d air is pink n blue cause u gonna b back...elation in the mood cause u gonna b back...ticking clock wid my heart cause u gonna b back...days n nights are so long till u gonna b back...memories filled wid fun facts cause u gonna b back...planner getting filled wid vacation plans cause u gonna b back...revisions of 'to be shared thoughts' as u gonna b back...after long we will be along...hush hush d real thought that d merry time will rush
PS: dedicated to my dear bro
Nov 26, 2010
Nov 22, 2010
जाणीव
बऱ्याचदा जाणीव होते की दुसऱ्यांच्या चांगुलपणाच्या जोरावर आपल्या अस्तित्वाच्या गाडीची चलती आहे. त्यांच्या उफराटी वाटणाऱ्या परोपकाराची रसाळ फळे आपणच चाखत असतो! डोळे मिटून दूध पिणाऱ्या मांजराप्रमाणे... आणि वर ती फळे माझ्याच कर्माने मला मिळाली आहेत असा निस्संशय विश्वासही!
The sunny visit to INS Vikrant
I decided to fulfill my wish to visit the famous Indian warship INS Vikrant during this year’s naval week with one friend.
“INS Vikrant, the first aircraft carrier of Indian Navy, was decommissioned on January 31, 1997. The ship which played a key role during 1971 Indo-Pak war has now been converted into a maritime museum and anchored off the Gateway of India in Mumbai.”- This was the only information I had before the visit. I everyday pass by the naval dockyard area and always wonder what the world must be at the back of that high compound wall! The glimpses of handsome and stout navy-men dressed in speckles white, top to bottom, moving in and out from the gates, is the only seen evidence for outsiders like us of what the life inside may be. Yes and how can I forget my memories of the favorite school-days TV series ‘Sea Hawks’! With all this back up in mind I was very curious to visit the ship and to know more about it.
Crowd of visitors was obvious as it was the last Sunday to visit the ship. We reached the Tiger gate which was the entrance. We had to stand in a long queue but one good part was that the queue was moving at good pace. The volunteers in white uniform were making the public’s movement easy. For no reason we were happy to read the notice that ‘foreigners are not allowed to visit the ship’. We crossed the Tiger gate, entered in, exposed to the harsh afternoon sun overhead and gloomy Arabic sea in front. We could see the ship still at a distance and the queue of people was connecting us to the ship like a string. Majority of the crowd was parents with their kids.
At last the string got short enough to make us enter the Ship. The entrance was displaying glorious past of INS Vikrant…photos…facts..medals…gadgets, equipments used etc. Then we entered an interesting section, the aircraft hangers, where the aircrafts are parked with their wings folded. It was nice to see the system by which they can be brought to the deck and then can take their flight. Further we came across the deck, canteen, engine, sick-bay, workshop, bedding area, etc.
There was a lot of information spread along the entire stroll within the ship but we were not very happy about the way it was displayed. Everything was old and at some places even dusty! Among the visitors, all who were well aware about the glorious past of this giant could enjoy and feel themselves mesmerized with the visit. But the kids who were supposed to feel inspired to join the navy after the visit or at least feel the apt respect for navy were looking kind of lost in the dense crowd of the visitors and bit bored due to the not so glorious presentation! We felt sorry for the situation.
It took us about 1.5 hrs to finish our tour inside. We rushed through some areas because of the suffocation felt due to the heat and dense crowd of visitors. Still we could sense that the life on a warship and of a warship is much different and difficult beyond our imagination. We all should visit the ship at least once, if not for anything else but to pay our respect to the service it has catered to us and the navy is catering to us.
“INS Vikrant, the first aircraft carrier of Indian Navy, was decommissioned on January 31, 1997. The ship which played a key role during 1971 Indo-Pak war has now been converted into a maritime museum and anchored off the Gateway of India in Mumbai.”- This was the only information I had before the visit. I everyday pass by the naval dockyard area and always wonder what the world must be at the back of that high compound wall! The glimpses of handsome and stout navy-men dressed in speckles white, top to bottom, moving in and out from the gates, is the only seen evidence for outsiders like us of what the life inside may be. Yes and how can I forget my memories of the favorite school-days TV series ‘Sea Hawks’! With all this back up in mind I was very curious to visit the ship and to know more about it.
