This morning, I made a purchase which was on hold for a long, because it was not available in the area. My water pipe used to water plants, fill water in coolers, wash floor, etc., had got so many holes that despite best tape work, a leak developed every other day and half of water
While on walk this morning with my four-legged friend of 15 years Daffy, I saw from distance a child trying to bring down with a bamboo pole something from a tree. Curious I reached the child and was surprised to see him collecting jungle jalebis (Pithecellobium dulce), commonly called Manila Tamarind, Madras Thorn and Monkey
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About 10 children in third standard of a government primary school in a small town of western Uttar Pradesh huddle together every morning, forgetting physical distancing that is norm these coronavirus disease days, to get questions from their teacher. They solve the questions, take photos of the answers and send the photos to the teacher.
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As the country enters third phase of lockdown to tackle coronavirus disease, this morning I received a WhatsApp message containing a newspaper clip that proclaimed Neem: Corona ko harane ka sabse bada astra (Neem: The mightiest weapon to defeat corona). That took me about two months back, when a labourer from Sultanpur district proclaimed at
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Village life My work included interviewing people in different villages over the next three days for preparing a document for a client. These villages were in three clusters: near Askote, near Jauljibi towards Munsiyari and near Dharchula. My guide for these visits was a young man Vinod Ojha from Helipya village. He would take me
बड़ी हैरानी हुई इस संपादकीय को पढ़कर। अगर टाइम्स आफ इंडिया और इस समूह के अखबार और पत्रिकाएं नहीं चाहते हैं कि गूगल उनकी मेहनत की मलाई काटे तो इसका बहुत आसान तकनीकी समाधान है। सर्च इंजन को कोई भी वेब पेज न सूचीबद्ध कर सके इसके लिए वेब पेज में एक मामूली कोड डालना
One place on earth where I am always ready to go is Uttarakhand. Once again, I packed my bags and hit for the mountains on an assignment. As soon as overnight train from Lucknow to Kathgodam reached Lalkuan in the morning, ‘change’ could be sensed. Once ubiquitous, but now almost extinct, on most rail route,
Fifteen days after using Jio Fiber service, some reality talk. Use the connection on PC/laptop through LAN, you get promised speed of up to 100 Mbps. Use the connection through WiFi, you again get promised speed of up to 50 Mbps. So far so good. Theoretically, a 100 mbps internet connection should give download speed
The other day two young people were discussing some point and in the heat of argument one of them said: “Well the bikau media (sold media) will not show this.” And a slew of epithet against media and journalists flew from the young man’s mouth. Incidentally, both the young men hold completely opposite political views.
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