Festive Season & Lajpat

The festival season approaches and in Lajpat Nagar there’s a lot to celebrate. Thanks to manoeuvres in high places, a whole year’s worth of stress and worry has been lifted from the business community. For the last 12 months or more Delhi has been in a planning crisis. Well – it’s had a planning crisis for a long time but recently matters came to a head.

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.

I'm sure looters don't call it looting. They probably think of it as extreme shopping.

In the smart districts residents naturally object to such goings on but in our noisy Lajpat Nagar the residents are the ones who own the businesses. Last year, the Supreme Court came out with orders banning commercial activity in residential areas. Premises were sealed in official raids; a terrible fate, especially if your stock was inside, as you never knew when it might be released.

There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.

A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend.

In any part of Delhi, except the poshest, basements and ground floors hum with activity. Garments are made, embroidery is done and goods of all sorts are stored and or sold.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

But now there’s a stay of execution. “Sealing-wealing”, as it’s known in local rhyming slang, has been stopped for 14 months while Government finds a solution. Last year Lajpat Nagar’s shops boycotted Diwali in protest, a massive gesture. This year they can celebrate as usual.

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How delicious is the winning

How delicious is the winning

Of a kiss at love's beginning,

When two mutual hearts are sighing

For the knot there's no untying!

Yet remember, 'Midst our wooing,

Love has bliss, but Love has ruing;

Other smiles may make you fickle,

Tears for other charms may trickle.

Love he comes, and Love he tarries,

Just as fate or fancy carries;

Longest stays,

when sorest chidden;

Laughs and flies, when press'd and bidden.

Bind the sea to slumber stilly,

Bind its odour to the lily,

Bind the aspen ne'er to quiver,

Then bind Love to last for ever.

Love's a fire that needs renewal

Of fresh beauty for its fuel:

Love's wing moults when caged and captured,

Only free, he soars enraptured.

Can you keep the bee from ranging

Or the ringdove's neck from changing?

No! nor fetter'd Love from dying

In the knot there's no untying.

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Paharganj Delight

Paharganj is situated close to New Delhi Railway station and so is Connaught Place. Both the areas have hotels, restaurants and shops for tourists. While hotels and restaurants at CP are costly, those at Paharganj are quite affordable for budget tourists. Same is the case with shopping. While roadside vendors at CP may offer cheaper items, the standard showrooms are only for the rich customers. Moreover, while a tourist may find a hotel in almost every street in Paharganj, the same cannot be said of CP. The shops and restaurants in Paharganj are not as intimidating as those in the CP.

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There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast
We can’t help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water
Colors of Delhi :People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.
Night out
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

If you are young and willing to be bit whacky, Paharganj offers a ceaseless array of delights for you. There are jewellery shops whose owners will also tell you your future and suggest stones to shape it. There are numerous new-age book shops filled with all kinds of attractive titles including yoga, tantra and new-age philosophy. You may be surprised to hear new age music inside these shops. Paharganj also hosts B.Jain Books, one of the world’s largest publishers of books in homeopathy.
You may find thrift shops with patchwork pyjamas. The area is teeming with all kinds of visitors, locals, foreigners, hippies and college students. Paharganj preserves its history of the era of the seventies. It is a Mecca for low budge backpackers. You can get a room in a hotel for as low as Rs.200 per night. There are several travel agents who not only arrange tickets but also offer public telephone services This is the only market in the city where internet cafés are open 24 hours a day. Internet surfing is cheap. You need to pay only ten rupees for half an hour’s use of the computer with internet facility.

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Scary Dream

I always have this issue with dreams. I get scary dreams; so much that I wake up suddenly and realize that I am in the bed ; sleeping not part of the dream !!
Most of the times ; I don’t remember them as I get up. I think this is such a blessing !! Sometimes I do remember them.
Yesterday night was one of such dreams. It was all related with bombs. People were doing , porting bombs every where. There were this whole bunch of people locked in the office and then there was this group of people who came in and they started bursting bombs every where !!
I don’t know who all were with me. I don’t remember or identify any of those faces. I don’t know the reason behind such a dream.
May be a few discussions with TBH about these bomb-blasts; then we watched the Delhi Police Press Meet ; then the news report about the new terrorist location Azamgarh. There was not any exclusive thoughts about these things on mind as such.
Thank God it was just a dream. All I remember was I woke up abruptly drenched in sweat !! I don’t know what it was meant or why I dreamt about this.

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Delhi flying high

Congestion at Delhi's IGI Airport may finally reduce with the 4.4-km-long new runway set to open from Thursday at 6:00 am. The first flight on the runway, an Air India aircraft, will land at 6.15 am. The flight-handling capacity of the airport will go up to about 65 flights per hour, while demand is of about 45 flights per hour at present. The new runway has been mired in controversy for a while, first due to the drainage problem and water logging, later when the air traffic control officials expressed their concerns over its security since it was not visible from their tower. However, senior ministry officials clarified the runway was serviced by means of highly sophisticated equipment and there was no problem of visibility. Delhi International Airport (P) Ltd (DIAL) has already got permission to drain its water into the Dwarka drain nearby.

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Key to success

Many people are trying to create a better life for themselves. After all, life is growth and improvement. If your not growing and getting better, you are getting worse. People from all around the world seek success for their families and themselves. To define success, I would have to say it is the pursuit of something definite that can give us what our ultimate desires are. Whether it's money, health or love, it's really different for everyone. So what is the key to success? Well it's really simple. It has been talked about for thousands of years and mostly all the great thinkers, philosophers and successful people agree on it. It is our thinking. We literally become what we think about most dominantly of all.If you were to become healthy, think about health and how to become healthy. If you want to become rich, think about that. If you want a better job or career, think about that. Don't think about the opposites, because that's exactly what you'll create for yourself.Think and become exactly what you want by creating the life you want to live in you mind first. The rest is organizing your goals and taking action.A great resource that I have come across is the Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale.Please check it out. It has helped me and will help you as well.

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A Dream with in a Dream

Take this kiss upon thy brow!

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow—

You are not wrong, to deem

That my days have been a dream;

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand—

How few! yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep,

While I weep—while I weep!

O God! can I not grasp

Them with a tighter clasp?

O God! can I not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?

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Crazy!

Suckers that turn on there own,

Dolls that cry and moan.

Cars that you do not pedal,

I am not trying to meddle.

Our kids are getting lazy,

Some of these toys are just plain crazy.

These people only caring about the mind,

Not caring if the kids are good or kind.

Yes, it is good to play,

But why not do it nature's way?

Our children need to be strong,

Some of the things we are doing is quite wrong.

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