Going Home

Exam finished just now.....not very good not too bad...
leaving for home now(weekend)...will be back on August 15, that is Independence day...so looking forward to enjoy these 3-4 days..:))

exam time...

So...its exam time again..with same frenzy of not preparing anything in time and trying to study whatever i can...anyway...that will be over in three days only that is tuesday to thursday and then ...i willl again be a free man ;-)...planning to go home this weekend as there will be an extra holiday on monday for independece day..so can eat some good food for 2-3 days.nowadays...my diet has gone to its lowest level...thanx to "Mess Ka Khana"..it is totally mess..& even cant get breakfast these days because taking braekfast to classes is prohibited now...& i was never able to go to mess for taking it because never getup in time in morning(not before 8:10 for 8:30 class)...

& can see hard times ahead sfter Aug 15, as lots of term assignments are piling up... :(

Sixth Harry Potter

Currently I m reading Harry Pottter & Half Blood Prince…Have reached till 9th chapter…
It is going at its usual pace with Harry reaching Hogwartz for his 6th year…and all sorts of fight against He –Who- Should-Not-Be-Named.:)
But what surprised me most is the fear factor (of He –Who- Should-Not-Be-Named aka Lord Voldmort & Associates) that Rowling has generated in wizard community
It just seems very similar to the fear of terrorism that is prevailing in today’s world.
Though Rowling is British and Britain felt the REAL heat only after 7/7 and I assume that the chapters were written well ahead of that…I believe Americans felt quite like this after 9/11 or we Indians are feeling since last 10-15 years and are now get used to it.
Especially the incidents like Wizards being to conscious about their security, or empty markets and shops depicted in the book.
Will try to write more on it as I proceed.

Wo Beete Din....

Got this article in my mailbox a few days ago...its really heart touching and u will really feel so after reading it.here it goes...

Do you remember those days....

When gulli-danda and kanche (marbles) were more popular than cricket ...

When we always had friends to play aais-paais (I Spy), chhepan-chhepai and pitthoo anytime ...

When we desperately waited for 'yeh jo hai jindagi' ...

When chitrahaar, vikram-baitaal, dada daadi ki kahaniyaan were so fulfilling ...

When there was just one tv in every five houses

When bisleris were not sold in the trains and we were worrying if papas will get back into the train in time or not when they were getting down at stations to fill up the water bottle ...

When we were going to bed by 9.00pm sharp except for the 'yeh jo hai jindagi' day ...

When Holis & Diwalis meant mostly hand-made pakwaans and sweets and moms seeking our help while preparing them ...

When Maths teachers were not worried of our mummys and papas while slapping/beating us ...

When we were exchanging comics and stamps and chacha-chaudaris and billus were our heroes ...

When we were in nanihaals every summer and loved flying kites and plucking and eating unripe mangoes and leechis ...

When one movie every Sunday evening on television was more than asked for and 'ek do teen chaar' and 'Rajni' inspired us ...

When 50 paisa meant at least 10 toffees ...

When left over pages of the last years notebooks were used for rough work or even fair work ...

When 'chelpark' and 'natraaj' were encouraged against 'reynolds and family' ...

When the first rain meant getting drenched and playing in water and mud and making 'kaagaj ki kishtis' ...

When there were no phones to tell friends that we will be at their homes at six in the evening ...

When our parents always had 15 paise blue colored 'antardesis' and 5 paise machli wale stamps at home ...

When we remembered tens of jokes and were not finding 'ice-cream and papa' type jokes foolish enough to stop us from laughing ...

When we were not seeing patakhes on Diwalis and gulaals on Holis as air and noise polluting or allergic agents ...

the list can be endless ... on the serious note I would like to summarise with ...

When we were using our hearts more than our brains, even for scientifically brainy activities like 'thinking' and 'deciding' ...

When we were crying and laughing more often, more openly and more sincerily ...

When we were enjoying our present more than worrying about our future ...

