Marwadi or Marwari represents people from present day Jodhpur area ( Marwar region), but it normally means people from Rajasthan who are into business of any type. They have spread through out India and also many parts of the world.
I live in Udaipur, but I am not Marwadi. A Marwadi has certain characteristics, normally, if they have or get Rs. 1000, they somehow manage to convert that to Rs. 5000 a year. I normally spend that Rs. 1000/- in a day or two, if I get it and if I have nothing to do with it.
I have been in touch with Jitendra Jain for last one year through internet and finally could stay in his house on 30th March 2016. And it was one of those experiences I always look forward to. (more…)
The title of this post may come as shock to many who are used to seeing news/blog posts about slamming services of Indian Railways ( juts like me). But things have changed and I am observing this in last two years.
Recently, I was traveling from Mumbai to Jaipur and then Jaipur to Udaipur. The train number from Mumbai to Jaipur is : 12955 and it starts at around 7:30PM from Borivoli and reaches Jaipur next day at around 12:40PM. The train was on time, and it was very clean. And when I say, very clean, I mean very clean. It was pleasant surprise for me. Not only train was clean, but also all amenities worked! Working of amenities in trains may be taken for granted in western countries, but in India it was always a question mark. (more…)
After many years, I visited Bhopal enroute to Nagpur on 29th Dec 2015 and reached there on 12pm on 30th Dec 2015 from Udaipur via Ratlam by hopping two trains.
My host was SS Patel with whom I had some amazing time. I have learnt a lot from him. It’s pity that I did not interact with him more during our college days.
I used to hear about the sentence ( or half sentence) “Develop taste for it” here and there. I never quite understood it, though on looking back, I actually implemented it couple of times before.
When young men ( or women, to be politically correct) starts drinking alcohol during their college days, mostly under peer pressure, they normally don’t like the taste of alcohol initially. Then they develop taste for whiskey, rum or beer. I did develop taste for rum, then for whiskey eventually. It took many years to develop taste for beer though. (more…)
Over the years, I have found out that, one must learn or know how to do few vital things to live independently. It may be impossible to live without depending on others completely, but if one knows the following things, one may live smoothly.
1. Cooking
I think cooking lesson should be compulsory for all. Every one should be at least be able to cook their own staple food, irrespective of their gender. No person should be allowed to pass school if he or she can not cook at least 3 food items. Those three food items should be their main staple diet. For example, for those who eat vegetarians, they must be able to cook either rice or roti ( Indian Bread), one daal (lentil) and one vegetable curry/fried. For non vegetarian, they should be able to cook at least one non-vegetarian dish.
Flipkart is again coming out with their ‘Billion Dollar’ Sale, The Big Billion Sale, which will be only available on Flipkart App, from 13 Oct to 17 Oct 2015. While many people may be excited about this sale, I am not. Rather I am feeling bad for those Flipkart customers who would be disheartened after finding out that Flipkart does not deliver those sales! I am sure that Flipkart can not deliver those products which would be sold during those sales, but it will surely block some money and banks would be happy. Most probably, making banks happy might be the reason for such sale in the first place.
Recently, I had spent lot of time researching about Portable, wireless Bluetooth enabled speaker with following features
1. It should have at least two speakers or tweeters so that it gives stereo output.
2. It should have sub woofer
3. It should have good battery backup
4. It should have FM.
5. NFC is desirable, but not a must
6. It should have at least 3W output each speaker or 6W in total.
7. If it has only speaker, then it should have at least 5W.
8. It should not weigh more than 600gram. Portronics Sublime 2
Most importantly, it must have good audio. As well as build quality.
After lot of research I mean reading customer feedback in ecommerce websites, blog posts comparing different speakers, finally I have listed few which I would recommend to anyone who bothers to ask me:
1. Portronics Sublime 2
2. Logitech X100
3. Amkette TrueMetal
4. JBL Wireless Go
5. Nokia MD
6. Portronics Comet
Anyone who has more budget than Rs 3000, will have many options which would be
1. Jabra solemate or solemate mini
2. JBL Flip 2 or Charge 2
3. Logitech UE Boom or Boom Mini
4. Sony SRS X11 o
Given a choice or budget, I would have either bought Jabra Solemate or JBL Charge 2. But I would also bought two Sony SRS-X11 speakers to carry around or keep in my camera bag permanently.
The first list is just for those who are trying to buy Portable Bluetooth Speaker for their tablet or smartphone and don’t want to spend more than Rs. 3000 initially. Anyone who is seriously looking for alternative of their speakers built in phone or tablet, should spend at least rs. 5000 for Bluetooth Portable speaker.
It has continued and I met some amazing people from different countries in world in Udaipur and have been able to spend some amazing time, experiencing new things, or experiencing old things in new ways. (more…)
If some one reads just Indian News Papers, just Indian English News Channels and English Movie channals, one may not beleive that the concept of good samaritan exists o (more…)
Recently, I had been to a seminar on social media and how it has given voice to many anonymous figures both popularity and reach for their voices/opinions which otherwise was hostage to select few intellectuals, to quote a person in that seminar.
Talk Journalism
I also could spend considerable time with Dr. CP Joshi, former union cabinet Minister of government India who is now general secretary in charge of Assam, my home state ( going to polls early next year). He was a panelist to discuss about impact of social media on journalism.
I am no fan of Congress ideologies or any of the Congress leaders ( rather most of the time, I find myself allying with Anti-Congress camp), but I found one observation by Dr. CP Joshi which seems to be very true and we may have been overlooking that under the mass hype of Social media, that is, the people who can use social media like Twitter/Facebook etc. are already empowered section of the society and with social media, only this section of the society again beingempowered, thus making them doubly empowered while leaving behind the substantial population who are still uneducated, too poor to own a smartphone or telephone connection, for that matter. I think this is good message to the people and I am surprised that Congress has not been able to bring such voices to be heard among twitter or Facebook generation. (more…)
