Tarique's Travails

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Some of you might remember my crib about the situation of electricity cuts in the city, a couple of days ago the government arbitrarily decided to make it worse for our city. This led to the local paper, yesterday, publishing a long list of phone numbers of all the people who make these decisions and [...]

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Once again we fly tonight to Bangkok and from there to Pattaya and back before the week ends Wish there was a way to take Aasim along and then stay over for a few more days after the business is done. Tweet

I am not fortunate enough to be able to be in a jungle over weekend or just be able to live in a jungle. However that did not deter me from enjoying the thrill of a predators hunt, the hunter becoming the hunted becoming the hunted or experiencing the joys of new life being nurtured. [...]

Aasim’s exams got over a couple of days ago and seems like vacations have started not only for him but for all of us. Unfortunately I am totally swamped with work, so much so that I have not had time to upload several of pictures to my site. Besides there are a dozen hassles with [...]

It just went by with me not getting much done. Well to be honest there is no weekend for me (and many of us) – Just a Sunday or worse… The morning was spent going to a building site looking our prospective sometime in the distant future new home. Not much about it – too [...]

Jebe tora DAka —– na shuNile kehi jabAba pAilu nAhi’n | jIbana ra pathe —- bimukha na hoi chAlu ekAkinI hoi Jebe tora sAthe —- na kahile kathA bhaya re gale durei | prAna kholA kathA — hasa hasa muhe’n kahu ekAkinI hoi ghana jangala re —- ghaDi-sandhi beLe na chAhi’n le Jebe kehi | [...]

Yesterday, the mercury after being hesitant for a few days finally crossed 40 and stood at a maximum of 40.2°C, though for now the nights are still pleasantly cool at below 20°C. Summer is the most harsh season in Nagpur, in fact it is harsh for most of central India, temperatures will now progressively and [...]

It was worth waking up at 5:30am on a Sunday morning for this – more than 30 varieties of water birds spotted in a single location of half a square kilometer within 45 min! This spot is at “Koradi Lake” a small patch of marsh land about 8km form our home. The most astonishing fact [...]