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Dada Electric Bike Hoi Neki?

There is talk about electric mobility & EV’s all around the world in recent times. Some experts are of the opinion that eventually all hydrocarbon fuel engines are going to be shelved to pave the way for electric mobility and related technology.I gave into this temptation “to go electric” and bought an electric two wheeler a few months back. Initially, I was not very confident of the vehicle’s…

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Alien phenomena & Why me?

Alien phenomena & Why me?

There are some pictures in my memory that sometimes ‘needs’ to be blogged about.. the first account is of a sudden burst of greenish blue light, a flash of intense cosmic daylight lasting for a few seconds as it dimmed out gradually on a clear moonless night. I was stargazing as usual, and the light intrigued me very much for a few days and months there after. I had heard stories and accounts of…

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Dog is Biology

At school, biology class was an endless repetition of names and minute parts of the living world. I found it very boring as a subject though my curiosity for plants and animals never diminished due to it. Fast forward to the present when I have learnt that biology is indeed a very interesting subject and that animal behaviour and animal psychological studies are in a nascent to non-existent…

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Book Review - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Book Review – The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Shoshana Zuboff I admit that am fond of ‘true’ horror stories & literature that makes your palms sweat as you turn page after page of spooky content, engrossed and without being able to keep the work down. Shoshana Zuboff’s – The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a true work on technology horror. Yes I know, readers cringe at the very word ‘surveillance’, adding Capitalism only makes a monster…

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Main Bhi Kisan (I too am a farmer)

Main Bhi Kisan (I too am a farmer)

Local guardians were leaving their farms for good & shifting to the city in large numbers in tractors, trucks & lorries.. at least that was what it appeared when I first set foot last Sunday at Tikri Border, a protest site near Delhi which has been a camping ground to more than a fifty thousand farmers sitting in resistance against the Indian Government since last December. But as you might have…

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My Dihydrogenoxygen nightmare

Sharks!! Today they have swooped down from the skies and are circling above the palm trees outside. The smaller ones are forcing themselves through windows & ventilation, into old abandoned buildings.. searching & smelling food, rotting carcasses in brine. A school of blue whales has blocked the sunlight from reaching below, playing high above.. in the sky? The sky is not visible anymore! Some…

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All That I Eat

All That I Eat

“You are among the top twenty percent eatery reviewers on Google maps,” a cold Google alert that I received recently left me perplexed. Really? That red pill? But I had only soft drinks & pop corn while watching The Matrix. How come I have to free my mind to accept the truth? But I did achieve a Level 7 badge of honour for my Google maps reviews but that achievement is no cause for bragging…

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Doon Valley in Videos

Doon Valley in Videos

Some video clips that I had shot while trekking at Mussoorie & while visiting the Forest Research Institute. Compiled them into two video shorts presented here. Thank You for watching! Like & Comment with your feedback! A Day at Mussoorie A Day at the Forest Research Institute, Dehradun.

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Dehradun - Glimpses from Someone Who Has Nothing Else to do

Dehradun – Glimpses from Someone Who Has Nothing Else to do

The previous day’s conquests had lifted my spirits to a great extent which pushed me into my second day of adventures even though my body felt like a log of timber after a night of heavy sleep. Doing some early morning maths in my head to visit maximum spots of interest in the city with the time at hand, I finally decided to trek as long as I kept finding Pokemon, my objects of photographic…

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Backpacking at Mussoorie II

Backpacking at Mussoorie II

The morning air was cool & chilly but it was bearable as it cancelled out with the body heat I generated due to the trek with 8 Kgs of weight on my backpack. My trek also provided me an opportunity to test my cardio-vascular & skeleto-muscular systems for my body’s peak performance limits. The winding streets had seats at every corner for passerby’s like me, who exhausted from walking may take a…

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Backpacking at Mussoorie I

Backpacking at Mussoorie I

It was not at someone’s invite that I decided to backpack at Mussoorie & Dehradun on the 15th & 16th of March, 2021. These places & a couple other places had entered into my personal ‘Places to Visit’ list & ‘To do’ list long ago and I as a fact I had not been waiting for any kind of divine motivation for a visit. After some initial googling I boarded a bus to Dehradun from Delhi & took a…

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Tech Thoughts & Programing

Tech Thoughts & Programing

Tech Thoughts & Programing Programing a computer is the art or science of feeding instructions into its memory so that we can get a desired output or result for which we fed it the code. Most of the time the instructions have to follow set patterns of composition so that the machine understands what the instructions stand for & what to do with the information it has been fed. In a future, perfect…

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Jantar Mantar (Machine Consultant)

Jantar Mantar (Machine Consultant)

Delhi is home to a number of historical monuments that have been ode to love, death, power, lunacy, science, astronomy, etc. Of all these structures the Jantar Mantar stands as an interesting though weird symbol of architecture, mathematics & sky watching. Built by King Jai Singh of Rajasthan, these architectures are actually huge machines (jantra, yantra) that he used to consult (mantar, mantra)…

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Ugrasen Ki Baoli (Ugrasen's Step Well)

Ugrasen Ki Baoli (Ugrasen’s Step Well)

It has remained a curiosity for me since I had first seen pictures of the structure in some magazine pages while in school. I had read in history books that ancient kings made water tanks, planted trees for shade, etc. But the Ugrasen ki Baoli (Agrasen ki Baoli) and similar structures of step wells were beyond my logic of understanding as to why such massive multistoried wells at all? I…

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Miyah Poetry III?

My last poem of this poetry series. It is a difficult mindset to be wearing the shoes of the deprived & the downtrodden when the reality is vastly different.

I Shy Eunuchs

(Poem dedicated to bunch of eunuchs who pride of their condition & amuze themselves with double the nature’s gifts. Why eunuchs, you might ask, because nature has made us the way we are.)

I say, my sisterhood is strongest,

With…

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Miyah Poetry II?

In my search for the Miyah identity as a poet, I come across stories of poaching & other stories in the mainstream media. Here is my second attempt at Miyah poetry as a dacoit & a poacher.

The Highwayman Trader

(A dacoit poacher dreams to make an ultimate kill of an animal, an enlightened tree & trade its body parts to interested parties)

I wish to sit on a branch of an enlightened tree,

That I…

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Miyah Poetry II?

In my search for the Miyah identity as a poet, I come across stories of poaching & other stories in the mainstream media. Here is my second attempt at Miyah poetry as a dacoit & a poacher.

The Highwayman Trader

(A dacoit poacher dreams to make an ultimate kill of an animal, an enlightened tree & trade its body parts to interested parties)

I wish to sit on a branch of an enlightened tree,

That I…