When being emotional was not synonymous to being weak ...

When sharing worries and happinesses didnt mean getting vulnerable to the listener ...

When blacks and whites were the favourite colors instead of greys ...

When journeys also were important and not just the destinations ...

When life was a passenger's sleeper giving enough time and opportunity to enjoy the sceneries from its open and transparent glass windows instead of some superfast's second ac with its curtained, closed and dark windows ...

I really miss .. do u?, i knew u wud do.

OT Photographs

Posted below are some pics fom my organisational training which i completed recently.Most of the pics are frm Orissa(MP & Delhi pics r yet to be developed)....More pics are posted here. :)

Koraput, Orissa 

Malkangiri, Orissa 

Acknowledgement

This post is to acknowledge all those people who helped me in one way or other during two months of Organisational Visit.I m writing them here because it was not possible to incorporate all the names in the report which i will be submitting.

At IIFM, Bhopal

Prof P K Biswas(OT Coordinator) and all other faculty members

At SPWD, Delhi
Mr Vijay Sardana
Mr Pramod Tyagi
Ms Vanita Suneja
Mr Ajay Bhan Singh
Mr R P Agrawal
Ms Pooja
Mr Kanishk

At Vasundhara, Bhubaneshwar
Dr Neera Singh
Ms Rekha Panigrahi
Ms Pushpanjali Sathpathy

At RCDC, Bhubaneshwar
Mr Sanjay Pattnaik

At Vasundhara, Kuchinda & Barkote
Mr Rana Ray
Mr Nihar Ranjan Mishra
Ram Chandra
Basil
Malay

At RCDC, Koraput
Mr Rupen Pattanik
Basant

At Pragati, Koraput
Mr Prabhakar Adhikari

At Parivartan, Malkangiri
Mr Nityanand Pradhan
Mr Nakul Khila

At Gram Vikas, Berhampur
Mr Joe Madhiach
Mr M K Mahapatra

At Sahjeevan, Shahdol
Mr Yogesh Shastri
Ms Suvarna Yogesh
Mr Giridhar Mathenkar
Ms Manisha Mathenkar
Mr Prem Mishra

Government & Bank Officials
DFO, Shahdol
RM, Central Bank Of India, Shahdol
LDM, Central Bank Of India, Shahdol
DDM, NABARD, Shahdol
Officials of OPM, Amlai

Mr Shreyas Goyal, TARAhaat, Delhi

People of different villages, cooperatives,SHGs, Federations of Orissa and Madhya Pradesh, without whose responses,support, feedbacks, this work could not have been completed.

Friends, @ IIFM and everywhere else for being in touch continuously.

& Above all, GOD, Mummy, Papa and Rohit for everything.

Back To IIFM :)

So, back to IIFM after more then 2 months.The old schedule and classes have started as usual.Right now have to choose electives for the term.also, starting of hindi blog is also pending.

The good thing is,net connectivity after 2 months and the bad thing is Yahoo Messenger is not working :( because of newlly installed firewall in the Network....So bad , cant talk with any of trhe friends :(..

Anyway, after starting of fourth term, its time to get serious abt studies and placement and carrier...

Dilli Ki Garmi.....

I m in Hell..(sorry..Dellhi) since last 10-12 days.. & this has been nothing else except a good torture.Kya garmi hai bhai dilli me....bas Zinda hu is taraha...

Anyway the good thing is...today is second last day of OT..havce prepared the draft report and also submitted...Presesntation is also ready & have to deliver it in evening tomorrow and after that,....to home frm night train...hoorraaayyy one week vacation :)

the problem is , these peopel have also invited of Board of Governers for our presentation and that makes me somewhat nervous...anyway...WILL BE FREE TOMORROW EVENING.

My hometown(Manohar thana) has got some rains and it will definitely be coller then Delhi(Or call it Hellhi)
So looking forward to one week of full masti.......

