..we destroyed their habitats... now they are entering our world.

These pics are taken in Ahmadabad, as a traveler on the busy roads and market places. As its said, a picture speaks a thousand words.. so are these.

 On a car in the busy market area... Momy- baby moments!

 Whole family having great fun together, without giving a hoot to passers by!

 Busy street fun!

 On the way to commercial tower, Dhananjay Tower on Prahalad Nagar road. We want business!

This has become a common sight on Ahmadabad roads. Will AMC do something? I have shifted to Ahmadabad, after NAMO took over as CM. Coming from northern state of Haryana- NCR it was a welcome change to have such good roads, almost no jhuggi jhopadi, no animals on roads. Though on sideways, there were some shelters, where in the morning, people used to feed cows while going out to work. And 24 hrs electricity and water were the most special boon.

A calf is drinking mother's milk in full honking traffic. Very painful to look at. :(

Another view of the calf and cow. Feeding a baby is such a divine feeling! But is it so for this "gaumata"? What are we doing to our animal wealth? We have to value and respect their rights. Will administration do something about it?

                                                               

A confused calf amidst road traffic! It's lost in the crowd. I am sure, its heart must be beating very fast and its in fear as it has lost its mom. Think what emotions does we undergo, if our child is lost in the crowd. I am sure, its cow mom was undergoing the same feelings.

Time has come to do some concrete for these animals. 

Kolkata by Night!

On our way to river cruise, I could click some pics which very well depict the chaos on Kolkota roads. The city roads were well lighted , which was a pleasant surprise as I have heard a lot about Kolkata power  cuts and crimes.

This is inter state bus stand, with lots of illegal dhaabas.

View from the cruise: On the ship:

Howrah Railway Station 

Howrah Bridges

In this picture, both the old and new Hawrah bridges can be seen. 

The yellow lighted bridge is the old howrah bridge. It was commissioned in 1943. Howrah bridge is a cantilever bridge with a suspended span over the Hooghly river. It replaced a pontoon bridge at the same location, joining the twin cities of Howrah and Kolkata. On 14th July, 1965, it was named Rabindra Setu after the great Bengali poet Rabinderanath Tagore.

The blue lighted bridge is the second Howrah bridge is the longest cable bridge in India. It's named after the educationist reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar.

Kolkota - A walk through.

It was my maiden visit to Mamta didi's nagari. I was on my way to Bhutan with Rajvir Bhatnagar to celebrate the 32 years of life spent together. We had a stop over in Kolkata. We reached Kolkata in forenoon and our flight to Thimpu was early morning next day. We had almost 10 hours at out disposal.

We were staying in the Park street area . Though, I wanted to visit Kalibari temple, Ramkrishna mission , Dakshineshwar temple and Victoria memorial, we could not. We have to come back by 4 O' clock and most of the cabwalas refused to commit on the return timings.

 Coming back on time was important to us as we had a river cruise with dinner on Hoogly. We thought of exploring the city around on foot. Here are some pictures of our walk in tour of Park street, Kolkota.

This part of the city looks to be very old.There was a whole city on the footpath. One may find tea vendors, small eateries, hand carts stand, barbers, hand pump and small family huts on the footpath.

It was very dirty sight. It pinches to see people living in conditions below human dignity . Is it because they are happy with their present state of mind or are too much dependent on the government efforts, which I think are not coming forward?




                           I have heard that the hand carts were banned in Kolkata.

This part of the city was very old as the view of  electric wiring across the lane is visibly pointing out. It was amusing to locate the modern airlines, "AIR ASIA's office in such dirty lanes of the city.

Life on the pavement is full of challenges. Though water was available right there, the unhygienic living conditions were making very unhappy site in the "city of happiness".

There were many small eatries on the main park street. I was keen to have some local food from some local joint. We tried some kachories with potato gravy vegetable , puchkaas , mishtidoi and Sandesh. 

I did not find anything special in any of them. Amul's mishtidoi is much better so is sandesh. I make the best paani for puchkaas. I like the rajasthaani or uttar pradesh's kachauri aaloo than what I ate in Kolkota. Street food has been much highlighted by the new food channels, without giving any thought to the unhygienic conditions, in which they are prepared. 

The Contrast

 At Thol Bird Sanctuary, on a pleasant January morning. The place was full of chirping migratory birds .

Good Morning ! Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

Sun rise and Sun set

The morning sun rise in north India........

And, the sun set......sun melting down in Western India