खाने का समय Its time to eat

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फोटो: रौशन

हरिद्वार का विहंगम दृश्य Areal view Hardwar

फोटो : रौशन
photo : roushan

Cute Puppies

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Flame of forest पलाश के फूल

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फोटो: रौशन

Rose in the dust

I was alone at Kapoorthala that day. After spending a good amount of time at Universal Book Depot, I decided not to go for coffee and started to roam around buildings and roads, just thinking nothing. It rather unusual, to be alone and to have an empty mind.
Then I saw a beggar boy of around 10 something age and decided to follow him to see what he was doing. He was moving here and there, some times begging, sometimes just watching others. At a tea stall a college going group of lads offered him a samosa. he took and moved to a corner to eat it.
After moving here and there again he stopped and started look in a direction. I followed his eyes and found he was looking towards a pair where a boy and girl were engaged in heated argument.
It looked that the boy was offering a rose bud, while girl was furious. Finally boy gave the rose to girl and started his bike and went away. The girl, after chasing the boy with eyes, tossed the rose bud towards a corner and left the place.
Now I directed my eyes towards my beggar boy, who was still looking at rose bud.
He went to the corner, took the rose bud and started to move away.
I kept on following him.
He went to backside of a building, collected some dust and planted the rose bud in the dust.
I kept on looking.
The beggar boy symbolized himself.

Melting Sun पिघलता सूरज

Photo: roushan
Place: Lucknow
2.2.09 17:30 hours IST
फोटो: रौशन
स्थान : लखनऊ
२ फ़रवरी शाम के ५:३०

It was a Dog there

I made bike slow and started looking on the ground on the side. 

-What?

He asked.

- You forgot the turn?

- No just looking the sign 

I kept my eyes on ground and answered him

- And what was the sign?

- There was a dog sitting on the turn. 

-God! are you crazy ? You sign was a dog? and where the hell that dog may be I guess it must be big enough. 

His voice had a flavour of irritation , something which I liked always.

-In fact after turning I noticed two other dogs were starting to fight. so I guess my signpost dog must has joined them. 

- Oh and then while moving, he must have left something for you.

I made a turn and while turning I pointed towards the ground.

- Yes!  whenever Dogs sit somewhere they dig the soil a little. You see it was there. So this is my turn.

- Damn it ! its a faulty logic. how the hell you take these?

I stopped the bike near a tea stall .

- may be the logic was faulty but i liked the dog and you see we have reached the place. so I was right. Now don't be dog and lets have some tea before going to other dog.

we moved towards tea stalls. there were two one was crowded other was almost empty. I started moving towards empty.

- Now why there? Cant you see this shop is crowded and that one is empty?

- Because crowded one has some tea in pan and I am sure we will have to argue shop owner so that we may get fresh tea. Now as he is already full with customers, he may argue more. This empty shop will treat us like kings.

I ordered tea and we watched him starting to make fresh tea.

- This was again faulty logic I don't know why your faulty logic come succeed at the end.

- Because I know there is nothing in logic, Behave the way you want then search logic if somebody like you is with me. That's my basic logic.

I smiled. I knew my smile will make him more angry, more irritated. 

-Someday I will show how wrong you were

He was irritated indeed.

You don't win Silver medal, You loose Gold

I was watching some news channels last years when I arrived on a channel where they were talking some guys who were to participate on behalf of India in Olympics-2008. There were some boxers and one of them said;
You don't win Silver medal, You loose Gold
I knew at once that I will have to know some thing about boxing event before Olympics starts as India is going to do well in these events.
It was Akhil Kumar, the guy who did great during games. Though couldn't win a medal but he was inspiring. This was the fighting sprite I always wanted to be shown by Indian sports persons.
I would love to remember year 2008 for Akhil Kumars, Saina Nehwaals, V Anands and a complete transformation in Indian Cricket team and hope they will keep on doing good next year.
Happy New Year to all those who visit this blog.

Digitally painted

From Digital paintings

ऊष्मा Heat

photo: roushan
फोटो : रौशन

In the Darkness! अंधेरे में!

photo: roushan
फोटो: रौशन

Its alive (जिंदा हूँ मै )

फोटोग्राफर - रोहित
Photo by Rohit

सुमुखश्च एकदंतश्च Ganesha

photo : roushan
फोटो: रौशन

प्रकाश और छाया Games light play

photo by roushan
फोटो: रौशन

छत से From the roof

: रौशन

Photo: roushan

India plans big for space

Indian space scientists are now planning to send a man to space in an Indian spacecraft.

The scientists expect to realise the dream by 2015.

The project will involve an expenditure of Rs 12,000 crore.

The proposal for the mission has been submitted to the government and the pre- project clearance has already been given.

"It will be a major turning point for Indian space scientists after the successful mission to moon," G. Madhavan Nair, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), said at the 96th session of the Indian Science Congress.

Though sending a manned mission to moon is still quite far, the space scientists have started working on designs and logistics of a space capsule that will carry humans around the earth at a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) - an orbit which extends from the earth's surface up to an altitude of 2,000 km - and bring them back, Nair said. "We have postulated the idea." The capsule will have the capacity to carry three persons to the space and return to a pre- determined destination on earth. The mission duration will be up to seven days.

The designing of the spacecraft will involve many technologies.

It has to be equipped with radiation protection system and life- support system. It will also have a waste management system. ISRO has developed a conceptual design and has envisaged the technologies that need to be developed. It will take three to four years for the ideas to materialise.

