideal goal for myself from such various partial …

René Descartes

Gaurav — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:21:05 +0000

“Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. And in this it is not …

The Other One

Gaurav — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 02:52:31 +0000

Mesmerized in a midnight dream — my rendezvous with a beautiful stranger Heavenly white light falling on my face became a bother Opened my eyes smiling upon the enchanting encounter No, she did not appear to me as an angel The moon was full and shone just at the right angle

Kalidas / कालिदास

Gaurav — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:10:48 +0000

“How explain a reputation that maintains itself indefinitely and that conquers a new continent after a lapse of thirteen hundred years? None can explain it, yet certain contributory causes can be named. No other poet in any land has sung of happy love between man and woman as Kalidasa sang. Every one of his works …

The asteroid is coming!

Gaurav — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 18:25:54 +0000

“The asteroid is coming! You don't say “where do we put my food reserves?” I don't want that to be your first thought, your first thought should be: “how can we deflect this?” You need engineers and scientists around you to figure that one out. You build a society without them, you are going to …

शिमला के सफ़र का एक मंज़र

Gaurav — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:54:40 +0000

“सर्दी थी और कोहरा था और सुबह की बस आधी आँख खुली थी, आधी नींद में थी! शिमला से जब नीचे आते एक पहाड़ी के कोने में बस्ते जितनी बस्ती थी – इक बटवे जितना मंदिर था, साथ लगी मस्जिद, वो भी लॉकिट जितनी। नींद भरी दो बाहों जैसे, मस्जिद के मीनार गले में मन्दिर …

Things Aren’t Always What They Seem

Gaurav — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:04:46 +0000

Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion’s guest room. Instead the angels were given a space in the cold basement. As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw …