Note on a Note

This was to be given for valet parking at Coccos -Banjara Hills (awesome place for chicken kebabs and Mexican food).
This was to be given to an auto walla who dropped us @ Mayur Marg.
But this was given to me.

By our very own Muneem Ji.

" नोट नोट पे लिखा होता है उसकी पोककेट वाले का नाम "

And all I could decode was this

1st line- में

2nd line- को रुपया

3rd line-

4th line - होता है

10 points for each word .Try figuring out.

PS: Next post on , why I hate(read dislike) dogs .
PS1:Yes , you heard it right , dogs in particular –Comet.
PS2: Now don’t get carried away ,stay focused .Personal access to that 10 rupee note will be given on demand .It’s in safe possession of the author.

In search of roots

Alongside the Ghats:

A beggar and a tourist in playfull mood

And those on Facebook can react once more.
Round trip : Delhi>Banaras>Sarnath>Delhi.
Dilli ki sarrdi was not on its peaks and compared to last year’s valentine, this Feb was warmer. But for a (1/2th Hyderabadi+1/4th Banarasi+1/8 Delhite+……. ) It was good enough to hibernate. Home visit surprisingly involved hometown visit. And this time I insisted ,I wanna go as a tourist , stay in a hotel and see the Ghats.The time otherwise spent visiting some relatives was rather saved for tourism .
Suggestion: everybody should visit their native as a tourist. One will end up with less complains and the usual around will be perceived as marvel. It’s all perspective you know. In future thyself shall visit Hyderabad on similar grounds.
Varanasi , cherished by many , in the early years failed to impress me in terms of infrastructure and facilities. My bad, was trying to find the ease of metropolis in the oldest city of Nirvana. Seldom I knew then, only mother nature in its crudest form, away from citified concrete jungles will solve the ultimate veraciousness. This time years later , it was soothing, so calm , so pure, so relaxed. The rickshaws causing traffic (read Human) jams in Vishwanath Galli(the most congested galli on earth) were far better than the toxic ones of cities. You will find innumerable hippy looking foreigners, wandering rakishly in and around Ganges , fiddling music instruments and such .So did I , treasured some moments of peace on Tulsi Ghat .But was sad to see the diminishing levels of water , which otherwise was volcanoes.
Sarnath pushta bhumi of Pa was much more of historical interest , The Stupas , Museum , Ahsoka pillars , Buddhism, Jainism and such.
With us telling every auto walla “Bhaiya hum yanhee se hain , itna charge kissliye”?

Listen to "O Saya" to feel Rahmania when on a long drive. That man surely knows how to get music out of life and Vice versa to resonance .

Delhi was mostly long effortless jet drives on well connected expressways .
Of course there was Lajjpath nagar , Connaught place ,Janpath holy Darshan for the most holiest act - shopping .Ironically the author was not on a buying spree.

Sarnath :

Ashoka Pillar-remains of the shaft

Dhamekh StupaBuilt in the 5th-6th century a.d., the Dhamekh Stupais the tallest of them. The fine quality of brickwork is more than evident in this stupa which has a high cylindrical dome.


Deer Park -Sarnath :

Blackbuck

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Sarus Crane

Pigeon Pigeon everywhere

Pigeon Pigeon everywhere
In the kitchen , on the roof , in the air

I don’t stay alone
Nor do I have a single roomy
A birdie couple stayed along , honeymooning.
Their family often flutters around ,crooning

I tried hard to shoo
Holy cow ! , they just can’t figure the way out
All they do is poop.

Pigeon Pigeon everywhere
In the kitchen , on the roof , in the air

I literally talk to them , naah me not a kin ,
To demo the way to use their own wings,
To fly back through the same window they came in

Oh Christ! , dumb they are.

Creating all the mess,
They nest there for frees
I ask “why my home”
They cooed “where are the trees”
They cooed “where are the trees”?

Corollary: Traffic Jams are [directly proportional to the] population of pigeons in cities [inversely proportional to the] Tree density.

There are around one million of them in New York, and Venice has the highest pigeon density with an estimated three birds per human inhabitant. In most big European towns, there is around one pigeon for every 20 citizens.

The terrorized flock of Mumbai .

PS0: Another point to put forward ,when debating age old topic from School -GDs and Essays “Urban development bane or boon to the society “.

PS1: And slums being their by-product.Btw, Slumdog Millionaire is a must watch.