Crowd of visitors was obvious as it was the last Sunday to visit the ship. We reached the Tiger gate which was the entrance. We had to stand in a long queue but one good part was that the queue was moving at good pace. The volunteers in white uniform were making the public’s movement easy. For no reason we were happy to read the notice that ‘foreigners are not allowed to visit the ship’. We crossed the Tiger gate, entered in, exposed to the harsh afternoon sun overhead and gloomy Arabic sea in front. We could see the ship still at a distance and the queue of people was connecting us to the ship like a string. Majority of the crowd was parents with their kids.
At last the string got short enough to make us enter the Ship. The entrance was displaying glorious past of INS Vikrant…photos…facts..medals…gadgets, equipments used etc. Then we entered an interesting section, the aircraft hangers, where the aircrafts are parked with their wings folded. It was nice to see the system by which they can be brought to the deck and then can take their flight. Further we came across the deck, canteen, engine, sick-bay, workshop, bedding area, etc.
There was a lot of information spread along the entire stroll within the ship but we were not very happy about the way it was displayed. Everything was old and at some places even dusty! Among the visitors, all who were well aware about the glorious past of this giant could enjoy and feel themselves mesmerized with the visit. But the kids who were supposed to feel inspired to join the navy after the visit or at least feel the apt respect for navy were looking kind of lost in the dense crowd of the visitors and bit bored due to the not so glorious presentation! We felt sorry for the situation.
It took us about 1.5 hrs to finish our tour inside. We rushed through some areas because of the suffocation felt due to the heat and dense crowd of visitors. Still we could sense that the life on a warship and of a warship is much different and difficult beyond our imagination. We all should visit the ship at least once, if not for anything else but to pay our respect to the service it has catered to us and the navy is catering to us.
Nov 15, 2010
creativity!
If you follow the attached link, you will have an opportunity to get mesmerised by the innovative creation of simple idea brought in reality with amazing designing!
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/12094/benjamin-garcia-saxe-a-forest-for-a-moon-dazzler-best-private-house-at-waf-2010.html
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/12094/benjamin-garcia-saxe-a-forest-for-a-moon-dazzler-best-private-house-at-waf-2010.html
Nov 10, 2010
वेडा पाऊस..
त्याला बहुदा कळले की मी त्याची आठवण काढली! म्हणून कदाचित तो आज अवेळी अकाळी जरासा शिंतडून गेला...अरे पण असा जग-रीत सोडून वागलास तर सगळे हसतील की रे तुला....आणि कदाचित मीसुद्धा..
Nov 7, 2010
आत-बाहेर
बाहेर एक जग आणि आतमध्ये एक... बाहेरच्या कोलाहलाचा, तक्रारींचा, गोंधळ- गडबडीचा कंटाळा आला की मी फक्त आतल्या जगामध्ये गुंतून जाते, स्वतः भोवती एक अदृश्य कोश गुंफून...बाहेरच्या जगापासून अलिप्त. कोशातल्या अळीप्रमाणे काही वेळ कोशात घालविल्यावर माझेसुद्धा स्वच्छंदी आणि रंगीबेरंगी फुलपाखरू होईल ह्या आशेने... आतल्या जगात असते केवळ मनाची सत्ता! एव्हड्या जवळून मनाला पाहिल्यावर त्याचेही रंग दिसू लागतात. कधी आनंदी तर कधी नाराज.. कधी भावूक तर कधी पाषाणहृदयी... कधी शांत तर कधी वाऱ्याहूनही लहरी... कधी मायेची हळुवार फुंकर घालणारे तर कधी शत्रूही देणार नाही इतके शिव्या-शाप देणारे! हे पाहून वाटते बाहेरचा गोंधळ ह्या आतल्या गोंधळापेक्षा काही वेगळा थोडाच आहे?! मग हा कोशाचा अट्टाहास फोलच ठरला तर! समष्टी आणि व्यष्टीचे एकमेकांत असलेले प्रतिबिंब हा असा कुठलाही कोश मिटवू शकणार नाही... आपण फक्त त्यांची सांगड घालायचा प्रयत्नच करू शकतो.
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