You certainly might be a proud owner of a laptop. But I bet you would have certainly spent a good amount of your savings on it. But the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh was on a laptop thro-away spree in which he provided over 19,000 laptops to eligible students who …
Read More »Passport Application – Second Checkpoint Cleared
Coincidentally, this is my 100th post ! The time passed way too quickly ! Anyways, I had talked about the Passport Application – Initial formalities in my previous post. Today I’ll be sharing my experience about the second (all important) phase. To begin with, a HUGE HUGE compliment to the Ministry of External …
Read More »India and its Mughal connection
Yesterday I was watching a documentary on Taj Mahal on the National Geographic channel. The show talked about Zillelahi Shahjahan and his wife Mumtaz and their eternal love than led to the building of the world’s most magnificent structure. The show talked about how India prospered under the reign of of Shahjahan, how trade, art and culture was at …
Read More »Hostel or Hotel ?
Was reading through an article about how boarding schools are slowly and steadily turning into luxury hotels. I feel not only boarding school, but even the day schools are following the same path. With parents ready to shell out almost 10 Lac a year, the school certainly has to provide luxury, haute …
Read More »Encounter with a Pick-Pocket
My exams ended yesterday, and as promised to my mom, we were supposed to visit the Basant Utsav taking place at Noida stadium. This is a large scale consumer, handicraft expo where on will find lots of unique and cheap items. So as decided we reached the place and were looking at all that …
Read More »After effects of the General Budget
Well, the general budget has been successfully declared by the Finance minister. He did what he felt right, be it for the country or the vote bank, the budget did things right to get India back on the economic map and to bring down the fiscal deficit and to curb inflation. …
Read More »Engineer’s view on General Budget
I have been glued to the TV for the past 2 hours, watching the live proceedings of the Union Budget 2013-2014 presented in the Rajya Sabha by Mr. P. Chidambaram, Union Finance Minister. I just came home after giving an exam and started watching the proceedings. Well, people might think what knowledge …
Read More »India first to send SMARTPHONE to space !
Suno gaur se duniya waalon, buri nazar na hum pe daalo, chaahe jitna zor laga lo, 😆 sabze aage honge Hindustani !! 😆 So yet again, India has been the first country to do something – this time sends a Smartphone into space. Well, this is certainly a unique feat achieved by …
Read More »Passport Application – First Checkpoint Cleared
Many days had passed since I had been trying desperately to get an appointment for the interview for my passport, and today I finally managed to get one ! In the past though I had applied it twice, but never got one. Why ? hmm…the sole reason that by the …
Read More »Points Table in Nursery admissions !
The current scenario for nursery admissions is very similar to a points table of a sports league ! Not aware of this thing ? Well, there is point system introduced for admissions in nursery. As it is there is a lot of commotion going on for nursery admission and on top …
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