Life waiting for Metro

Found this Test Metro Rail today morning at Anand Vihar Metro Terminal. It seems Delhi metro is bringing some good news very soon and we hope to get rid from the traffic chaos here in Eest Delhi.

DMRC rocks!!!


P.S. I've a whole series of photographs from this angle captured in last 9 months. Will post them sometime :).

Got my Camera Back :)

Yippee... Finally my 1000D is back from service center. I hope 'ERROR 99' will not bother me now. Again a quite friendly service by Canon people.

Some of today's captures :)




Life milegi ya tawe pe fry hoga!!!

Happy B'day dear 'Omi'

Today is my best buddy Om's Birthday. Just a year before we met an accident on our way to Manali and on his B'day he was admitted in Hospital for the Surgery. And today, only a year later the same guy is in Nottingham, UK and pursuing his masters in Architecture. I truly salute your Spirit man, you are a 'Hero'.

Hey 'Raja', I wish you many many happy returns of the day. God bless you my dear and I wish all your dreams come true :)

Time will get to our side soon and there are lot many rides to be ridden together.

Cheers

P.S. Photo courtesy - Tushar

Some more poetry by my 'Friends'

A very special thanks to 'Pallavini' and 'Rosa' for writing on my captures.










DISCLAIMER: The text in the photograph is a sole property of Miss Pallavini and Miss Rosa.

Congratulations Pramod & Pooja

Two souls with but a single thought,Two hearts that beat as one.

- Friedrich Halm

Another good friend of mine 'Pramod' finally lost his Bachelor's License.

Sirjee, Wish you both a happy married life :)

The Garhwal Marathon

Another quickie to the Hills of Uttarakhand.

Winter is already here and I was yet to see some snow topping over the Himalayan Range. Had to rush to Hardwar for some personal work and I again choose to ride so that could go little further in to the hills.

So a quick ride to the Garhwal hills which lasted only for a day but not to mention about the experience of those awesome twisties and the nostalgia of riding the same old stretch of NH-58 which leads to Mana Village, commonly known as Valley of Flowers.

Pauri and Lansdwone were the places where I wanted to ride since long. And Satpuli is the another place in-between.

I missed Lansdwone because of a flat tyre some 15-20 kilometers before it which killed 2 precious hours. It was already dark then and I was in a hurry to reach Delhi soon.

PAURI-GARHWAL
Most locations in Pauri Garhwal offer a breathtaking view of the snow laden Himalayan Splendour and is full of scenic valleys. Pauri has an altitude of about 1800 meters and is the district head quarter of Pauri-Garhwal.

Pauri also provides a panoramic view of the snow covered Himalayan peaks of Nandadevi & Trisul,Gangotri Group,Thalaiya- sagar,Neelkanth, Bandar Poonch, Swarga-Rohini, Kedarnath, kharcha Kund, Satopanth, Chaukhamba, Ghoriparvat, Hathiparvat and Sumeru etc.


SATPULI
It is a lovely village Hill Station on Pauri-Kotdwar road on the banks of Nayyar River.
A very good Friend 'Saurabh' is from Satpuli and HERE is his newly developed website on Satpuli. You will get all required information from there.


LANSDWONE
It is the quietest Hill Station close to Delhi and is only 300 kilometers away. It is at an altitude of 1700 meters and is full of Oak and Pine trees.

The Kotdwar-Lansdwone stretch is laid with awesome twisties and very good tarmac.

My friend ‘Aryan’ (Bobby Roy) has a credit of visiting this place for 15 times. So who can tell you better than this guy? HERE is the link to his blog.

Best Time to Visit: April to June and September to mid-November

Route: Hardwar-Rishikesh-Devprayag-Pauri-Satpuli-Dogadda-Kotdwar-Kiratpur-Bijnor-Meerut-Ghaziabad-Delhi

Distance: 470+ Kilometers

And a special thanks to ‘Kunjal’ for his company.

Somewhere after Rishikesh

Enroute Devprayag


'Devprayag' below


Innocent Garhwali people


The first Glimpse of SNOW


The great Himalayan Range on the backdrop of GBPEC


The lonely roads


My Best Shot of the Trip


My Co-rider 'KUNJAL'


Kunjal and his Hybrid CBZ


A Pano...

A Daily Dose: 29 Nov 09

Global Positioning System

Here is the First Generation GPS... :P

Mutiny Memorial (Ajitgarh)

This memorial was erected by the British in 1863 in the memory of soldiers of Delhi field force who were killed during 1857.

This is an Octagonal tapering tower of Red Sand Stone constructed on the site of Tailor’s Battery (an artillery unit) during the siege of Delhi in 1857. It is on a two tier platform and is provided with stairs from inside to reach its top. The names of Officers and Jawans of different army units are inscribed on different slabs around the tower.

This memorial was renamed as ‘AJITGARH’ on 15^th August 1972 on the twenty fifth anniversary of India’s attainment of freedom and a new plaque was fixed here converting it in to a memorial for those martyrs who rose and fought against the British during 1857.

Source: Department of Archeology

It was a tough time for me to reach at this abandoned monument. Even local auto drivers don’t know this. People know it as just a structure erected by Britishers. The ‘Enemy’ word for our brave fighters during the Mutiny of 1857 might be the culprit. But it was then only, now it is ‘Ajitgarh’.

I liked this structure to some extent. You will find nobody except some local people who prefer to sit here. But if you go deep with the elements in the sandstone then you might find it interesting. The stair leading to the top of the monument is now closed, so you have to satisfy only from the external view.

And a special ‘Thanks’ to Mamta for pulling me to this place and clicking my pics :)

The lovely stretch of road leading to the 'Ashoka Pillar'

Address: On Rani Jhansi Marg and about 500 meters from Hindu Rao Hospital (don’t confuse with Bara Hindu Rao Hospital).

How to Reach: It is a 5 minute walk from ‘Pul bangash’ metro station. Ask for ‘Ajitgarh’ or ‘Pahadi Road’ if you are hiring an auto-rickshaw.

One more 'Poetry'

I am blessed... :)
Again, another sweet lady took the pain to write on my photographs. And what she did is, she choose the photographs which were absolute random clicks from ages and it was a hard time for me to scan my hard drive to get the original capture.... Thanks Rosa :)



DISCLAIMER: The text in the photograph is a sole property of Miss Rosa.