Nobody home

" My next door neighbour Mr. Aloke Dasgupta is in UP shooting for a film. In tha past we have tried telling the paper guy almost everyday not to leave his paper since he is not home but he just won't respond to that or the big"

Spreading my wings

" As I mentioned I couldn't go out for photography over the weekend, I decided to take a few pictures from my living room window. There are a lot of piegons that live in our building and this one was sitting at the shaft of drainage pipes. He is not one footed, the other one...

Stick 'em up

" Slowly the reserve of pictures is declining and soon I will be left with no more pictures to post..unless I go out and take some more pictures. I am planning to go out today and take some pictures, let's see if something good comes out of that. About these pins, I am...

How much did you said you paid for this?

" Anything special about this picture? Well this is the first picture I have taen with my New Lumix FZ50. Yes I have finally bought it and am eagerly waiting for the weekend to play with it. How much did it coast me? I guess Manu's expressions say it all."

There is not enough newsworthy activity in the world

" "Instead of truth we are getting opinions, instead of information, we are getting distorted facts. Please just give me the information and I will reach my own conclusions. Thank you so much" The title of this post is actually an answer to the question that explains the...

Calling Mr. Kaushik Merchant

" “Who is Kaushik Merchant? May be his is an ordinary person who made a genuine mistkae while giving someone his phone number or maybe he is some fraudlent person who is deliberately giving wrong telephone number to various people.” What is annoying is a phone ringing...

Wrong number

" Soon after I came to Bombay, a friend of mine visited me from Bangalore. I gave him my number but he wrote it incorrectly and called the guy thrice who got really irritated by the end of it. When he came to my home in the evening and told me his story, I said maybe I should...

Gateway

" Hiranandani gardens is one place in Bombay I like and I keep going there as it is close to my home too. Check out an image gallery of Powai and Hiranandani as well."

The art of being subtle

" The are of being subtle is lost in a world that increasingly seeing everyone screaming at the top of their voices. It can be seen in all form of communications, not just speech. On TV you see people with exaggerated facial expressions an gestures, in Markets you can see "My...

Keeping Ganpati company

" Yesterday I mentioned that the temple had two gates, this is the second gate, the one on the main road. This place has a lot of pigeons as well and some of them seem to be getting too friendly with Ganpati. The updates are going to be a little irregular as despite...

Hitler's cross

" Recently there was a big protest over the name of a restaurant in Thana. Jews were upset because it was called “Hitler's cross”. Eventually it was renamed as “The Cross” This restaurant in Hub Mall, Goregaon is called Machu Pichu, if spoken fast enough, it sounds...

Wonder what time it is

" This clock was at the game to a temple near Mahalaxmi Temple in Bombay whaere I went a few weeks ago. A zoomed out version of this place can be seen here. This temple had two gates and I will post the second one tommorow. One gate is at the main road from where one enters...

Sweet water of Mahim Creek- kudrat ka karishma?

" I woke up on Saturday morning and fetched the newspaper. In one corner a news caught my eye. It was abut the water of Mahim creek turning sweet. I read the news and forgot about it but not for long. When I...

Customer in King? My arse.

" With more than 1 billion people in this country, the customer is not really the king and you don't have to keep him happy. If one goes away dissatisfied, 10 more will come. This seems to be the Mission stateent...

'Hitler' restaurant to change name (AP)

" BOMBAY, India - The owner of a restaurant named after Adolf Hitler said Thursday he will change its name because it angered so many people. Puneet Sablok said he would remove Hitler's name and the Nazi swastika from billboards and the menu. He had said the restaurant's...

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