Village Life.

In my last blog i told you that we reached our village in summer vacation.In village people wake up quite early in the morning around 5a.m and since our house is facing east sun light come directly to our house.Early in the morning farmers used to take their bullocks to the field with bells ringing from their necks and their mouth capped with cap made of thin wooden bamboo.There we get to feel unique smell of smoke coming out from burning wood which was used to light earthen stove ( chulha ) and some of the utencils used for making food & vegetables...

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Summer Vacation

During summer vacation we used to go to our village in madhubani district of Bihar. Those  days trains were run by steam engine and heavy black smoke used to come out from it and whistle of train was also different from today's train.It used to be a journey of 24 hours approximately and we used to go by first class which was without A.C at that time.My father used to get this facility from his office only once in a year.He is very fond of eating and used to make preparation for packing namkeen,biscuit,fruit,apart from prepared food and vegetables...

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Gardening.

Going back to my childhood days in bhopal i remember that gardening became a big passion for us.As i had told you in my earlier blogs that we got a big house with big courtyard.Initially when we occupied the house it was a barren land and the earth of that area is of black colour and it is very fertile.My eldest brother is very fond of gardening since childhood and we the younger ones used to assist him.Within a year we turned our courtyard into a beautiful garden with lot of beautiful flowers like marigold,jasmine,mogra,different colour of roses,sunflower,Raat...

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25th Wedding Anniversary.

Today i am taking a break from childhood memories because yesterday was a special day in my life . Yesterday on 27th January i have completed my 25 years of married life and most of the family was present except my younger brother family to celebrate the occasion.My younger was not able to come as he was unwell.Actually he was the one who reminded everyone that this year is going to be my silver jubilee of marriage but unfortunately he was not able to make it.We all gathered at our family residence and cut the Cake and whole was decorated with...

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Sports Galore

As i told you in my earlier blog that we made lots of friends and we are four brothers.My eldest brother is 5 year older then me and the elder one is 2 year old and younger one is 2 years young so our friends were also in the same age group.We used to play lots of game like cricket,football,volleyball,table-tennis,)etc.But apart from these sports we also used to play Marbles,kite-flying,latoo( Wooden toy of conical shape with nail below)which is tied with thin rope and when we throw it down on the floor and it start spinning on the floor.These...

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Bhopal-1

As i told you in my earlier blog that we got shifted to bhopal and started a new chapter in my life.But within few days we started making new friends in our neighbourhood.And within months there were lots of friends and i remember some of them till date such as two brothers Tom & Tunnu,Four brothers with unique names like Goodluck,Welcome,Bubble and Lucky.Then we had a freinds called Bhayyu and he had a Table Tennistable installed in his house,another friend were maheshwari ,kartik,Dabboo.And those were the days when there was no T.V,Mobile...

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BHOPAL ( GOLDEN PERIOD ).

After a year in dehradun my father again got transferred to Bhopal the capital of madhya pradesh. Frequent transfer take a heavy toll on children's since it means going to new school,losing out to your friends and going to a unknown place.So we reached bhopal and we went to our house there we all went overjoyed to see that it was a big house consisting of 8 bedrooms, big courtyard and there was a water fountain also inside the courtyard.There was hill on the backside of our house and it was in Arera Colony which is one of the posh area of city.This...

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SAHASTRADHARA

There is another beautiful place called Sahastradhra ( 100 water Falls ) near dehradun.When we reached there the view of hundreds of water falls falling from top of the mountains and the massive sound of falling water and water colour was milky white, can not be described in words.There was greenery all around and in the centre milky white  water coming down with roaring sound and downstage people were enjoying the bath but we were quite afraid to take the bath.There was a hot spring also where hot was coming naturally and we were told that...

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Mussoorie

As i told you that hill station mussoorie was visible from our house so there was great curiosity among us that how it will be from nearby? So one Sunday we went to hill station which is not very far from dehradun in our station wagon car.The entire journey was of scenic beauty and full of greenery.  But as we started going upwards some of the family members felt uneasiness because car was going round and round upwards and that is why some members also vomited.But after reaching on the top there is a place called lal dibba.It is the highest...

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Dehradun

My father got transferred to dehradun and we shifted there.It is beautiful city surrounded by hilly resort masooriee.We got residence in cannaught place.It was a spacious house and famous Ghantaghar was at walking distance.There was three cinema halls in row on one side of road and another one at other side of the road.So it was a happening place.Our school was also just few feet away from our house.But the most fascinating part of this house was amazing view of masooriee hills and in night when lights were on it was like thousands of jugnus( A...

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KOLKATTA

After spending first five years of childhood in delhi my father got transferred to Calcutta in 1971.We have taken up residence in lake garden area.I was in 3rd class and was studying in Hope Hall school.We used to go to the lake nearby which was at walking distance from our residence and there we(my brothers) used to get quite exited seeing very big fish in the lake and while returning home we used to relish phoochka (Gol Gappe).Another childhood memories is of big Durga Puja celebration of Calcutta with all the cities getting lighted with huge...

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Early Childhood.

As i old you in my earlier blog that my father is a civil engineer and after completing his engineering he came to delhi in around 1960.My father are also four brothers like us and he is third in line like me.In delhi his elder brother was employed in Hotel Ashok and he was very active in social circle of our mithila community.We are maithils from land of Sita.One of of her other name is maithily.My uncle was brought to delhi by one of our villager Late Ratikant Jha who was employed in Darbhanga House by princely family of Darbhanga in delhi.In...

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JOINT FAMILY

Dear Readers,In today's time when joint family system is fast disappearing, i want to share my life experience with you about my life living in joint family system.My father is a civil engineer and he has four sons and i am his third son.We originally belongs to madhubani district of bihar.My father was employed in Govt.Undertaking and he had a transferable job.So our early childhood was spent in several cities.Now i will share my childhood memories with you in my next blog.   &nb...

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The magic of Sunsilk - way to great hair

Recharging your hair - what does this exactly define? When I heard this line for this contest on IndiBlogger, I was very confused. How can one recharge their hair? What exactly is it! After giving it a good thought, I realized what 'recharging your hair' interprets here. Usually during summers, my mother says to me 'baal thake thake lag rahein hain' - I never get how my hairs can be tired! Having said that, it does frustrate me when my hair is not...

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We Chat, We Debate, We #VoteForIndia

We Chat, We Debate, We Vote. India currently finds itself standing on the crossroads. We can either opt for the right path, which may have certain obstacles which we can collectively overcome OR we can opt for the wrong path, a path that will devastate our future, jeopardize the future of the next generation and make our progress stand still.The youth of India needs to utilize this opportunity and be part of something special. If it wasn't for US,...

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2014 - A ray of hope for India

The past year has seen many incidents take place, some good and some not so. If I try to put all of them into this blog post, it'd be highly difficult for me to cover all the points. Keeping that in mind, let's stick to one of the most important topic of discussions, well usually i.e. - politics.Indian politics had a very eventful year of 2013. Modi being named as BJP's next PM candidate, Congress showing faith in Rahul (giving him the post of VP and sending him for rallies) and the BIGGEST of them all - the emerging of AAP party. After 2013, Indian...

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