Managing the crew's safety will be a crucial part of the mission.

If anything goes wrong, the capsule should be able to abort the mission and implement a crew escape system.

The mission will involve creating ground stations and launch facilities, besides crew training.

Nair said a preliminary review and assessment of India's first moon mission will be carried out at the end of this month.

India's mooncraft Chandrayaan has started mapping the lunar surface to see whether there are any minerals like helium or water on the moon.

The cameras on the Chandrayaan have caught over 35,000 images of the moon.

Nair said sending the mission to moon was not simple as the challenge was to escape earth's gravity and influence of the sun and the moon.

However, India's moon mission was more precise than those launched by other countries.

Thirty per cent US missions have crashlanded on the moon, he said.

Indian scientists also overcame challenges managing temperature on the moon, which is quite hot. In fact, subsystems had started failing due to the high temperature.

However, scientists could reorient the spacecraft. "All is now well," Nair said. The next mission to moon will involve sending a lander which will go around the moon and pick up samples.

From Mail Today

India plans big for space

After basking in the glory of a successful mission to moon, Indian space scientists are now planning to send a man to space in an Indian spacecraft.

The scientists expect to realise the dream by 2015.

The project will involve an expenditure of Rs 12,000 crore.

The proposal for the mission has been submitted to the government and the pre- project clearance has already been given.

"It will be a major turning point for Indian space scientists after the successful mission to moon," G. Madhavan Nair, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), said at the 96th session of the Indian Science Congress.

Though sending a manned mission to moon is still quite far, the space scientists have started working on designs and logistics of a space capsule that will carry humans around the earth at a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) - an orbit which extends from the earth's surface up to an altitude of 2,000 km - and bring them back, Nair said. "We have postulated the idea." The capsule will have the capacity to carry three persons to the space and return to a pre- determined destination on earth. The mission duration will be up to seven days.

The designing of the spacecraft will involve many technologies.

It has to be equipped with radiation protection system and life- support system. It will also have a waste management system. ISRO has developed a conceptual design and has envisaged the technologies that need to be developed. It will take three to four years for the ideas to materialise.

Managing the crew's safety will be a crucial part of the mission.

If anything goes wrong, the capsule should be able to abort the mission and implement a crew escape system.

The mission will involve creating ground stations and launch facilities, besides crew training.

Nair said a preliminary review and assessment of India's first moon mission will be carried out at the end of this month.

India's mooncraft Chandrayaan has started mapping the lunar surface to see whether there are any minerals like helium or water on the moon.

The cameras on the Chandrayaan have caught over 35,000 images of the moon.

Nair said sending the mission to moon was not simple as the challenge was to escape earth's gravity and influence of the sun and the moon.

However, India's moon mission was more precise than those launched by other countries.

Thirty per cent US missions have crashlanded on the moon, he said.

Indian scientists also overcame challenges managing temperature on the moon, which is quite hot. In fact, subsystems had started failing due to the high temperature.

However, scientists could reorient the spacecraft. "All is now well," Nair said. The next mission to moon will involve sending a lander which will go around the moon and pick up samples.

From Mail Today

Gajini collects 100 crore in just seven days.

The year 2008 will be remembered in Bollywood as a Blockbuster year. Aamir Khan emerged as the biggest Superstar.

Aamir Khan's "Ghajini" left Shahrukh's Rab ne bana di jodi and Akshay's Singh Is Kinng much behind. Ghajini" made history by becoming the first Indian movie to collect Rs. 1 billion (100 crore) in just 7 days.

Ghajini will be dubbed in Spanish too.

Ghajini got huge response in overseas too where usually Aksay, shahrukh and Amitabh has been doing good for few times.

NIA comes into effect

The National Investigating Agency (NIA) has come into force from today - January 1, 2009. The NIA 2008 bill, which was passed by the Parliament, became a law, after President Pratibha Patil gave her assent to it.

The National Investigating Agency will be headed by a Director-General level officer. He will be appointed in a few days. The cases of NIA would be taken by a committee of two judges. At least 20 counter-insurgency and anti-terrorism schools will be set up in the country.

External debt races to $223 b

India's total external debt stock declined marginally to $222.61 billion at the end of the second quarter (July-September) this fiscal from $223.81 billion at the end of the first quarter (April-June) of the year.

In terms of components, long-term external debt at $172.51 billion at the end of the second quarter, after posting a decline of $2.69 billion, constituted about 77.5 per cent of the total debt.

According to an official statement here on Wednesday, the July-September quarter witnessed a decline in both NRI (non-resident Indian) deposits as well as commercial borrowings. Export credit, however, increased during the period. Short-term debt, which includes trade-related credits, FII investments in government securities and external liabilities of the banking system, increased by $1.49 billion to $50.10 billion at the end of the three-month period. As per the information relating to countries whose external debt data are reported in the quarterly external debt statistics (QEDS) of the World Bank, India has the lowest level of external debt to GDP (gross domestic product) ratio, the statement noted.

Current account deficit reaches $12.5 b

India's current account deficit ballooned three times to a record $12.5 billion in the second quarter of this fiscal on account of spiralling crude oil prices, indicating the impact of developments in the international market on the country's external sector. The global financial crisis also took a toll on the country's net capital flows, which came down from $33.2 billion to $8.2 billion, said a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) report on India's Balance of Payments developments in the second quarter of the current fiscal. The current account deficit includes gap between the country's export and imports in goods and services. as well as receipts and payments.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year

Happy New Year