Bits and Pieces

I have not written anything over here since last don’t know how many days and I m itching to write my experiences of field visit. Was in Shedol from 18 may to 11 june and did not had proper net access there.Now i m in delhi and though have net connection here, But the time has not come yet. because still busy with preparation of report here in delhi.From here will go to home and there is no question of net availability there so it seems that regular upates here will start from 4th july only when I will be back in Bhopal.

Meanwhile…my last days in orissa were just great. I went to konark, puri and chilka…Roamed a lot on sea beaches, bowed in front of bhagwan Jagannath and in Chilka….the mouth where lake and sea joins each other were marvellous…Really enjoyed a lot. those details are also pending to be posted here.
Another thing is…my third term grades are out…and to my surprise…I performed better then my 2nd term…don’t know how it was possible but…really miracles do happen. I got 3.52/4.33 and though it is not very good I even did not expected that.. anyway GOD IS GRAET :)

Now…counting my days in delhi…I did not like this city a bit…don’t know why.. but this is not of my type…m staying here at room of one of my seniors(Goyal sir)…but he is also out of station and I really get bored..

Also the 3 hour up down bus journey from home to office to home is really tiresome feel completely exhausted when I reach back…anyway have to just spend 7-8 more days here…

Back to Bhuwaneshwar

I was in field for last 12-15 days....have travelled across five districts of Orrisa (Devgarh, Sambalpur,Koraput,Malkangiri and Ganjam)..had got a lot of expeinces..met with many people...NGOs, cooperatives, SHGs, people in villages.....have so many things to write..but it willl take some time to sort everything out....will write later...

Here Bhuwaneshwar is HOT like anything...though Kotaput was veru cool and I enjoyed 7 days there...m planning to visit Puri this weekend...

for now...thanx to people of Orrisa who made my visit to filed a very memorable experience...(will wrie names some time later).

Over To Bhuwaneshwar

So..i m here in Bhuwaneshwar, the Capital of Orissa, since Saturday.
nice city...but very humid..., temprature is not much , but humidity is like anything....Khoob Paseena Baha Raha hu :)

Anyway....Was free yeasterday, as it was sunday...utilised it inb roaming around in Bhuwaneshwar...saw some temples here...(will write detail abt that later) also saw the museum....but was not of much intrest to me.

The work for which , came here, started today. Met with Vasundhara as well as RCDC people and really...thos epeople are very cooperative...are helping in all the ways possible from library informations to arrangements in field....really thankful to them.

Will be moving to field tom oroow..oit is around overnight journey frm here(in Sambalpur District). Will be there till sunday and frm there only...will move to Korupet(RCDC field area)...will be there again for 1 week & then probably back to BBSR...dont knowabt that..

Will also have to take one day to visit Puri...cant lkeave that after coming so nera...hope get a call from there (Bhagawan Jagannath) :)....hope he ios listening..

i think will get net after 10-12 days now...

My First Income

Today is last day at Delhi...atleat For Time being..wil leave for Bhuwaneshwar tomorrow.

The good thing for today is ...I got my first pay(more specifically it is stipend)....
Because i will be in field for around 50 days...those peole being generous have given me some advance from stipend and accomodation allowance and other expense(Total amount 16,700/- :D)..thats a good amount and i hope my coming days will pass happily..:)

More From Delhi....

Today was my reporting day at Organisation....Got my project and location details.

So Have not to tolarate delhi for much time...Have to move to Bhuvaneshwar on 22nd .will be there till around 20 May.(dont know..how hot will be that city in peak summers),from There will have to move to Shehdol in MP.

The "what i have to do in project" is that i will be studying the NTFP marketing models followed by some NGOs in Orrisa and works being done by them both at field as well as policy level and try to find their applicability in Shehdol Region of MP(or to suggest some suitable model).

Will be getting my tickets and some advance for 2 months :) by tomorrow but still have to stay in that "Kabootarkhana" of Paharganj :(......(thats what we call life)

Hope coming days will be good fuin and learning.

