Images from India, Delhi

Red Fort, Old Delhi

The Kebab Shop in Delhi called Khan Chacha, they were just mouthwatering

A bull decorated with beads, for the Saturday God

A Richshaw Driver

Wah Taj

"Wah" is a Hindi word meaning wow or great. And Wah Taj is a commonly used phrase for description of Taj Mahal. And I once more had a chance to visit it. Here are some the pics:

6 AM at the Taj Mahal. Drove from Delhi at 1 AM at night just to see sunrise at the taj.

Taj glowing with the morning sun rays

Taj HDR

Rising Sun

% Indians Around

A recent article via Times of India, gives various interesting figures, here is the list:

• 12 % of scientists in the US are Indians
• 38 % of doctors in the US are Indians
• In NASA, 6% or almost 4 out 10 scientists are Indians
• 34 % employees at Microsoft
• 28 % at IBM
• 17 % at Intel
• and 13 % at Xerox are Indians
• 20 % of gold in the world is used by Indians

On the other hand, another article states:

1 out of 5 Indians can't spend 12 Indian Rupee (0.29 Dollar cents or 0.19 Euro cent) a Day. It implies that 16.3 crore (163 Million) people in the country spend less than Rs 12 per day representing 14.7 of the total population.

Weekly Flickr Fav. - India Gate: War Memorial

India Gate, originally uploaded by trance_nut.

Beautiful night shot of the India Gate in New Delhi. Built in the memory of soldiers who fought various wars for their motherland. Growing up in Delhi, we used to visit it everyone now n then, going late nights there to eat ice cream, flying kites during festive season, etc..

Weekly Filckr Fav: Golden Temple, India

Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) Amritsar, Punjab, INDIA, originally uploaded by voobie.

What a beautiful image of Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab, India.

Gigapan has a panoramic view of the Golden temple complex, HERE.

India loses maximum lives to terror except Iraq

via -
Times of India Newspaper (LINK)

Excerpt -
The US and UK may like to believe that they are leading the war on terror globally, but the country that has had to face the worst of terrorist attacks on its own soil, barring war-torn Iraq, is India.

Change is Universal - India

After a bit of searching, i found the excellent documentary which BBC did this year about India hosted by Sanjeev Bhaskar. And i must say, its one of best i have seen, potraying india in all forms and not just slums, snake charmers :) etc... which is still very much part of india too but its changing and as a country, we have lot more to offer in all aspects of life. I think, Sanjeev gives a very insightful view of the society which we have now, as i always say, its a huge country with lots of different cultures and its hard to put everything in one hour episode... but its good to see all ascepts of India or any country for that matter. Can't put all in here, so you gotta watch it :))

If you have a hour to spare and want to know more, have a look.. you would def. learn something :) .. And as he says in the beginning "its gott to be different.. different .." and he does that pretty well. Ah and if you don't know who Sanjeev is.. there is always Wikipedia.. LINK.

Hope you like it too and i would love to hear your viewpoint about it.

And its excellent quality video.. so enjoy.



PS: Works better in Firefox and its scaled better to fit. IE is not letting the video scale to fit window.

Wonders of World

T A J, originally uploaded by ░▒▓ Enchantress ▓▒░.

recently declared one of the seven new world wonders..
as we say Wah Taj :))

Cricketing News

Its the ONLY sport we play on world level and its not a great news for the millions of cricket fans in India. Yesterday, we lost again in the crucial match of cricket world cup to qualify for the final 8 and now rest our of hopes of making it on an unlikely defeat for Bangladesh by debutants Bermuda on Sunday . If you are still wondering, what is cricket, read on wikipedia.

I am not ardant fan of cricket, used to be, but still feels bad that we can't even make it to top 8 in the ONLY sport we play and now a days, it seems all about money. No harm in making money from sport but its has crossed the limits where money is over the game. The equation is somethin like this probably, play local level exceptionally good, earn a spot in the national team, play some good games, make millions of bucks from fees and ads and forget the game.

Back Home

Its been long long time since I have been home in Delhi, finally I am back and the feeling is beyond words.

Arrived home (delhi) on 1 March, met family and friends, celebrated holi (a festival of colors), gorgeous food (even the street one) and lot n lots of changes in the city itself (will write on it later) and chilling out.. the weather is very pleasant.