Dilli

Writing this from a cyber cafe in Chandni Chowk.....

This is my second day in delhi for my first Summer training in PG and how tired i m..from Yesterday till today, i dont know how much kilometers i have travelled and how many times i have asked my way to people..and experienced a lot...OF DELHI.

Ask anybody abt any place...& the answer u will get..
"Bas yaha se seedhe nikal jao...aur aage thodi door jaake phir seedhe chale jaana." :) Not even a single person told to go left or right or turn back...

Firstly i had kept my luggage at Shreyas's Oraganisation's guest house but had to leave that in the evening only & then got this hotel at Paharganj.

Yeasterday..first we strolled at Nizamuddin Ralway Station for two hours to get his Honda Activa which he had booked frm bhopal...And dont forget two hours walk to different area around Nizamuuddin to purchase a helmet...had to walk arond 5-6 Kilometers.:(

The after getting the Gaddi we set out to search for my org..and what a address they have given..just the name of the street...we travelled arnd 30 kilometers & fortunately found the location...but the big task was remaining..we both had to go back to his guest house nad none of us knew where wre we had in which direction we had to go...so againa sking an asking and after travelling 40 kilomerters for a distance which was actually 20 Kilometers and passing thru dont know what what streets...and may other know places like..Rashtrapati Bhawan, India Gate janpath Rajghat ..and so on...somehow reached back...

Then had to move back to Paharganj & finally found this Hotel where i m staying right now.

Free for today also ..just raoming arnd in the streets..went to Jama Masjid..lal Kila...and at presently at chandni Chowk...will see a movie at Night. Or may be evening show.:)

let us see what is in store for tomorrow .

P S - Another thing i hate is to pay for Net...have used to of having unlimited connectivity at IIFM :(

हिन्दी मे लिखने का प्रयास

क़ाफी दिनो से हिन्दी मे लिखने का विचार कर रहा था....नया हिन्दी ब्लोग बनाने का भी इरादा है...पर आज सोचा कि पहले यही पर कोशिश करके देखा जाये...वैसे हिन्दी मे लिखना बदा मुश्किल है...पर यहा से ये काफी आसान हो जायेग... आगे आगे देखिये ...होता है क्या ?

OT Decided.....

So.....the fate of next two months(that is summers) was decided yesterday night....Will be doing a project under SPWD(Society For the Promotion Of Wasteland Development).

The project is on finding markets for some NTFPs and is based in MP only...but will have to report their Delhi Office First.

Getting a Stipend of Rs.4000/- per month :) (that will be my first real earning) + 3000 p.m. as accomodation allowances + AC II class train fare + other incidental expenses. Thats not bad... ;)

Anyway...for now, the biggest pain is End Terms which are starting from tomorrow and i dont know even a damn thing in any subject....Will have to do some real work to get marks in these exams....And for now...writing in Hindi is also postponed till dont know when....

Enjoying Reading Hindi Blogs....

Though nowadays i m deep immersed in assignments...i m addicted to reading hindi blogs.I did not knew that there are so many people writing in hindi over Web....& how cool they write....Some blogs are simply great!!!reading a lot of poems and the good thing is most of them have a desi hindi touch which cannot be found in books.

I m also planning to start a hindi blog very soon...but may be after term exmas......

Links to many Hindi Blogs can be found here.

US Sells F-16 To Pak

This news came last week...I just read this article on rediff on US Policy and what india Shud Do...

"lovely easter gift to india from the US.

moral: proliferate nukes, threaten us interests everywhere, be terror hub, and get rewarded for it. this has been north korea's experience, china's experience, saudi arabia's experience, and pakistan's experience.
suck up to the US, desperately crave its goodwill, allow its odious conversion machine to dictate terms to you, and get slapped on the face. this is india's experience.
simple solution for india: proliferate nuke and missile technology to anybody who wants it, especially taiwan and japan. this will immediately get american respect, much as pokhran-ii did."...

Full Article @

http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/mar/28kanch.htm